edinbruh @ edinbruh @feddit.it

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the subway map in case you were wondering

IMHO I would avoid the ublue distros and just go for official fedora spins. The guys have good intentions, but they don't have the means to maintain that many distros "properly". I often end up enabling copr packages for bazzite in my fedora install, just to find out the program doesn't work.

That being said, as the other comments told you, you can still install native apps on immutable distros, it's just a bit more work. I don't expect distrobox or toolbox to be much faster than flatpak, as they are all just containers with a nice cli, except flatpak is easier to update. But trying costs nothing

Look at what mathematicians have been asking your respect for.

"Hello, I would like i potatoes"

How can we trust science when they say things like that?

This is a good opportunity to go watch megamind

In KDE (well, in dolphin) you can edit files in system folders from GUI if you type admin://path/to/folder. You might need to install one kio-admin before tho, and you need dbus and polkit

Systemd was actually a "clone" of apple's launchd. Similarities with windows arise from the fact that it makes sense to manage services in certain ways on modern OSs. Also services on windows are completely different from Linux and MacOS, they are even a different executable file format, not a normal exe.

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I thlamd my penith in the carthor

You set the bios to always turn on when power is back and use the switch and you just unplug and plug it from the wall

Ye olde "a case doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to be a box"

It's a supermicro x8dal-i with two xeon x5650 from 2010. 6c/12t each, base frequency 2.33 GHz, turbo to 3.2 GHz single core, 3 DDR3 ports each in two Numa nodes, for a total of 24GB at 2400 MT/s. It only supports PCIe 2.0, for a 1060 3GB.

It's slow as hell in single thread, it's acceptable in multi thread. It doesn't go out of memory. It sounds like a lawnmower. It boots up between 1 min and 6 min. It overheats and shuts down in summer (hence the desk fan and the little fan blowing on the chipset). It chokes that 1060 with its slow PCIe. Lots of sata, only one 128 GB SSD. Most games from before the 2021 run. Overall pretty cool. It has two Intel gigabit Ethernet.

Both windows 10 and Ubuntu are taking a toll on it. But I bet a nice fresh install will fix it. But I won't do it because it's not my main kick anymore

You ain't seen shit kiddo

But unironically, "having faith" implies that you do not need proof but you are trusting your belief. So they are kind of correct

I think you are confusing "windows like" with "user-friendly". A "bespoke archive, that you find on some developer's website, that you extract and somewhere it contains an executable and assets, that you move where you want to keep them, and then the user remembers to manually update it sometimes somehow" is not how you usually do stuff on Linux and is not even user-friendly.

Distributions come with programs like "gnome software" or "kde discover" that allows the user to graphically install programs from the distro's package manager, or from flatpak or snap. It will also help them to keep them updated and to manage dependencies. That is user-friendly.

I suggest using flatpak. It will work on almost all distros out of the box and will be easy to install and maintain for the user. If flatpak is too "bloated" for you because it uses containers, then you need to package it for every distro manually, but that's a lot of work. If it's something that just needs to be used once and never again, consider an appimage or a script, because they don't need to be installed.

Distros are different operating systems, it's not gonna be easy to package for all of them without compromises.

Also, if you really really really need to use your bespoke archive, you can do like native steam games do, and put every library you link in the archive, and link with relative paths instead of system wide paths, or with a launch script that loads your provided libraries. But that's not a great user experience. Steam gets away with it because it's the launcher that manages the whole thing.

I can't. Proton-experimental specific is required for the game to run without disabling dx12 which will lower performance. With proton-ge the game crashes instantly

The only "problem" is that it's not making 60 fps even in the benchmark. Which is fine, it's a heavy game, but I would be bummed if it was due to proton overhead and not due to my gpu

You are not supposed to power the GPU like that. You should use two separate cables from the supply. The other connector of the same cable is intended to "daisy chain" low power cards.

It will probably work anyway, but better safe than sorry.

Edit: I think it's needed because:

1. The power supply might have separate circuits for separate cables and might not be able to supply all the power needed by the GPU through just one
2. The cable might not be rated to have that much power flow through and might overheat and melt over time
3. If you could just fork the cable into two why would they put two connectors on the GPU, it's not like they have different voltages, they are literally daisy chained

Straightest Griffith interaction.

Also, fuck Griffith

Aren't two of those the same person

This is a quail egg, this is an American egg, and this big one is a black goat's egg