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Discover linux in an effort to be able to customize your desktop and make it look like the haxxors in movies at 12 years old
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Woops … Linuxed too hard and became a cloud infrastructure engineer.
FUCK!
Wiggly windows in compiz probably converted like 10 thousand 12 year olds to linux… I know from experience!
Hey, I’m old AF. I STILL use wobble windows!
Damn no reason for you to get on here and call me out so directly. Also I still have wobbly windows and the modern version of desklets. No shame.
ABSO fucking lutely … that and the flaming mouse effect
I thought I was the coolest cat in the litter XD
Don’t forget about the whole desktop rain effect!
Cloud infrastructure engineer at 12 years old? Damn son!
I can recommend running it on new hardware. I love that it runs great on old hardware, but it is a bit of a disservice to Linux distros that people always experience it on raspberry pies and other old laptops or otherwise relatively slow hardware.
Linux on a brand new hardware is insanely good.
Edit: software => hardware
Linux on the t430 is such a smooth experience though
I’m actually a little scared of running Linux on modern, fast hardware.
How is multi-GPU driver support?
My main machine is a 900 TFlops compute monster (4 GPUs) running ROCM on Windows, and the last time I’d tried Manjaro on Desktop, it seized up for unknown reasons.
I’ve got asynchronous monitors - 1440p@165Hz main display and 4K@85Hz flipped vertical for a side monitor. Occasionally, I plug in a projector which is 1080p, mirrored to the 4K, but flipped horizontal.
I’m not sure what I’d done wrong because it works perfectly on my 11 year old Z575 (Debian+KDE there).
What distro would you recommend for an extremely fast/high RAM machine? I’ve got 128GB of main system memory, and 4TB of M.2 for a system disk running at 7.6 gigabytes/second actual/real-world RW I/O.
I would suggest if you want some up-to-date awesomeness, try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed!
Rolling release sounds scary, but even aside from enabling BTRFS snapshots by default, it’s surprisingly stable, and has proprietary NVIDIA drivers!
Granted, I don’t game (that’s all my Win10 partition is for right now lol), but I do Blender and other creative tasks snd it’s amazingly snappy and fun.
Wayland is “getting there” on a user experience level, but as for buttery smooth frame rates and stuff, it feels like a new machine on my 144hz / 60hz dual monitor setup.
I’m running a single 3090, but I’m sure it could handle dual-GPU!
Sure, I’ll try OpenSUSE!
Tumbleweed is a bit of a spooky name for a distro implying that a gentle breeze sends it, but y’know
Linux Mint as someone suggested, I’ve ran a long time ago for college on an ancient laptop, and it’s an extreme stable OS, similar to Windows 2000 Pro. I can’t remember it crashing or freezing even once on me, and the Thinkpad T42 has an anemic processor., which I ran with the Conservative Governor
Totally feel ya on Mint. I put it on my X230 just now because I wasn’t planning on booting it up too often and didn’t want a massive update causing issues down the line. Super stable, super user friendly. I always recommend it to newcomers. Lovely experience!
Haha yeah Tumbleweed is an interesting name. Suppose it’s because it’s always “rollin’ rollin’ rollin’”. Constantly in motion!
I’d caution against it on low-data capped internet plans for instance, because it updates fairly often, sometimes 1GB or more. But also plenty of people update like once a week and it’s good. I update pretty much every day. It’s kinda compulsive for me and I like to see if anything is fixed or new. :p
So that’s one cool thing it has over *buntu and friends: Newest and shiniest features, but they’ve been tested a bit more thoroughly than on something like Arch, and if it does go bad, you can boot into a “snapshot” and wait until a newer update hopefully fixes whatever borked it.
But I haven’t had to roll back in ages. :)
I like keeping on the edge of KDE6 right now because it’s improving very quickly. Same with Wayland, even though some programs are still fussy with it. (You can have X11 and Wayland both, and choose which to use upon login)
Ehhhhhh I wouldn’t say brand new hardware. A lot of times Linux still needs a few months to properly support a new Gen of graphics cards or processors
Though it generally at least works which is a huge improvement over back in the day
I actually had my most difficult time ever setting up Linux on my 5800X3D and 3070 recently.
PopOS wouldn’t save my resolution on reboot, and then after fixing it all of my games were running at the wrong resolution or breaking in various frustrating ways. All Linux native games too. Jumped to Fedora and every single game flickered like mad and then once I got that fixed my package manager inexplicably broke. I was about to install Ubuntu before saying fuck any chance of instability and going to Debian.
I had to manually install way more than any of the other distros, but everything just worked once I got my graphics driver installed. I was really disappointed given I’ve been using Linux on and off for 8 years, and my Steam Deck has been nothing but solid. I’m honestly just disappointed things have trended in a bad direction, and I hope this was just a one off experience and not the norm now.
Nvidia has always been a pain and that’s really Nvidia’s fault not Linux’s
Should I feel ashamed as I migrated from second hand Thinkpads to second hand Dell Latitude? I got a 7410 for 300€ 2 years ago and I really have no complaint about it. And it looks better (personal opinion).
I’ll just use my steam deck for writing code. Thanks though, boss.
I look at this meme and lift my hand gently from the track-pad revealing the uncanny logo, ThinkPad and I think: Yes, this meme is for me.
Well, if it’s good enough for the ISS, it’s good enough for me.
Doesn’t the ISS run Debian?
Edit: Yes, they introduced Debian on user devices back in 2013
literally the universal operating system
Set it and forget it… can’t argue with that.
now I gotta become an astronaut and be the first to install gentoo in space
Ah shit, I just accidentally unmounted the Soyuz module and the canadarm drivers haven’t been working since the hobbyist maintaining them for free got tired of abusive comments from NASA engineers and took up farming instead, so hopefully we don’t need to evacuate before they send up another one.
sudo umount -a|| ISS catastrophically disconnects all modules ||
SurprisedPikachu.jpeg
sudo apt purge doxygenOne character has never been this important.
Though on Windows, you might get:
Co-pilot could not find doxygen installed on this system but guessed that you meant Oxygen Management Service and uninstalled that for you. Please click on a star to rate your experience ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Windows: we’ll fuck with you when you can’t do it yourself… or even if you can, why not, the more the marrier 😊.
You hear a knock on the window of the ISS, you look over and see an alien in a spacesuit floating, it holds a piece of space paper against the window that says “I use arch btw”.
Is there a writing prompts community on Lemmy? I feel like there is
checks lemmyverse.net’s community search
Yup.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=writing
looks
Well, one person is trying hard to get it going and keeps constantly posting prompts, but nobody is actually filling them in. I feel kind of bad for that guy.
Well, I like writing, so I might go give it a look.
People don’t mention it much but I think it’s actually the most powerful thing about Linux (and open source more broadly) that it’s free to use. It doesn’t matter if you’re down on your luck, were born in a poor nation through no fault of your own, or are working class and getting crushed by the capitalist economy. It’s a leveller and, in my view, represents power, resilience and dignity in solidarity. It’s literally one of the few important things left in the world that we have like that.
Linux all the way, comrades!
Why are you marking all your comments with “anti commercial ai license”? Are you licensing them so you can fight a court war if your comments get used for AI training?
It’s idealistic, but may turn into action someday if did happen. If others participated in licensing their comments, it could even lead to a class action lawsuit, which could discourage commercial AI vendors even more and embolden opensource AI vendors.
It’s publicly avaliable information. Who would care if their comments are used to train an AI?
I just wrote that I care. What’s the point of asking such an insipid question?
Also, because something is shown publicly copyright doesn’t exist? Is that seriously your take?
Also, because something is shown publicly copyright doesn’t exist?
No, I just mainly don’t understand what the whole AI freakout is about. If some companies want to use random redditors shitposts to train an ai, I don’t know why anyone would care.
Lol it’s going to accomplish nothing but look cringe
Unlike the username “cum”. Of course on can always expect value comments from such a user.
My daily driver laptop is the T410 I found at a thrift store for $5.
I keep hearing stories like this but all I see in thrift stores are like busted DVD players and other grimey old stuff that was second-rate even when released. In that awkward valley where it’s not vintage, and newer stuff is objectively better.
I think people caught on and the good finds are pushed to their auction sites and stuff now. =\
I’m happy with my X230 I got for $200 off eBay though, like 5 years back.¯_(ツ)_/¯
Goodwill is particularly bad about this. You can almost never find cool stuff in the stores anymore. It’s all siphoned off for ShopGoodwill.
It was definitely one of my luckiest finds, but I think another part of it was that it was a pay by weight bin outlet. A St. Vincent De Paul in my case. Stuff isn’t individually priced and you weigh your items on a scale when you check out and pay by the pound. It’s usually very cheap because mine has a maximum of $5.00 per item so even heavy things like typewriters have been cheap.
I much prefer bin outlets because of this.
I’m surprised and impressed it made it to the bin outlet!
I keep trying to keep an ear out for these fabled “IT cycles” where companies will just dump Dells and Thinkpads once in a while, but have never been privvy to one myself.
Maybe indystry caught on and switched procedure, realizing they weren’t creating enough e-waste /s lol.
(To be fair, the last place I worked donated their laptops for tax breaks, which is good I guess. But wouldn’t let me even buy one off them, so I’m salty lol.)
