The hard part of setting up a new #Linux#laptop is done. The initial sticker selection is all important. Now, what #distro and packages should I install? I reckon I'll mostly use it for hardware & server side programming.
hello le fedi !
je suis retombé sur mon MacBook de 2017 que j'utilise plus trop et j'aimerai savoir si ça se fait de mettre linux dessus ??
si oui je cherche une distro simple, qui fonctionne bien sur mac du coup (pour faire de la créa en grand partie)
vous pouvez aussi me réorienter vers des vidéos ou de la lecture si vous avez ça sous la main
merciiiii :miffy_love: :boost_requested:
Here's a Flatpak story: The other day, my best friend told me that he had switched to Linux! Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, a noble choice in my opinion. He's a smart guy, but he was having some issues that he couldn't figure out: Firefox' maximise and minimise buttons were missing, drag and drop from archives wasn't working, his selected theme wasn't applied everywhere, and many other small issues I can't remember now.
I tried reproducing his issues on my machine, but everything worked fine for me. We were confused. Is there missing libraries? We went through packages to find out what my system had that his didn't. It was weird, everything was kinda working, but the devil was always in the details, for every single app.
And then we found it: All those applications he had issues with were Flatpaks! He simply didn't pay attention when installing them through the Discover store. He didn't even know what Flatpak meant.
I helped him remove Flatpak from his system and install the system packages instead, and all issues were gone.
Man, Flatpaks suck. How does anyone prefer Flatpaks over system packages? How does anyone think this was a good idea? Stop trying to invent new things to solve old problems and instead go back and fix the problems.
Containers, Flatpak, Immutable distros, it's all wasted effort. There is no magical solution that will solve all our problems. The only way to solve all problems is by solving each problem individually one by one. And that is exactly what countless distribution and package maintainers are doing on your behalf every single day.
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:
Always try desktop Linux distributions on real hardware! Do not use virtual machines.
Linux desktops heavily rely on graphics acceleration to deliver a good experience. Most VM tools are meant for servers and do not have good (if any) GPU support.
@itsfoss
From a user, no a sysadmin, just need something to work and study. Begun with Mandrake and SuSe in 2000, years later redhat, ubuntu and two or three more. Around 2005 debian, since then only that.
Reasons: stable, stable, stable...no problems, not even once.
Prestazioni menu Start di Windows 11 comicamente scadenti! Il problema di performance non ha a che fare con la configurazione hardware del sistema dal momento che interessa anche le macchine più recenti e ben carrozzate:
Hello les fedigens ! Je m'adresse tout particulièrement aux #geeks#Linux. Je dois changer mon hdd de partitions de données, j'en profite pour faire une réinstallation totale. Fidèle à #Ubuntu depuis 2007, je voudrais changer, j'aime pas snap et cie. Pour ne pas être trop dépaysé, je pensais à #debian, ou #LinuxMint, kekchose de solide, pas prise de tête, à jour, sous #gnome. Pour un laptop gamer de 10 ans d'âge. Usage : Steam, astrophoto, internet...
Votre avis, autre #distro à conseiller ?
Un site vachement cool pour tester des distributions linux dans un navigateur sans rien installer !
C’est vachement cool et assez rapide :blobcat_melt_thumbs_up:
Hello fedi! I'm making my own immutable distro, and I've got some questions:
what should I use to build? I was thinking bluebuild hut it might be more trouble than it saves, as I need to do stuff like add an extra btrfs subvolume on install, and I'd like a custom gtk4 installer.
other than that, assuming I use bluebuild for now, would a structure like this work?
core - has core system stuff, like kernel, bootloader, etc. Included in image, needs reboot to apply
other/system - has other stuff like system flatpaks, config files, anything that doesn't need a reboot to change
Each would be cached so only core or other would be rebuilt depending on the last value.
other would use an overlay inside a btrfs sub volume. I was thinking I apply changes directly to the subvolume and rollback if they interrupt or an error occurs, but now I'm thinking a power cut or other force shutdown might mess that up.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks! You're helping to shape QuadOS! QuadOS currently has the following devs: Me, @Heliguy, and @winsdominoes. It aims to be like NixOS, but using flatpaks, and hopefully less janky.
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After #distro-hopping for a few months now, the only two flavors of #Linux I liked were #Debian & #LinuxMint. They just work, and they're on point. Debian impressed me with its stability, but #Mint impressed me for having thought of & implemented 99% of all cases of someone thinking "I wish I could tweak this or that" on a #desktop. There's an #app, utility, or option for everything, and that's rare. The most important thing is that it provides all that without feeling overloaded like #KDE does.
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I have a 256GB USB drive and I wanted to use it as a boot drive for more than one #Linux#distro so I finally got around to trying #Ventoy on it. It's a super simple process! Got me into the #Ubuntu 23 Live env in minutes.