Tbh, I don’t recommend beginners to try out multiple distros in the beginning. Realistically, if you don’t have in depth Linux knowledge already, all you’ll be able to differentiate is the look of the DE and the wallpaper.
I find, too much choice tends to confuse beginners more than it helps them.
So I’d rather recommend something simple like Ubuntu and let them try out the flavours with the different DEs.
Choice is better for later when people actually understand what they are looking for.
And the FOSS system seems to be collapsing right now for the same reason that anarcho-communism only works short-term until someone sees commercial value in it and abuses the system to the limit.
The old embrace-extend-extinguish playbook is everywhere.
And so it’s no surprise that many well-known FOSS developers are advocating for some kind of post-FOSS system that forces commercial users to pay for their usage of the software.
Considering how borderline impossible it is for some software developer to successfully sue a company to comply with GPL, I can’t really see such a post-FOSS system work well.
Python sure has changed since I last used it.
Actual lines of meaningful code: 3
Thanks, that’s a really cool hint!
I’ll try whether that works in the locked-up state
Yeah, heared that a lot.
But I didn’t specifically buy my laptop for Linux, 5 years ago. And the purpose that would really urge me over to Linux is that this laptop has a 7th gen Intel CPU which just about doesn’t qualify for Win11.
So buying a new device to use Linux kinda defeats the point.
But yes, I’ll buy AMD next time.
I tried something very similar, but if I set my Nvidia Prime profile to on-demand (use the Nvidia GPU for games, use the Intel GPU for everything else), whenever I start a game where Proton uses DXVK, after a few minutes of playing the whole system freezes. Can’t even get to the console anymore and even shortly pressing the power button does nothing. I have to reset the whole laptop.
If I set it to use the Nvidia GPU always it works, but then battery life is nothing.
I spent ~10h so far trying to debug that issue, but it seems to be a bug that was reported in 2017 that floods the syslog with assembler stack traces so hard that the whole system has no resources left to do anything else than logging. All the bug log entries I found said there is no workaround.
So it can go either way, especially if your device uses Nvidia.
Flipping H E double hockeysticks! You aren’t supposed to use such fucking swearwords here!
I can second Xfce. I’m using it on the chroot Linux I run on my phone. It doesn’t get much lower end than that, and Xfce performs perfectly.
And it feels much more polished than LXDE.
I’m agreeing and expouning.
GUI and CLI are tools, both with separate advantages and disadvantages.
CLI let’s you chain different commands easily to create functionality that originally wasn’t there. It’s really flexible, but it’s also very non-obvious. Even after more than a decade of Linux usage, I still find new commands I have never heard of that do exactly what I wanted to do for a while.
GUI is great for visual stuff (nobody in their right mind would do video/audio/image editing on CLI). It’s also very obvious/explorable, so you tend to find functionality much quicker. That makes it great for any tools that you don’t use on a daily basis. And GUIs can utilise the bandwidth of human visual input much better, which makes them better whenever large amounts of data are presented.
Neither CLI nor GUI are better, they just have different use cases where they are better.
And it annoys me a lot that people don’t get that.
When you say “X is better than Y”, you always need to state for what it is better.
I agree with your statement, but encoding it in binary is annoying as hell
Could have just used propper capitalization of the acronym. Would have been equally clear.
It’s really great for my work as a software developer. I used it for more than 10 years for work.
My entertainment PC is not Win11 compatible, so I’m trying to switch to Linux with that one too, but it’s giving me a lot of grief.
Yeah, that is what on demand is supposed to do. But when it freezes, the game already started and rendered the first few seconds on the dGPU. One time I managed to play for ~10 minutes before the freeze.
And it remains frozen. I once waited for ~1h and it didn’t recover.
Tried it with and without, same result. It starts on the GPU and the whole system freezes.
Do you use xorg or wayland?
Are you using a laptop that can switch the GPU or are you running Nvidia only? What GPU and driver version do you have?
I’m running Xorg, because I’ve read a lot about the Nvidia+Wayland troubles.
Of course, I just didn’t think Android would support them. Haven’t seen a single resistive touch Android device before.
Most people I helped getting Linux to work are actually not techy at all and they haven’t touched the CLI at all so far…
I guess it differs if you use Linux because you are interested in the technology or if you use it because Windows 11 doesn’t run on your PC.