I mean there’s isn’t anything to fix. Could just be an unlucky month in selecting people for the survey. As the other person said, it does seem to be a statistical anomaly or actual error. But that is still a pretty massive dip for either of those two options. In and of itself also kinda statistically unlikely, hence my question.
The heck happened in March?
Yup, that’s a great summary.
I just wanted to add that the reason it’s good, specifically better than bash, is that daring to create something that drops compatibility after I don’t know how many decades allows to actually apply the lessons from an this time. The lack of portability is basically the reason it can be better, but also obviously a bummer.
The main idea is that the state of your computer/desktop is known to home assistant and you can react to it. Media starts playing on PC, so mute the tv. A meeting starts (camera in use), so dim room lights and turn on the ring light.
PC turned off: wait 30s, then turn off the whole outlet to act as a master/slave power strip and save power on monitors and otherpc associated standby devices. Or just turn off desk lights.
Finally you can have scripts on the PC that do whatever you want, and you can trigger them from home assistant. Movement detected in the garden, so open the camera preview on the corner of 3rd monitor. Backup server just came online (or was woken up by wake-on-lan from ha), so run a backup if the PC is on.
Dual booting is perfectly fine. Just try to not use the windows boot partition for both OS or Windows will occasionally “lose” the Linux entry… “Oops” I guess.
If Linux is on its own drive, or at least has it’s own uefi partition, it’s just fine and dandy. Just chain load windows from it and there’s basically nothing that can break.
Isn’t PicaOS gamers Debian already?
People seem to keep ignoring the part where I couldn’t find any. Yes their naming sucks, but it won’t say “Nnidia” next to the listing for the GPU, so that isn’t the issue either.
To go into a bit more detail: I was looking at linux-adjacent laptops (that I can buy without a Windows-license) up to 15" display, with gaming being a primary use case. This obviously includes that all components work with linux, and ideally it should ship with it. Preferably it should not be from one of the major brands (HP, Dell, Lenovo, …), but if they got the linux compatiblity down, that would be fine. Finally it should have good repairability and allow me to open it to swap components (RAM, NVMe, …) without affecting the warranty.
So in the end I mostly looked at Tuxedo computers, Slimbook, SKIKK and one or two more where I can’t remember the name. None of them have a laptop with AMD GPU at all, only iGPU. Furthermore, when you check the price comparison websites in the “notebook” category (like idealo for example) they let you filter for this sort of thing. Obviously they don’t list every laptop that exists on the market, but they do list the popular brands (again HP, Dell, Lenovo, …). When applying NO filters at all, there are over 6k laptops listed. Roughly 1500 of those have a dedicated Nvidia GPU. The total for AMD/Radeon? 16. yes. SIXTEEN.
So I’m back to “functionally, they don’t exist”.
That is the iGPU, integrated into the processor. Of course they exist. I’m taking about dedicated, separate GPUs that are connected via PCIe. Like the mobile versions of Nvidias 4070 for example. I did look and search, but couldn’t find a single example, so I concluded they don’t exist.
While iGPUs have come a long way, there is still quite the difference in performance compared to dedicated ones.
As far as I can tell, AMD doesn’t make dedicated mobile chips. Or they are so uncommon that I couldn’t find any laptop with it that is Linux-ready.
Can’t you have them be added to the pack? Open a pr or something?
I’ve been using Zellij whenever I can cause tmux is so limited. It’ll also be probably years before this release hits Debian repos, so if I’m having to manually install a binary, might as well get something modern.
I would personally suggest looking into CachyOS or Manjaro.
All major Linux distributions are roughly equally trivial to install these days. Mint is actually harder due to the relatively old kernel at least having more potential for lacking hardware support causing issues. The actual process is get similar for most of them.
Frankly the installation isn’t what is likely to cause issues for most people. But something breaking down the line, or wanting a new something (at adding app/functionality/running Windows program/…). How hard/easy it is for them to figure out how to fix that.
Please stop recommending mint. These days now modern alternatives are just better, especially when they might want to game even just a bit. But it’s not just shut taking, mint is kind of stuck in the past for a lot of things.
We don’t have either of those, joining ad is still mandatory.
The 9 problems were in Windows. He’s going from Linux to Windows. Title is a bit easy to misread.
First two seem fine. Just commenting to actively discourage Ubuntu, as it does many things bad or just weird.
If you expect someone to need a lot of real windows programs (wine) or games, look for something pre-configured to be hassle free. Like Nobara or Bazzite (both fedora based).
I would also throw CachyOS into consideration, if you’re not hard set on an immutable distro.
From a corporate viewpoint, that’s a one time cost with a very small (likely national) ongoing component. People cost only some training up front, but then have a high ongoing cost (wages and everything that entails). Typically they are all over this.
In my area you can’t really order anything in fast food places. You have a screen where you create and pay your order, then a human just assembles it. There are still people involved, but much less than 30 years ago. Clearly they took that trade.
You asked a very loaded question, implying seeing no use for the file system and/or no point to these optimizations as a result.
If you genuinely didn’t know what exFAT is used for, or what is a common use of it is, you could’ve asked just that. Like “what is exFAT used for” or “I’ve never heard of this, an I using this and just don’t know it?”.