No but if you can boot from USB (presumably so) then most popular distros have a ‘live’ bootable version so you can see quickly what works and what doesn’t before you install. Not perfect but should give a good idea. Ubuntu or Fedora would be good choices if you’re new to GNU/Linux as they are quite accessible and have broad support.
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No but if you can boot from USB (presumably so) then most popular distros have a ‘live’ bootable version so you can see quickly what works and what doesn’t before you install. Not perfect but should give a good idea. Ubuntu or Fedora would be good choices if you’re new to GNU/Linux as they are quite accessible and have broad support.
Well, I've dabbled with Linux occasionally as long as its been around, and worked on *nix platforms a bit so not a total newb. Just want something simple and no faff. If it could retain the windows hello faceID login that would be ideal.
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Probably a mainstream one like ubuntu or Fedora... For faceid style login check out Howdy.
I'm all in on EndeavourOS right now although I've been tempted by Fedora as a more usable just works experience.
I've documented the fixes for the usual list of linux jank for EOS that came up when I wanted to do something a little funky (low latency audio, font fixes for running GTK stuff on KDE, wine for running VSTs etc.) The reason for looking at Fedora is that these things should have more mainstream support and if it doesn't it should have more people doing troubleshooting on forums. It's probably going to take EOS breaking somthing in a way that I can't fix before I think of moving though.
I've documented the fixes for the usual list of linux jank for EOS that came up when I wanted to do something a little funky (low latency audio, font fixes for running GTK stuff on KDE, wine for running VSTs etc.) The reason for looking at Fedora is that these things should have more mainstream support and if it doesn't it should have more people doing troubleshooting on forums. It's probably going to take EOS breaking somthing in a way that I can't fix before I think of moving though.
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I tried EOS before I settled on Fedora. I just find it more stable.
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Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX
Software System Award recognises his contributions to education
Time for a micro-kernel vs monolithic kernel debate again between Tanebaum and Torvalds.
I've got his networking and operating system development books. They are pretty darn good.Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX
Software System Award recognises his contributions to education
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Quick question, debian/windows on seperate HDD's on the same PC Gigabyte X360 1800X.
Main HDD sata 512Mb has Windows and the Debian install has 1TB of spinning rust.
What i would like to do is put a spare 512MB NVME drive on the motherboard and install Debian to that, do we think this is a good idea or not.
Second thought was just to buy a 2Tb sata 3 or something and slap that in for the new debian venture.
Thoughts please.
Edit: AX370 not X360
Main HDD sata 512Mb has Windows and the Debian install has 1TB of spinning rust.
What i would like to do is put a spare 512MB NVME drive on the motherboard and install Debian to that, do we think this is a good idea or not.
Second thought was just to buy a 2Tb sata 3 or something and slap that in for the new debian venture.
Thoughts please.
Edit: AX370 not X360
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I assume you mean GB, if not then Debian needs more space than that to run. I'd always choose NVME or SSD over Spinning Disk if I'm running an OS on it.
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Yeah sorry 512GB sata drive, I was just curious as to what would happen if I moved debian onto a spare 512GB NVME drive, could it cause a problem or not as I have never used MVME outside of a laptop. This Isn't my PC to break, and apparently he said VM performance was rubbish. Not sure why VM performance would be rubbish as he has windows 10 pro with 16GB 3200 ram and an 1800x also with a seperate 2TB HDD. For the moment I've shoved in another 1TB drive so he can just press F12 select boot device etc...
I mean what do all you programers do in this situation Windows/Linux ?
I mean what do all you programers do in this situation Windows/Linux ?
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I don't run Windows at all any more, but I have run both in the past. I have Debian as my main device, and I have GRUB which controls what I boot in to, so I can just select which OS I want to run into.
The only annoyance is if you install Windows sending then the Windows Boot Manager is generally primary and that just boots to Windows so you have to do it via the BIOS.
The only annoyance is if you install Windows sending then the Windows Boot Manager is generally primary and that just boots to Windows so you have to do it via the BIOS.
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Yeah for the moment he just hits F12 on boot
I installed Garuda on my big screen gaming pc/htpc. So far so good! I got it for the preconfigured gaming stuff like Zen kernel, easy installation of Steam/Heroic/Lutris etc. and the fact that my main PC is on EOS which is also Arch based. It certainly was a lot easier to setup than EOS was for gaming. My 8bitdo controller worked out of the box which is nice.
The main issue was the god awful "gamer" visuals. Thankfully it's reasonably easy to get rid of that eye bleed by switching to a standard KDE theme and changing some animations. Worth the minor hassle vs what it provides otherwise. I thought all the compiz wobbly windows stuff was a thing of the past but I guess not!
The main issue was the god awful "gamer" visuals. Thankfully it's reasonably easy to get rid of that eye bleed by switching to a standard KDE theme and changing some animations. Worth the minor hassle vs what it provides otherwise. I thought all the compiz wobbly windows stuff was a thing of the past but I guess not!
Ended up going with Mint Cinnamon. Typing from Microsoft Edge on a USB install.....strange world we live in.
Only annoying thing is the DPI scaling, icons are massive, even though I've got the font size down to something respectable. Not the end of the world though, this machine is just for browsing these days. Need to backup a bunch of stuff and think I'll be switching over the primary drive.
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I thought Cinnamon was supposed to be good with DPI scaling...does it have a fractional scaling under the Display settings? They might need enabling. Or you can go down the faffy `xrandr` config but that may end up conflicting with Cinnamon things...
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I wanted to get into Genttoo but never did.
My Distro of choice has been Sabayon for years, but since v15.? it had issues until one version that was 18.something where it did finally get installed and I got back into it, but then it went iffy again. Gave up and I have been on Mint ever since. Cinnamon Desktop seems to be my GUI of choice.
But Linux has done to me, what I feel Windows did... It had a perfect GUI and thne they seemed to get sloppy.
I loved the visuals in Vista and Windows 7 and I loved KDE Before it went plasma.. After that, it just got visually boring. Its all very well having themes etc but you always find that at least one of your favourite apps simply looks awful in a theme that you like, so I give up on trying most of the timoe and just stick with the supplied effort!
My Distro of choice has been Sabayon for years, but since v15.? it had issues until one version that was 18.something where it did finally get installed and I got back into it, but then it went iffy again. Gave up and I have been on Mint ever since. Cinnamon Desktop seems to be my GUI of choice.
But Linux has done to me, what I feel Windows did... It had a perfect GUI and thne they seemed to get sloppy.
I loved the visuals in Vista and Windows 7 and I loved KDE Before it went plasma.. After that, it just got visually boring. Its all very well having themes etc but you always find that at least one of your favourite apps simply looks awful in a theme that you like, so I give up on trying most of the timoe and just stick with the supplied effort!