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Since Alpine are political morons who want to cut off their nose to spite their face, I might just have to drop back to OpenBSD for my smaller services. Theo's an asshole, but his shit works.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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HildegardOrgonAkkumulator
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Guess how Null handles it:
If it still works, you don't have to change.
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There's a difference between need and choice, sure. I probably shouldn't be running production nameservers on a rolling release distribution anyway- but it's not like I have unstable packages in it.
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Whenever I switch back to current X11 colors go all insane overblown. Like HDR is turned on 3 times somehow. Not sure how to handle it (KDE Plasma)
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Is there anything color related in your xorg.config?
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I think someone might have mentioned this here before. I can't remember. But actually looking at it. If this actually works as intended. I could see myself liking it.
It probably isn't going to be something new user friendly. But that's fine with me. I don't know if I will try it. But I'm considering giving it a spin.
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I'm running Linux Mint 22.2, I'm already comfortable in it... Now I'm tempted to jump ship to LMDE. Why, God, why is there no Mint Devuan project?!
HildegardOrgonAkkumulator
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ya ive used most distros to some extent, most of them are junk
i ended up putting void linux xfce on this machine cause i haven't used void in a while and this thing is a piece of shit and needs every bit of resources it can get
if you try venom linux lmk i wanted to try it but i know almost nothing about it
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Hey man, we all start somewhere. To keep things as concise as I can manage:
a) Linux Mint is the best starting point. This distro was shipping media codecs, the ATI and NVIDIA binary drivers, Java, and Adobe Flash as early as 2006. Tons of shit's available on it, the community's huge, it's never gonna be a 1:1 match to Windows, but it's the best option you have if you're willing to put up with mild inconveniences for something that stays out of your way.
b) The graphical tools on Mint are excellent. You can spend the vast majority of your time using the graphical tools in Mint, and it won't be unpleasant. Clunky in some menus? Sure. Are there some tasks that are easier to do via a terminal than through graphical interfaces? Sure. None of that shit matters if you're a noob. As long as you can update your system, install software, and do stuff like listen to podcasts, play your music, play vidya, and maybe stream shitty gameplay to your 2-3 friends on Twitch once in a blue moon via OBS, you're golden.
c) I completely jumped ship from Windows 11 to Linux Mint around September last year. I'd strongly recommend cloning your SSD or your HDD (whatever you have Windows installed on). Even if you don't roll back to Windows, it's always nice to plug in the cloned SSD via USB and pull the odd file here or there that you might need. Spares you the headache of dual booting (would not recommend unless you're a teenager with more time than sense), spares you the neurosis of regretting Linux but not having Windows anymore because you didn't back up.
d) If you really want to learn, or otherwise need to learn the command line, here's the one command I'd personally have you start with:
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sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -yEXPLAIN:
sudo = superuser do; you're temporarily invoking admin privileges
apt = advanced package tool; this is the actual system that installs and removes software
update = update the repositories; repository = a catalogue of software that apt has access to, and can install packages from
&& = execute the next command after finishing the first command
sudo = you need temporary admin privileges again to properly upgrade the system
apt = see above
upgrade = self-explanatory
-y = that means "answer yes when prompted."
Run this once a day, or every other day. Reboot your system if you see a Linux kernel update (just roll with it; I'll explain why if you want me to).
e) Flatpaks are distribution-agnostic. Lots of developers have them as an option to avoid distro-specific packaging headaches. I would abstain from the Steam and OBS flatpaks specifically, however. I would opt for the version available through Mint's repositories. Flatpak Steam and Flatpak OBS are also available, but they're clearly marked as "Flatpak"
f) Git gud.
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I think you may be able to find an MX Linux respin using the Cinnamon Desktop, the MX project really goes out of their way to encourage the collaborative production of community respins.
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MX Linux is fine. It is a bit stylisher, more beginner-friendly than antiX Linux which is my distro of choice for legacy systems. It will run just fine even on a Pentium 4 and older machines.
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maybe someone can help me here
(Mint 22.2) inxi -G is showing my GPU drivers as N/A, currently running on llvmpipe. I've used the driver manager to install the recommended drivers and mokutil says secure boot is disabled but the drivers still don't seem to load. I'm not entirely sure what to do here.
(Mint 22.2) inxi -G is showing my GPU drivers as N/A, currently running on llvmpipe. I've used the driver manager to install the recommended drivers and mokutil says secure boot is disabled but the drivers still don't seem to load. I'm not entirely sure what to do here.
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What GPU is it? If it's Nvidia you can usually install the GPU drivers right off their website as a fail-safe
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If it's a relatively new GPU, you may need to update the kernel. I think Mint 22 defaults to kernel 6.8 but you can update to 6.14. Mint makes it easy to update Kernels, just launch the Linux kernel selector in the update manager. It's under the view menu there.
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I'm using a 3070TI. I'm currently running a dual-boot setup and I have to manually select Linux kernel 6.14.0-1011-nvidia in GRUB in order to even get internet. By default it seems to use 6.14.0-1017-gcp. I'm not entirely sure how related those issues are but it's worth a mention either way.
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Maybe the drivers are being blacklisted. I've had issues where when I update the kernel it blacklists my wifi driver and refuses the load the driver. Check /etc/modprobe.d blacklists to see if the Nvidia driver and network driver are being blacklisted in dkms.conf
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There's nothing in dkms, but there's a KMS config that was generated by the drivers. Can't access it right now but I'll check later.
I'll also add that this all started after Linux opened into tty1 and froze when I tried to change into the normal login screen. I reinstalled the drivers on a different kernel version and it seems to have fixed that but now it's gotten me here without a working GPU driver. And I still have to manually select a specific kernel version otherwise it looks like all the device drivers shit the bed (and I suspect other shit too cause my internet cuts out), not just the GPU drivers.
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So Bazzite sucks.
I recently tried it and had a couple weird display hiccups but once I got past that, I could not get it to run DCS past a black window.
Wiped it and just put Mint back in place, installed everything the same way, using Proton-GE for DCS and it worked first try. Apparently Bazzite/Fedora needs additional setup to make things work right with AMD GPUs or something.
Love live Mint.
I recently tried it and had a couple weird display hiccups but once I got past that, I could not get it to run DCS past a black window.
Wiped it and just put Mint back in place, installed everything the same way, using Proton-GE for DCS and it worked first try. Apparently Bazzite/Fedora needs additional setup to make things work right with AMD GPUs or something.
Love live Mint.
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GCP means "Google Cloud Platform" which is for a virtual machine running in Google's Cloud. It's surprising it will boot at all but it certainly won't have any drivers for a 'real' network card or GPU.
You'll likely want "generic" or "amd64" And then likely need to make sure to install the dkms package for nvidia as well as the headers for the installed kernel, likely "linux-headers-" followed by data matching the installed kernel.
It should usually just work, but as you somehow got a GCP kernel I'm not sure what happened there.