Great post, thanks for sharing your experience with Nvidia in all those distros!
Just wanted to add: if you are stuck with Nvidia but want to get started gaming in Linux, install Pop!_OS . They have carefully tweaked Ubuntu to make even Nvidia “just work”. It works for me so far, on 2560x1440 @75Hz.
I would rather have some distro freedom with an AMD GPU but unfortunately my main (Windows) game (DCS World) does not work well in VR specifically with the RX7000 series drivers yet.
i do own a steam deck and can say with certainty that, after seeing how well it's handled every game i've thrown at it, i will be switching my primary pc to linux once support for win10 ends
I think any gaming on games or boxes post 2019 is just silly. It is a horror minefield of broken and buggy programming and drivers. The best bet is to stick with all hardware and software pre 2018 , preferably running Linux. Windows sucks so stick with pre win10 if u can. Windows is doomed. Hang on to all your all hardware and stick with old games, everything past 2018 is about to slide into a massive shitshow of broken bugs.
IIRC it was already fixed when Linus did this, just not distributed. It was caused by the bluntness Linus developed due to unmeaningful Windows warnings in the 1st place.
The bug was that you couldn't install steam without faking a the installation of a dep that went down the dependency chain ending in a conflict of essential packages. The functionality to still proceed is a feature. Linus could also just have copied rm -rf --no-preserve-root / from the internet as solution and would have trusted it blindly. If you want to be nannied all the way, I'd suggest you switch to iOS for everything.
If Linus would be a non-techie, he would have tried to install it with a graphical AppStore, it wouldn't have worked and he'd either given up or found the flatpak version of Steam, which would have worked. Not restricting power users is a good aspect. If I play around with Windows registry to force the removal of edge, Linus would blame me, not Windows. You have to differentiate between things normal users tried and things Linus attempted because he has some technical knowledge.
Some random user saying anything doesn't make anything true, you don't believe flat-earthers on the internet, either.
There was a library incompatibility between the Steam image in the Pop_OS package manager and the OS. It was caused by a bug introduced by the Pop_OS developers. Linus tried to install Steam using the package manager and it failed. So he went on Google to find out how to install Steam on Pop_OS. A thousand blogs and forums told him to enter "sudo apt-get install Steam", which he did. Unfortunately doing so automatically uninstalls certain important desktop components in Pop_OS.
@JasSmith@miggs597@F04118F@bionade24 lol, that's completely hilarious imo. Still though, that bug is definitely weird, I never got it my self on ubuntu or any of its derivatives. Is it only a pop OS issue then?
If I play around with Windows registry to force the removal of edge, Linus would blame me, not Windows.
He didn't "play around" with anything. He entered, "sudo apt-get install Steam". That comes straight from thousands of blogs and help sites which instruct users to do just that when they have issues installing Steam.
Talking about games, I’m so happy I don’t have any title that I play stuck on Windows. None EAC games always worked for me when I started using Linux full time, but I was only able to delete my Windows partition after Apex added support for EAC on Linux. Ever since I haven’t looked back :)
It’s worth noting that this setting also hides then from search results, which is pretty silly imo. So when searching, use a different account/different browser
What you post is also a personal information. And while it’s required for the service to function (meaning they don’t need your permission to store it), they need your permission to use it for marketing purposes, which is pretty much the only reason Meta would even want your data.
Hmm. This is interesting. I wonder if simply promoting federated posts in an algorithmic feed counts as marketing as it is being displayed next to ads.
Will be interesting what approach the EU takes in enforcing GDPR for federated apps.
Negative. Zuckerberg is an actual human, not a quasi sentient conglomerate composed of experimental AI platforms developed by the US Air Force to explore alien worlds via the Stargate program.
As someone who hasn’t tried to game on Linux but just use it as a server with my old pc hardware, dealing with nvidia shit is just a massive pain in the ass.
I was only using one monitor and yet it’d never pick up edid properly and other random quirks.
I chucked an Intel arc in there for av1 encoding on jellyfin and after getting to kernel 6.2 it also “just worked”.
It’s amazing how much of a difference it can make when the manufacturer gives even one quarter of a shit about Linux.
Even if this was real, I think it’s irrelevant. If you make a public post, then that’s what that means, it’s public. What happened to the saying that once uploaded to the internet, it’s there forever? I always thought this was common knowledge. To prevent these things, it shouldn’t be possible by design. That’s why in Lemmy and Mastodon, the fact I can click anyone’s username and see their entire post history is insane to me. Why there no option to make that private, and why the hell is it public by default?
The same people crying about possible data scraping are the same ones who see zero issue with all your profile data being completely public to any possible random internet query.
Not even that, but that is also a huge glaring issue, but I’m referring that I can click on your username and see every comment/post you made since the beginning of your account. Why is that even possible, why is it default, and why is there no option to disable that?
I assumed on Reddit/Twitter they did it so people can be “influencers” or whatever and people can read their feed as content. I don’t want that in the fedi.
Every single thing you do here is visible to absolutely everyone. By the very nature of how the fediverse works, where everyone can set up a server and participate, there is no way around it.
What you can do to mitigate, if you really feel it is a problem, is to have multiple accounts for different communities. This will limit how much of a profile other users can build on you.
You could also rotate accounts over time, and create new ones every month, for example.
How I think it should be is that for Lemmy for example, is that when ActivityPub queries a thread, it should only find replies that way. If querying a user profile, only basic information should be returned that the user set. Their post/comment history shouldn’t be visible from their profile, only the threads they’re commenting on. Maybe let them see the profile comment/posts if they’re following you.
People are blowing my mind right now at how ridiculous they are being. The fediverse is an open system that shares information with any server that connects to it. This system cannot work if the information is not shared.
Even if it didn’t, that would be trivial for anyone to do with the API. If you’re saying things you don’t want people to know you said, don’t use your name. Posting public, discoverable content is the entire point of Lemmy. Hiding what you’re doing wouldn’t solve the problem.
Hiding what you did would only make people think it’s private, giving a false sense of privacy, as it’s obviously visible via the API, and anyone could fetch your whole profile history anyways. Then we would have posts about: “YSK: Your posts and comment history is not private”
Definitely not trivial, you’d have to crawl every single post and every comment to build up profile data on a person. That’s significantly more effort then just pulling an entire post history from a single API call from a user. You’d also be bound to miss data. But I also think posts should have the option to expire, like auto delete this comment or thread after X amount of time, with the option of leaving things be permanent. Who is it really benefiting by making posts stay indefinitely? Mastodon has that feature and it’d be nice to see on Lemmy.
Auto-deleting posts has the problem of destroying any future benefit. In my opinion, the greatest benefit of Reddit is the ability for the public to find answers to niche questions but sharing discussions. Every single person with a problem for looking for an opinion, doesn’t have to find relevant people to ask anew for an answer.
Again, if someone wants to have a private discussion that people can’t just look up, I question why they would Lemmy at all. Something like Matrix or Signal is far more suited to that goal.
Have you thought maybe people don’t want that? Yeah I don’t care about that, I want my privacy and stuff to auto delete, not to be publicly archived forever.
It’s surprisingly effective for what is basically a Web container, although it is worth noting it doesn’t work very well if you try and install it via Firefox.
My biggest issue with it is that it doesn’t run quite as well as a native app, because it basically runs inside of a browser, which might be something to watch out for if you have an older device (and if you have an old iDevice, it doesn’t work at all). It might end up being unusably slow.
Personally, I found it to be very sluggish compared to the inbuilt browser/Chrome, and vulnerable to a weird bug that Firefox seems to have on my device, where the entire browser engine stops working if you multitask/switch between apps, being stuck on a blank black/white screen until you close and restart the app.
Unfortunately, that didn’t really work properly for me when using Firefox on Android, and still runs into all the issues. Judging by the little firefox icon it put in, it installed as a Firefox web application, effectively running within the Firefox container, meaning it’s still vulnerable to all the others that Firefox seems to have on my device.
Yeah same for me, firefox install feels sluggish whereas it runs smoother and faster with chrome. Maybe it has to do with how every site is optimized for chromium browsers nowadays.
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