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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
> My dad was becoming more pro-privacy so I got him Linux Mint, and something broke that put him in GRUB and it frustrated him so he asked me to change it back. This is exactly why I don't recommend Mint or any Ubuntu-based, or ev
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Strangely, the article doesn't mention any of the performance tuning benifits that Linux offers, such as being able to run system binaries and packages that are built with CPU microarchitecture optimisations for your specific CPU famil
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
The real question is, why does Google have so many half-baked products in general, only to end up killing them off?
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
I think in light of recent events, it's more relevant to talk about Google's firing process...
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Hmm, why does the author keep using the word "upcoming"? > the upcoming 300-series mobile processors (“Strix Point” and the presumably higher-end “Strix Halo”) Both Strix Point and Strix Halo chips have been out for a while n
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
I concur. At least a sample/preview of a couple of chapters would be nice. Bit of a hard sell to dump $60+ on a completely unknown piece of work.
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Aurora [1] - it's based on KDE and has a familiar UI, somewhat similar to Windows 7. My mum has been using it for a while now without any issues, and she does everything an average PC user would - web browsing, document editing, file&#
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
> I've gone down that route several times and they always have issues, from drivers to config settings to just being too different compared to Windows or even MacOS. You really should give KDE-based distros a try, the UI isn't
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
> sub-par desktop experience. I strongly disagree. Linux (KDE) is a far superior desktop experience these days, compared to Windows 11. Have you even seen the new Win11 taskbar and the shitty Start Menu - they ruined something which they
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Have you checked out OnlyOffice recently? If so, I'm curious what are the deal-breaking features you find that it lacks compared to M365.
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
My mum was using it as a daily-driver for all your average user PC stuff. It was decent, easily to use and more user-friendly than Mint, IMO – until an update borked it completely, after two years of running. Unfortunately post-update-break
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Zorin OS supports running .exes directly (via Wine of course). https://help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/windows-app-support/
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
If you want to avoid the overhead of FUSE, just use the phram kernel module: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Yes but bear in mind that those benchmarks were taken on an ancient system, with an ancient OS/kernel and FUSE: - OS: Ubuntu 14.04.01 LTS (64 bit) - CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.0 Ghz - RAM: 8GB DDR3-1600 - GPU:
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
First of all, btop is included in the default repos of most Linux distros, so you don't need to worry about security. This also applies to htop and glances by the way. In terms of tangible feature benefits, btop also offers disk I&#x
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
This. Not only that, I don't know of a single person (IRL or online) who used atop, like, ever. In fact, this is the first time I'm even hearing of atop. IIRC, most folks went from top -> htop -> glances -> various btop v
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
btrfs has seen improvements in almost every new kernel update — and many of these were performance related too. 6.13 for instance had a ton of performance optimisations, 6.12 had a few minor ones. In saying that, I'm unsure how it fare
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Hopefully you can also search for airfairs before you get to the terminal. :)
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Norton Utilities introduced me to Darude: Sandstorm [video](youtube.com)
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Unlike most people, the first time I ever came across Darude: Sandstorm , which was back in the year 2000, was in the most unexpected of mediums: a secret executable inside Norton Utilities 2001. Back then, when commercial software was sti
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
You could also just run Audacious or QMMP natively on Linux, they support Winamp skins and it looks just like the real thing. Minus the Wine quirks. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/miss-winamp-try-audacious-the...
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
> Imagine having a Linux terminal right in your pocket, available on your Android device. I don't have to imagine, I've been able to do that for many years thanks to Termux, and many many years prior to that, thanks to root and
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Do you have a git repo or something for the bookmarklets you use? I haven't used a single bookmarklet in like a decade so I'm curious what you still use them for.
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Not sure what you mean by that, but ROCm works just fine. I'm using a patched ollama (for APU support) [1] and I can run models like llama3.1:8b and deepseek-r1:14b just fine on my Radeon 780M iGPU, on Arch (btw). [1] https:/&#x2
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
I second @jamesliudotcc's suggestion (ASUS ROG Flow Z13). One of the key differentiators vs other laptops is the 128GB unified RAM which runs at 8000 MT/s, which should be excellent for LLMs - I'm not aware of any laptop that
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
I see that they compare themselves against other distros like Alpine and Arch, but the big difference is that you can actually install all those other distros on physical hardware - can you do that with stagex? I don't see any mentions
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
If you're on macOS, Floorp and Zen Browser are good alternatives.
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
The 8000 series are iGPUs, part of the AMD Strix Halo APUs (e.g. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395). [1] I do agreed it's confusing though, when they were already using a three digit naming convention for iGPUs (like the Radeon 880M - the M made i
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Read the original source, it's just another malicious script that the user needs to run manually. Oh, it doesn't make use of any OS/kernel vulnerabilities either. It's like putting "rm -rf /" in a script a
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by d3Xt3r 2y ago
Unfortunately the biggest problem with Framework is that that don't ship worldwide. I've been waiting for four years to buy their machines now and I'm getting tired of it. Normally I'd just buy a ThinkPad, but Lenovo sti

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