Yes I am cutting out my PC, not any specific OS
I can't realistically cut off my phone entirely but reduce the number of apps installed. I currently have only Firefox, Spotify, Proton Mail and Whatsapp which could distract me. Rest is utility apps like maps, calculator, messages etc.
I don't recall saying anything about smartphone?
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Long story short, this year is my exam preparation year and due to my nature I will take extreme measures to prevent distraction and focus on studying. I will decommision my PC, stop browsing Linux & tech related websites and leave this beautiful place called Lemmy. To make things clear, I am not influenced by anyone for doing this.
I want to use this post as a time capsule to revisit after 10 months, so I will write my predictions and also collect everyone's. What do you expect to see in Linux and tech scene in 10 months from now? Here are my predictions:
- Pop OS 24.04 will be awesome and be the go-to recommendation when it is released
- SteamOS for PCs will not be released yet
- Linux market share will be around %2-2.5 in Steam hardware survey
- Plasma 6 will be released around January and will be a bit buggy, but most rough edges will be smoothed by the next release in 3-4 months
- NVK will have performance parity with official drivers in certain configurations
- Wayland will gain wider adoption, even on Nvidia
- There will be little to no progress in compatibility with current anti-cheat blocked games
Side note:
- Web environment integrity will be adopted only in education industry because it is dominated by Chromebooks at least in US. It will not be adopted by streaming services because highest level of DRM is only available on Edge and Safari. Even if Chrome had WEI support it would be meaningless because Netflix will stream 720p / 1080p anyways. MSFT and Apple will not implement WEI in their browsers in order to preserve the end-to-end control they have currently. Banks will also not implement WEI because they may be still serving customers using legacy (Windows 7) technology or simply using Firefox.
Use EndeavourOS and set up ZRAM. ZRAM should reduce RAM usage while not slowing down your PC.
I had to choose an older version of Proton
Which in turn caused the performance problems. Fast shader compilation extensions are available only on Proton 8 and newer.
My recent interest in rooting is purely because I have some foss apps that require root for me to use the full capabilities that I want.
Example? I personally just deleted unnecessary apps with adb and went on. Google Play services are still running but that is really it. After rooting getting updates will be difficult so you will want a custom ROM. Decide if that is what you want to do.
If only. Systemd is mature to the point it is the de facto init system and used by almost all distros. Wayland and its compositors are still in development.
I am just a regular user but on a smaller screen ie. 13 inch 1440x900 I just have a single maximized window visible even if I have multiple apps open like web browser because I can't see anything if I have multiple windows.
I actually like Linux defaults as they are but don't like Windows defaults, on Windows it feels too slow to me. I have 17.3 inch 1080p display.
Smooth touchpad scrolling on Firefox is a Wayland exclusive feature. I force Wayland for Firefox only for this feature.
Two hand drag and drop looks sick!
Can you get away with old versions of Adoba suite? Latest versions typically don't work but you may be able to get old versions running without dual boot by using Wine.
I read a post from Netflix tech blog explaining the selection of a thumbnail. A video has many thumbnails and Netflix picks one for you depending on the shows you watch and your country. From the new profile watch movies / series that are unrelated with romance and the thumbnails should hopefully change.
Yes. I dual-boot and need everything to be accessible from Windows so I gave Windows 400 GiB while Linux only 75 GiB. Without compression I would be out of disk space. I think I hold about 95-100 GiB of data in 70 GiB. Snapshots are to revert broken updates, not to setup fresh installations. If you use a rolling release distro, they become invaluable. You can boot into snapshots if an update goes sideways.
amid the actors’ and writers’ strikes.
These AI specialists will write scripts? Oh no!
- Download Firefox Nightly 115. The latest version has crackling audio. (118 at the time of writing) Here is a download link for aarch64: link
- Launch FF, tap 3 dots, settings, About Firefox Nightly, hammer the Firefox logo until debug options are enabled.
- In settings go to Customisation, set dark mode. Spotify doesn't support light mode so this will make it look nicer.
- In the address bar type
about:configand hit the "+" icon. - Set these parameters for new value:
- Name:
general.useragent.override - Type: String
- Value:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
This step is necessary if you want to make a web app, otherwise you can use "request desktop website" option.
- In about:config, set this value to
1.0:layout.css.devPixelsPerPx - Go to open.spotify.com and log in. You may need to change your device's orientation.
- Find the ideal value for
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. You can use float values like 1.22 and values lower than 1. Larger values will make everything bigger but the interface may not fit or the website may crash, smaller values will make everything tiny. - Hit 3 dots and tap "Install".
Here is how it looks like on my phone: https://imgur.com/a/CpiheUT
Us Lemmings seem to be more interested in memes than the actual thing.
I currently have 2 PCs which dual-boot from single drive:
- W10+Garuda on UEFI
- W10+Pop OS on previously CSM, now migrated to UEFI
I have used dual boot for 2 years and Windows never decided to play the boss and override Linux. In fact, some Linux distros overwrote existing bootloader and put their own in my experience. I didn't have many problems and if I did, they were easy to fix. I even play Steam games from NTFS on both PCs. On the contrary, I heard many horror stories, dual booting is avoided and not recommended to newcomers by most users. How is your experience with dual booting Linux and Windows? Did Windows ever deleted Linux bootloader on updates for you?