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I read the first paragraph and saw your prerequisites included working with nvidia.

That is a non-starter, right there. You can blame Linux for a whole lot of little flaws, but most of the blame should go to your hardware vendor for providing shitty support for Linux.

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I don’t pay more than 20€ for a game.

I have a very long backlog to play and feel no pressure to play the very latest releases. Being a patient game does have some perks. One of them is that I get to buy a lot more games (ence the backlog).

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Using the tool that best fits the use case is not weird. It’s common sense.

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Too many to list: Buffy, Brooklyn 99, Firefly, Stargate SG1…

Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

I currently have a Dell laptop that runs Windows for work. I use an external SSD via the Thunderbolt port to boot Linux allowing me to use the laptop as a personal device on a completely separate drive. All I have to do is F12 at boot, then select boot from USB drive....

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I understand the rationale behind you doing this, I’ve done it myself.

Your company sends you abroad for a week or two. You want to access your Netflix account but don’t want to do it on the company computer. On the other hand you don’t want to carry two laptops with you.

As others have said, tampering company hardware can get you in trouble with the IT department, and it’s enough to get you fired in some cases.

If you value your job get permission to do it or get yourself a tablet.

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If you can get past all the crazy shit going on in the world, there are a lot of incredibly talented, generous people out there sharing what they do and what they know with the rest of us puny mortals.

I try to drink from their example and surround myself with their positivity (or hate their guts for being so damn good, depending if I had my morning coffee or not).

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This is the attitude the OP is talking about.

Being snobbish helps noone, we’ve all been noobs at some point.

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I remember Corel Linux as a great disto. I used it for a while and found it very beginner friendly, polished, and it looked like it could one day become what Ubuntu eventually did.

Unfortunately, Corel saw no revenue would ever come from it, so it was sadly dropped.

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I’d avoid it if at all possible. Waking up slowly and taking your time to adjust can be beneficial. There’s no way a sudden jolt of adrenaline and caffeine is good for you in the long run.

There have been studies stating that when daylight saving is rolled back one hour there’s a spike in coronary accidents. That may or may not be true, but I do feel better when doing my slow start routine.

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My SSD Steam library over two drives because life is short and I cba managing the two ssds independently.

You do know that Steam handles multiple libraries transparently, even on removable drives?

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Can’t argue with cool points.

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Just wait until your eyesight fails you, and the joint that makes your mouse button click starts hurting.

Things that you love to do after work (like playing video games) start to sound like chores.

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Yep, here I am suffering some pain on my right shoulder, wrist an index finger after yesterday’s small gaming session.

Still, gotta Doom.

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Goes without saying.

Just take care of yourself and make sure you work for a living and not the other way around, that’s my motto.

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I still have it installed (Haiku, actually) on a small 32-bit laptop that I boot occasionally just to marvel at how awesome it is.

A port to Arm or Risc V would be great, it seems like a natural match to small SBCs.

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I read somewhere that the project is really hurting due to the original programmers having little to no time to devote to it, so I’m not expecting to run it on a Raspberry Pi anytime soon.

I wish I could help, but I’m no programmer.

Linux file transfer speed bottlenecks?

I’m currently watching the progress of a 4tB rsync file transfer, and i’m curious why the speeds are less than the theoretical read/write maximum speeds of the drives involved with the transfer. I know there’s a lot that can effect transfer speeds, so I guess i’m not asking why my transfer itself isn’t going faster....

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Rsync itself may be a bottleneck. Have you compared it to cp command, for instance?

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Exactly. Boring stability is good.

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Can one tool be used for multiple use cases? Sure. Should it? Maybe not.

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If you’ve never heard the MTV Unplugged version, do yourself a favour.

Behind the 80’s synthpop cheerfulness there’s a lovely sad song.

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My take: native packages for the core OS, flatpaks for desktop applications. Works for me.

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Fair enough, but I like the fact that I can keep Firefox or Steam from accessing my bank records and holiday photos.

What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

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Found out the hard way that if you edit /etc/sudoers with anything other than visudo you best be absolutely sure the syntax is correct, otherwise sudo will refuse to read it and you’ll be locked out.

Also learned to add -rf to the rm command at the end, after I re-read it to make sure it does what it should do. Something like rm /path -rf instead of rm -fr /path. That protects you from your fat fingers hitting the enter key half way through.

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IIRC the root account was disabled (with no password), so I resorted to my trusty SystemRescueCD pen to fix things. Never leave home without it.

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It doesn’t have to be the best, it just has to be better than the current standard. Git was better than CVS and SVN, so it won.

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