The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[DavidS877]

dd finally got me after a hundred uses. USB stick was on /dev/sda and internal storage drive was on /dev/sdb somehow

Check your lsblk folks, this is a warning

Or just upgrade everything to nvme.

 

[Betonhaus]

dd finally got me after a hundred uses. USB stick was on /dev/sda and internal storage drive was on /dev/sdb somehow

Check your lsblk folks, this is a warning

you booted with the USB drive plugged in?

 

[DavidS877]

Or just upgrade everything to nvme.

And to be 3.1% less flippant, you can also use /dev/disk/by-id/usb(tab)

 

[Anti Snigger]

lsblk -o NAME,UUID or lsblk -f before I do anything. A working fstab makes your life easier.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

I want to switch to Linux full time, but I'm always having issues on my main PC with my graphics always being a pain in the ass to deal with at my max refresh rate 165Hz. I have a 3080, but I always heard that Nvidia is a bitch to deal with when it comes to drivers on Linux. Would it be easier to switch to an AMD card instead, or has Nvidia gotten a bit better? I'm eyeing the 7900XT as a replacement potentially.

I have a 3080rtx, game exclusively on Linux, have 3 monitors (1 x 180fps, 2 x 60fps) on x11, with proprietary nvidia drivers and they’ve never given me a problem besides that issue Arch had the other week when you couldn’t update without removing and re-adding linux-firmware (this affected my none nvidia laptop too).

 

[AnOminous]

dd finally got me after a hundred uses. USB stick was on /dev/sda and internal storage drive was on /dev/sdb somehow

Check your lsblk folks, this is a warning

I live in terror of that. I won't even touch that shit unless I haven't had so much as a beer in a week or two.

 

[Fledgling Neuromancer]

This is probably one of the most annoying issues you can encounter with AMD GPUs: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2950

Only happens during near idle desktop usage, not gaming, but requires a monitor restart with desktops that can recover from GPU hangs. Without recovery support, say bye to your session.

I've had something with the same symptoms happen in a very specific area of one game, but it went away after I disabled anti-aliasing so I think it was just a bug with the game. That was the worst Linux gaming issue I've had.

Also, unfortunately under Wine some cutscenes in some games do not play because there isn't an open source decoder for it. Examples include the Windows versions of Resident Evil and the DMC HD collection on Steam.