the Manjaro hardware driver setting is absolutely confusing or straight up misleading
also hilariously easy to bork your system here if you ever think about trying the video-vesa driver for whatever reason
the solution is to use the newest linux kernel and update all your packages (which updates Mesa and Vulkan tools) and afterwards rebooting (I still believe Manjaro doesn’t reload kernel modules on kernel updates automatically?)
if you experience graphics issues switch between Xorg/X11 and Wayland compositor
if you actually want worse gaming performance try the proprietary driver
Possibly because of better reliability. If a filesystem breaks, all subvolumes it contains break in turn. Whereas independent filesystems will continue to run if one is corrupted.
This is standard for devices which receive firmware and OS updates non-interactively. Edge devices, phones, routers…etc. It’s a simple and effective way to lessen the chance that a device may brick during an update failure or similar event.
One running partition is the primary known-good copy of the system, and the other is a failover of a previous known-good. When an update is received, it isn’t applied directly to the current primary, it’s applied to failover. When the system reboots, the bootloader attempts to boot the newly updated partition to see if it works, and if it does, it is marked as the “new” known-good primary and boots from then on. If not, the existing primary is rebooted, and the user is notified that a failure occured, and dually an error or recourse to take if so.
Subvolumes and such require a kernel to be loaded in order to use, so that’s why the base device partitions don’t run that way. Even if you wanted to go that way, it’s safer working at the lower levels as above when you’re dealing with deployed devices out in the world. Nobody wants a customer service disaster on their hands if devices start bricking themselves from a bad update.
Subvolumes and such require a kernel to be loaded in order to use, so that’s why the base device partitions don’t run that way.
That’s a great point I never thought about. I really wondered why they wouldn’t go with btrfs subvolumes, since they could easily btrfs send and receive subvols like they do now with whole partitions. Subvols would even have the benefit of less space needed since many files probably stay the same between updates.
My guess was that the update mechanism used doesn’t support btrfs, though after a quick search on the rauc github it might actually support it.
Pretty much every Linux bootloader supports BTRFS these days.
The critical thing though, is that happens if your BTRFS partition gets corrupted? You just lost your failover since both your primary and failover are on the same partition.
That’s fine on a desktop system where the user can boot into a recovery image and repair the filesystem, but it’s not fine when you do a completely automated system upgrade. So for a kiosk, console, or other embedded system, the two partition setup is more reliable than a BTRFS root with subvolumes.
Universal Blue has some really good ideas. I really think immutable and atomic updating linux distros are the future. Most applications have flatpaks available.
Bazzite has alot of gamer forward features, has Nvidia specific builds, and even supports a SteamDeck replacement version of their OCI images.
Even though people may not like Fedora, I think universal Blue solves a lot of the Fedora style problems people experience.
There are also BlendOS and VanillaOS but I haven’t tried them with NVIDIA GPUs.
From what I hear, installing Linux on Apple hardware is a bit more complicated than that. They might be stuck using a distro like Asahi. I’ve never bought any Apple hardware, so I have no experience with this myself though, so someone please correct me if wrong.
This is a fair point. There are a few more things to factor in from a Mac standpoint, but once you figure out the fiddley things you need to do foe installation, I am fairly certain you can use a wide range of distros
Again. I am a total noob. This just comes from my googling and watching YouTube on a few things.
Not sure how to put it on a Mac, but I don’t think any os is better than others. Windows, Linux, and MacOS to me is just like picking a flavor of ice cream. They all do the job, but what are you willing to tolerate?
Now I know that’s over simplified but that’s really how I look at it.
eso and fo76 work pretty good. pokemmo is good too but i have been banned too many times (because i made it a game to play factorio with opencv instead of pokemon lmao)
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