To me, it really doesn’t feel like you need to switch unless you’re actually being affected by this in some way. Fedora isn’t actually Red Hat, they’re just sponsored by them and assisted by them in other ways because Red Hat uses them as an upstream, but the worst case scenario that I know of, is simply that Red Hat will cut ties with Fedora.
UPD: Sorry. I read the reddit post. So you pass through single GPU. You load GPU bios when Windows load?
In general, such a configuration will be quite complicated, but if you want to try, show the VM configuration and the start hook. Without this not easy to say.
"UPD: Sorry. I read the reddit post. So you pass through single GPU. You load GPU bios when Windows load?"
I haven’t done that. I was of opinion that the radeon rx6800 didn’t need it as nvidia does. Will download a bios and load it with the Vm.
"In general, such a configuration will be quite complicated, but if you want to try, show the VM configuration and the start hook. Without this not easy to say."
I reverted back to pre-virtmanager installation, will try this evening to follow the steps, including adding the bios to the VM, will also post the configurations and hooks. Will appreciate it if I don’t need to dual boot anymore, having snapshot of my windows VM will be of great value for my workflow
I don’t know of any source that condenses a decade+ of this bs.
In the early 2000s ms got a shit load of patents that Linux and later android were supposedly infringing on, and so they demanded that distro companies, hardware manufacturers, and basically everyone using Linux commercially pay them royalties. Every distro was holding their ground since it was obvious patent trolling.
Novell (owners of suse at the time and creators of opensuse) saw it as an opportunity to catch up to redhat. So they made a deal with Ballmer (the dude that called Linux a cancer only fit for communists) that they’ll confirm they’re infringing those patents and that they’ll pay them royalties on every sale because of that. In return they won’t get sued and they’ll be promoted by ms.
One of the oldest commercial distros admitting that Linux is infringing on those patents gave ms a leg to stand on and bully every other distro.
Later on they renewed their deal with ms, and started selling them certificates. The purpose of those was to protect ms customers using Linux from getting fucked by ms trying to fuck Linux. Even later on Novell died, suse got purchased again, and ms bought some of their patents.
This lasted from like 2006 to 2018, and in the end ms realized they can’t get to extinguishing before first embracing and extending. So they open sourced their 60k patents (suse got sold again after this). Now they’re using Canonical to finish what they’ve started.
Like yeah, they’re under new management as an independent entity now, but I’d wait a bit more before calling them some beacon of FOSS values.
I guess you can run fedora if you want full features of a laptop. Im currently running LMDE5, is rock solid for me this past 2+ years, upgraded seamlessly from LMDE4. I guess LMDE6 will be released soon after LM 21.2 is released. I do think that at the end of the day , whatever you choose, you can change your desktop environment so it suites you.
Twitter link is broken or smth can’t see it. Its hard to trust this page, especially because I don’t know what they mean with “data”, which data do they mean? And especially because they never mentioned wayland I dont see this as the newest security analysis.
I don’t want to say that Linux Desktop is secure, but I don’t know how secure it is with wayland.
Generally the way you get the Software makes Linux in practice by accident more secure as no users manages to get insecure packages through official repositories or other sources except tarballs not from github. Even tho github can also be insecure but its still more security compared to an random .exe or unsecure Edge browser.
For somebody wanting to get started with making digital music is it best to stick to flstudio or Ableton or are there beginner friendly yet fully featured DAWs for linux?
I don’t think there’s a clear best here. If you find using wine easier than learning new music software, then sticking with what you know is best. If you’re flexible about your process, there are a lot of amazing free tools and you’ll probably have a more seamless time developing a workflow around them.
Personally I think learning different software is a great way to build a more flexible understanding of the fundamentals of music production, but everyone has different needs so I don’t think there’s a one size fits all approach.
Ardour recently go a lot of Ableton style features in version 7. Zrhythm looks pretty solid. Reaper isn’t foss, but is run by a small & trustworthy team and is my main DAW, though I’m exploring less daw heavy workflows recently. VCV Rack is an incredible piece of software that has thousands of modules and is like having an entire warehouse full of modular synth gear but digitally. Cardinal is a fully self contained version of VCV Rack that works as a plugin and has ~1000 open source modules built in. Bitwig isn’t foss, but borrows heavily from the Ableton paradigm, has their own twist, and has always natively supported linux. Tracktion Waveform isn’t foss but looks pretty cool, depending on what suits your workflow.
Fedora and Debian are good choices. I’ve been using Fedora for more than 7 years and it’s still going. Very stable like Debian yet up-to-date packages.
I’ve been running Debian for about 7 years as well, never an issue.* I use it for browsing, photo/video editing, coding, gaming with Steam with no complaints. Fedora has always been tempting for it’s more up to date packages but Debian’s usually have all the features I need.
*I have had self-induced issues by installing .debs from strange places but never with the default repos or even 3rd party repos.
At the moment I like foot because it’s simple and powerful. I did some benchmarks running the notcurses demo with both foot and kitty on my pretty lightweight mini pc and foot ran significantly faster, but mainly I just prefer its balance of power and minimalism over other stuff I’ve tried so far.
It’s possible to get a relatively recent version of Adobe Photoshop, but it’s very clunky due to WINE’s arguably lackluster application support (most of the contributors focus on gaming). The alternatives can do the job though, GIMP (there’s a Photoshop style to make it more familiar) and Inkscape are pretty decent and light alternatives.
<rant> Honestly, and I don’t mean this to hate on either software as I used both a lot before I discovered piracy on Windows: the quality of GIMP and Inkscape is well below most competing FOSS projects, let alone their proprietary challengers.
GIMP is powerful, but might as well be declared abandoned with how they’ve been preparing to port it to GTK 3 for a decade. It has some great features being held back by poor hardware acceleration and falling behind features provided even by alternatives like Photopea. It’s the X11 of photo editors.
Inkscape is okay, but the workflow stinks. BoxySVG is comparatively much more intuitive if it wasn’t lacking in a bunch of features. Inkscape has also basically been abandoned imo, with the project still not managing to get Apple M1 support working on the latest MacOS for nearly a year.
The barrier to contribute to either project is also sky-high imo, with their insistence on using C for cross=platform, front end applications. Normally this wouldn’t be a massive deal but it’s one of the key reasons I think Photopea and other proprietary freeware apps are running circles on these two projects - The turnaround for features and UX is so much better with modern languages. </rant>
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