Last time I tried a couple weeks ago, it ended in unmitigated disaster after hours of trying. Let's hope this week goes better. I need to at least get a basic distro working so I can start testing Linux builds of game, even if I can't get it working well enough for day-to-day development.
I'm making a couple changes from last time I tried:
I'm simplifying my monitors. I normally have 5 monitors, operating from both the ports on the PCI GPU as well as the built-into-the-motherboard GPU ports. Windows was able to handle that with no problem, but I think it's an uncommon enough setup that it's making Linux choke. I think I can make it work with 4 monitors on just the dedicated GPU.
Unfortunately, I can't currently switch from NVIDIA graphics cards because of a vendor requirement of one of my clients, so that's just a limitation I'll need to live with.
Una domanda per chi si intente di #Linux e nello specifico di #Mint... per caso si arrabbia tanto se dopo un aggiornamento in cui chiede il riavvio tu lo ignori e spegni tutto perché è tardi e sei stanca? Chiedo perché l'ho fatto e adesso che ho riacceso il pc non partiva nulla e mi dava schermo nero...😱
[Per la cronaca tutto sembra finito bene grazie alla modalità ripristino e la riparazione dei pacchetti danneggiati fatta a casissimo e in piena modalità panico]
Einer der besten Vorträge zum Thema #Klimawandel und dessen Behandlung im #Unterricht, den ich je gesehen habe:
"Vortrag vom 5. März 2024 beim Kongress "#MINT-Unterricht der
Zukunft-Ein Kongress von Sinus & der Gesellschaft für #Didaktik der Mathematik (#GDM)" an der Universität Duisburg-Essen.
Prof. Dr. #HaraldLesch ist einer breiten Öffentlichkeit u.a. durch die Sendungen "Leschs Kosmos" und "#TerraX" bekannt."
Perusing the science news this morning, as I do, I came across an interesting article about scientists finding an effect of menthol on Alzheimer's disease. Anecdotally, my nan had a obsession for sucking on boiled mints, which only grew with her sad decline.
I remember worrying that maybe the mints were making her worse, but maybe it was her way of fighting back against the disease ...
Spent the day installing #Mint#XFce to an old Acer #laptop of my sister in law's brother (I've converted everyone to #Linux in the family). Acer's firmware was very buggy, so it took tricks to load grub.
Installed them a few apps, and they will be super happy with their new (old) laptop. Previously, #Windows 10 was dying on that laptop, it was that slow, as it was swapping furiously! Mint loaded in about 1 minute, which is good (considering the very slow hdd).
The new #homeassistant update is really lighter. Memory usage dropped from 3.2 to 2.8GB:
Why I'm mentioning this?
Because this is the right way. Software should become lighter as time passes, not heavier.
Update: It's #Linux#Mint RAM usage that dropped, not HA.
The Gnome Project is a wall-garden, but not of the Apple kind. It's a club of mostly #Redhat programmers & a few select others, and either you're in it, or you're not. Your user needs, your bug reports, your patches, all end up on /dev/null. They listen to no one. Never have, never will.
Dragged out at old Intel i3 NUC computer (2012 era) from the back cupboard. After replacing the faulty mSATA drive, and getting wired keyboard, installed Linux Mint. I’m impressed. It runs very well considering the age of the hardware and I have even been able to access it via ssh on my iMac. Might see if I can get it running as a web server. It’s years since I tried Linux of any kind, but Mint feels very polished. The messages are very geeky and I'm still not a fan of Nano!
Utiliser un système Linux grand public ne demande tout compte fait que peu de connaissances spécifiques ; pas plus, en tout cas, qu’il n’en faut pour bien utiliser Windows.
#Linux#Mint#FOSS
I'm looking for an audio file to text converter. I want to feed an audio file into an app and have it automagically output a text file. Nothing fancy, just quick and reasonably accurate. Thanks for any tips.
I've been trying a few Linux distributions (openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora, Debian, Mint) and I noticed how freaking difficult it still is to install Wine and DXVK.
Come on! It's been how long? Most Windows refugees will want to install Wine. It should be as simple as:
> Ubuntu est l’une de ces quelques distributions #Linux donnant le « la ». Bien qu’elle soit elle-même basée sur Debian, elle est reprise par de nombreux autres systèmes, dont Linux #Mint.
Hop, j'ai hâte de mettre la main dessus ! Est-ce que je vais réussir à attendre la 24.04.1 avant de craquer ? J'espère mais j'y crois pas trop 😆
Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.
If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.