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Re: Linux is good now

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Post by smj-edison »

WaxProlix wrote: post #926
smj-edison wrote: post #312

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How did you get Fusion 360 running? I've tried multiple times but it always gets stuck at the installer.

As the other poster imagines, I didn't. I could write a blog post about the 3 days I spent with Claude trying everything, different wine variants, patched WebView2.exes, container types, x11 vs wayland, logging in on a vm and copying credentials, intercepting calls to and from the fucking web view, GPU pass through for dedicated vms using iommu and virtio, what a mess. I don't want windows on a hard drive but it's th…

Ah, my bad, I misread your post :)

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by vpShane »

applied_heat wrote: post #856
vpShane wrote: post #518

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I just got a laptop for Christmas (first thing I've bought for myself in a good while) with 64GB of DDR5 RAM, a video card inside of it, AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, AMD Radeon 6550M. 144hz screen. Not the best, but works for me. I put CachyOS on it, using Steam just run the game's installer adding it as a game to your library -- you just select which proton you want (cachyos-proton) as a dropdown in the Properties in the Steam…

What model laptop, how much, and where did you buy from? I’m looking for a Linux laptop

HP Victus laptop with Ryzen 5, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB SSD, and AMD Radeon RX 6550M graphics for gaming and content creation. a.co/d/9jMWLbO

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by devedse »

kentonv wrote: post #242

I switched all the machines at https://lanparty.house over to Linux a couple months ago. So far, we've experienced noticeably fewer problems on Linux compared to Windows. Stability and performance are better. I can't think of one game we tried that didn't work. And wow is it nice not to have all the ads and crapware in our faces anymore. (I'm aware that Battlefield series and League of Legends won't work due to draco…

Hey Kenton & the others,

What version of linux are you using? I did try to get it to work with a few and I believe only managed to make CachyOS work

Besides that, today I also finished my own netboot solution (that still uses Windows). I'm quite happy with the state now where it's able to inject drivers (so it works on multiple systems with different hardware), and also fix an issue with the latest Win11 Nov update where it suddenly didn't netboot anymore.

If anyone is interested I actually made a small post on it today: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1q6kpto/devepxeboo...

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by Grisu_FTP »

kentonv wrote: post #242

I switched all the machines at https://lanparty.house over to Linux a couple months ago. So far, we've experienced noticeably fewer problems on Linux compared to Windows. Stability and performance are better. I can't think of one game we tried that didn't work. And wow is it nice not to have all the ads and crapware in our faces anymore. (I'm aware that Battlefield series and League of Legends won't work due to draco…

Love your website + house :D

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by Edman274 »

sgc wrote: post #784
Edman274 wrote: post #755

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Okay, people say this. Could you please, and this is not a rhetorical device, it's a sincere question: how do you keep the browser updated without updating the operating system? Or if you are updating the os, doesn't that change the user interface? And if the user interface is changing, doesn't that confuse your grandmother? I installed Ubuntu for my mom and after four years Firefox was out of date, and the website f…

I haven't dealt with this for her in a few years, but basically: Pin all their apps in favorites and they will persist through updates. Updates don't overwrite desktop shortcuts either (although like other os, a couple might be added that need to be removed). This might be more difficult in gnome, I wouldn't know since I am firmly in the kde camp. To stay as up to date as possible, use the mozilla apt repo: https://s…

In my experience, the Mozilla apt repo would still have dependencies on system libraries that can only be installed by updating the operating system to another LTS. Like, the Mozilla Firefox package depends on libssl, which depends on another package and that other package can only be updated by updating the operating system, which typically drastically changes the look and feel of system menus and things that are not easily gleaned by looking at a screenshot of an empty desktop. Maybe this isn't true of KDE and the interface remains stable across to update cycles. Thank you for the suggestion.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by joe200 »

arcfour wrote: post #757
joe200 wrote: post #713

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Ubuntu is based on Debian Sid which is considered as the least stable release in Debian community.

This is a non sequitur because "stability" in Debian has a specific meaning and Canonical also does things to ensure their release works properly.

Canonical doesn't have capacity to change over 60000 packages prepared by Debian community.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by hackernudes »

devedse wrote: post #994
kentonv wrote: post #242

I switched all the machines at https://lanparty.house over to Linux a couple months ago. So far, we've experienced noticeably fewer problems on Linux compared to Windows. Stability and performance are better. I can't think of one game we tried that didn't work. And wow is it nice not to have all the ads and crapware in our faces anymore. (I'm aware that Battlefield series and League of Legends won't work due to draco…

Hey Kenton & the others, What version of linux are you using? I did try to get it to work with a few and I believe only managed to make CachyOS work Besides that, today I also finished my own netboot solution (that still uses Windows). I'm quite happy with the state now where it's able to inject drivers (so it works on multiple systems with different hardware), and also fix an issue with the latest Win11 Nov update w…

Do you still have the details details about fixing Windows 11 boot over iscsi?

I love the idea of injecting drivers into windows and did a lot of experimenting along those lines (using WinPE to install drivers offline and edit the registry).

I upgraded my home network and am booting over iscsi using ipxe. My only two remaining issues are: - Windows 11 25H2 fails to boot since 26200.7019 (and 24H2 since 26100.7019). - Windows 10/11 S3 sleep+resume does not work with WinOF-2 (mlx5.sys) driver

Everything works well in linux, though!

I am using NixOS. I had to customize the initrd to use iscsistart to connect to the target. It is also important to run iscsid when the system boots to automatically reconnect (which annoyingly takes 10-15 seconds when I resume from sleep). I am using iSER (iscsi over rdma), but TCP worked fine too. I export ZFS zvols on the server over iscsi using targetcli (which configures the in-kernel iscsi target support, sometimes called LIO).

I tried NFS but the performance was bad.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by joe200 »

ahartmetz wrote: post #749
joe200 wrote: post #709

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This is how the flow happens: [upstream] -> [Debian Sid] -> [Debian Testing] -> [Debian stable] The testing happens in Debian Sid.

But who actually tests Testing? If it's not the Debian developers themselves, fixes could take a while. I seem to recall Testing breaking because of package version combinations that never existed, so were never tested, in Sid.

The same question applies to any other distribution (Fedora, Arch, etc): who tests them ?

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by abrookewood »

unixhero wrote: post #989
abrookewood wrote: post #910

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There are a few games I play that have native Linux versions available (e.g. Warhammer Total War) and getting support requires you to run Ubuntu. Not the end of the world, but that plus some dev work was enough to get me to stick to it.

Linux Mint is Ubuntu

Not as far as the Game Devs are concerned. I was running Kubuntu and that wasn't 'supported' by them - only Ubuntu LTS.
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