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Definitely Not GustavoM. :^)

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Could use a "tl;dr guide" of sorts on how to use Android.

In other words… a “Use this to do that” guide. Or more specifically, how to customize it (Get rid of the wallpaper, use lower resolutions, set up apps to run on boot, permanently change scaling_min_freq, etc without the usage of third party apps) and where to find a decent/optimized version of it (Something like LineageOS?...

Moving to Arch/EndeavorOS from PopOS?

I’ve been using PopOS for a few months now, and I’m interested in Arch, but I’m worried about whether or not I have enough experience to do that successfully. Also, I have an Nvidia GPU until I start a new build in the next year or so. I don’t know if that’ll be a problem in Arch. It was a major issue with Fedora for...

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  • How to do the most basic things

How to search for a package: sudo pacman -Ss packagename

How to install a package: sudo pacman -S packagename

How to update: sudo pacman -Syu

How to remove a package: sudo pacman -Rcns packagename

How to clean old packages: sudo pacman -Sc --noconfirm

Arch linux installer (official): archinstall

…and that is (pretty much) all you need to learn to use Arch linux in an acceptable fashion. Now go ahead and give it a spin – you’ll love it.

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Feel free to call me a poser, a scrub, etc but I don’t use aliases (other than the default ones, that is).

Why? Two words:

Brain. Exercise.

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Winlator. Being able to run Windows games via kISS is gonna make sbcs much more usable.

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>tfw when you use android, debian, ubuntu, fedora, gentoo while (also) being a vegan

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I don’t use Firefox.

“abloo bloo muh securitah muh internet fwee-”

Nowadays, a “freedom-respecting” and/or a “privacy-respecting” browser became a myth. Even so, a buzzword. If you believe theres such browser, you are delusional.

Downvotes are under this post for your self-validation needs.

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In a nutshell:

  • Have (real) user control.
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Common sense antivirus ™

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Heres a tl;dr of some “must learn” things in order to use GNU/Linux in an acceptable fashion;

  • Package manager (how to install, remove, clean old packages)
  • The “know-hows” (Which package goes for audio, video card, webcam, etc)
  • How to make a minimal/baremetal installation (Which is a very simple process nowadays – it takes only one package to do this)

Thats it.

Linux can be used at your workplaces (lemmy.ml)

I’m just tired. On the last post about having Linux at our work, many people that seems to be an IT worker said there have been several issues with Linux that was not easy to manipulate or control like they do with Windows, but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support. Because Google forces all their...

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Then my bro (who is a “Windows tryhard fanatic”) must be a wizard or some sort because he simply doesnt care regarding security and privacy yet his PC is still intact for YEARS.

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Flatbak

Should I give Arch a shot?

I’ve been using Linux as my main OS for a couple of years now, first on a slightly older Dell Inspiron 15. Last year I upgraded to an Inspiron 15 7510 with i7-11800H and RTX3050. Since purchasing this laptop I’ve used Manjaro, Debian 11, Pop OS, Void Linux, Fedora Silverblue (37 & 38) and now Debian 12. I need to reinstall...

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You make it sound like its a paid distro – just go ahead and give it a shot. Worst case scenario – you’ll learn lots of new things and will give your brain a few extra, healthy braincells. :')

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All games (theoretically) run on Linux – cloud gaming is a thing. Even if you may say “B-but muh input lag” its extremely doable and reliable as of now.

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Only if you don’t have a job – even Africa and Afghanistan has decent internet nowadays.

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Now that Hyprland exists… Wayland all the way. Its a bit buggy compared to Sway… but its fast, snappy and very lightweight.

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Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a go.

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I can`t give you any technical details, but real-world ones – it (drastically) decreased my cpu temps and cpu usage, while providing a slightly better performance overall.

t. Tested this on a rpi 4 while running Doom 3 (the closest of a “Crysis for rpi 4”) a couple years ago. Pretty sure its even better right now.

Cheap and good mini-PCs for gaming?

Hello, everybody! I want to have a little mini-PC for gaming that operates like a console. I don’t want to have a big, clunky case in the back or front of the TV. Furthermore, I don’t play many AAA titles from recent years, so the hardware doesn’t need to be high-end. It would be nice if I could run Scarlet Nexus, Nier:...

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Orange pi zero 3 is good enough for gaming if you lower your expectations and don’t mind switching between retrogaming and cloud gaming 24/7.

t. got a 1GiB one and its excellent for my use case.

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a secure distro for normal daily use

Any distro, really. Tails and Tor may have some extra features but aren’t mandatory by any means. Just make sure Common Sense Antivirus ™ is g2g and you should be good.

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1- Switch to Arch Linux (no, really.)

2- Do a minimal installation

3- Search for “arch linux improving performance”. There should be a guide in the arch linux wiki regarding some system-wide tweaks via sysctl.conf – follow it.

4- Also search for “how to enable zram arch linux”. Basically, it clogs your cpu a bit to squeeze a bit more of ram out of your system. Follow it as well.

Don’t expect any “miracles” out of this… but it should make things more doable/tolerable.

If everything goes wrong, then you can always resort to either geforcenow or xcloud. Or both.

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a whopping 1-2% increase.

no.

They just break every so often.

Also no.

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Since you’ve been fiddling with Linux for a while… why not switch to Arch Linux instead? Even the official iso has an kISS installer that is really easy to get used to (archinstall).

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I’m not a docker expect to be honest… but I’m pretty sure its because podman runs “rootless” while docker does not. Even if docker provides ways to mitigate that… its always great to have a “just werks” option without having to fiddle through system files, permissions and such.

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Oddly enough, my experience has been completely the inverse – Debian breaks, but Arch does not.

Hello, I’m going to be getting a new computer soon and have thought about linux. Questions inside

With the new computer and the newer Microsoft Windows updates they have really jam packed their OS with bloat and spyware. That being said I have no idea what I’m doing with Linux, need help with where to start.? What are some general tips? I understand there’s a lot of prebuilt Linux distributions or something what are some...

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Package manager is your friend. Learn “whom is whom” in Linux (alsa = your sound “driver”, for instance) and how to fully customize your Linux installation are what I’d call as “The Holy Trinity” of Linux. Know those, and you can call yourself a penguin.

Is anyone else using the Orange pi zero 3 right now?

Because Im currently typing this on mine (1 GiB, android install) and everything is (very surprisingly) rock solid – page loading is very smooth, youtube playback is smooth as well (it can even play 4k videos no problem) and even gaming works flawlessly well (Havent went too far beyond PS1 games, but from PS1 and under it...

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I’d always heard issues with them, something about drivers not being in the kernel or something?

And that is correct – Orange pi boards are (mostly) Android-based boards at heart. Anything beyond that, and youll have to deal with lots of tinkering.

Any more information youd want to share

Eh…on my first try, I went with debian and everything felt really half-baked. For example, docker is borked (And I think theres a way to fix it – havent really tried fiddling with it at all.). Sound is also borked (Tried both alsa and pulseaudio, aaand nada.). And I think I managed to “cheat” my way in the “GPU supported land” by installing mesa-utils with the --install-recommends flag (Cant really tell what happened, other than both cpu usage and temps dropped a whole lot after installing it.).

It might be possible installing pi-hole however (pretty sure it runs on any potato nowadays.) Network “just werks” out of the box (Ethernet). Average cpu temps were at 68 to 72 degrees, w/ cpu usage at 80’ish, all cores. (That is while running an youtube video, at 380p. No case, with two passive heatsinks on both the cpu and memory and a small fan blowing right on both of em.).

Those issues simply do not exist on Android. Aside from the lack of customization options and docker, that is.

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Im not an Android expert to be honest (Been fiddling with Linux for some time however, which made my “transition” from 0 to “less-terrible” a rather pleasing one) but I’d say… no. There might be some alternatives to certain Linux-restricted software that might work “out of the box” tho (Like AdGuard instead of pihole) and maybeeeeeee some “voodo magic” can be done with adb (Which is the closest you’ll get of a “Android package manager” of sorts since it allows you to install packages remotely and some tricky things I’m still not aware about.).

Unless you really, REALLY need to tweak the kernel with some turbonerd stuff which is completely off my line of knowledge or some other similar stuff… then I’d say that Android will give you an “acceptable” Linux experience.

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Ubuntu being Ubloatu.

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“Women will have the same privileges than men when society stops treating women as an excluded, incapacitated minority.”

  • a WOOOOOOOOOMAAANNN
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100 Gb? Eh…looks very standard.

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Wha? Even a bleeping potato can run Linux nowadays, with zero issues at day 1.

t. Got a Orange pi zero 3, and the lil’ bastard is rocking solid – even with (near zero) support.

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Honestly… what I had in mind was a modern song (with vocals, etc) being converted in real-time through a “winamp-esque” music player (think: “Open file”, then after the song is chosen, “Converting to chiptune, please wait…” then the song is played.). But since this is a stupidly difficult task… then sure, I’m okay with a “standard” midi-to-chiptune converter.

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Now I can’t tell if I should feel stupid or like an asshole to request this. But eh… thanks for your highly-detailed (and professional) input.

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rtorrent > all

I want to switch to Linux but there are a few major hurdles.

So I have a situation. I really want to switch to Linux as my main gaming/production OS but need the Adobe suite as I am a graphic designer. Adobe is the golden standard for this industry (and likely to always be) so while Gimp and Inkscape might work, they are not feasible for my career. I also know that there will be...

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need the Adobe suite as I am a graphic designer.

Then simply use Windows when you need to design something and Linux for everything else.

“But I don’t want to dual-boot!”

Then buy another PC and install Linux in it. A $10 single-board computer can run Linux just fine – even play 4k videos.

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Can you name that one?

Orange pi zero 3. Its super small, has the same/slightly better performance than a rpi 4 and the power draw caps at (worst case scenario) 3W. The only downside is that you MUST be a turbonerd in order to use it effectively.

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Docker, btop, grim, foot.

I just started using Linux... any great tips?

I just installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Cinnamon) on an empty laptop a couple days ago and have been experimenting a lot. I’m coming from being a Windows user since I was just a little kid playing old DOS games on my grandpa’s Win-98 PC back in around 2000. My daily driver is currently running Windows 10 but I am pretty adamant...

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I think the two “major tips” that I can give you are simply

1- Package manager is your best friend.

2- Figure out the “know-hows” of Linux (i.e who “is responsible” for the video card, who deals with the cpu, how do i configure my sound card, how do i configure my video card, etc.).

Master those two tips and you can call yourself an average linux user.

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Here’s a tl;dr of my Linux learning curve – from 0 (Windows pleb) to hero:

Start with a “user-friendly” distro (Linux Mint, ZorinOS) and get used to its package manager (i.e How to install, uninstall and remove stuff. Also, your best friend.).

Then go for a more “serious” distro like Debian. And from Debian… Arch. Keep at it until you’ve got the most interesting commands (and “whom is whom” regarding video graphics, audio, etc… the “basic” stuff) written on your forehead.

After that, “duckduckgo” about “Minimal linux installation” or “Baremetal linux installation”. Follow the instructions closely and at heart. PS: You are gonna suffer a bit… but that is perfectly fine. Once again, you are gonna have to get used to it and to witness “your own distro” booting up for the first time. Yes, the nerdgasm feels quite great.

At this point, there is nothing “much” to learn other than to add more “depth” to the stuff you learned by “duckduckgo” about “Linux how do I improve my network”, “Linux how to improve performance”, etc until you are used to all that.

Now, you’ve reached the “average user” status and there is nothing “strictly necessary” to learn – so start your own github, send your .dotfiles/scripts in, and go take a break. Congrats, you are now a penguin.

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Now that you mention it…yep. That was horrible.

idk, how about “duck it”? Or “dduck it”.

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Yep, dd is way better.

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The doggo looks worried.

State of gaming on linux?

I used linux in the past, both privately and work-related, but the last time was over 10 years ago, so I’m a bit out of touch. I am in need of a new PC, but it’ll be a good year before I have the funds, so for now I am making due with an i5 7500 and a gtx 1660. I do have 32 GB so there’s that. I finally feel confident...

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If all you want to do is to play retrogames and the occasional AAA+ single-player game? It’s perfect and there is no reason to use Windows ever again.

But if you want to play competitive games that require anticheating in order to work…? Then you will gonna have some problems.

Anyone able and knowledgeable to give me some advice?

Duckduckgo “lutris wine dependencies”, install lutris, download the latest lutris wine version via lutris launcher, use said wine ver. in any game you want or fallback to your system one. Thats it.

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Common Sense Antivirus™ is breddy gucci.

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