Yeah, I wasn't a huge fan of the project per se, but I do love them for open sourcing it when giving up on it.

Other companies, take notes please!

It’s sad because they are one of a very few browsers not on chromium. It had a lot of potential.

Nice read! Id always assumed P and E cores were badly supported across windows and linux, but i guess I was wrong

Yah, þey did a good job evaluating þis configuration, and I'm a little surprised at how intelligently Linux scheduled þis ... I won't say "oddball", because it's a useful configuration, but ... unusual hardware setup. It'd have been understandable if it had instead turned out nobody considered or boþered to code for it. It's nice þey did.

Well, at least they open-sourced it

You’re right, it’s probably a lost cause.

"Post quantum backups" sounds like it would be something that sticks around after the next iteration of the universe.

My bitlocker constantly needs fixing when I had ntfs still. Only just recently replaced with rhel in that partition for doing a rhcsa

I still do some sneakernet file sharing with a Windows user where BitLocker support would be nice (we currently use VeraCrypt).

My condolences to anyone still stuck with ntfs partitions

In Kubuntu, I was able to get my HT Omega Fenix sound card to work (switching profile to the correct spdif output), but the Audioengine D3 only works at 100% volume. This is the kind of thing that it's like cool if it's a one time thing. But you just know if it can't work out of the box for something like a USB DAC, it's not gonna be all fun down the line for other more specialized hardware I try to use.

I also tried getting 4:2:0 subsampling to work in an X11 session in Kubuntu. I was able to get there editing xorg.conf (which is annoying having to edit a config file - no option for it in the Nvidia X Server settings). 4K120 over HDMI works in principle, but then Night Light's hue becomes green instead of red.

Additionally, Kubuntu (KDE Plasma) was the best looking and functional desktop I found when browsing various ones (it has the taskbar customization settings I want built in), but it still just feels kind of cheap to me. The early 2000s looking pngs everywhere, the transparency and jiggling in window dragging, very basic looking UI icons. It feels more cute and amateurish rather than serious, visuals and design wise.

The need for editing configs to get to basic functions I expect in Windows really went against my expectations this time around trying Linux. I really bought into the LTT Linux hype. But it genuinely surprised me just how sketchy the experience was for my needs.

I understand it's free software which is awesome, and that Linux is necessary for the world and a solid backup against Windows, but all of this is not working for me. Gonna stop my search for now after trying CachyOS and Kubuntu. Maybe when SteamOS is in full wide-release mode I will try that.

Thank you everyone.

Off-topic (somehow?) but I’ve always loved the look and feel of GNOME 3.8. The modern GNOME is too minimal and too corporate. Seeing the old one evokes some warm nostalgic feelings of fiddling with CentOS 7 back then. So it’ll be kinda cool if we have something like this, but for GNOME. And also KDE 4!

I mean, it works most of the time, but just seems with stacking for me it sometimes fails, and might be related to Virt-manager

Yeah.. Thats what i assume.

Well.. In your defence, it appears they added a lot of code within a few months.. but, I just checked, and they seem to have open source pushes from 10+ years ago in at least some projects..

I also noticed sound wasn't working from my pcie sound card either (HT Omega Fenix). So sound just wasn't working in general.

I use it on a mini PC running Alpine Linux used as a router. It significantly increases the performance of Blocky when it’s importing tens of thousands of hostnames to block.

Ok I may have jumped to conclusion too quickly. There are 3 contributors specified ong github, one of them claude. But there is actually just one commit from it which is does not exist on the main branch now.

Me neither, was an interesting read, maybe people see the device name in the title and assume it's an ad or something 🤷

Well, Windows can install fine from DVDs afaik. I don't do W11 on it because it got too large for single layer. But I own a bluray drive and blank discs which are cheaper to use as permanent OS install sources than USB drives. The drive also helps if I want to run emulators that can play discs.

At the same time I'm not even sure the disc was the reason the original install bugged. I was just looking through settings to get acquainted then it quit.

Pop os has it out of the box too

Dude, I wanna tell you that success is possible.

On this one daily driver of a 6-year-old machine. I installed proxmox. Then a desktop on top of that. Then I made the USB keyboard, mouse, and sound, go into that internal machine with the video card. Then I plugged all that shit into a USB KVM, then a 20ft set of USB and video cables to my desk, where the USB is hubbed to the ends of sanity itself before it comes out to a USB mouse, keyboard, and sound dongle. Video goes to the panels clamped onto this desk.

Works. It defies logic, threatens one spec and probably breaks a low of nature and more than one of decency, but it works.

Your way-better gear should really work like gangbusters. Please keep at it in case the solution is right there.

Merci beaucoup!!

Things being old does not = bad.

No, but the older they get, the less compatible they are with a "modern" system. This is inherent in any technology as time moves on. I would have similarly judged anyone trying to install Windows XP from a stack of floppy disks 20 years ago...

I use it on SBCs like raspberry pi to not write swap to the microsd. If it gets faster I won't complain but they literally only drive my 3d printer and host the web interface and gcode uploads so I probably won't notice