#Random Linux

Ice Tea said:
It seems to me that unless you're running Debian Stable (or a spin like LMDE), then updates are just relentless.

Even Ubuntu LTS doesn't feel like the safe middle ground that it used to be, skip a couple of weeks and suddenly you've got a gigabyte of updates pending.

Slackware used to take things slow, but I've not touched it in years. Can't even remember the last time I saw someone say they use it as a daily driver.
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I've just discovered OpenSUSE Slowroll and it sounds perfect. It is kind of inbetween a rolling release distro and a 6 monthly release distro. It has monthly major updates and continuous bug and security fixes.

Portal:Slowroll - openSUSE Wiki

en.opensuse.org en.opensuse.org
 
Doing the RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) fundamentals course on their website. There's about three of interest (basic level) that are free for 90 days. It's good fiddling about. Just installed a GNOME extension so that the dock remains on-screen permanently like in macOS. Go me!
 
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Cromulent said:
I've just discovered OpenSUSE Slowroll and it sounds perfect. It is kind of inbetween a rolling release distro and a 6 monthly release distro. It has monthly major updates and continuous bug and security fixes.

Portal:Slowroll - openSUSE Wiki

en.opensuse.org en.opensuse.org
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Thanks for that, I just checked distrowatch and it only got a small mention back 2023

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I think that's more a reflection on distrowatch as the website is not what it used to be.
 
Pretty impressed with the network speeds on Fedora. Steam on Windows typically got to about 90MB/sec but I'm seeing 108 now!
 
ic1male said:
This is all so interesting. Seems like having an nVidia GPU causes so many issues because of their closed-source drivers. Next time, I'm getting a Radeon. They can shove their RTX. :D
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Yeah. Nvidia have a pretty bad reputation on Linux.

Blurg. Can't link the video. Search for "Linus Torvalds Nvidia" on YouTube.
 
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ic1male said:
This is all so interesting. Seems like having an nVidia GPU causes so many issues because of their closed-source drivers. Next time, I'm getting a Radeon. They can shove their RTX. :D
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That's the spirit! :D

I have AMD card and everything on Linux is great. KDE has HDR support and I've never really got the fuss about ray tracing. AMD typically much cheaper too.
 
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Cromulent said:
Some of you might want to get this:

www.humblebundle.com

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Ooh, that looks really cool. Thankfully I get paid before the offer ends. Will definitely be purchasing it as it's stuff I'm doing right now with the Red Hat site.
 
Tried Bazzite but it wasn't for me. Ended up on Fedora 42 KDE. Was playing around with Bluetooth audio and got hi-res codecs working on my headphones. Was easy to do once I had installed pavucontrol.

Games running perfectly. No real problems.

Edit: Also the Cider Linux client for Apple Music is great. Cost me £3 but worth it.
 
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Sleep well, David — and may your dreams be rwx for owner, group, and world.
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Says ChatGPT after we were discussing file permissions. I'm not sure I want rwx for world. :D
 
Formatted my unused laptop and whacked Mint on there (brief research had it down as a good beginner option).
Installed fine, got my Dev tools on there. Tbh now wondering why/if I even need a Mac of some sort, possibly don't at this point. It's all so much quicker as well but tbf it is a fresh install, not that I had a lot on windows.
 
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Noxia said:
Formatted my unused laptop and whacked Mint on there (brief research had it down as a good beginner option).
Installed fine, got my Dev tools on there. Tbh now wondering why/if I even need a Mac of some sort, possibly don't at this point. It's all so much quicker as well but tbf it is a fresh install, not that I had a lot on windows.
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Dev tools for what?
 
ic1male said:
Dev tools for what?
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Oh just messing about with stuff, I can use my work Mac too but wanted to separate work from play (the Mac is a dev laptop). Just VSCodium and whatever tickles my fancy at the time, usually just practicing stuff to make day job easier.
 
Noxia said:
Oh just messing about with stuff, I can use my work Mac too but wanted to separate work from play (the Mac is a dev laptop). Just VSCodium and whatever tickles my fancy at the time, usually just practicing stuff to make day job easier.
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Call me intrigued. What dev work do you do on a Mac laptop?
 
Cromulent said:
My next computer will probably have an AMD GPU though just for ease of use.
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Funnily enough, i've been thinking the exact same thing recently or maybe I'll just use Intel's iGPU since it tends to work out of the box, being part of the kernel.

I'm sure Nvidia's open-source efforts will catch up in time, but with the push towards Wayland, AMD and their open-source community actually seem keen to fix things..
 
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