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There was no blowup, Reddit both received more funding and their advertising earnings increased. A 21% revenue growth in 2023, I'd say also active user growth but I'm not entirely sure.

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But it was the X protocol that needed to be replaced.

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I think usually people need it for a specific use-case. I maintain a GUI app for Linux, Windows and macOS. All I need to do is generate and test a binary sometimes.

New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option (www.howtogeek.com)

Ubuntu’s popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I’ve highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.

ProtonBadger ,

I tried out Arch for a while. The AUR is a bit of a wild west and at least I found it important to vet packages before installing them. It was a hassle. The same reason I only use one package from the OBS on Tumbleweed now.

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Just be careful about trying to run your AppImages on a distro with for example only FUSEv3, because there are system dependencies.

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I don't believe iOS and Android use immutable filesystems to the extent some Linux distros do, like openSuse Aeon, Fedora Silverblue, Nixos, etc. iOS and Android just make it more difficult to gain root access.

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Today I was looking up how to do something in a game I'm playing, there were some videos about it, usual formula starting with "Sup guys!", intros, ads for the channel, and fluff, "remember to press like", oh and a bunch of videos that may or may not contain the answer.

The answer could be written in 5 words, basically what key to press.

ProtonBadger ,

I don't really care but I have a 512GB drive, a few extra GB of NVidia packages or whatever means nothing. I just enjoy the containerization and not having to give it my root password to install things. I'm not on an immutable distro and not having an app invade my core system (in whatever way the packager felt necessary) feels really good.

I'm watching the immutable space though, once it matures a bit more might try it. openSuse has an elegant and simple take on it with BTRFS snapshots.

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There won't be a joining of efforts but COSMIC seems like it may be the DE that many are looking for, it has a way to go though, we'll see.

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Also they’ve submitted not only bug reports but numerous fixes in many components not even belonging to them but applicable to any ARM systems and in some cases even AMD64. Their productivity is mad, their attitude awesome and they’ve benefited the entire open source community. Thank you to the Asahi Linux team!

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It's a human thing, this is all social media. It'll happen here as well if enough people join a conversation and especially if the userbase expands. Everyone just want to have their say/get attention without checking the other comments.

I'm so frustrated rn.

I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro....

ProtonBadger ,

I’m not sure OP sounds like someone who into reading Arch News, learning about pacnew/pacsave, etc. that’s more for hobbyists. An ubuntu flavor or something like Zorin might be better for them and then stick with it and solve any problem that may show up.

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I prefer Linux and I’m OK with macOS. Windows on the other hand I dislike, it has bloated complex middleware and tries to control me like a hand puppet. I can work on it but given the choice I go elsewhere.

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It's most like due to power governor and scheduler behaviors. If there's background activity impacting the test it would more likely be Defender.

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I'm looking at how many of the bugs and security issues are due to memory unsafe code - it's A LOT and new ones come up almost daily. Humans are just bad at writing safe code because we are so fallible. So if we can eliminate a significant percentage of these bugs from the ground up that suddenly becomes very interesting. Besides personally after two decades of C and C++ (and debugging them) I find Rust much more pleasant and "ergonomic" to use.

If we want an OS to be more secure by design we really have to begin at the most basic level. It might never be perfect but we can greatly reduce the attack surface. This is also why Microsoft is rewriting a number of vulnerable system components of Windows in Rust.

So why is it important to the end-user? Well, if that's Average Joe, maybe not but Redox OS right now is not mainstream, it is for us nerds who are interested in a safer OS and to see what can be done in that space. Maybe you don't care and that's fine, but some of us do and just like any post here, people can chose to skip over it or dive into the discussion, we can't guarantee that all posts or projects are interesting to everyone :)

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Joplin is great for notes. I've set it to sync with a free Dropbox account and have used it on Android, iOS, Linux and Windows.

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I just got the Discord update, meh, seems ok to me, maybe even a bit more convenient. They obviously think it's an improvement.

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Or sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

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Well, they're an Arch Linux user which is a special case. On Arch and derivatives it's the user's responsibility to manage the system so this doesn't happen, configure cleanup daemons, flush package managers, etc., alternatively it could also be a misbehaving application which would have to be reported. Arch is for hobbyists who likes to do this.

On other Linux distributions, Windows or macOS if this happens it's usually an application not properly managing its cache.

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I don't know how long it will take but it should be much much less work now that gnarly UI elements as old as GTK have been replaced with modern toolkit ones.

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I don’t get the issue with “maintaining Xorg”.

I think he explains it pretty well, he even gives some examples and mentions there are many others. For a company to support such a large component for its commercial customers has a lot of work and verification we wouldn't consider as end users. His comment also explains why you can't just maintain a status quo with it and make an automatic build and forget...

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    ProtonBadger , (edited )

    I got that problem on a ROG Strix G733ZM. The solution was to install "hdajackretask" (sometimes in an ALSA tools package, sometimes elsewhere), select "ALC285" and "show unconnected pins" and map pin 0x14 to "Internal Speaker" and pin 0x1e to "Internal speaker (LFE), then install boot override and reboot.

    Oh and after reboot I went to Configure Audio in KDE and selected a profile.

    It looks like this.

    I found it randomly online, don't remember where. I wish I knew how those pins were discovered in the first place because it may well be different for different laptops and also I really want to know....

    Oh BTW, in case you need to know: My microphone was having an awful lot of static noise. The trick was to 1) reduce microphone volume to 50% and 2) enable the ladspa-rnnoise noise filter in pipewire (it was already in my distributions repo). I checked in Windows and it sends the mic through an "ASUS AI noise filter" - so they've basically saved money on the hardware and are doing the same thing.

    ProtonBadger ,

    Same, I've used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.

    ProtonBadger ,

    Indeed, besides most linux distributions are fairly equally lightweight and can be customized. I tried 4-5 distros this past January (Arch being one) when I got my new gaming laptop and they all booted in ~9.5 sec for example, and perform equally well in general, they had fairly similar RAM load with the same desktop environment.

    Arch is about managing the system as a hobby, which is fine.

    One problem here is that new users install Endeavour/Garuda but don't know how to manage updates safely about pacnew/pacsave/etc. So the system might slowly "rot" without them knowing about it because new components use old configs, etc..

    I also recommend Mint to new users. I don't use Mint, nor do I use Arch.

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    I haven't booted Windows since February and at this point I'm afraid to.

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    Tumbleweed. I've used Linux since the nineties so I know my way around but I appreciate a sane default desktop install so I don't have to waste time fiddling too much.

    People always talk about lean/fast/customizing, in reality most distros are performant and fairly lean/bloat free, it's just how Linux is. TW is no exception and like all the others it's easy to customize. I don't use YAST.

    I can get comfortable almost any distro, though I prefer those with systemD+Wayland and Nvidia drivers in a repo so they update with the rest. I like rolling release, also considering the pace of Wayland and KDE development.

    For new users I always recommend Mint.

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    I don't use Ubuntu on my desktop but in my experience it performs on par with other distributions and it is not a RAM hog either.

    I thing "bloat" is a big mythical monster people like to throw around because it's difficult to argue against and scares everybody.

    I think snaps were slow to load to begin with but I also read that it was much improved recently, one can also install Flatpak.

    So I think Ubuntu is a great distro, performant and stable.

    Help request: Updates wrecked performance

    Need a bit of help here. I recently updated the nvidia drivers on my machine from 535.113 to 535.129 and my performance tanked. I can’t run anything except for peglin at 14fps. I’ve tried a clean install of nvidia drivers but that doesn’t seem to help. I’m well versed in Unix, but not really with gaming on Linux. No...

    ProtonBadger ,

    Yeah I had a similar issue, my Nvidia driver got updated to 545 and suddenly PRIME offload did not work for Steam games. After a little while Flatpak update pulled the nvidia 545 flatpak stuff and it started working again.

    ProtonBadger ,

    If you have issues it's usually a configuration issue or a misbehaving daemon, try investigating with "systemd-analyze blame", "systemd-analyze critical-chain" and "systemd-analyze plot > boot_anal.svg".

    ProtonBadger ,

    Suddenly i feel nostalgic for xbiff. No longer useful but he was a good dog.

    ProtonBadger ,

    Meh, they both support a ton of formats and encodings. Just use whichever feel best, even install both.

    ProtonBadger ,

    The application startup test is designed to cold-load an application with heavy background IO going on.

    ProtonBadger ,

    It's a single metric out of many for a file system, let's see if someone investigates.

    ProtonBadger ,

    I've noticed a lot number of questions on reddit/etc. suddenly gets asked in that way ("why" in front of a statement). As an ESL I was confused for a while because I've been drilled in asking questions using auxiliary verbs.

    Custom shell prompt tips and tricks?

    Recently I stumbled over an article, about how to customize your shell prompt. What really surprised me, is that it lacked one of the most basic tips I learned nearly 20 years back: Always display a timestamp in the prompt, to be able to check how long a process is running or when it ended. (Don’t need it daily, but every so...

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    Most prompt customizers have an option for showing how long last command ran and whether it succeeded/failed or simply prompt timestamp, it's often default. I use Tide, there's also Starship and a number of others. You can also roll your own ofcourse.

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    With regards to Arch based distros: Do you still need to read Arch news to spot potentially breaking updates and know how to diff pacsave/pacnew, etc. or have Garuda found a way to manage these things?

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    Yes, it seems like there could be a weakness there, unless it's just a fluke. The test has a background I/O load designed to stress BFQ I/O.

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    Not ready. Ella is working on it.
    OpenGL is at 3.1.

    Nvidia SUCKS!

    I am trying to repeat my 10 Benchmarks video on my 3080M laptop, which I haven’t really used for a while apart from testing NVK. I had forgotten just HOW much Nvidia sucks. I had to reinstall the OS cause OpenSUSE stopped booting after I installed the drivers the first time. X11 is ALSO buggy on Nvidia and crashes randomly....

    ProtonBadger ,

    Even Nvidia have embraced RISC-V, the general purpose controller embedded on their GPU's is RISC-V.

    ProtonBadger ,

    I guess mileage might differ. I installed Tumbleweed and then the Nvidia drivers following the wiki instructions. Everything is going great. Running a 3060 with Wayland+Plasma on a 360Hz screen and gaming through Steam. I love Tumbleweed.

    An alternative if just for benchmarking is EndeavourOS, you can choose proprietary Nvidia drivers as a boot option in the installer and then I believe it'll be installed with them without further ado. Downside is if you use it long term you have to read Arch News before updates to spot breaking/incompatible changes and be knowledagable of things like pacnew/pacsave files, etc.

    ProtonBadger ,

    He wanted something that just works and have very straightforward updates. On Arch you should read Arch News and check the output from updates to make sure no manual intervention is required, you need to understand Pacsave/Pacnew files, etc. One can coast along for a while without this but one day things can suddenly get funny.

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    Yeah, I disabled it and never notice any issues, but I only play BG3 and Guildwars2.

    ProtonBadger ,

    Panel freeze is a known KDE bug on non-Intel GPUs. It's fixed in Plasma 6, avoid it on Plasma 5 by disabling window previews for the panel.

    ProtonBadger ,

    Yeah I'm a grey-beard, my first experience was Slackware in the nineties. I've been using Linux since but usually on servers and in VMs only. Recently I've been able to go 100% thanks to Proton. I really enjoy the progress made with tech such as systemd, wayland, btrfs, proton and flatpak. Though a lot of grey-beards are very resentful of these I feel they represent real positive progress. There's also support for kb backlight and other features of my laptop.

    I'm also really enjoying PRIME rendering on my laptop, using Intel and Nvidia at the same time for different things. It works beautifully/seamlessly and even more so that I can just type "yay" and get a new Nvidia driver or a matching driver if there's a kernel update without having to do any babysitting manually.

    I do everything on Linux now, Office work, Rustdev and I play games like BG3/Guildwars2 simply by launching them from Steam.

    The only pain is that I have to configure each application manually to use Wayland, that's a bother.

    Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?

    Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.

    ProtonBadger ,

    I just like the rolling release/quick updates of Endeavour(Arch) and SUSE Tumbleweed. So those are the ones I pick between for my gaming laptop (both with Btrfs for easy rollback though I've never needed it). For my servers I use Debian.

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    Sounds like some sort of weird bug under Fedora, given the huge difference.

    ProtonBadger , (edited )

    Well that's a massive difference you're experiencing. For me Native and Steam work the same.

    ProtonBadger ,

    Sometimes I just need to type one or two quick commands, maybe at the current path. I don't think this is necessarily to do a lot of work, it's just to give some more flexibility.

    Nothing wrong in having options that some might find useful sometimes.

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