Got my parents a new computer for Christmas. I didn’t feel like acting as their 24/7 tech support so I let it with the Windows 11 that it came with. Yesterday they couldn’t get their webcam and microphone to work at all for our weekly family videocall. We ended up having the videocall on Signal. I believe they would face less troubles with Debian at this point.
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I haven’t encountered this problem myself.
This isn’t exactly what I recommend. Only in the case the hardware is bleeding edge, as in, it was released less than 6 month ago, then check in which Kernel version it starts to be supported, as well as check the Kernel version shipping with the distribution you are interested in installing. Distro Kernel version >= Kernel version where the driver starts to be included, no problems. Otherwise, check a distro that has more frequent upgrades.
Things to check: GPU, CPU, WiFi chip, Ethernet chip. In windows you can find the information in the device manager. On Linux (e.g: test with a live USB) the command
lspciwith display the information.A common case would be: I am interested in Debian because I heard it’s the most stable, will my AMD 5070XT work with that ? Probably not very well, better Check Ubuntu non-LTS or Fedora.
I am not recommending op to modify the Kernel from the Linux distro, just consider this point in choosing the distro.
Software Linux support AMD driver ✅ open-source drivers for CPU and GPU are included in the Linux Kernel and work very well. If you have bleeding edge news hardware, check online in which Kernel version they are supposed and choose Linux distro accordingly Web Browser ✅ Chrome/chromium, ✅ Firefox. All are commonly available in your distro software repository by default, or otherwise with Flatpak Web-based email ✅ not dependent on OS. Local Email client software are available, one exemple is Thunderbird. Office suite ✅ LibreOffice, or anything web-based such as Google Docs will work independently of the OS Itunes Many music players/library managers are available on Linux, I don’t have any specific recommendations here, I am self-hosting Jellyfin for my music needs JBL not sure what you mean here ? Your headset/speakers ? Don’t see why it wouldn’t work Music score reader/editor ✅ MuseScore, I also use Guitar Pro (7, 8) inside Bottle (wine) and it works with some tweaks needed for fixing font bug Antivirus ✅ ClamAV, arguable if you need an antivirus at all Python ✅ many IDEs are available, a scary amount of Linux distribution rely on Python under the hood 😅 Remote desktop ✅ RDP protocol (many clients available), ✅ Rustdesk, ✅ anydesk, ✅ TeamViewer) Game platforms ✅ Steam, ✅ Heroic Games Launcher (for Epic and GOG), ✅ Lutris VPN ✅ OpenVPN and ✅ Wireguard protocols are supported (maybe others), you can find many providers using these protocols. Most ask you to use their app, but digging a little you often have options to configure the VPN connection without installing anything extra. I know Nord on client works on Linux, I haven’t tried other. Mulldav is a very frequent recommendation in Linux communities Windows games compatibility ✅ Wine/Proton via Steam, Lutris, Heroic and Bottles. The only thing that will block you is competitive multiplayer games with Anti-Cheat
Talking of organizing your stash: stashapp / stash | GitHub.com
Google calendar at works gives statistics about the invitations and events. A normal work week for me is 35~40% meetings. I am in a management position in an international company with most of my teammates abroad in different countries.
Don’t know if it’s underrated: margherita. Simple, delicious.
Not sure what you mean by “collaboration”. If your are talking about working on documents, spreadsheets, calendar, slides, with your coworkers, sharing, manage access, etc. Google does that pretty well. My company uses everything Google for many years and it’s very good from this perspective. It works absolutely the same from any operating system, Google Chrome is the OS at this point. I am not saying that Google is better than Microsoft as a corporation, just saying that Microsoft has legitimate competitors on the office collaboration market.
10·19 days agoThat’s an amazing shot !
5·24 days agoPost nut clarity
5·25 days agoThank you for the nice write-up!
I want to buy a new PC this year, but I will probably stick to my current 5700xt for the time being and get my hands on a 9070xt in a couple of years when they find their way to the used market.
This 5700xt is the first GPU I bought second hand, I repasted it 1 year after purchase and never gave me issue overall.
3·1 month agoOk, thank you for the explanation. Probably not a project I would use, but it’s very cool that you share your project!
I am not sure to understand the goals of this project. Is it only to interact with radarr and sonarr via CLI instead of accessing the web interface? Am I missing something?
3·1 month agoI think the point here is to have a part stronger than a 100% infill part. But you are right, 3D printing filament is very expensive. I have recently posted a project where I use plaster as a fill material.
Repairs FTW ! 🛠️
3·1 month agoCrash team racing on PS1
1·1 month agoArgent metal (essentially the OST of DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal)
I switched to Linux full time in 2011 👴. Was fed up with Windows 7’s bullshit.
But I must say, I leaned a tone while I was using Windows XP,. This is during this time I would build my first PCs, setup local network at home and for LAN parties, setup file sharing and damn printers 🤬, start to learn programming.