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Which distros are visually and/or have user interfaces/experiential sensibillities/idioms akin to Windows/MacOS/("pure") Linux as distinct from the other 2 major OSs? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know you've already been told, but it really depends on how the DE is currently configured. Linux Mint, regardless of version, normally looks like Windows but you can make it look like MacOS by manually customizing the DE.

Obviously, if you're not looking to manually customize the look of the DE that the distro uses, then the way your installation will look is based on the distro or version of the distro you use. I haven't used that many distros but I know that, by default, Linux Mint and Q4OS look like Windows while Ubuntu is very close to MacOS.

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    How many tabs do you have open on your phone/laptop right now? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    Do You Use Your Phone As A Server? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I don't see why you couldn't use a phone as a server as long as the battery doesn't cause problems.

    I've never done it but I have heard of people using their old phones as a NAS (network attached storage). The closest I've ever done was to connect two of my android devices together via Bluetooth and use that to transfer files between the two devices. It's slow but it works.

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    Anyone have some favorite covers of popular songs? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I know it's probably not what you're asking for but there's an album where a bunch of Japanese anime voice actresses did covers for popular songs from the 80s and 90s. It called Voice Actresses Legendary Punk Songs Collection and here's a playlist that has most of the songs (one of them is unavailable for some reason).

    Outside of that, I mostly only know bands who have covers of video game music (and some movies) from the 80s and 90s. If you are counting those, here are some examples of them:

    Lighting Strikes Again and Metal Squad from Thunder Force IV by SSH. SSH is known for metal covers of old video game music, so this is just one example of his music.

    Cranial Syphon by Armcannon, which is a cover of some song from Metroid but I'm not familiar with that game so I don't know what it is exactly. On top of covers for other video game music, they also have stuff like the Ghostbuster's theme.

    Kraid by Metroid Metal, which is obviously another metroid song (possibly the same one). There music was a bit hard to find on YouTube, I've forgotten where I first heard their music before but Youtube might not be the best platform to find the rest of their music.

    Battle Scene from Final fantasy by The Black Mages. While they are currently disbanded, they were known for rock/metal covers of music from the Final Fantasy games (which makes sense given that the band was created by Nobuo Uematsu himself). They did briefly rebrand as "Earthbound Papas" for one album because not only did they want to cover more than just the Final Fantasy games but they also wanted to branch out to more genres.

    I know for sure that there are some that I'm forgetting and there's also some that I don't feel like looking for examples for (mainly artists who've covered the music from the 90s era Touhou games). If asked, I may do through and provide them but I think I've provided more than enough already.

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    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [solved] Does Linux have an equivalent to "Compress contents to save disk space" from Windows? I don't need it to save space, just please read the full post before commenting. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
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    What is the proper way, if there is one, to remove files and applications added to ram with preload? (lemmy.ml)
     

    If you're not aware of what preload is, it's a command line application that allows you to add files to ram, so they can be accessed faster by the applications that need them.

    It seems to work well for what I'm using it for, which is to run games from slower storage devices, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation for a proper way to remove the files once they've been added to ram. What I've been doing is to just use htop to terminate the preload command, but I feel like this is not intended at all. Is there a better way to remove these files?

    I should mention that while trying to search for a solution myself, I did see gopreload mentioned a few times. I would try this out myself, but there's no proper installation instructions, at least not any I could find that work in Linux Mint.

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    I currently have a dual boot between Windows and Linux but I'm thinking about removing Windows. Would I need to do anything to Grub in order to continue use Linux Mint? (lemmy.ml)
     

    As a sort of follow up to the post I made on my alt account, would I need to do to anything to Grub to continue using Linux Mint after removing Windows or would I still be able to boot into Linux Mint without having to do anything? As stated in the previous post, Windows is installed onto an SSD and I want run games from that SSD but I'd need to reformat the SSD in order to use it.

    Edit: I don't need help with this anymore but because it seems like there is some confusion, I'm including the fact that I have Linux installed onto an external hard drive and Windows was installed onto the SSD which is in the laptop. I've already remove Windows from the SSD and reformatted it to ext4 so I can run games from it.

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    I'm having a very specific issue but I can't determine if the issue is with my hardware or the app I'm trying to use. (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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    There's a game that, while I will admit that I don't really have an interest in playing, isn't working properly because it's trying to default to a GPU driver that isn't even loaded ( and possibly not even installed). The game is called Zbridge and it's standalone app is only distributed through Flathub. For some reason, it's trying to default to using "iris" even though the only GPU driver that's loaded is "i915". I have confirmed this with this:

    j@j-Latitude-E7470:~$ lspci -k -s 2
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07)
	DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
	Subsystem: Dell Latitude E7470
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

    But the game, on top of giving some other errors I've found to be trivial, still tries to load iris by default for some reason:

    j@j-Latitude-E7470:~$ flatpak run club.zbridge.zbridge
[2:1229/172053.425891:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: 17:20:55.221: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"
[2:1229/172056.788306:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[2:1229/172056.788423:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
MESA: error: Failed to query drm device.
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: iris
[41:1229/172103.010356:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(196)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
MESA: error: Failed to query drm device.
[2:1229/172118.159439:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(989)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
MESA: error: Failed to query drm device.
[2:1229/172133.299896:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(989)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
MESA: error: Failed to query drm device.
[2:1229/172148.425964:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(989)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
MESA: error: Failed to query drm device.
[2:1229/172203.465700:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(989)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
MESA: error: Failed to query drm device.
[2:1229/172218.491001:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(989)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
MESA: error: Failed to query drm device.
[2:1229/172233.517237:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(989)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
[2:1229/172233.517295:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(448)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.

    I have found a temporary solution by running export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i915 but as far as I can tell, I shouldn't have to do this because it should just be defaulting to the driver that's already loaded. If this is an issue with the app itself, I am going to submit a bug report but I want to make sure this issue isn't on my end before submitting one.

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