daily driving arch
why is nothing working I JUST REFUELED MY TANK! HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY BREAK MY CAR?!
"Everything's shiny, Cap'n, not to fret!"
"You told me these packages were supported for another 6 weeks!"
"Your last Pacman -Syu was 6 months ago, Cap'n!"
"My OS don't crash. If it crashes, you crashed it!"
Me after a restart following a seemingly harmless package update:
“Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
Sounds like a driver issue
RTFCM
Refuel your car next time instead of your tank, sheesh
I don't use mint, but the serenity of a reliable platform to work on by far outweighs the boringness of the system.
My computer is a tool, not a hobby (anymore).
I feel the same way on PoPOS. I have compiled my own kernel (it's actually not that difficult honestly) and done all matter of work at work. It's also how I know the system is super stable and I don't have to mess with things for my daily driver stuff.
Mint is my favourite distro. Is everything I want from my computer.
... Except the Nvidia support. I need the actual proprietary driver for cuda and it's not the easiest of rides.
(I switched to Nobara for better support and now the drivers memory leak. I need the courage to distrohop again)
Except the Nvidia support. I need the actual proprietary driver for cuda
As far as I know, the open-source driver supports CUDA now, as long as you're using version 560 or above and the latest CUDA packages. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
We've been using the open-source driver with workstation-grade cards at my employer for a while. The open-source driver didn't get full support for consumer-grade cards until version 560 which was only released around 6 months ago.
Debian with the mint UI. All of the debian memes, but none of the UI headaches!
There's also LMDE which is mint built on Debian instead of Ubuntu. The Mint guys had the foresight to prepare for a future when they'd get fed up with Ubuntu's nonsense.
Been using this for a while now. For my needs, it's the best distro out there.
Dang it, you gotta come in here and tempt me to distrohop... That's a dang attractive choice.
LMDE is everything you want, I assure you.
EndeavourOS on my DD laptop with time shift in case an update wants to be a dick (or I do something stupid).
Proxmox VMs for when I'm feeling saucy.
Ain't no one got time for an unstable work machine.
WITNESS ME
WITNESS NT
I love Mint for this reason.
When my OS works well enough that I don't even have to think about it day to day, it's doing its job.
the thing I think a lot of "linux dorks" (and I use that term lovingly) forget about is that most people want to work on their computer, not work on their computer. The OS, for most people, should be the software equivalent of a motherboard -- an invisible plinth upon which the actual things you care about sit. With a motherboard, that's your GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. and with the OS, that's the applications you run.
there's nothing wrong with making fiddling with your computer a hobby, and I've been known to dabble myself over the years, but for me and most other normal people, that ends up being too much work for too little reward in the end. Mint getting to the point where you can daily drive it and not have to worry about it even if you're a complete brainlet when it comes to Linux is a massive W.
What happens if I also tinker with hardware? Does that mean I am a mother dorker?
Yeah, fuck Windows. I just had a focus stealing pop-up from HP that demanded a reboot.
I had put the pop-up to the side to finish some work before I'd let it reboot. Pressed enter to finish the message I was composing, only for the pop-up to once again steal focus, and given that "restart" was the only button on that pop-up, it immediately restarted the PC.
If i had one wish it would be to erase GetFocus from reality entirely
I do not understand why Windows lets windows steal focus like that. I have to use Windows for work, and I'll be typing in my password or token, and it'll steal the focus WHILE I'M TYPING. It's infuriating behavior and potentially a security issue.
As a windows user I didn't like Mint
I tried out Kubuntu and it was really nice.
+1 Kubuntu.
KDE Plasma and Debian is where it's at.
Comfortable, familiar OS GUI, working drivers out of the box, and a non crashing kernel with updates once a month.
And also steam works.
Steam and gaming working is a big thing.
Like 96.6% of the operating system.
KDE Plasma and Debian is where it’s at.
Yep, in fact sadly I move away from Ubuntu after years of using because of the slow yet seemingly inexorable trend toward bloatware. Going back to the "basics" with Debian, and keeping KDE, made the transition very easy. As you also highlight, Steam works perfectly. Anyway, time to go back to Elden Ring ;)
KDE more like goodest desktop
I'm so glad I chose right, mint is indeed amazing and easy
I use Arch BTW.
Today the liquidctl integration of cooler control died, making all my fans go into a safe profile which makes a lot more noise than normal. Imagine having to listen to that for an hour trying to get it working again. I did get it working luckily, somehow the coolercontrol-liqctld python module didn't register properly. Once I got the module registered everything was working, for now....
Get a decent package mangement system on it and LFS is like every other distro with extra steps.
I kinda want to try LFS with Nix, but I think that’s literally just NixOS
Ugh, interesting yet so obvious! It's been years... well decades since I played with LFS, time to read on https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/9.1-systemd/chapter06/pkgmgt.html
People who understand Linux Mint and other complex distros at a deep level:
god mode
Debian stable, I guess, has both people sleeping on cruise control. Fine until it stops being fine, and then a flurry of activity.
Edit: or maybe a train. Boring, except for updates and dist upgrades.
Can you link to the artist?
laughs maniacally in Slackware
Oh god. I started with Slackware in 1998 and used it on the desktop until around 2008, then on the server until 2017 or so.
In later years, the last panel definitely felt like Slackware. I was afraid to upgrade for fear of breaking things. Installing new software was tough because it was like, well, I need this dependency for that package, but what about this one? Will I break package A if I install the dependencies for package B? Only one way to find out!
Slackware is probably much easier to handle now, with the proliferation of docker and the like, where the software includes the libraries it needs and doesn't rely on the system libraries. Just run everything in a container.
I use it on a webserver (that is actually just an LA, no M or P), it's not really updated much any more. Part of why i use it, more complexity = more vulnerability
My shack pc is a tv box with a custom version of armbian, basically it's barely holding itself together, but it still works decently for digital modes, so i'm not complaining; i couldn't imagine the torture that would be daily driving that monstrosity
Hint: :q!
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