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Nibodhika , to linux in Help deciding Os

Yeah, but Ubuntu has had non-free codecs and drivers in their repos for decades, that’s not new, Fedora just recently found a way to stop shooting themselves in the foot.

Nibodhika , to linux in Help deciding Os

Wrong thread?

Nibodhika , to linux in Help deciding Os

You might have misinterpreted me, I believe Linux is easy, in fact easier than Windows, but people are just not used to it. When they get used to it it becomes simple, but it’s more in the person to adjust their viewpoint than Linux to get easier. However to the person it seems that Linux is progressively becoming easier, because they fail to acknowledge their changes. But when you’ve been using Linux for 20 years as your daily driver you see every day someone claiming that Linux has only become easy to use X years ago, and almost 100% of the time that person started using Linux X+1 years ago.

Nibodhika , to linux in Help deciding Os

Let me guess, you started using Linux daily around 3 years ago?

In my experience the pains of Linux have been the same for decades (well, not really, xorg.conf was a major pain in the ass). I think in general people get used to Linux and after a year or so and they think the system became simpler, when in reality it’s more that they learned the Linux way of thinking.

Nibodhika , to linux in Help needed: State of graphics stack on linux for Gaming (OPTIMUS laptop)

NVIDIA proprietary driver doesn’t play nice with Wayland. To check if the proprietary driver is loaded you can use lsmod | grep nvidia if there’s output it means the driver is loaded. Since it’s an OPTIMUS laptop things will run in general on your integrated board, e.g. glxinfo | grep vendor will show you MESA information instead of NVIDIA. Technically prime-run glxinfo | grep vendor should show NVIDIA, however I’m not entirely sure that works on Wayland.

Nibodhika , to linux in Switching from Manjaro to EndeavorOS, is there a way to preserve my home directory?

If /home is on a different partition just don’t format it and set it to mount on the same place and you should be good to go. If it’s not make a backup, then create a partition just for it, install your new system, restore the backup, and next time you won’t need a backup.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in Exception implies deficiency. Am I the only one who sees this?

So are you saying we shouldn’t give crutches to people that can in fact walk but shouldn’t because they need to heal their leg properly?

A crutch is an aid, it is given to people that need aid to be able to walk properly. This might be because of some inate deficiency, or because of some injury, you wouldn’t say a person who twisted her ankle and will make a full recovery in 1 month is deficient, they are currently in a state of deficiency, but it’s not inate to them. That’s the jump in logic you’re making without realising, just because someone needs aid doesn’t mean they’re inherently inferior, but they might be in a situation that makes them less able than what they should be.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin

NixOS packages only work with NixOS system. They’re harder to setup than just copying a docker-compose file over and they do use container technology. If the idea is to remove complexity from the setup, NixOS goes in the opposite direction.

Also without containers you don’t solve the biggest problems such as incompatible database versions between multiple services.

I stand by what I said, I can give a 2 step tutorial on setting up any docker system (copy this compose file, run up on it), anything simpler than that wouldn’t be as robust in terms of configurations.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin

You should learn docker if you care about self hosting stuff though. You might lose 1 day learning the basics of docker, but the practicity of being able to spin up services just to test them it’s well worth it.

Personally I use Immich for photo management, but not sure it it’s packaged as an RPM, and even if it is you’ll need to setup the database yourself. Nextcloud also possibly works but again setting Nextcloud without containers is a PitA.

Someone asking for a service to self host that refuses to use docker is similar to a person who wants to run a server but refuses to learn CLI, yes it can be done, but you’re making your life hard for no purpose and everyone else will just give you the simple solution.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin

Because it’s easier to tell someone “use this docker image” than it is to tell them “go through all of these thousands of steps to get this service working”.

The main reason I use containers for my personal things is easy to setup and to migrate, those are huge points, and the added complexity is not that much, in fact I would argue it’s less complicated to figure out why a docker image is not running than figure out why a service stopped responding.

Nibodhika , to games in What are some good games with *zero* replayability?
  • Spec ops: The line. I think this was delisted from most stores though, so you might need to sail the high seas to get it. It might not be as impactful today as it was when it came out, but it’s a great game with a great twist.
  • Life is strange. It’s a story driven game, sure you can replay it and choose different things, but realistically you probably won’t since the main of the story is the same.
  • Batman games. Those were my go to for a while when I wanted something linear with an end.
Nibodhika , to linux in Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?

For sure, in fact I do have a Windows box besides my main Linux laptop from the company I work for. But this is because I work most of the time with Linux but there’s one specific thing that needs to be done on a Windows box. Luckily for me they have been very accommodating in that regard, but I could see a different company saying I would only get a Windows machine since it can do all of the flows.

Nibodhika , to linux in Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?

It’s a normal thing to ask in an interview, I ask the same every time, so far I’ve always gotten one, after all most things I work with require Windows machine to have WSL anyways, so might as well cut one layer.

That being said it all comes down to how you ask it and how valuable you are, if a junior said “I only work with Linux, either you give me a Linux box or I won’t take the job” you might be cut from the race by HR before any person who even understands what you’re asking gets to see you because you’re being inflexible. If on the other hand you’re a senior and go through the interview and at the end when you get to the questions ask what’s the policy for OS on work machines, you’re much more likely to get the answer you’re looking for. That is unless you’re working for a Windows specific program, which obviously will need a Windows box, and not many companies are willing to give you two PCs.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Recomendation for a note taking app

I use tailscale, that allows me to access it remotely securely and gets https. If you don’t want to do that it’s hard but doable to emit your own certificates, but the tailscale approach is a lot more simple.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Recomendation for a note taking app

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