Nibodhika

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in Intel graphics driver?

Your card might be one of the ones that need nomodeset parameter, as per nomodeset documentation:

Unfortunately, on some cards this doesnt work properly and you end up with a black screen. Adding the nomodeset parameter instructs the kernel to not load video drivers and use BIOS modes instead until X is loaded.

Just add the parameter permanently to the config and you should be good.

Also don’t install random things from the internet, not even from Intel, that’s not the proper way of doing things in Linux and it sounds as absurd as someone telling you they downloaded a game APK from a site to install on their phones. Yes, obviously there are cases where that is needed, but you should always prefer the package manager just like you use the play store on your phone.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

Yes and no. Let me start by saying I use systemd and have never seen any of this as a problem big enough for me to switch.

The Unix philosophy is that a program should do one thing and do it well, the old init.d system did exactly that, but systemd does more than just start programs, for example there’s the systemd-logind service which is used to authenticate users. Why is this a problem? Because some people don’t want to use systemd, therefore they don’t have logind, so if something were to depend on that, like GNOME’s GDM did for a while, it would be impossible to use it without systemd. So in a way people complain about programs becoming dependant on systemd, and systemd grabbing more and more responsibilities to the point where it would become an integral part of Linux, it’s not that systemd is a problem now, is that it has the potential to become so ingrained to everything that it becomes impossible to remove. But in the meantime systemd does provide some advantages, including parallelism which makes the computer boot faster.

Should you switch? Not really, this is more a philosophical debate on what Linux is and should be, I agree with all of the philosophical points and don’t think programs should depend on systemd, but I don’t think that’s directly systemd’s fault.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?

GNU Terry Pratchett

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in Dual Boot vs Full Linux

everything else it gives you a link to download the ISO.

Then that’s new, you had to jump through some hoops to get the iso before, I remember just giving up and going to my sister’s computer to download it back then.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in I have a Gen 4 I7 and 32 gb ram with a 1 TB ssd HDD, and a 1 gb gaming video card. Micro$haft says my computer isn't ready for Windows 11. How is that possible?

Shouldn’t mods be cross platform though? In most games mods are implemented by the game engine so they’re not platform specific, KSP is Unity based and I’m fairly confident that other Unity games have cross platform mods.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in Dual Boot vs Full Linux

You can download the windows iso from windows webpage, but if I remember correctly you have to do it in Windows since it depends on a downloader program. Then you should store the windows cd-key just in case, you shouldn’t need it and there are ways to recover it from Linux if this is an OEM machine, but it’s always better safe than sorry.

With all that being said, a bit of unpopular opinion now. Why do you want to do that? I kept a windows partition for years because I never knew if I would need it, it was only when I realised I hadn’t touched Windows in months that I felt comfortable removing it, and at that time I didn’t cared if it could be reinstalled. The reason I’m asking is because if you have to ask about it you probably never installed windows on a machine, so you don’t know how to do that, and it’s a lot more complex than Linux because Windows needs all of the drivers to be manually installed to work properly, and while Windows 10 is a bit better in finding those drivers automatically it’s still a Pain in the ass to ensure it got the correct things and wait the thousands of reboots to apply all updates because updates are cumulative in Windows.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in Dual Boot vs Full Linux

Why is it insecure to store a string? I think you’re being overly dramatic, those keys are OEM anyways so it’s not insecure for Windows and it’s not insecure for you.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in I have a Gen 4 I7 and 32 gb ram with a 1 TB ssd HDD, and a 1 gb gaming video card. Micro$haft says my computer isn't ready for Windows 11. How is that possible?

KSP has a native version for Linux that used to be better than the Windows one because it was actually 64 bits. Has that changed?

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in I am looking for help with switching from Windows to Linux

Your GPU is very weak, and because it was a budget card back in the day it doesn’t have support for a “new” technology called Vulkan which is an alternative to OpenGL.

Vulkan is used by Proton (you can think of it as a Windows emulator, even though it’s not exactly an emulator) to convert DirectX calls to something native. Without Vulkan Proton needs to convert DirectX to OpenGL which loses a lot more performance, and in the case of newer games (ones that use DirectX 12) it’s not possible.

So it really depends on what games you want to play, realistically I don’t think you’re playing anything with DirectX12 because those games are all newer than your card, so I don’t think your GPU would support them even in Windows.

I would say give it a go in a separate partition/disk/thumb drive and see how it goes. I don’t think the experience of gaming will be good for you, but I can’t imagine the rest of the PC has good specs if that’s the GPU, so day to day might be a lot more comfortable on Linux without windows hogging down resources.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in Things like this turn people off from Linux

First of all I owe you an apology, you don’t seem to be the type of person that usually writes posts like “This is why people don’t use Linux: it doesn’t do everything exactly the same as Windows”, and my response might have been overly harsh from past experiences.

I understand it wasn’t your intention to say that, but that’s quite literally what people understand when you say “I tried to do X the Windows way and it didn’t worked”. And this is kind of what people are trying to get you to see, it’s not that the file manager has or doesn’t have that feature (which BTW I would also expect it to work, and I checked on my computer and it does in fact work so I’m not sure why you couldn’t select things from the search result and drag it someplace else), the thing is that you went about this with the thought “this is how I would do it in Windows”, and refused to accept that people who use Linux would look at this in a different light, i.e. think about how to modify things in place instead on how to move everything to a single folder. In other words what you WANTED to do was convert all images inside cbz and CBR files to webp, so instead of asking yourself how do I run this on all of these subfolders you asked how do I move all of these files into a single folder, and that’s the Windows mentality creeping out, you shouldn’t need to move things around.

Yes, Mylar will rearrange the things, but here’s the thing, if you had gone with the Linux mentality you would have learned how to run things in folders in place, which would have allowed you to convert the cbr to cbz in place, and then convert the images on those cbzs also in place, without needing to rely on the script supporting either CBR or recursion in the folders nor on Mylar to rearrange things. Also, just thinking about this, how would you have done it? Move CBR to black hole folder, then get them imported as cbz, then move all cbz to a different folder, then run the script, then move everything from that folder into the black hole folder and hope that Mylar doesn’t decide “I already have that comic, delete the one in the black hole since it’s lesser quality than what I already have stored”. Instead of just running the script in the terminal passing the root comic folder, do you REALLY think that your way is simpler?.

I understand the wildcards not working being confusing, and if you hadn’t mentioned that the documentation doesn’t mention it I would be in 100% agreement with you that it is confusing. My point is that the docs don’t need to mention features they don’t support, my counter example was regular expressions which are a lot more powerful than wildcards yet almost no search bar uses, and their documentation doesn’t mention it.

The message you suggested is a nice idea, if the search returns empty that would be a nice message that would direct people to the fact that it doesn’t support wildcards, I would encourage you to suggest it on the git repo or proper channel to the developers, or if you’re inclined to write code write it yourself and open a PR, this seems like a nice message that’s very informative and would improve the quality of the software.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to linux in Things like this turn people off from Linux

I don’t even know where to begin. First of all if you want Linux to be Windows you’re going to have a bad time, the sooner you accept that Linux is a different OS and does things differently, the sooner you might start to learn it. This is one of the most common mistakes, with people trying to download .exe to install things to people expecting every single tool to behave the same. Not to mention xfce is not the only DE and Thunar is not the only file explorer, unlike Windows you have options to choose if you’re not satisfied with a specific program, even file explorer.

Secondly that way is stupid even in windows, you’re destroying all of the organisation you had with no possible way of recovering it. How do you plan on putting the comics back into the folders they were on before you moved them all to a single folder?

Thirdly and perhaps the most important advice I can give you, don’t run random code you find on the internet, especially true for AI generated content.

How would I had done this? A quick search in Google for convert cbz JPG to webp showed me this script github.com/azuravian/…/cbz_JPG-to-WEBP.py which might be what you’re using, looking at the help of that script it seems it acts recursively on folders and subfolders and also works with CBR. Unfortunately for you you tried to use it the windows way and so we’re limited to whatever GUI is written for it. In fact most scripts would accept a parameter for the file to convert, so a small knowledge in terminal would allow you to do this for EVERY script.

The terminal is not your enemy, you’re hampering yourself because you’re trying to do complex stuff in the GUI which is not capable of complex stuff.

Finally, you say the documentation of Thunar does not mention wildcards as a point in your favour of “this is confusing”, it’s not, when a documentation doesn’t mention something in general that something is not supported. If I had tried to use a proper regexp on windows finder I couldn’t point to the docs not mentioning it to say “it’s confusing that they don’t mention they don’t support regular expressions”. The reason Thunar doesn’t bother is that 99.999% of the time when a user searches x what he means is really the regexp .*x.*, so that’s what it does, if you want something more advanced there are other tools for the job.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in If bullshit jobs are *really* bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?

Also non-technical people need to understand that automation makes life easier, but you still need someone who knows how to do it manually to fix the automation in case it breaks or needs updating. That person will do mostly nothing most of the time, but if you didn’t had him full time he would be extremely expensive to hire on demand on a rush, since he could ask whatever price he wanted and you would have to pay it.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to games in The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained

I understand that point but my counter is that if someone sends you a product/video in private to review you have more reson to contact them about what you will say before you do than if the product/video is publicly available.

Do you think LTT should contact the companies that they do secret shopping before releasing the video? Any comments that they might have won’t change what happened on their experience, and any promises of improvement won’t prevent them from publishing the video so it’s kind of pointless.

Even if GN had contacted and they had explained what they already explained, the GN video would be the exact same with an added part for LTT’s response, which LTT is perfectly capable of doing themselves, and would do regardless of GN’s video.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to games in The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained

Yup, the house of cards I mentioned in the phrase immediately after that one is because of that, which is why I said:

as soon as one review can’t be trusted, no review can be trusted

Nibodhika , 10 months ago to games in The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained

However they sent a 3090 GPU and a prototype cooler for that specific board, which they mounted on a 4090 board which has a potentially different layout and was not tested.

Imagine they were a small company , whose first product was the LTT screwdriver, and they had sent an early prototype to a YouTuber who complained that none of the bits he had laying around worked on that screwdriver, so no one should buy the LTT screwdriver because it just doesn’t work. When people complain that they weren’t doing the product justice by testing it with the wrong things they replied “I’m not spending money retesting a screwdriver that no one should buy because it’s useless”. Then turned around and sold the prototype at an auction. Then when people complained they said “we didn’t sell it, we auctioned it for charity, and have already sent money to replace it” having sent the email agreeing to pay seconds before saying that stupid excuse.

They did a LOT of wrong things there, a bad review is the least of the problems. For all I know the product is in fact shit, but because of their methodology, plus all that they did afterwards, I can’t trust that they would ever produce an honest review of the product. And this is a house of cards, as soon as one review can’t be trusted, no review can be trusted. Can you assure that they used proper protocol when testing other things if they can’t even use the GPU that was sent together with the cooler? And that when people point this instead of retesting they just dig themselves deeper into “we’re right”… Plus you should watch the GN video, they point a LOT of inconsistencies and errors in other videos, showing that the cooler is NOT an isolated thing.