That music it's handsomely similar to Mass Effect's beginning of the game and map chart. Wishlisted.

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On a slightly unrelated note, Nvidia is the only one benefiting from this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HDMI-Closed-Spec-Hurts-Open [External Link]

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There are few from the list that are in my top 10 for this year (Psychonauts 2 being one of them) but probably will end up not playing any of them until 2022.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: ArehandoroCurious honest question: What do you all mean by "normal" distros?

I think it equates to "mainstream" or "easy to use". I couldn't even get Manjaro to do basic stuff like finding my wired Xbox360 controller, so I'm definitely not ready for the likes of Arch or Endeavour. I'm super-technical and nerdy, but I just can't bring myself to care enough about a distro that doesn't even do basic stuff out of the box. Ubuntu has set a standard that I'm not interested in going below.

My next curiousity / distro hop will be to check out Elementary, then Pop. I was toying with the idea of checking Solus too, but their recent packaging squabble has left me a bit cold. So it'll be Mint vs Elementary vs Pop. Then I'll decide what I'm going to settle on for the next couple of years.

Fair enough :)

In that regard, once the system is up and running, I find all of them almost equally easy/difficult to run/maintain. And I certainly don't need/want the extra time for configuring things from scratch, like LFS. And it is not that difficult either, there're millions of guides and scripts out there that do the hard work and basic configs automatically.

From a few years back, I feel like going for not mainstream distros or difficult to set up has become very popular, and mainly to show off of to tell that "mine is bigger than yours" sort of thing, which I honestly despise.

Maybe it's an age thing.

P.S: Pop_OS! is lovely. I even use their shell in fedora :)

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Curious honest question: What do you all mean by "normal" distros?

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: BumadarI guess we been on linux for about the same amount of time, but funny enough i always sticked to opensuse as i felt it was the best kde distro, and yes i also reached the point where i felt it was boring, but right around that time tumbleweed started and i never looked back. At first it was tricky with an nvidia card but it gotten a bit easier once they gotten an nvidia repo for tumbleweed, i can only remember 2 issues with this rolling release, the bigest being when it took ages for nvidia to fix an issue with a new kernel. On new pc i went with an amd gfx card and the only other issue was one with vbox (need it for work). But overall its an amazingly stable rolling release wich is really close to new stuff.

Funny enough for work i now run a few ubuntu headless servers, still getting used to apt but am happy about things like systemd, in many ways it makes diffrent distro a lot closer together.

Is Tumbleweed not systemd based?

Yes, sorry i was not clear, i meant that i found getting stuff working on a lower level (timers, services) was exacly the same now thanks to systemd, on a low level the distros are not tnat diffrent anymore compared to 10 years ago.

Yeah, that's actually pretty nice. There are still disparity with where files are located and package names, but that's easier to figure out :)

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Quoting: BumadarI guess we been on linux for about the same amount of time, but funny enough i always sticked to opensuse as i felt it was the best kde distro, and yes i also reached the point where i felt it was boring, but right around that time tumbleweed started and i never looked back. At first it was tricky with an nvidia card but it gotten a bit easier once they gotten an nvidia repo for tumbleweed, i can only remember 2 issues with this rolling release, the bigest being when it took ages for nvidia to fix an issue with a new kernel. On new pc i went with an amd gfx card and the only other issue was one with vbox (need it for work). But overall its an amazingly stable rolling release wich is really close to new stuff.

Funny enough for work i now run a few ubuntu headless servers, still getting used to apt but am happy about things like systemd, in many ways it makes diffrent distro a lot closer together.

Is Tumbleweed not systemd based?

I was first encountered with Linux many, many years ago -25 if I recall correctly- but didn't really use it until 11 years ago or so. Since then, started with ubuntu, then quickly to Debian and stayed there for a long while because I didn't have new hardware and felt right at home with XFCE. Then new hardware came and my distro-hopping got pathologic lol. Stayed in Arch some months, Antergos, Anarchy, but Archa based weren't my cup of tea. Then to Ubuntu again, Pop_OS and some others like PureOS and Triskel -not for gaming, of course-. Then tried fedora and felt in love with it immediately. I guess, for GNOME users like me, it's the most adequate distro too.

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Quoting: HoriNice!

Quoting: 3zekielAlso houray for dropping github. Now that it is in Evil's hands, I prefer to avoid having to use it ...

But why was GitHub all good and nice and suddenly bad and evil overnight just because it is owned by another company?

Hating something just because it is owned by Microsoft is not very reasonable. And to go even further I find it to be very similar to racism except it's directed at companies instead of "races".

Personally I judge every thing individually, like Windows which I think it's a sh***y OS, and GitHub which I think is still a very good and nice platform (and only got better TBH since they had access to MS funds).
And there's many other good, and bad, products from Microsoft. Just as there are from any other company.

And just as the companies we dislike (e.g. Microsoft) can make good products, also companies that we like (e.g. Valve, Canonical, etc) can make bad products. Judging things based on who made them is *very* inaccurate - kind of like judging a book based on its cover. Sure it might give an initial impression and set some expectations (especially the latter) but that's just about it - which is not much.

While I generally agree with you, I own a portable the mouse/keyboard from Microsoft and use other MS products, I think history tells us that MS is not friendly towards us (The Linux community). Things seem to have changed in recent years, but faith and trust has yet to be recovered, they actually need to gain it, from previous attacks and harm it was caused.

GitHub is a good product, but it isn't FOSS, and it's already too big as well. Having so many FOSS projects, and so much code, in MS hands makes me weary. Honestly, I think FOSS community should relay less on that kind of companies/tools that aren't necessarily open. For example, they could have their repos in places like sourcehut (the ui is horrible btw) or, one that I really like, codeberg.org

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ArehandoroFun times :D

P.S: Crossing my fingers all the time so the PC, boiler, internet or electricity don't suffer any hiccups during these days lol

P.S: Feeling absolutely fine now, most likely was a man flu and nothing else

Did it all work out?

Yes, it did haha. Tested negative, everything worked and even had a couple of fun digital drinks.

Thanks a lot for asking, really appreciate it!

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Happy holidays to everyone! Hope you all have a great time with or without family, and that 2021 brings us something better than 2020.

With your permission, I will relate my last week here, as a final comedy of what 2020 has been, hoping to cheer up a bit if someone is somewhat down.

I was supposed to be flying back home (Spain) today, but that didn't because on Saturday, B.Johnson announced Tier 4 in London, which means we aren't allowed to leave the country.

After a couple of hours on the phone I managed to cancel my fit-to-fly test for COVID-19, but not so lucky with the airline. In the meantime, I hear reports that Spain isn't closing the borders, or checking PCR results, and people are going back for holidays like flies go to shit. So I say to myself, maybe worth trying to go to the airport anyway and see what happens.

Four hours passed and I realized my wallet isn't anywhere in the house. Great. The only places that I've been in the whole day are two parks walking the pooch. Great, it's pouring outside, and dark already. That will have to wait. Going back home is out of the options, can't go anywhere without cards, oyster or money.

Sunday comes, I start feeling a bit sick, and the only thing that makes it better, it's knowing that my partner will try to come earlier from her country, just in case things go worse and gets stranded there. On Monday, after 7 bloody hours on the phone, I managed to get a voucher for my flight.

My partner calls me, her flight has been cancelled. She books another one for the following day. In a couple of hours, cancelled as well. I start feeling worse, and I'm told to isolate, get tested, and wait for results.

What can I do? I ask myself. Well, at least there's food in the fridge... Except that it isn't much, I almost finished all the fresh produced, so it didn't go bad whilst we were gone. Ok then, I can order something from the supermarket to get it delivered.

Ha! Why would I be able to do so? Shortage of produce and shops not delivering food any longer until the end of Christmas period, but before NE. Fine, all good. I just sneak out to withdraw some money and go to one of the grocery shops down the corner that accept only cash... No you don't! You lost the cards, remember? My brain reminds me.

So, here I am, surviving with delivered and canned food xD

At least no one found the cards and didn't have to cancel them, that would be eve unluckier.

Fun times :D

P.S: Crossing my fingers all the time so the PC, boiler, internet or electricity don't suffer any hiccups during these days lol

P.S: Feeling absolutely fine now, most likely was a man flu and nothing else

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