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Darorad ,

Nobody hears about them shutting down oil factories, attention getting stuff is why those are talked about.

They never do any actual harm either, like Stonehenge was cornstarch, it’ll all be gone the next time it rains. They paint the glass in front of paintings, not the paintings themselves.

Darorad ,
  1. I’d recommend pop os over bazzite because it’s a more standard distro, bazzite is immutible (update entire system at once instead of individual apps, and part of the filesystem are read only. It’s harder to break stuff on an immutible distro, but they’re less common and most resources online are for normal distros). It isn’t hard to get nvdia drivers working on pop os, so I’d just google it after you get it set up.
  2. I’d make sure your windows drive is unplugged before installing, so you don’t accidentally wipe it! I’ve never dealt with swapping what drive the os is on, but I’d expect some stuff to break because the filesystem is pointing to unique IDs that no longer match. That shouldn’t be hard to fix by googling the errors, but I’d watch out for it.
  3. Windows updates like to mess up bootloaders sometimes, I’ve never had that happen, so I don’t have any advice there. Unplugging the windows drive when you instsl should help, and just make sure the default is to boot into linux, that way any auto restarts won’t get into windows to mess stuff up unless you let it.

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Darorad , (edited )

The basic recomendations I’d give for distro is something popular based off Ubuntu or fedora. Both are pretty friendly distros, and most things based off them aren’t going to make too many changes to how core systems work.

If it’s based off one of those I’d argue the more important question is what user interface (called a desktop environment) you like. Watch a few videos of each distro in action and pick what you think looks best.

A lot of big distros have “spins” or varieties that have different desktop environments. So if you

Some specifics I’d recommend:

  • Linux mint: a distro based on Ubuntu that’s designed to be easy to use, without much setup. Most stuff will just work, but being based on Ubuntu, it’s a stable distro, so updates will be a bit slower, and there won’t be any major changes in the same version. (I would reccomend this over standard Ubuntu personally because the company behind Ubuntu has made decisions I don’t like (like prioritizing their own way of installing programs that, in my opinion, is a inferior to other methods))

Slightly less highly recomended:

  • Fedora: takes a quicker approach to updates, but isn’t as focused on being friendly to new users. It has a variety of spins: fedoraproject.org/spins/ if you go with fedora, I’d recommend GNOME (the default, more similar to Mac), KDE (similar to windows), or cinnamon (what linux mint uses, similar to windows).
  • nobara: I’ve heard good things about nobara, but I’m not super familiar with it. It’s basically fedora KDE with some extra patches added to better support gaming. The one negative I’ve heard is the maintainer is very busy, so ocasionally updates will be delayed vs fedora. It’s more of a hobbyist distro, but the maintainer seems pretty dedicated, and they also maintain a version of valve’s proton (one of the things that lets you play windows games on linux called proton ge that includes additional patches)

In order I’d recommend pop_os, linux mint, fedora, nobara. If you look at KDE and decide you like it, then I’d go withth fedora or nobara.

The main reason I’d recommend pop_os or mint is because you have an nvdia graphics card. Nvdia drivers have tended to be worse on linux, especially under a newer protocol called Wayland, which fedora is moving over to in it’s next release. Mint and pop_os slower update cycles are more likely to stay on x11 (the older protocol, but better supported by nvdia cards) until everything’s very solid.

Fedora’s trying to push linux forward, which is good imo, and most things should be fine with nvdia, but there will be more bugs. (I’ve heard it’s gotten pretty good, but I have an amd card and don’t want to recommend them without warning until I know for sure there aren’t issues)

Darorad ,

Yeah, I’ve heard it’s getting better, but I have an amd card, so not really sure where it’s actually at. X would probably be better for nvdia for a while, especially on pop_os, but idk what the actual state is.

Darorad ,

My only concern with nobara is that Fedora 41’s dropping x11 support, and I’m not confident nvdia drivers will be in a good enough state to recommend to a beginner.

Darorad ,

They’re probably on windows

Darorad ,

When you normally delete a file, it doesn’t actually delete it, to save time it just marks the space as free, so any new files can be written into that part of your drive.

But the actual data just remains there until a new file is written to the storage.

SecureErase does the second part without making an actual file.

Normal delete:

File: 01010101 -> no file:01010101

Secure erase:

File: 01010101 -> no file:00000000

Darorad ,

That’s the fun part though

Hey Battery, are you OK? You've been saying 0% for 15 min now. (lemmy.world)

Running a Gigabyte U4UD, been having battery problems for months now, and the battery health only reports 50% capacity. Started playing Battlefront and got distracted and saw my battery looks like this now. Been doing this for 15 min, so either my battery is magical… or the Clevo design is flawed. Seeing how long she goes for...

Darorad ,

That just guarantees tech support lol

Darorad ,

That was probably Atlas, it disables a bunch of security features as part of debloating, so I wouldn’t recommend it unless it’s an offline device

Darorad ,

Yeah, your overall point is 100% correct and well made. Just a few things that don’t really matter to an end user they were complaining about

Darorad ,

Eh, it depends how you define Linux. Android uses a modified Linux kernel, but most of what’s above that is different. By the point you’re at the application layer they’re basically completely incompatible.

Is it technically Linux? Yeah but it’s so different from a user’s perspective it’s best to treat them as separate imo.

Darorad ,

Android introduces far more incompatibilities, and the kernel mods are more impactful than the vast majority of other systems. Userspace incompatibilities are basically negligable for most distros.

It’s differences are substantial enough that I think it makes sense to treat it as a separate os.

Darorad ,

The gamble is the fun part tho

Darorad ,

Yeah, cause people are just hooking stuff up to chatbots and expecting it to do everyrhing instead of actually building tools for the job they need

Darorad ,

…They said waydroid

Darorad ,

Yeah, I would switch off, but it just doesn’t seem worth the effort for something I rarely interact with.

Darorad ,

Japan tends to have extremely corporate friendly laws. Basically if the corporation doesn’t want you to do it, there’s a good chance it’s illegal.

Darorad ,

Okay, but if they don’t say no, Biden has the opportunity to do something very funny.

Darorad ,

I mean most of it works for every distro, not just arch.

Darorad ,

Really, It feels like I get it every 4 or 5 months

Darorad ,

If only they could deal blows to starmer and everyone else pushing them to abandon their principles.

Darorad ,

It could also have been a ghost listing, but yeah, I’m baffled they aren’t profitable

Darorad OP ,

Lol

Darorad OP ,

No, they run fine without gamescope (just want it for fixing mouse lock issues)

Darorad ,

Probably didn’t see them, Epic’s already suing again because of their compliance plan.

Darorad ,

I doubt it, at least in the US. Samsung tends to be pretty locked down.

Darorad ,

The main gain would be losing any tracking youtube does on how you interact with their app. They could only track based off what videos your ip address watches.

Darorad ,

I assume you’re talking about Diablo 4 (please actually type out the game, it makes it easier for people to help and makes it easier for people with issues to find solutions)

Is there a crash log?

Looking at www.protondb.com/app/2344520, there’s a couple things suggested:

Using proton ge instead of normal proton

Install via lutris instead of steam.

Use PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=1 %command% as the launch options. This tricks the game into thinking you have an amd gpu and disables nvdia specific optimizations that could maybe cause issues.

%command% -adapter 1 might switch to the gpu if you’re on a laptop with integrated and dedicated graphics.

Darorad ,

:( sad none of them fixed it. I’ve had stuff like that. Usually it either resolved itself or worked after reinstalling the game and drivers.

Darorad ,

Isn’t ubuntu pro free up to 5 devices

Darorad ,

For android, I use revanced.app

For desktop, I use freetubeapp.io

Darorad ,

Do you remember what that extension is?

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Darorad ,

Not concerning at all, pilots aren’t important to a plane.

Darorad ,

That’s just the soc wattage though, the screen would also take up a substantial portion of the battery

Darorad ,

There’s the Intel management engine and the amd platform security processor. Both manage low level tasks like booting, and have access to network data. Amds psp is known to have unrestricted access to user memory.

There have been security vulnerabilities that would grant access to sensitive data exploiting both systems if not patched.

As for a backdoor, there’s no evidence but I wouldn’t be surprised. The NSA has programs to insert backdoors into consumer products and these seem like the perfect place to do it. But again, there’s no evidence either chip is part of these programs.

Darorad ,

Not really, windows is most targeted because it’s most used. If Linux had comparable market share it would be attacked way more.

Darorad ,

Oh yeah, definitely but those tend to be different attacks than would target random consumer computers.

Being open source definitely plays a role in Linux security, but it’s minor compared to stuff like market share, user privilege, package management vs just installing random exes, different distros using different packaging systems.

Darorad ,

I like how you just ignored the comment you replied to which acknowledged linux makes up most servers and instead just argued against a guy you made up.

Darorad ,

open source definitely plays a role in Linux security, but it’s minor compared to stuff like market share, user privilege,

Is saying the role open source plays in Linux security is minor compared to the role other aspects play, not that the attacks are minor.

Darorad ,

Guess you just needed to call in the ntsb to look for plane parts next time.

Darorad ,

I mean I’d much prefer they didn’t fly a plane that was repeatedly saying there’s a serious issue with it.

Darorad ,

Hey, it’s a great time to buy. Supply hasn’t dropped, but demand has.

Darorad OP ,

Thankfully valve does, linux gaming’s gotten to a really great state in the last few years.

Darorad ,

They will now

Darorad ,

Oh, yeah, I was mostly joking, more people have it downloaded means it’s basically impossible to take down

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