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Can you federate with kbin instances? The communities get stuck at subscribe pending for me.

That's the only thing not working and I assume I'm missing a proxy rule.

I redirect to "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up" on Youtube.

I also use mailcow with rspamd and I have seen like 2 spam mails in 3 years. And even those were marked as suspicious.

Combined with aliases I don't really have to bother with spam or leaked addresses anymore.

My servers are up to date and there is not a single Linux distro that has removed cron or marked it for removal yet. Probably will stay that way for a long time.

Yes, they do.

That driver does not list the 635M but only the desktop version. Which is still impressive but I think they have separate drivers for their mobile chips? The latest driver listed for the 635M is only available for Windows 10 on their website.

Yes, they can. They literally have the correct (legacy) driver in the Ubuntu repo. But the autoinstaller installs the wrong driver during installing the OS. And if you try to manually install it, there is not even a text prompt in the CLI saying “You just installed that driver, do you want to actually use it to? (Y/n)”.

They could have even gone so far as to make a CLI wizard (like many other packages do) or even a GUI wizard. But no, the package just installs and does nothing by default.

Does ubuntu-drivers devices list the correct driver or is the recommended one too new? The driver packages in Ubuntu should install and activate themselves unless you have multiple installed, sounds like you ran into a bug.

Also that is not correct. All the *buntu installers ask you when you install the OS whether you also want to have closed source drivers installed, and then it installs the closed source Nvidia drivers. Just the wrong ones.

That does not change that Nouveau is used by default for the installer itself and by default for the OS if you don't select anything.

Using a GPU under Linux is not common? And installing Linux on old laptops isn’t either?

Installing drivers for an older GPU, obscure printer, touchpad or other weird hardware is not common.

When I installed an Ubuntu variant on my G580, which has a Geforce 635M it automatically installed the current driver for Geforce GPUs when I setup the OS, but that driver doesn’t support the 635M. That one needs a legacy driver. And getting that to work was a major pain.

Which is an issue with Nvidia, they have no drivers for that GPU for Windows 11 either. Not saying that this is not an issue but there is absolutely nothing Linux can do to make every legacy GPU work without help from Nvidia. It uses the open source driver out of the box, which works sometimes but not for everything and definitely not for gaming.

For example installing the GPU driver for an older GPU. Or installing the driver for an obscure printer, touchpad or other weird hardware.

That's not quite my definition of "common".

Average user doesn’t mean total noob. Installing Windows and the relevant drivers is something many users in the “Gamer class” can do.

The "Gamer class" is far from the average user, the average user doesn't even know what a GPU or a driver is and doesn't care. As long as the OS installs all drivers by default or the OEM has preinstalled them all is good.

Getting the same hardware to run under Windows meant downloading the .exe and running it.

Until there's no more drivers for that generation of GPU. The Windows 11 drivers for AMD only go down to the Vega 64, if you have a Fury X or a 7970 you're out of luck. Not that Windows 11 even lets you install on a machine that old.

AMDGPU goes down all the way to GCN 1.2, which means you can even run a 7970 on a modern Linux OS. Even out of the box if your distro has the legacy flags enabled.

It would be fantastic if there was more hardware that works out of the box in Linux, but that's up to the manufacturers. Until more people switch to Linux they don't bother and until they bother everybody complains that XY doesn't work on Linux.

As of right now the biggest hurdle is Nvidia without drivers included in Linux. Without a distro that takes care of installing their drivers they are essentially out of luck.

From a different Lemmy post I wrote a month ago:

I also host my own mail and there's been little issues.

Microsoft is a pain in the ass if you're in an IP space they don't like like DigitalOcean. Which is ironic because they have the worst spam filter by far in the industry.

If you want to get through to everyone you will have to:

• Use a "good" TLD ( not .to, not .xyz, ...)
• Don't use cloud platforms that are regularily used for spam (mostly DigitalOcean)
• Use SPF
• Use DMARC
• Use DKIM
• Use a PTR record
• Don't make an open relay by accident
• Use proper ports and certificates
• Register an abuse account at the big players (Google, Microsoft, ...)
• Don't use an dynamic IP
• Keep it up to date
• Minimize downtime

I can't recommend mailcow enough, it makes setting up a mail server a breeze.

https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized

Use the MXToolbox to verify your server(s).

https://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx

As for streaming, I use OvenMediaEngine to stream to my friends: https://github.com/AirenSoft/OvenMediaEngine

It has a latency way under half a second and is perfect for streaming video games.

I have no strong feelings, one way or the other.

Yes, the Adobe suite is hard to replace and unfortunately that won't change very soon without a native version or Wine support getting much better.

As for alternatives, I assume you have already tried GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, LibreOffice and OnlyOffice? I know for many people they are not suitable replacements but I guess it's the best that's available right now.

It's not running natively but they enabled anti cheat support for Linux.

Played a few hours already, works flawlessly.

The only issue I can still think of on KDE with Wayland is that fullscreen games tend to crash when switching on/off a monitor during gameplay.

Not the end of the world but it seems like something that could be avoided.

There are common programs you need to install via the terminal

Out of interest, which programs do you need to install via terminal that concern the average user?

you can’t even change sound playback quality without editing a conf file which requires sudo!

What do you consider changing "playback quality"?

Sampling rate? That can be changed in a config file without sudo (~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d), you shouldn't though because many applications expect 48000 as sampling rate. Unless you're doing studio recordings you want 48000.

There is so much you need the shell

Correct, there is a lot of need for the shell, for power users. I don't really see anything that the average office and browser enjoyer needs to do in the terminal. You can even game now in most distros without opening the terminal once.

You can install every native UI application and every Flatpak (or Snap) in every distro that ships with GNOME or KDE without opening terminal once. Not sure how the software center works for others but I'm sure they do the same.

Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and many more. They all do it like this.

Need to install more than UI applications? Install dragora/Synaptic whatever GUI comes for your package manager. Not like you really need to do this because the average person only cares about the UI applications.

I also switched because gaming just started to work. Gave Linux a try every 6-12 months for like almost a century but both the desktop and gaming performance always were subpar.

Until 3 years ago when I once again tested Linux and both GNOME and KDE were super snappy to use, gaming worked mostly out of the box via Proton and all the applications I need for work, worked on Linux or had an even better alternative.

Stuck with dual booting for one more year because I couldn't get VR to work properly. Now I'm 100% on Linux since 2 years.

The speed at which things have improved in those 3 years is amazing. Things went from "needs some tinkering" to "just install it". Performance went from mediocre to blazing fast. Software support went from "need to compile from source" to "download the AppImage/Flatpak".

That room is gonna smell like burnt hair for the entire night now.

You might want to give ALVR a try. I don't use it since I have an Index but I heard good things about it.

https://github.com/alvr-org/alvr

Maybe get one used? I replaced the battery and backplate on mine and it's like new.

I assume most people don't care about a notch for the front facing camera so OnePlus didn't continue it since it adds complexity.