Meh, I'll be honest and say that I'm not impressed by chrome in modern day. While I hate Microsoft, edge is a nicer browser to use than chrome, and that's saying something
Meh, I'll be honest and say that I'm not impressed by chrome in modern day. While I hate Microsoft, edge is a nicer browser to use than chrome, and that's saying something
"The courts hereby decide that Alphabet Inc. will pay a fine of... 1.2 million dollars... Out of the billions of dollars they make every year" :)
edubuntu
An education focused Ubuntu distro, weird. Also getting into Linux because it's free is a great reason to get into Linux, if you get comfortable with it now it can help you in many STEM careers in addition to your own needs and proposes.
You mean Web3? Yeah Web3 is going to do jack shit to solve this, if anything it'll make it worse
Wine is available for Mac, and Apple has started work on their game toolkit which was shown to run cyberpunk (albeit not well)
So yeah, but you're probably better off just dual booting asahi tbh.
Are you using snaps? Snaps are notorious for God awful performance.
The hatred has nothing to do with the products but the lack of participation in open standards like OpenGL or Vulkan.
Their products are incredibly well made (though I'd fuckin hope so given the pricing) and their software experience (barring the lack of good graphics API support) is quite nice.
Yakuake, I can't use anything other than a quake based terminal. Because of my work I need 24/7 quick access to a terminal, yakuake is just that
Tried this myself, performance differences are non existent. In fact I noticed more regressions on speedometer than improvements.
Don't bother, use Floorp instead.
I'm really surprised at how much people are ripping on Linux here at lemmy. It's completely justified, I agree that Linux still needs some polish in a few areas before it can REPLACE windows, but I would've figured lemmy to be a bit more... I dunno red pilled and biased towards Linux.
I daily Fedora for ALL my games pretty much, save for Metro Redux: Enhanced Edition and SteamVR titles. Games with anticheat that don't work on Linux? I don't play them anymore, if they don't wanna play ball that's fine.
Why is this getting down voted? It's a genuine ask for help :/
I actually came to this community to actually ask about the state of Wayland on NVIDIA lol. I have a laptop that has hybrid AMD/NVIDIA graphics and I want to FULLY switch to Wayland but it NEEDS to be stable enough to not cause issues while I'm working.
You're not using any NVIDIA hardware...? Hmm, nope, that's all hardware that runs under Mesa. Give it a shot, if it doesn't work, you can always switch back.
The big advantage is improved support for new features, like adaptive sync, multi monitor support, display scaling, etc. You'll notice, new features (mostly gaming related features) will just work better on Wayland. There will be a performance hit though.
I made the switch because it's just plain better, adaptive sync works (it never worked for me on X11), oh yeah and the night color actually works. Night color on KDE just does not work on X11, AMD or NVIDIA, least for me.
For all two people who genuinely use edge on Linux, it's still a more private experience than Windows. Regardless, more power to them
TL;DR, ddosing AUR multiple times, poorly maintained certificates, and a generally bad take on Arch that causes lots of problems for the uninitiated.
So THIS is why teams doesn't work for me on Firefox anymore, Jesus. Welp, I can spoof my user string
Nobody's requiring you to use Wayland currently, I mean realistically name a Wayland-only app (excluding the ones like remote desktop apps that are replacing X11 apps that don't work at all on Wayland), they don't exist. But with new technologies will always be growing pains, the X11 -> Wayland transition will still be another few years I imagine, I mean at this point we're really only waiting on NVIDIA 🫠. It's a painful process, but one that is only so painful because it's been put off for so long, if we put it off for any longer it would've just been even worse.
You need to enable it in Steam's settings, under Steam Play
Honestly, this needs to go away, there is never a scenario where Linux gamers only want to play some of their games. There should be instead some pop up window for non proton verified games instead of an obtuse setting.
Just hold your breath silly
Bless the Arch wiki and everyone who has contributed to it
ProtonDB is the first place I go before buying a game, most of the time games work, but there's a few occasions where I have to change some configurations.
I would consider teaching them about a CLI shell, like Fish or ZSH (through oh my zsh), whilst they're not usually going to have the luxury of a nice shell on a remote server but they will if they're on a desktop. A good shell makes the CLI soooooo much easier, and faster, to use. Work smarter not harder, install a shell other than bash.
I would also HIGHLY consider teaching them about desktop app software development on Linux, there's a surprising number of developers who don't know about the different ways you can distribute software on Linux:
Teaching them about this is definitely a must imho, there are so many OSS projects out there that insist on distributing their software via native system packages (without supporting most distros). They're also likely to run into it even if they're just in IT, the server market uses Snaps quite a bit.
They haven't brought it back by supporting x11 itself, I don't see how this will be much different.
Effort is better spent making Wayland the X11 replacement it's supposed to be.
Not bad, just ironic
Only office is what I use for school and it's excellent, otherwise the full MS suite is available in the browser.
Hopefully talking about it more will interest more people in the project and possibly interest more people in contributing
Nah, it's because $400 for a GPU enclosure is insane, at that rate I can just get the mid-range GPU built in with the regular price of the laptop
I agree, endeavor doesn't do anything special with its packages to make it any more reliable. In fact it's really just Arch but with a DE setup out of the box
Interesting, what WINE compat layer are you using for Satisfactory then? Proton, Wine, Wine-GE?
I also like hearing good news about Linux. With how negative social media can be hearing some good news, especially about something I like is just a generally nice change of pace.
As long as the drive the swap is on is an SSD, yeah absolutely
Ardour and Audacity work just fine for me. Dunno if that's what OP uses but, worth mentioning
Well, such is the downfall of OSS, I mean look at VR on Linux, Mesa straight up will hard crash if you try to run SteamVR on the latest versions, and the time it takes for VR related bugs in Mesa to get patched are insanely long.
Just gotta make a hubub about it until someone with the knowhow can fix it.
AHEM powershell activation scripts AHEM
I would disable them, since even Fedora is considering dropping deltarpms last I heard.
Maybe give Lapce a shot, it's still in it's infancy, but it's pretty slick and very responsive.
To temper your expectations you'll likely have some problems. But you'll have the ability in future to make use of new display technologies, like VRR and HDR
Linux mint is a really easy and simple starting point. Fedora and openSUSE tumbleweed are a tad more advanced but allow more selection on your desktop environment (mint uses cinnamon, while Fedora and SUSE have both KDE and Gnome options) and thus can potentially support things like variable refresh rate and, when it gets support from KDE later this year, HDR.
For peripherals, if it's razor or Logitech, it'll just work and have community apps made to configure them. I personally like Keychron's stuff so that's what I use and that's fully Linux compatible, it does require some setup to work though. HDR is unsupported for the time being, but variable refresh (gsync/freesync) is in the KDE Plasma desktop environment under Wayland. On the topic of Wayland, if you want to make use of this new display protocol you'll need an AMD graphics card, as NVIDIA has been slacking with their Linux drivers. NVIDIA is getting better but it's not stable enough on Wayland for the laymen. In the case of only having an NVIDIA, X11 works fine, but it's just missing some features.
Also you won't need JavaScript, 90% of what you do will be through the GUI (depending on the distro), especially once you're set up. I know Fedora needs to enable rpmFusion, NVIDIA repos if on NVIDIA, and install codecs for hardware accelerated playback. Mint doesn't have these issues for the most part, though you'll want to enable flatpak's and consider disabling snaps. Mint already includes a graphical installer for NVIDIA and includes the codecs needed for hardware accelerated playback
There is a variety of remote desktop applications that support Wayland, Brodie talked about them in his video regarding Wayland's lack of network transparency. Wayland does not need network transparency to be able to support remote desktop.
Modem hardware.
The default kernel Mint has installed isn't new enough to support cards like the 7900 XT. Though this can be fixed by updating the kernel using Mint's kernel version utility