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slowbyrne , in Distro suggestions?
@slowbyrne@beehaw.org avatar

Pop!_OS, Debian, and Fedora are my distros of choice lately. Been tempted to try out NixOS as well.

Ashiette , in Linux/Windows dual boot question

It should work. There might be driver errors. But hopefully it will work.

You just have to make sure there is a EFI partition on the drive to boot linux from.

tram1 , in Was Fedora always so unstable?

I’m a Debian user. No worries if you get no updates…

joey , in Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

@deleted

I guess they’re linking the same repo. However they talk about their positive experience with linux on surface pro

https://lemm.ee/post/1451648

Edit: someone mentioned that nobara has the patches incorporated in their release. Might be worth checking out

deleted ,

I installed linux-surface from github and gnome 43. everything now works.

joey ,

Glad you got it working!

Frederic , in Distro suggestions?

I’d go with MX Linux for sure, this is a very nice distro, w/o systemd, based on Debian, and using Xfce so it’s pretty fast

cheost , in Slackware turns 30 today

Happy Birthday Slackware, congrats! Started on Redhat personally, then Mandrake, and finally settled on Gentoo for years. Setting that up for the first time was… interesting.

pudgymongrel , in What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files.
  • convert - convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, etc. Almost nothing it can’t do.
SexualPolytope , (edited )
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

IIRC, convert is just an alias to imagemagick.

20gramsWrench ,

you recalled correctly.

pudgymongrel ,

TIL. Thank you kind strangers.

donnnnnnb , in Is it the end for linux distros without systemd? Is doomsday near?

Yeesh, a bit alarmist. For a while you couldn’t build GNOME 3.30+ on Gentoo without systemd but they figured it out by splitting out the necessary component into its own package (elogind). The list of hard depencies on systemd isn’t very long.

demonsword , in A Month on Chimera Linux
@demonsword@lemmy.world avatar

interesting, maybe I’ll give that distro a spin later, thanks for sharing

Sandevistan , in Linux for Microsoft Surface devices. It is reality!

Time to whip out my old Surface Pro 4, wonder if it will help with the screen flickering issue.

FarLine99 OP ,

Sadly, it will not. Very weird hardware bug 😕

Turtle , in Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?
@Turtle@aussie.zone avatar

I just don’t wipe out /home when I reinstall. Same /home partition, different distro on /

rishabh , in Linux for Microsoft Surface devices. It is reality!

I have an old Surface Book 1. I have windows 11 on it and it works ok. I can’t run anything heavy on it of course but little web browsing and zoom meeting etc. works fine. I really enjoy the awesome camera and face id login. I am worried with Linux install, the camera will not be as good. If someone can confirm their experience on SB1, I can be convinced to install Linux on it.

FarLine99 OP ,

No FaceID, worse camera quality, worse Battery life. If it is ok, go and try it. If not, it is okey 🙂

rishabh ,

Yeah, seems like a deal breaker to me. What do you even gain then? Performance improvements?

FarLine99 OP ,

We like Linux. Freedom. Privacy. GNOME UI is really well adapted for tablets with it’s gestures and overview effect. Plasma is also very good. Animations are way more smooth and responsive than on Windows.

FarLine99 OP ,

This comment states that everything good with Book 2 so maybe Book 1 will also have good battery life.

rishabh ,

Unfortunately I have the surface book 1 but I am happy for people running Linux :)

FarLine99 OP ,

I think it will be similar experience.

hare_ware , in Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

I have the same sentiment about my OpenSuse Tumbleweed & Windows 10 installs. I don’t feel like this about my very simple Arch install. I think my issue is that I just don’t understand how to fix either when there is an issue.

tubbadu OP , in How do I get rid of these vertical lines before the triangles?

replying to @yote_zip because the direct reply failed:

I ctrl+F “Noto” and as it returned 0 results I just assumed they weren’t there… thank you!! however, these fonts, as many other, still have this line issue. only FiraMono fonts didn’t:

https://lemmy.kde.social/pictrs/image/3237aab7-8d31-4879-9f61-bc6521847899.png

https://lemmy.kde.social/pictrs/image/c3670cc2-a368-413d-ac2f-978c6ce6f9f9.png

yote_zip ,
@yote_zip@pawb.social avatar

Very strange. I wonder if it’s not a font glyph issue but a font-width issue or something. Beyond getting Nerd Fonts I’m not sure what else to try, sorry!

tubbadu OP ,

I tried installing xfce4-terminal, and there it is displayed well with any font, so I guess it’s a Konsole problem… I’ll try to ask in the KDE community, thanks for your help!

Peruvia , in Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
@Peruvia@lemmy.ml avatar

People get used to things they understand so they don’t want to learn. Frustration builds as you get older, so I am glad I started a long time ago, and I have a lot of respect for people who are willing to learn constantly and are patient. I learn(ed) from trial and error, I like poking the bear and being able to see what works/doesn’t and why. The responses I got regarding lack of linux usage is that people don’t like spending time troubleshooting, or they get super jaded and just want something that works then and there, just so they don’t think too much about it. But now the irony is that windows will piss them off so much they will have no choice but to learn the distro they choose. It’s like vim, at first it seems strange, but once you learn it you will never look back. Learning is done as long as there is curiosity and need involved.

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