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(grateful for flatpaks for once!)

That’s how I run my system right now. Fedora KDE + pretty much everything as Flatpak.

Gives me a recent enough kernel and KDE version so I don’t have to worry when I get new hardware or new features drop but also restricts major updates to new Fedora versions so I can hold those back for a few weeks.

I made a similar switch as you but from Ubuntu to Fedora because of outdated firmware and kernel.

Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB

OpenRGB to the rescue: https://flathub.org/apps/org.openrgb.OpenRGB

controlling the pump in my AIO?

What do you need to control about your pump? I sure hope it works without OS support.

Or the sound levels on ny headset?

Move the volume slider up or down?

Or the DPI in my mouse?

Save them to the mouse as profile if it can or use Piper: https://flathub.org/apps/org.freedesktop.Piper

in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2

FSR Frame Gen works just fine, not sure why you need fake frames in more games.

the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that’s worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum

There is also OnlyOffice and online MS Office. Not sure what you need to know about Outlook to open it and use your eyes to read the mails.

even the Google office suite is being adopted faster

Good news, it runs in a browser and works on every OS!

Ah, but if the software is available there’s still a chance it doesn’t work because it’s missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and… Sigh

I have not fixed dependencies issue on Linux since the early 2000s. Flatpaks are your friend https://flathub.org/ .

All in all, it’s just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it’s ok, and for laptops I’d think is mostly ok, great even.

I run it on my high end PC and I disagree. It’s ahead in many ways.

• The graphics drivers are included and don’t need any bloated software to work
• It has a banger OpenGL driver, which makes games like Minecraft run significantly faster.
• It has a very active community for game support for games where the developer does not care
• It translates older DirectX versions to Vulkan automatically, resulting in a performance uplift and more stability. People on Windows are installing DXVK just so older games work. Look up DXVK in the Steam forums.
• It downloads shader caches from Valve, preventing shader stutter in games that don’t do it on their own

That list could go on for a while and it’s only for gaming.

I haven’t even gone into installation and not having to run ShutUp10 every time just to make the OS usable. Or how KDE is so much cleaner than Windows. Or how I don’t have any ads in my start menu, don’t have to force download Candy Crush on first boot, don’t have pre-installed apps I can’t remove, don’t have to block my own OS in its firewall to get rid of telemetry, don’t have to be told that I need to upgrade to Windows 11 constantly.

For work: Docker just works, complex networking setups are not a pain to setup, creating VMs is so much easier and has so many more features. VPN is so seamlessly setup. I can read almost every file system on the planet and use ROCm without jumping through hoops. Not to mention I don’t get Copilot and Recall shoved down my throat.

Are there issues on Linux? Sure, lots of them. But if I find them I can tell somebody about it and don’t have to deal with them for centuries.

I’m rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that “could” work nicely.

SteamOS is just a modern Linux distro with Steam pre-installed and in autostart. If stuff works there, it works on regular Linux just as well.

Bazzite achieves the same thing right now: https://bazzite.gg/

Why not install Linux for them once Windows 10 is dead?

They are a prime candidate for a dead simple Linux distro with the “Web”, “Mail” and “Documents” shortcuts on the desktop and nothing else. Can’t get a virus, can’t get scammed by fake Microsoft support and most won’t even notice.

I have installed Fedora Kinoite for my mom and have had zero complaints.

Your best shot is with Monado, which supports the Rift S: https://monado.freedesktop.org/

I only have an Index, so I can’t speak for how well it works or how easy it is to setup.

MQA was so weird, replacing a perfectly fine lossless open codec that plays on everything with a proprietary lossy codec that plays on barely anything. Also, so many people suddenly telling you that MQA sounds better than FLAC.

I once wrote a downloader for Tidal and always “downgraded” to 16-bit FLAC when I detected the “high quality” version is in MQA format.

You can install repacks pretty seamlessly in Bottles.

https://flathub.org/apps/com.usebottles.bottles

Create a gaming prefix, move all installers into the prefix and hit “Run executable” one by one for each installer.

Although if you can afford it, Baldur’s Gate 3 devs deserve the money. Great game and available DRM free on GOG and Steam.

You don’t have to use the terminal, if you installed regular Fedora with GNOME, you can just search for “Sound” and it should come up with this:

If you installed Fedora KDE you can search for “Sound” as well and it should look like this:

Do the audio settings show your onboard audio device?

Did you manage to install Linux to your second drive?

Do you mean your Windows boot partition?

Windows does not support installing the boot partition on a different drive out of the box. Unless you modified your Windows installation, the drive where Windows is installed is also where the Windows boot manager lives.

The biggest risk with installing with the drive connected is accidentally installing the Linux boot partition over the Windows boot partition, hence the usual recommendation to disconnect the drive just to be safe.

You’re gonna have to provide some more details on your setup and what is working/not working though.

Copying from an older comment of mine:

IPv6 is pretty much identical to IPv4 in terms of functionality.

The biggest difference is that there is no more need for NAT with IPv6 because of the sheer amount of IPv6 addresses available. Every device in an IPv6 network gets their own public IP.

For example: I get 1 public IPv4 address from my ISP but 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. That’s a number I can’t even pronounce and it’s just for me.

There are a few advantages that this brings:

• Any client in the network can get a fresh IP every day to reduce tracking
• It is pretty much impossible to run a full network scan on this amount of IP addresses
• Every device can expose their own service on their own IP (For example: You can run multiple web servers on the same port without a reverse proxy or multiple people can host their own game server on the same port)

There are some more smaller changes that improve performance compared to IPv4, but it’s minimal.

My unifi kit can convert us to IPv6 but I’m hesitant without knowing what devices it will break.

You don’t usually “convert” to IPv6 but run in dual stack, with both IPv4 and IPv6 working simultaneously. Make sure your ISP supports IPv6 first, there is little use to only run IPv6 internally.

I finally got IPv6 working in Docker Swarm…by moving from Docker Swarm to regular Docker.

Traefik now properly gets IPv6 addresses and forwards them to the backend.

Piece of shit.

Docker on Windows is was what ended up pushing me to Linux on my workstation. What an absolute pain in the ass.

Neat, have been wanting something like this for a while now. The current value shown is pretty useless when transferring over network and the speed fluctuates quite a bit.

Why does an AI require a gazillion pages to learn, but the quality is still unimpressive?

Because humans learn how to read and interpret those pages in school. Give that book to a toddler and not much will happen other than some bite marks.

AI needs to learn the language structure, grammar, math, logic, reasoning, problem solving and much more before it can even be trained with anything useful. Humans take years to acquire those skills, AI takes more content but can do that training much faster.

Maybe it is the wrong way to train machines but for now we have not invented robot schools yet so it’s the best we got.

By the way, I still think companies should be banned from training with copyrighted content and user data behind closed doors. Keep your models in public domain or get out.

I’ll check out Dreame, I have not heard much about them.

Roborock, Dreame and Xiaomi are functionally almost identical. Some of them even share the same parts.

If you want to root them, get a Dreame or a Xiaomi. Most of them are rootable without disassembly, see the list linked above.

I rooted both of my Roborock S6.

If you can solder and have an UART USB cable, it’s not really hard to do. Technically you can flash it by just holding your UART adapter against the solder pads but soldering them on definitely makes it easier.

There’s a full video guide on how to dissassemble and root here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9PoaNtZCJRZc61c792VCr_I6jQK_IdSb

Firmware and everything else is here: https://builder.dontvacuum.me/_s6.html

Also, if you don’t have a Roborock yet, the Dreame models are significantly easier to root. Don’t even have to disassemble most of them.

Doesn’t apply to iRobot but there are lots of robot vacuums that can be flashed with an open firmware with just a USB UART cable: https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html

As for the other devices, my 3D printer, projector and AV receiver are all locally controlled.

Dope, seems to not have landed yet in LineageOS but the Terminal app is already installed. Just missing the toggle in the developer options.

With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality.

Wait, it does? Gonna have to check that out.