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Oddjob OTP said:
I've had all sorts of random, hard to reproduce issues with sleep up to and including freezing and I use Steam and/or Lutris most times I turn on my PC and am on AMD so I dunno man.
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Do you have it set up to hibernate, or suspend to ram? That could make a difference.

Also if its set up to hibernate, the way that's configured can make a difference. Especially if you have a lot of memory. Or not enough swap space or both, especially if you are using a ton of memory.

If you are using suspend to disk (hibernating) look into some of the knobs you can configure. There is one setting in particular I recommend, i forget the way you do it, and I'm not at my computer now. But you tell the system to save as little memory to disk as it can do, while still working properly. It makes waking from sleep much easier on the system. Since what the system has to do for that is read all the stuff that was stored into disk and put that back into memroy.

Or ideally, probably just set up hybrid-sleep along with setting that option. Which does both suspsend-to-ram and suspsend-to-disk. It allows the speed of a normal suspend, and saves your state lile hibernation.

But really it will depend on your exact system. Your hardware, the kernel you are using, and maybe some of the userland stuff (logind/elogind or acpid at least lets you configure some of this stuff) but that will probably matter less.
 
Dread First said:
He basically has to because Fedora is one of the testbed distros that has all the technologies that the kernel has to integrate cleanly with. Fedora also ships with tons of developer tools and virtualisation shit that makes testing stuff easier. It also tracks the latest versions of the kernel and assorted dependencies.

“Author of and ruthless tyrant in control of the Linux kernel uses a distro that ships with all the latest stuff he works on. I feel vindicated!” No fucking shit. What’s next? “South African multimillionaire has an outsized impact on the Debian project?”
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I remember someone once asked him at a talk what distro he used (this was like 10 years ago) and he said Ubuntu. His reasoning was that the literal only thing he cared about in his OS was the kernel, so whatever allowed him to get a system, any system, up and running and stayed out of his way the rest of the time was the best option for him. All of the time that Linus could’ve spent ricing his distro, he spent setting up his treadmill-standing desk office setup. A reasonable tradeoff.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
Generally don't have issues getting it to sleep (what keeps Linux awake sometimes is a mystery, but if it was consistently Steam it would never sleep at all because I keep Steam minimized when not in direct use), it's waking up that's a dice roll. Maybe once a month it will freeze on wake up after typing in my password. Or last time I had an issue Plasma KDE shit itself and wiped my widgets on my secondary monitor but that might be more a "Linux hates running more then one monitor" thing and not a "Linux hates having a consistently functioning Sleep function" thing.

Sort of limited on how much I want to hunt this problem down since I'm planning on distro hopping off Ubuntu entirely Soon™ so I'm hoping these issues don't follow me.
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I think the condition is that you have to play a game in Steam, not just have Steam running. When you launch a game Steam places an override on power management, but it seems to fail to consistently undo the override when the game is closed.
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
Developers of GNOME Flatpak store Bazaar reject non-faggotry-related themes for the installation progress bar:
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Their reaction to that one pull request from that one person that claimed to be bi or whatever themselves was particularly bad. Like even for these kinds of deranged cultural marxist's it was more insane than usual.

I hate that people like this think they are doing something good when they act like this. All these people do is drive a wedge in the foss ecosystem. And the foss ecosystem is divided enough already.
 
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Ahriman said:
Gah, got it wrong. Thanks for the heads-up!

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Interesting information, too bad it's presented through faggotspeak.

A translation layer for Android applications without needing a container or sandbox would be nice, but personally I don't feel there's much worth salvaging from Android? It's probably less effort than maintaining WINE, and I assume it's insurance into the future when ARM continues to grow, and so does Android. And maybe it's an answer to Google's attempt at a wall garden.
 
Does xlibre have some kind of a roadmap? I know they've spoken about implementing new features but which ones are they targeting?
 
August Levasseur said:
Steam Phone incoming.
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In my perfect world, Gabe would just pick up the SailfishOS platform and just run with it.




It's already in good shape, but with his financial muscle, it has the potential to be a fantastic platform.


Been following its development since it was implemented in the old Nokia N900 - a smartphone that I still have buried in my wardrobe somewhere, but I wish there were more of it.
 
Ahriman said:
but I wish there were more of it.
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I actually quite liked the user experience side of Sailfish, to be honest. I do think there are things that could be learned from the UI design and workflow aspect that would be pleasant additions for the other Linux phone projects I've tried.


Back when I tried it I quickly realized that I was going to refuse to pay for the Sailfish subscription, however, so ultimately I just don't see it being a viable alternative for me.
 
GoysGoneWild said:
Does xlibre have some kind of a roadmap? I know they've spoken about implementing new features but which ones are they targeting?
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If I recall, Xnamespaces has been implemented, which provides the security functions that Wayland claims makes it better (but Xnamespaces has better granular control). Xlibre 25.1 might come out on the 23rd or so, after which there will begin a push to get it added to official repositories such as I Ubuntu or Debian.
Our roadmap
Roughly speaking, we will continue to clean up and modernize the codebase, enhance our continuous integration, add static code analysis, and improve manual and automated testing. Therefore, we will consolidate our build infrastructure and release process and also add more platforms to the test cycle. We will also further look into separating X clients by the Xnamespace extension and providing practical examples of how to use it.

Some of the many ideas and feature requests we received will be refined and prepared for implementation, and we will go on to integrate relevant but unreleased Xorg and Xwayland features as well. Our documentation will see improvements on how to build, configure, and switch to XLibre. A revamp of our website, the creation of a logo, and more rebranding to XLibre are also on the map. End of roughly speaking.

One of the very next steps is to concretize our roadmap by using the GitHub Projects feature to arrange and prioritize bug reports, feature requests, and other issues. This will give anybody a clear picture of what is next. All in the open so you can follow along and, more so, participate.
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HildegardOrgonAkkumulator said:
Either Linus (and/or his editor) doesn't know what "compile" means, or they're really that ignorant.
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they made the arch reference after he said
"there are the really tech oriented ones-"
"by the way"
"what?"
"they'll get it"
" ...where you compile your own..."
but yeah if i had to guess i'd say they'd still have made an arch reference even if they had that context
 
BALLZ-BROKEN MkII said:
So which distro do you guys recommend - Mint Cinnamon or Zorin OS? Here's my situation:

I have 2 computers I regularly use right now, my shitposting rig which is a dual cpu Xeon I built a couple of years ago with a Chinesium X99 mobo running Zorin 17.3, and my gaming PC, which is a Minisforum Ryzen 9 running Win 11 which I always keep offline. I haven't been too impressed with Win 11 and I don't trust M$ not to do something fucky-wucky so I want to use Linux on the Ryzen. I'm currently playing around with Bazzite on a spare SSD, but doing some research I heard Bazzite isn't the best for a daily driver PC.

The only reason I got Win11 is I wanted to play Starfield, but I've finally come to the realization that game is never going to be worth playing. In fact, I would've switched over to Linux full time if it wasn't for Mod Organizer 2, which for the life of me I can't figure out how to get to work, and even if I did, there doesn't seem to be anyway to get it to run independent of Steam which is a necessity (I'm still running the pre next-gen version of Fallout 4). I do have a copy of Win10 on the X99, and I have a Ryzen 5 laptop that I dual boot on so if I figure if I ever get a hankerin' for some ToddSlop I could just run those games on Win10.

I like Zorin, but version 18 has that web intergration stuff I don't need, and I haven't used Mint in a few years so I'm curious.
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Mint is your best bet. I can never recommend Zorin to anyone just because of one thing: fucking GNOME. I hate GNOME like you wouldn't believe. It is literal sabotage to any attempts at getting widespread adoption of Linux. So go with Mint and be happy.
 
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