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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by faust201 »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #205
faust201 wrote: post #186

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One good thing is choice. You are free to use macOS or even windows. But this battery argument is bull shit 15 years ago it was so difficult to find charging points. Not now. I have never ever been in a situation the I needed to be away from charging for > 6 hours. 6-10 hours is really possible. If your working or life demands that then pity you. I have better life/work. And again choice. You are free to use macOS or…

My “work life” involves business travel - consulting. My personal life involves month long stints of me working outside the home and even at home, I am sometimes working on the patio enjoying 80 degree weather in the middle of winter in Florida…

> travel - consulting

That's why pity

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by immibis »

palata wrote: post #630
immibis wrote: post #605

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There used to be programs that would connect to multiple proprietary systems, like Pidgin. If we had this today we'd have one free-software app for WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram (and some used in other countries, like IIRC Zangi?). However, the social and regulatory environment changed - now whoever made that app could expect to be charged with a crime.

I don't have a definitive opinion on such messaging apps. I like that it bridges between different services, trying to free the users from the lock-in, but... If I talk to someone on Signal today, I know that they are probably using the official Signal on the other side. With the guarantees that I know from Signal. Now what if half of the users of Signal were using a third-party app? How much can I trust this app? Sa…

That app already exists. It's called TM SGNL. The Department of War used it. It sent all their messages in plain-text to an Israeli server that was leaking memory dumps to the public internet (a la Heartbleed), 600GB of which were collected by hackers and sold on the dark web. Worst case scenario. That's not a fantasy, that literally happened. Do you still trust Signal?

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by icedchai »

moritz wrote: post #568
icedchai wrote: post #422

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iOS 18 is still getting updates. Same with Sequoia. Eventually that will stop and I’ll have to upgrade.

Apple already flipped the switch in December with 18.7.3, if your phone is capable running 26, you will not get offered 18.x updates anymore

Oh, I didn't realize this. I guess I'm screwed!! I'm stuck on 18.7.2...

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by palata »

immibis wrote: post #642
palata wrote: post #630

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I don't have a definitive opinion on such messaging apps. I like that it bridges between different services, trying to free the users from the lock-in, but... If I talk to someone on Signal today, I know that they are probably using the official Signal on the other side. With the guarantees that I know from Signal. Now what if half of the users of Signal were using a third-party app? How much can I trust this app? Sa…

That app already exists. It's called TM SGNL. The Department of War used it. It sent all their messages in plain-text to an Israeli server that was leaking memory dumps to the public internet (a la Heartbleed), 600GB of which were collected by hackers and sold on the dark web. Worst case scenario. That's not a fantasy, that literally happened. Do you still trust Signal?

That just reinforces what I said. It was not a problem in Signal, it was a problem with this third-party.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by wedesoft »

My Windows gaming graphics performance dropped by 40% after some update. I already was using Linux for everything else except gaming for many years. So I tried out Steam on Linux and I was quite amazed how many games run on Linux via Proton. Just check out protondb.com for compatibility reports.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by lifetimerubyist »

surgical_fire wrote: post #434
lifetimerubyist wrote: post #416

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The game is called HROT it’s an indie “boomer shooter”. The game was first locked to 30fps which is horrible for an FPS. Then I got that figured out, but FPS was all over the place and it felt basically unplayable to me even though I was often getting 100+ FPS. Frame pacing was absolutey FUBAR’d no matter which version of Proton or Wine, so even though frames were high it still felt terrible to play. So I just decide…

I wonder if this might be some odd library issue that could be fixed in the WINE prefix. I knew a guy that wanted to play a Japanese version of a JRPG on Linux and he figured out he needed some weird libraries there to properly render the font, which was causing the game to not start. Anyway, for older games and emulators, playing on Linux has been a magnificent experience for the most part.

Out of incessant curiosity and borderline obsession - I installed KDE, then I enabled the experimental Wayland support for Proton and tried the game again.

It runs great now. The Wayland support didn't seem to do anything when I was using Gnome but it's a noticeable difference on KDE. As long as I disable vsync which locks the framerate at 30fps for some reason. But overall the game is very playable on Linux now.

Guess I'm switching to KDE.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by t_mahmood »

Kye wrote: post #622
t_mahmood wrote: post #517

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I had one client who's explorer didn't load, we tried different file browsers, all that used explorer as backend failed to load, only double commander (forgot the exact name, it's a dual pan file browser like midnight commander) that worked. And we couldn't find any solution online, at the end he was stuck with it for over an year, as it was not possible to reinstall. On Linux everything is mostly decoupled, so this…

Most explorer issues are really file system issues. It's touchy. chkdsk in offline repair mode usually fixes it. For the rest, clear the thumbnail cache. The ways Windows breaks are different from the ways Linux breaks, but there are still ways to fix it. Most of the rest are solved with one or two commands, and it's usually the same two: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-fil...

I did try those, but it did not solved the issue. But searching around I came to know, this was a rare known explorer bug. Which was not resolved ... so that's that.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by lifetimerubyist »

AviationAtom wrote: post #512
lifetimerubyist wrote: post #54

I replaced Windows with Linux about 6 months ago. Then I ran into a game I really wanted to play but it didn’t run well with Proton (not kernel anti-cheat, just bad performance) after all the tweaks so I just reserved to dual booting with Windows 10. After not using Windows for so long, I came to realize that Windows is just as much a mess as Linux just in different ways. You get used to the quirks so you don’t notic…

I saw a gal say that a Windows VM worked solid for gaming, after passing through a GPU. EDIT: I hunted for the link, to deliver it to you! https://astrid.tech/2022/09/22/0/nixos-gpu-vfio/

thank you!

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by CamperBob2 »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #586
CamperBob2 wrote: post #243

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You run memtest86 to rule out a RAM issue, then check with your system reseller or mobo vendor for BIOS mitigations for the latest round of Intel CPU bugs. If you are able to rule out the RAM and CPU, try a different power supply. Failing that, the motherboard itself may be causing the issue. Unfortunately there are few good ways to narrow down intermittent hardware failures (which is what you are experiencing) beyon…

The same hardware works flawlessly running Linux.

It works so far. That means nothing. Different memory areas, different patterns of bus access, hardware usage and CPU activity. And don't forget different hardware drivers, for that matter.

However much Windows 11 sucks, BsoDs are vanishingly unlikely to be caused by Windows itself. They haven't managed to degrade it to that extent. At least not yet.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by bisby »

jolmg wrote: post #583
crazysim wrote: post #379

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What I mean is that it should ignore permissions on external ext4 by default in Desktops.

There's no concept of "external". What would it be, "USB" or anything mounted under /mnt or /media? What if it's the root OS drive of another computer you're trying to fix connected through a USB-SATA adapter? Should any program running with minimized privileges get to overwrite even root files in that OS drive? I think that it's a pretty good heuristic that if permissions exist in the filesystem, they matter and sho…

They shouldn't be ignored. but they can be ignored, is the problem. File permissions are not encryption or security: If I can't read a file on this machine, because I'm not root, I'll just move the drive to a different machine where I am root.

But I agree with you, they do have a use and to some use cases matter, and we shouldn't arbitrarily decide to ignore them.

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