I know it's a joke, I hate to be that guy. But this meme feels old and obsolete now. I can't remember the last time I had to tweak my Linux. The fun is gone
For real. I recently had to swap my window manager to xmonad just to feel something again.
Cool! Maybe I can challenge you. Can you help me figure out how I can get my Hyprland session back on my Arch install? I have a Radeon 7700 XT and I recently installed an RTX 4070 to assist with some compute tasks. With both cards installed GDM doesn't populate the Hyprland option. If I remove the 4070 everything goes back to normal.
(This is also a joke, you don't need to help me troubleshoot this.)
(Unless you actually know how in which case I can pay you $20 for your time)
Hyprland session
Wayland compositor
RTX 4070
Nvidia GPU.
Haha, I was hoping that because all my monitors are plugged into my AMD card that it wouldn't cause as many issues, but I was mistaken.
I'm looking at it as an opportunity to learn more about the Linux kernel, the order that certain modules are being loaded in, and environment variables.
You should consider passing through your Nvidia GPU to a virtual machine in order to do compute tasks on; that way, your host machine won't be infected with proprietary Nvidia drivers (I'm assuming you need CUDA for your compute tasks). The only performance differences you'll notice is less available system RAM (you will have access to all of your VRAM), and very slightly less CPU performance, due to running two operating systems at the same time (barely even noticable, TBH). This is the option that I would personally recommend.
If you want to try a super hacky solution which might not work for everything you need, you can try using the open source, recently released ZLUDA translation layer to perform CUDA tasks on your AMD GPU.
https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA
The reason Hyprland doesn't work with proprietary Nvidia drivers is due to Nvidia refusing to implement the accepted Wayland standard in favor of their own, home-rolled solution which is incompatible. AFAIK, only GNOME and KDE implement that standard.
Hyprland works fine on Nvidia, I've been using it for about a year now. It's only going to improve now that Nvidia hired people from the Nouveau team to work on Nouveau and Nvidia is making the open drivers the default in version 560. Can't wait for the 555 drivers they've been working on with the Wayland team and most of the major desktops to implement explicit sync etc.
An option would be to only install the CUDA toolkit without the drivers but distros like Ubuntu just don't support it. You could also switch display managers to sddm because Hyperland recommends it, might work better. Hyprland prints information in the tty if you launch it with Hyprland. I'm just thinking it's gdm being weird tbh.
Upvoted, joke appreciated :)
By an Index and get into VR gaming on Linux. We livin on the edge ovar her. Shit breaks every day and there's a wonky python script you have to use if you wanna be able to put the base stations into sleep mode 👍
Time to do LFS
Yeah it just works now. Sometimes I miss the days where we had to troubleshoot sound drivers, because it made us learn so much. Even if we didn't manage to fix the problem, we learned about how sound works in Linux.
Can i interest you on the deep customization of nixos?
Jokes aside. I don't really use the deep patching nix enables. The area of customization i want: look and feel of applications. It's not something that's doable really. Desktops are just different ways to launch a web browser T_T
Do you have multiple monitors?
Yes - Don't buy a mac
No - Still don't buy a mac
I have a Mac with multiple monitors. It handles them a hell of a lot better than my PC at work.
I mean, yeah, don’t ever buy a Mac, but what’s up with the multiple monitors? Do they struggle with it?
$ pacman -Si god
error: package 'god' was not found
Take that, theists!
You don't need god, pacman is our god! /Pactitle.jpg)
I can be as rich as god and wouldn't go for windows or apple. I would rather invest the money in good Foss development
Probably the reason as to why you aren't rich in the first place
I can objectively state the contrary.
Mac don't cause riches to customer.
Riches cause Mac customer.
That's fantastic, man! Congratulations, really!
I have tried templeOS. It is amazing one guy built all that. It feels like it needs training sessions to make better use of it, and also it is wacky as hell
It feels like it needs training sessions to make better use of it, and also it is wacky as hell
Seems the description of MS Office.
Lol
Everyone always forgets the "it just works," easy, normie distributions like Fedora. I guess people figure if you're looking for an OS like that, you might as well just use Windows, but I'd rather not.
If you have money you still shouldn't buy a mac.
This one seriously lack of Hannah Montana Linux.
At first I thought this was cursed
No! PonyOS uses its own kernel, built from scratch
Now I think it’s very cursed
EDIT:
Ok after investigating the kernel is forked from https://github.com/klange/toaruos so it’s slightly less cursed
There is never a wrong time to choose Linux
Haha, it amuses me to no end that ever since I watched a "Down the Rabbit Hole" video on Youtube about TempleOS a few years back I have seen it crop up in varies places from time to time as I don't remember ever seeing anything about it before.
Makes me wonder if it was always there and I just didn't notice it until I was familiar with it.
ah yes, a fireship viewer.
Let say I want to try Linux but I want to keep my Windows OS intact (for now), and I only have 1 SSD in my PC.
Is there a solution that I can just partition the drive, install Linux, switch between OS by just restarting without affecting the other, AND later on remove one OS without wiping the SSD?
Yes, first you need to resize the partition to accommodate the new OS. Usually 40-60 GB is good enough for minimal linux installation if you didn't do any gaming or other massive applications. The resizing can be done in windows using disk management utility baked into windows, or some other partition manager (easeus, magic tools, etc). After that, linux can be safely installed in the free space as a single partition.
Now, sometimes the bootloader is fucked, but it is quite easy to fix. In fact, if you use grub, it usually runs os-probe for you to check for any other OS. So sometimes, fixing it is as simple as rerunning grubmkconfig. But there are other times where it is not as simple. It will vary depending on what happened and too long to list here. Arch Wiki usually covers a lot of the topic so you could try searching there, especially on the topic of boot sequence.
Lastly, if you need to move the partition, the data already inside will need to be moved too. This can take time depending on the size. But it is doable and safe.
If, later down the road you want to remove either OS, you can simply remove the partition after moving the data first. Linux can mount ntfs natively so no problem there. On windows, there is a program called ext4 explorer or something along the line to browse and copy from linux filesystem (which is usually ext4). Don't forget to remove the boot information too after you're done removing the partition.
Now there is also the other suggestion to use a live environment but I didn't suggest it since the experience can be lacking and more hassle in and of itself.
I want to add to this that Windows sometimes has its own ideas and decides it owns the disk. I had a dual boot with Windows and Linux and Windows updated and fucked up the file system. I was able to recover almost everything without that much issue, that it did require some extra tools and some knowledge. The boot partition I never recovered though. (I was able to fix it to get it to boot into the Linux install again, but not Windows no matter what I tried.)
This was about a year ago, maybe a bit more. The issue I had with Linux prior to this, which is why I was dual booting, was gaming. At this point gaming was perfectly fine for me to ditch windows, so I just grabbed all the files I needed to keep and set the drive up new with a fresh install.
In general dual booting windows and Linux on the same disk is risky.
I'll add that id highly recommend making a backup before doing anything. You can more safely try out linux in a virtual machine as well
Are you a space alien ?
PLAN 9
Are you rich question should also be applied to windows nowadays.
I use Arch btw
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