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  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I Tried Running Ubuntu on My Phone, Here's How It Went
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    9 days ago

    I wonder why test this on an 11 year old phone?

    I have it running on a Pixel 3a and it’s definitely smooth, but it still stutters once in a while. It feels slower than Android to me, but not much.

    Battery life is indeed excellent, though mine doesnt seem to fast charge.

    The camera app was the standout feature to me. The pictures i take look every bit as good as those from Android. I expected the app to be clunky or to have bad colors, but that is not the case at all.

    Edit: Pixel 3a not 3

  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•what's a good distro for a razer blade 15?
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    11 days ago

    I just don’t see the draw of immutable distros for non power users.

    With traditional ubuntu/mint/fedora you have 15+ years of forum posts, tutorials, and community wisdom to help you out if you get stuck. You probably wont need to, but it’s nice to be able to just google something and get a dozen good answers. If you want to use containerized apps you also have that option.

    Also depending on your taste in gaming, you might need access to stuff outside of steam/lutris/heroic/flathub. In those cases getting your game working could be a bit of a hassle compared to a traditional distro.

    I totally see how immutability can be a draw for tinkerers and developers, but for regular users it’s solving a problem that doesn’t really exist, or is pretty rare if it does.

    That said, I’m glad to hear you and your friend are happy with Bazzite. It seems like a really good option if you only play games from steam/heroic/lutris/flathub. A best of both worlds between a PC and a gaming console.

  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•what's a good distro for a razer blade 15?
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    10 days ago

    make the most use of the hardware

    All distros should do this equally well, and better than Windows

    let me play the most games

    All distros will be more or less the same. Games generally work or they dont. Check ProtonDB to see which games work and how well.

    easiest to use

    lowest maintenance possible

    This is how distros actually differ.

    Some common suggestions:

    Ubuntu LTS:

    • Upgrade your OS every 2 years
    • Proprietary drivers are there if you need them (Nvidia is the only GPU that needs them)
    • GNOME shell environment is very beautiful and fast, but very different from Windows

    Kubuntu LTS:

    • Upgrade your OS every 2 years
    • Proprietary drivers are there if you need them (Nvidia is the only GPU that needs them)
    • KDE Plasma Desktop is like all the best parts of windows 95/xp/7/10/11 + os9/OSX/macOS combined, improved, and made super customizeable

    Ubuntu/Kubuntu current:

    • Upgrade your OS every 6 months
    • Newer software than LTS
    • Otherwise same as LTS

    Linux Mint:

    • Upgrade your OS every 2 years
    • Proprietary drivers are there if you need them (Nvidia is the only GPU that needs them)
    • Cinnamon Desktop is a better looking and faster implementation of a Windows 7 style desktop

    Fedora

    • Upgrade your OS every 9 months (or else)
    • Proprietary codecs need to be added after install to play some video and music streams in your browser. It’s like 3 commands copy/pasted into the terminal
    • Proprietary drivers are there if you need them (Nvidia is the only GPU that needs them)
    • Choice of several desktop environments (Fedora spins)

    Pop!_OS

    • Fun to spell
    • Upgrade your OS every 2 years
    • Proprietary drivers are there if you need them (Nvidia is the only GPU that needs them)
    • Pop_shell makes you feel like a hacker from the future, but is very unlike Windows

    I do not reccomend Bazzite, Kali, Arch, Manjaro, Garuda, Debian, or Slackware. They are all great distros for specific use-cases, but they are all significantly more work to configure and/or maintain than the suggestions i’ve outlined.

    I haven’t tried Nobara so i cant recommend it, but from the outside it looks fine for a gaming desktop.

    Edit: I have mixed feelings on Bazzite, but it might also be a good option for someone feeling adventurous

  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•GE-Proton9-16 Released
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    26 days ago

    Sorry to be off-topic but I’m curious:

    How/why do people use proton-ge?

    Are you using it standalone? Through Lutris or Steam? Something else?

    What are the situations you’d need it over vanilla proton? Do you keep both vanilla and ge installed?

    Also, do improvements generally get added to vanilla, or is ge an increasingly-divergent fork?

    I’ve been gaming primarily on Linux for over a decade and since it’s been an option I’ve used proton on steam extensively, but I’ve never tried ge

  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is your linux backup strategy?
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    26 days ago

    I built a backup server out of my old desktop, running Ubuntu and ZFS

    I have a dataset for each of my computers and i back them up to the corresponding datasets in the zfs pool on the server semi-regularly. The zfs pool has enough disks for some redundancy, so i can handle occasional drive failures. My other computers run arbitrary filesystems (ext4, btrfs, rarely ntfs)

    the only problem with my current setup is that if there is file degradation on my workstation that i dont notice, it might get backed up to the server by mistake. then a degraded file might overwrite a non-degraded backup. to avoid this, i generally dont overwrite files when i backup. since 90% of my data is pictures, it’s not a big deal since they dont change

    Someday i’d like to set up proxmox and virtualize everything, and i’d also like to set up something offsite i could zfs-send to as a second backup

  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Two Linux users walk into a bar
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    2 months ago

    i never liked the inconsistent window management though.

    On 8, (i dont remember for 8.1) there were some apps and menus that forced “tablet mode” and could only be interacted with in fullscreen. Other applications would open in what looked like tablet mode by default but you could break them out into desktop mode, after which they behaved normally.

  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is Linux (dumb)user friendly yet?
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think the snap argument is without merit, I just think it’s an argument only had by a very technical subset of users. I think your comment illustrates that.

    I don’t agree that anybody would be left “orphaned” on Ubuntu. LXD vs Podman is again a very technical question for a specific subset of users.

    I also don’t agree that SteamOS is the goal for compatibility and support. Compatibility is best with Ubuntu, it’s the most widely deployed and used desktop distribution by far. Most other desktop distros are a rounding error when compared to Ubuntu user-wise.

    I’ve also personally had a buggy experience with SteamOS. I wouldn’t use it as a desktop in its current state, but I’m aware some folks do just that.

    For someone new to Linux who just needs to get on with their desktop work, Ubuntu is the best distro there is (flawed as it may be). Mint is also a good choice for the same reasons.