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Linux 5.17 is out now with new AMD P-State driver
21 Mar 2022 at 11:29 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: GuppyWonder if that means that nvidia will allow nvidia-powerd to work with AMD cpus now, getting a bit old hat that my 130w gpu is locked at 80w on Linux

Shame Mint is still stuck on 5.13 - haven't had to compile a kernel my self in some 15 years and I'm now about to start now :grin:
Can't you use the Ubuntu mainline kernels?

v5.17 Mainline Test [External Link]
Humble have a Stand with Ukraine Bundle with 100% going to charity
19 Mar 2022 at 2:18 pm UTC Likes: 7
So we have a bundle dedicated to charity and the "discussion" starts with bashing Humble Bundle and people feeling compelled to tell, why they are not donating.
Interesting.
Valve explains more shipping details for the Steam Deck
26 Feb 2022 at 11:41 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Pendragonwait so they're only doing weekly emails? oof. .that's going to take a long time.. I thought they would be cycling thru
I assume they are sending more than one email per batch...
We'll always have Paris is a narrative adventure about loving someone with dementia
18 Jan 2022 at 6:14 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: Purple Library GuySounds like exactly the kind of game I really don't want to play. There's enough of this kind of depression in real life.
Jeez, same here. I assume that sooner or (hopefully) later I will be on either end in a live re-enactment of this story.
Steam Deck on track for the end of February
14 Jan 2022 at 3:28 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: ArehandoroMy order availability now says after Q2 2022. Therefore nothing for another 6 months approx.
"Another 6 months" would translate to "Q3".
Well, "after Q2" and "Q3" is not too contradictory...
Indeed. I missed the "after".
Steam Deck on track for the end of February
14 Jan 2022 at 2:35 pm UTC
Quoting: ArehandoroMy order availability now says after Q2 2022. Therefore nothing for another 6 months approx.
"Another 6 months" would translate to "Q3".
Humble Bundle decides you need another launcher for parts of Humble Choice
12 Jan 2022 at 10:55 pm UTC Likes: 6
Just got this mail

We want to give you a heads up that starting February 1, Mac and Linux versions of the DRM-free games currently in the Humble Trove will no longer be available.

As a Humble Choice member, you can still download them to keep for your personal collection until January 31. Windows PC versions of many of these games will still be available to download in the upcoming Humble app, alongside the brand-new Humble Games Collection.
SteamOS for the Steam Deck gets slimmed down to 10GB
16 Dec 2021 at 3:05 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: MayeulC
Quoting: HoolyI think so too, they are probably using an A/B-model, which means that you have two installations of the OS at every time
[...]
Or they use btrfs-subvolumes and allocate storage dynamically.
Not exactly, they run on ostree, like Fedora Silverblue. It's a bit like a git repo, or guix/nix. It has deduplication, rollback, versioning, atomic updates. That's really promising tech, I'd have picked the same.

Let's try to come up with a basic estimate

  • Base Arch Install: 100 MiB

  • LLVM plus mesa: 300 MiB

  • Web browser: 200 MiB

  • Steam: 300 MiB

  • Proton: 600 MiB

  • KDE Plasma plus base KDE applications: 2 GiB

  • Base Flatpak runtimes (freedesktop.org, VAAPI, mesa): 700 MiB



Total: 4.2 GiB. I'm falling short, but there could be more pre-installed software like Discord, plus probably a boot partition (might be a btrfs subvolume, not sure which FS they use), and possibly a "system restore" partition that might double the size, although I would personally make that a webinstall at about 150MiB.

Any other ideas?
Where did you get a base install size of 100MiB? Granted, I am on Ubuntu but
  • the minimal kernel alone (no modules) requires 110MB of disc space. Add some kernel modules, firmware, basic libraries and GNU tools...

  • Browser? Which one? Firefox comes in at around 250MiB, Chromium is considerably larger.

  • Steam? Runtime and libs - we are getting into GiBs without any Proton version (bin32 - 800+MiB, bin64 - 300MiB,...)

  • Mesa? The 64bit libgl1-mesa-dri reports 456MB, the i386 version 439MB plus Vulkan drivers. llvm clocks in at 100MiB per architecture.


That's Ubuntu, but I seriously doubt that Arch can do with a mere fraction of these binary sizes.
KDE Discover gets update to prevent you breaking your Linux system
20 Nov 2021 at 7:49 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: Glog78
Quoting: AussieEevee
Quoting: Glog78I haven't said anything in a long time, but i am really "pissed" off what is currently happening. If i wanted a os which takes my hand and makes assumptions or decissions for me i would have stayed with windows or mac os ...
There is an override switch.

It's not making assumptions or decisions for you. It simply has a protection to prevent removing system critical packages by accident.

No one is taking anything away from you. apt is simply being made more newbie friendly. You can still break your system as much as you want.
More newbie friendly or for me another fucking option i need to remember and which because it should be newbie friendly won't be easy to find again (once in a blue moon when i am in charge of a debian based system) .... Specially ubuntu has been developed to a hell of a package management ...

You don't update snap -> oh the gui tool breaks because it tries to update snaps first. Oh after you got down and notice you need a new snap version you finally can now update the package ... synaptic using apt-get ... apt-get using apt .... which tool will give you now the option ? will they all be adapted or will because we are newbe friendly only that one hidden switch for apt (lowest level) be able to do what i want ? Also why did kde adapt something which clearly belongs into the hand of package management ? And does synaptic now do the same or whatever gui package manager you use ?
Perhaps you should refrain from posting again. Because this all sounds like ... well "unsubstantial ranting". First Snap. Since when do you update snaps by yourself? Granted you can, but by default they are updated autonomously and will never, ever conflict with your deb-packages (that's after all one of their selling points). Then you have synaptic (my favorite package manager) which does nothing else than provide a gui frontend for apt-*. And apt-get doesn't invoke apt, apt is just a "better apt-get". And yes it doesn't matter whether you use apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic or Gnome Software - they always use the same repos and they always install/uninstall or update the same packages.

Besides: Pretty much all distros nowadays prevent you from executing a sudo rm -fr / May I ask why? Legend has it that it was introduced because too many "elitist" found it oh so funny to troll newbies with this command...
System76 patches APT for Pop!_OS to prevent users breaking their systems
11 Nov 2021 at 1:17 pm UTC
Quoting: scaineYeah, it's definitely a shambles. I remember thinking, "magic, Wayland will sort all this". But it doesn't really. I think the bulk of it sits in the DE, which is why I'm now pinning my hopes on KDE! :grin:
My multi-monitor problems on my RX5700 were caused by the AMD drivers and/or firmware. Once this got sorted out (for my setup) the DE and X or Wayland didn't matter.

For reference https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/929 [External Link] - and after two years it's still open. Fun fact: The same hardware tested briefly with Win 10 didn't expose any problems with multi-monitor setups, but the screen went static in irregular intervals...