The title says it all, I’d like to switch my operating system and preserve most of my files. Any other info I should know before the move would be nice as well.
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
Just to add - gitui doesn’t (yet) have the commit signing, so for commiting stuff you still have to use command line, but other features are pretty useful.
sway - stable and productive. Hyprland - beautiful, but performance is worse. i3 - same as sway, but sometimes better for legacy X11 stuff or applications that are still buggy at Wayland
The YouTube channel “Maximum Fury” conducted a technical test of the new Cyberpunk add-on called “Phantom Liberty” on an older AMD hardware system, testing it separately on Linux and Windows 11. The Linux system, specifically the Fedora distribution called Nobara, performed significantly better, delivering 31% more...
I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...
I’m not sure the UI/UX is anyhow related to kernel development.
I3/Sway/Hyprland/other WMs are already much more superior to anything that can be achieved in Win/Mac desktops in terms of flow and performance. Only polishing is needed. Other desktop options like Gnome/KDE are fine and more lightweight desktops are okay too. They need polishing too, but already great.
Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.
In fact it would help game development as much as “similar” approach helps the web grow the way you don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time. Although you can.
No offence, gnome is great, but there are many inconsistencies on the lover level, I wish it was figured out once and for all. It applies to big DEs like KDE and etc too.
I’ve happily been a Fedora user for many years now, but RHEL’s recent choice to put their source code behind a paywall has me pondering ethical considerations of my distro choice....
Look, we know System76 laptops are based as fuck. I mean, Coreboot, Open source firmware, PopOS, and a fucking open source mobo in the works, just so fucking based....
There are no C/D/… drives in Linux. Steam and Lutris create their own environment (“bottle”, right?) for every game. I think by using Lutris you will get the most user friendly approach.
Oh, M$ is so disgusting, I never gonna switch to the new platform!
In a few months/years
Well, my apps/hardware are not working, time to switch anyway. Not because it's not working anymore, but because the platform is mature and I actually like it.
Although it's generally good idea, you will have hardware/software issues in the future. As I remember there is LTSB out there and it was pretty solid, but in times I used it long ago, I already had a lot of issues that required hours to find a workaround.
I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things....
Arch/EndeavourOS. Updates for the recent hardware come pretty fast and they are stable. Most of the time I use gamescope from Valve to get better latency.
Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)
Switching from Manjaro to EndeavorOS, is there a way to preserve my home directory?
The title says it all, I’d like to switch my operating system and preserve most of my files. Any other info I should know before the move would be nice as well.
AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features (www.phoronix.com)
Well, apparently, after just a few years the ability to control GPU operation in Linux will slide down considerably.
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
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What's your preferred DE?
I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.
New update replaces k apps
Today usual updating replaced probably all K apps with extra/K. It didn’t break anything but it was weird and scary when it’s 100s of apps
Cyberpunk runs 30% faster on linux than on windows 11 (m.youtube.com)
The YouTube channel “Maximum Fury” conducted a technical test of the new Cyberpunk add-on called “Phantom Liberty” on an older AMD hardware system, testing it separately on Linux and Windows 11. The Linux system, specifically the Fedora distribution called Nobara, performed significantly better, delivering 31% more...
Refusing TypeScript is a signal that you don't care about code quality (vitonsky.net)
Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)
I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...
Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun? (kbin.cafe)
Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.
Final Fantasy 16 Producer Naoki Yoshida Wishes There Was Only One Console - IGN (www.ign.com)
Final Fantasy 16 producer and 14 director Naoki Yoshida wishes everyone played games on the same console.
CEOs' pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft, data shows (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1125959...
Distro suggestions
I’ve happily been a Fedora user for many years now, but RHEL’s recent choice to put their source code behind a paywall has me pondering ethical considerations of my distro choice....
Overwatch 2 is releasing on Steam on 10th August (store.steampowered.com)
System76 or Framework laptop?
Look, we know System76 laptops are based as fuck. I mean, Coreboot, Open source firmware, PopOS, and a fucking open source mobo in the works, just so fucking based....
Can Wine / Proton / any translation layer run games from external drives?
I’m currently using Windows 10, but I’d like to switch to linux....
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)
Linux gamers, what distro are you currently on?
I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things....
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
Portable console producer GPD in talks with Valve about using SteamOS. (www.gamingonlinux.com)
It would be a huge win for Linux and open source if GPD ditches Windows.