I’ve been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)...
@Jain@omgubuntu but it is more clearly laid out than the default Ubuntu one (at least for the PC activity) - AND includes an option to see the GPU activity! Nice thing, instantly installed :blobhappy:
More #inxi / #pinxi CPU issues, it looks like #fedora / #rhel have changed a default standard path in /sys for unknown reasons, thus breaking inxi cpu speed collection. This tripped need to do more refactors, this time to the fake cpu data debugger logic, it was not complete.
Also, a new codeberg issue pointed out that in many #Linux I can get basic RAM/RAM array data from udevadm, which appears to dump some dmi data into itself, available to user.
@adamw@mjgardner@Perl while I did not fully document my recent rh/fedora based distro vm tests, I know I had to install modules to get the debugger running, since as soon as I get the stuff running, I fire off a debugger dataset so I have it in storage for future reference.
To me when basic things like this are not understood, that's a huge red flag about something more fundamental in the model one is using to view the landscape.
The problems of for profit os vendors have zero value to me.
@agx@deedend@devrtz@purism
I have been daily driving mine since February of this year. Before that, I daily drove the PPP for a year and before that I daily drove the PP for a year.
The #Librem5 was a major step up in quality and usability from day one. I loved my pinephones, but I don't think that I could go back to them.
Since 2022 it has been implied multiple times by the openSUSE Development, that openSUSE Leap was being discontinued. Then they said it wasn't being discontinued, but replaced. Once more, they said it wasn't being replaced, simply changed. Now lastly, they're saying it may remain, but either in 1 of 3 forms
Ever watch a TV network kill off a good TV show, because the new executive does not like it, but the fans keep hanging on?
openSUSE has plenty of contributors, both from the community and from SUSE.
18 years, since October 2005, openSUSE has been going strong. The divided between Tumbleweed and Leap has continued for 8 of those years (since 2015).
Then you come along and claim the sky is falling (metaphorically speaking), by adding so much uncertainty and doubt, without actually doing anything for nearly 2 years.
Petite bouteille à la mer, j'essaie d'installer #Linuxmint sur un petit PC portable ASUS avec un SDD interne de 32Go, le problème c'est que je n'arrive pas à booter sur la clé USB. Pour accéder ua BIOS je dois redémarrer le PC via windows et lorsque je configure le BIOS je demande en 1 de booter sur la clé et en 2 de booter sur windows, le pb c'est qu'il me lance systématiquement windows. J'ai essayé de retélécharger mon iso mais le résultat est identique. Je commence à me décourager.
@MarSolRivas
Bon, hier soir j'ai installé Firefox, Libre Office, les codecs, l'installateur de paquets. J'ai 5Go utilisés et 21Go disponibles sur le SSD.
Tout fonctionne bien, je n'ai plus qu'à montrer les bases au fiston et c'est parti pour la seconde vie de cet ordi.
À nouveau un grand merci pour ton aide précieuse. ☺️
@thelinuxEXP@denzilferreira Your thoughts on Fedora’s other Desktop’s? Do all the normal stuff, media & such, data is all On a MacBook Pro, looking to do, security spin, yet with base workstation.. 32gb ram I-7 tb SSD, know of a way to switch DT’s on the fly,? Putting Elementary on an Asus, thanks 😊
In my case, there are 95 packages that depend on zlib, so removing it is absolutely the last thing you want to do. Fortunately though, GPT also suggested refreshing the gpg keys, which did solve the update problem I was having....
I find that I habitually open a terminal and run an update on every boot of my system (which gets rebooted once a day). I’m curious what other people do.
@Conan_Kudo@sysrich@vwbusguy Well, I'm not sure which docs you found, but most of our docs are on a wiki, so you can edit them, and save the next guy the headache, if you wish =]
Finally putting my x230 to rest, the last sudo poweroff. Hardware is failing beyond the point that makes continuing to repair it worthwhile.
On this laptop I deployed nearly 60 servers (most for at risk groups), 12 tech art projects (solo & collab, some toured worldwide), & gave many lectures & workshops.
If there was ever a loyal and electric steed, it was this x230. It ran #Debian & was good.
I bought it in 2015, for EUR145 on the German eBay, 2nd hand.
@JulianOliver Still better than Lenovo's ThinkPads. As a T14s (AMD Gen1) owner - I'd be upgrading IBM models for as long as possible.
...which reminds me: gotta check #FreeBSD hardware support for FrameWork, Dell and few other vendors' AMD-based laptops.
A conversation that keeps popping up in my mind since FOSDEM centers around open source projects and “AI,” and I still don’t know what I think. So let me share some thoughts here on the famously nuance-friendly Internet. 😜
During a chat w/folks from several open source organizations, someone suggested GNOME could attract funding by “sprinkling some AI on it.” Several folks laughed at the topical joke, but then realized it was in earnest. 🧵
For example: object recognition in the Image Viewer app to remove backgrounds; algorithmically improved camera quality in video calls; autocorrect! These are all areas that use ML algorithms on other platforms, and I don’t think that’s bad; you take a bunch of data, train an algorithm, then ship that in the OS/GNOME/etc. to be genuinely helpful.
First, we can get on board with that, right? Personally, I don’t consider that “AI,” even.
@gnuplusmatt@adamw@Defolos@carlwgeorge Outside of needing certifications and everything that implies, CentOS Stream should suffice as an LTS distribution for the vast majority of users. And most people would prefer updates to be released as soon as they're qualified, rather than waiting for a minor version boundary that's potentially six months away. That particular quirk of Enterprise Linux is the result of needing to qualify stuff for certifications and other things.
@danyeaw@FineFindus OpenSUSE has also gotten really good, we used to have it on our living room PC. I'm just not a fan of all the networking and management tools they provide, I don't really need them.
TIL Fedora is packaging a web browser app I developed for elementary OS, stopped updating over three years ago, and marked as end-of-life two years ago—yet it happily shows up in Fedora 40 if you search my name. It crashes on launch, so it doesn’t even work…
WHY??
Edit: I guess the package is being EOL'd in Fedora due to it no longer building and this thread, huzzah! My recommendation to distros: don’t package random apps and then not maintain them/communicate with upstream.
@cassidy@adamw You don't have to create a bugzilla account. You can email <package>-maintainers@fedoraproject.org to reach the maintainers of a package.
@jzb@jwildeboer@bookwar@Conan_Kudo I didn't expect "ELevate works too well" to be a factor behind this, especially when you can also use it to upgrade RHEL, IIRC. I definitely had better luck with Alma's tool than leapp directly from Red Hat.
Is my humble suggestion. Of course with a bit of wine, or a lot of wine, there might be a better idea to wait... 😉
(Confession btw: I have a hard time visualizing disc partitions so when I install Arch I have a second stick with Ubuntu or something on that I run first, just to run Gparted from the stick and set everything up with empty partitions before booting on the arch stick and go from there)
If Fedora 40 had a headlining change, it might be @kde Plasma 6. The KDE SIG have brought over all the hard work from that community to give you a solid desktop experience from day 1.
We're also pushing technology forward by making this release Wayland-only, though X11 apps will still work!
Plasma 6 is also available for our Kinoite users. :kinoite:
hy im trying to install arch as the third os on my windows / ubuntu machine and i cant figure it out how to set the grub bootloader i have already read the friendly manual but probably also due to my non native English origins i coudnt find an answer to my question witch is during the arch install should i reinstall grub with...
I've been talking a bit with folks working on GNOME about the state of the System Monitor app and its handful of community-made alternatives, then I had a thought:
Is it a wild idea to just... not have the app?
Wait wait, put away your pitchforks! We could do something better!
What if the reasons people actually use System Monitor were just exposed more contextually in the OS, for everyone? 🤔
You know what irks me the most about this change to pip behaviour in Debian. Linux is such a foot gun by design, you can do anything you want with usually no resistance or warning by the distro or kernel but this is where the line is drawn??
It's not like you couldn't have gone the other way and wrap system python packages into their venv.
Let people do unwise things, there are so many better defaults they could have chosen (redirect to local user with warning).
@timonsku they are pretty receptive about adopting package suggestions for stuff like this. I also had a bunch of our drivers Debian packaged and uploaded to their repository, but the GPIO changes basically broke all of them.
As part of supporting free and open source software, @slimbook will be donating 3% of the revenue of each Fedora Slimbook sale to the @gnome Foundation, because this laptop comes with unmodified Fedora Workstation out of the box!
We’re grateful for @slimbook choosing Fedora as a distro they want to support with a product launch. Our hardware partner initiative is one we're trying to grow this year, and the Fedora Slimbook is a valuable part of that. ❤️
Two days before #Ubuntu 24.04 LTS releases, and the upgrade process seems quite badly broken. If you're an adventurous person, I'd wait for quite some time before upgrading...
Edit: With some brutal hardcore apt and dpkg, I fixed it.
@popey tbh, speaking personally, I'd generally advise everyone to be ready to reinstall when upgrading to 24.04 or later when Debian trixie comes out, the t64 transition is messing things up badly.
If it works, good, but there's no way to know for sure ahead of time.
