Are your specific issues a reason normal users shouldnt use Linux? No
I cannot agree. Most of the users would be upset about bluetooth dropping connection or constant issues after running updates.
Are your specific issues a reason normal users shouldnt use Linux? No
I cannot agree. Most of the users would be upset about bluetooth dropping connection or constant issues after running updates.
Your comment is a perfect Linux answer - it works on my computer :) And I don’t mean it as an insult. The problem here is that Linux, despite of all its advantages, is not for a global consumer.
I think, you should keep these two things (messing with containers accessing GPU and “just play a game”) separate. I mean on separate boxes. Because now you can’t “just play” because you’ve been elbows deep in OS internals. You can’t take apart your fridge and then expect it to just cool the water the next day
I agree, that’s a valid point. But, I had a clean system, prepared for a normal user (clean install, official repositories, etc. And still GPU drivers refusded to work. I have covered all basics before I asked for help and even I got some good advice that worked, I ended up in the same place.
Then I’m guessing these might need some KDE envs
True, but sill for a regular user it looks like “Linux is ugly”
Ah, you’re trying to breach the non-open wall. Is there an app on i* that allows you to set up an ftp/http file sharing server on the device? You probably could set it up as rclone upstream
I know too well the unbreakable apple garden. And I don’t mind tinkering with it but again, we are at the regular user level, that wants things just to work.
Start with Gentoo or Arch (maybe Slackware). These are close to the grass, so the way to set things up is the way to fix things up
I’ve tried Mint, openSUSE, Debian, Gentoo and Arch but I had other, non-regular user issues with those. I wanted to point out the standard issues.
are these gtk based apps? Different toolsets require different envs
Some were GTK based other were “optimised” for KDE
Have you tried syncthing?
Yes, I use it on a daily basis but there’s no easy way to get it working on iOS/iPadOS.
As I wrote, I did the clean install. Even if I didn’t do a thing with it, it would still break. As it did couple days ago.
As I said, I did a clean install and still all Steam games were failing on directx issue. Also, a “regular” user when switching to Linux will have to know what a GPU driver is in order to use it, event if it’s just for playing games. And the cherry on top - once I fixed the directx issue and I was able to play a game I wanted, the drivers update broke it. And despite spending days on fixing the issue, I got back to a square one.
I use SMS and good old phone calls. You would be surprised how much people freak up when you call them. For work I use Slack, sometimes Teams. And on rare occasions, Messenger to talk to some family members.
edit Forgot about emails. I use it for more planned communications.
Funny thing, yesterday there was an update for nvidia drivers. I was stupid enough to install it and now I have the same directx error as before. I’m done with gaming on Linux.
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
This worked. I haven’t checked the bios yet. If there’s an option to disable integrated graphics I will use it. For now I will just use the vars.
Why don’t more people use Linux?
Because Linux breaks randomly, in many cases without user interaction. New driver update - external monitor stops working, games break, etc. Official desktop widgets - tend to break without any reason. Apps don’t follow desktop theme.
I’m a software engineer and I work a lot and I want to spend my free time using OS, not fixing it. After my recent issues with graphic drivers I decided to buy a Windows PC just for gaming. I will stick with Linux for my home server and work.
Yeah, I think I messed it up :) Now my system starts in cli mode. Well, I wanted to nuke everything anyway so no harm done.
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I was able to switch to gui but still no luck with the gpu.
You might be right. I have a feeling that when I blacklisted nouveau rest of the stuff got deleted from this line. I’ll give it a try.
bat /etc/default/grub
───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: /etc/default/grub
───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
2 │ GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
3 │ GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
4 │ GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
5 │ GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
6 │ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"
7 │ GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
8 │ GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
I did all those things before I asked a question.
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alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00*
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parm: NvSwitchRegDwords:NvSwitch regkey (charp)
parm: NvSwitchBlacklist:NvSwitchBlacklist=uuid[,uuid...] (charp)
parm: NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int
parm: NVreg_RmLogonRC:int
parm: NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles:int
parm: NVreg_DeviceFileUID:int
parm: NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int
parm: NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int
parm: NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations:int
parm: NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int
parm: NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3:int
parm: NVreg_EnableMSI:int
parm: NVreg_TCEBypassMode:int
parm: NVreg_EnableStreamMemOPs:int
parm: NVreg_RestrictProfilingToAdminUsers:int
parm: NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations:int
parm: NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement:int
parm: NVreg_S0ixPowerManagementVideoMemoryThreshold:int
parm: NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement:int
parm: NVreg_DynamicPowerManagementVideoMemoryThreshold:int
parm: NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware:int
parm: NVreg_EnableGpuFirmwareLogs:int
parm: NVreg_OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus:int
parm: NVreg_EnableUserNUMAManagement:int
parm: NVreg_MemoryPoolSize:int
parm: NVreg_KMallocHeapMaxSize:int
parm: NVreg_VMallocHeapMaxSize:int
parm: NVreg_IgnoreMMIOCheck:int
parm: NVreg_NvLinkDisable:int
parm: NVreg_EnablePCIERelaxedOrderingMode:int
parm: NVreg_RegisterPCIDriver:int
parm: NVreg_EnableResizableBar:int
parm: NVreg_EnableDbgBreakpoint:int
parm: NVreg_EnableNonblockingOpen:int
parm: NVreg_RegistryDwords:charp
parm: NVreg_RegistryDwordsPerDevice:charp
parm: NVreg_RmMsg:charp
parm: NVreg_GpuBlacklist:charp
parm: NVreg_TemporaryFilePath:charp
parm: NVreg_ExcludedGpus:charp
parm: NVreg_DmaRemapPeerMmio:int
parm: NVreg_RmNvlinkBandwidth:charp
parm: NVreg_ImexChannelCount:int
parm: NVreg_CreateImexChannel0:int
parm: rm_firmware_active:charp
Already did that. Didn’t help.
It didn’t work. At this point I’m considering nuking the whole thing and start with the fresh system. If it won’t work I will buy a Windows PC just for gaming.
I don’t have a response to share but I always lose my mind when I see AWS error messages, especially when using bazillion layers like CDK for Terraform, executed from the shell script that runs a python script in the CI/CD pipeline.
One of the issues I will never forget was the debugging of permission issue. Dev reported an issue, something like “cannot access the SQS queue from a recently deployed script”. The error message was like “cannot access the queue due to missing policy in assumed role” (or something similar). So, I have checked the python script and related policies - all good. Next I’ve moved to a shell script, still no luck. After that I went through the CDK files, no issues. I was about to involve the AWS support when it turned out that the queue name has been changed manually in the AWS console. AWS, instead of point out that the queue is missing, raised an error about missing access permissions…
TikTok is not the problem. The problem is “I have nothing to hide” mindset. People don’t care about privacy because “ignorance is bliss”. Some people are just not aware about risks of giving up on privacy and other put continence over privacy. Until the general perception of privacy changes, apps like TikTok will thrive.
Thanks for reminding me, there’s also " supporting" linux community…