My experience with #elementaryOS so far has not been great. After installing I had to do a bit of tinkering to install the right Nvidia drivers and be able to boot to GUI, many times the system hangs after coming back from suspend, the default terminal has some issue that makes it laggy, etc.
Since replacing my graphics card in March, my arch system crashes on resume 20% of the time. I don't see any obvious cause in the logs, so I finally cracked and posted a discussion thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=296050
@underlap This is with the old "radeon" driver, right? If so, this unfortunately just happens sometimes. The driver is in maintenance mode (except for the occasional compile fix) and - according to AMD - has "unfixable" design problems. :(
The amdgpu driver for my Zen2 Thinkpad is flawless and reliable.
The old fanless card in my workstation also finally died for good, so I'm in the same boat. Unfortunately there are no up-to-date lowend cards for amdgpu. :(
ohh, yeah, now I understand; but ignore that, that's a very specific case where somebody is quite a bit overeager while at the same time missing the right tactfulness quite a few times.
Just installed #xwayland 24.1! Now to wait for the new version of the #Nvidia drivers. This is part of why I installed an Arch-based distro, I don't want to wait six months to two years between significant updates, I don't have that much extra time to spare in my life for reasons outside me and my body that shouldn't exist but do exist in this world and I don't want to waste it waiting around for new versions of stuff.
I am once again getting the urge to install EndeavorOS but I... only use it to run firefox on it.
Seriously, this is the biggest reason I stopped using Linux; I don't actually use it for anything but browsing the web since gaming just is so much more convinient on Windows and I'm not into Linux for ideological reasons (yet).
I ALSO stopped because the number of bat shit racist libertarians on Linux forums I frequented were souring the experience. But that's another matter.
@WhyNotZoidberg It took me over 20 years to finally make the switch to Linux, and a LOT of that was from the hostile user groups and forums where people treated Linux like a members-only club and pushed new users away with phrases like “RTFM.”
Thankfully, things have changed for the better, and while I still encounter the occasional curmudgeon, the people I encounter nowadays are usually friendly and willing to help.
@s31bz@frameworkcomputer Keeping computers in service keeps them out of landfills - yet another reason to switch to Linux! And who would say “no” to a free ThinkPad?
A #FrameworkLaptop is in my future - can’t afford it just yet, but it’s definitely the laptop I’ve decided to go with.
What do folks like for Linux offsite backup providers?
I have a Linux desktop with 1-2 TB of data that I want backed up on someone else's servers. I'm currently using Crashplan but my primary use case is data corruption which leads to lost files, and crashplan won't show me a list of recently deleted files that I need to restore. (also they're more business than individual focused now)