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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    The year of Windows 10 LTSC IOT on my spare boot drive has arrived.

    That’s the only change for me really

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    9 hours ago

    I feel like we’re getting astroturfed with Zorin bullshit. Never hear about that distro more than once a year, and now it’s in a dozen articles this week

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    444·
    12 hours ago

    Don’t fuck it up, linux people.

    Remember, if you are tempted to say “rtfm”, it’s probably because you’re a cunt.

    Make everything easy to understand, in as many places as possible.

    • Matriks404@lemmy.world
      42·
      5 hours ago

      RTFM comments are probably mostly about using the terminal, which is a good thing, since man pages explain most of the things pretty good.

      • HereIAm@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 hours ago

        The only issue with man pages is that it often doesn’t cover common use cases. I know info pages often have that kind of information, but it’s hit or miss it they exist.

    • funkyfarmington@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 hours ago

      I know how to do a lot of Linux maintenance, but with Mint I very rarely have to. And it seems to be just getting more stable with each release.

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    61·
    19 hours ago

    I did download Ubuntu for my main computer, made a partition and installed it for dual boot. Wasn’t able to get my S/PDIF audio working so I’m still on Win10 right now until I finish some things, then I’ll try to fix my audio issue again. Or maybe a different distro will work better.

      • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        5·
        19 hours ago

        I was gonna try that next. Does it have better audio settings/support than Ubuntu? I noticed Ubuntu doesn’t even allow me to choose sample rate or bit depth of my audio.

        • TheMadCodger@piefed.socialEnglish
          17·
          17 hours ago

          Eh, Ubuntu used to be a decent desktop distro, but they’ve made some… choices. You can do better. Mint gets recommended a lot, but that also feels dated. It depends on what your use case is. GNOME vs KDE is a lot more important, find the one that you like better because that’s how you’ll be interacting with it all day. KDE is more like Windows, GNOME has a more Mac feel.

          If you don’t want to tinker with it, you just want it to work and want to use your apps as is, go with an immutable distro (e.g., Bazzite like OP suggested). You can’t easily mess up the important bits that keep it running and as long as you reboot it from time to time you’ll always have the latest updates. IMO, unless you actively want to mess with the underpinnings of your system, an immutable is the best way to go.

          Bazzite is gaming focused, but if you’re not a gamer, there are others (e.g., Kinoite). But in my experience, they just work leaving you to do what you actually want to do, not fight with it to make it work.

        • monogram@feddit.nlEnglish
          15·
          18 hours ago

          tldr yes

          Long story: by Ubuntu you mean Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop: yes. KDE Plasma a different desktop environment has more settings. Bazzite uses kde plasma with the default installation.

          • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
            9·
            17 hours ago

            Thanks, maybe I’ll try switching my current Ubuntu to KDE

            Edit: I was able to get my audio working with KDE’s GUI, I just had to choose “Pro Audio” and then “Pro 1”, even switching back to GNOME my audio still works so I’ll see which one I like better. I still wish there was an easy way to set my sample rate and bit depth but this is good for now. Thanks.

            • Clearwater@lemmy.world
              4·
              12 hours ago

              When you installed KDE, it must have also installed pavucontrol. Now that you have that app, you can access those settings on GNOME by searching for that name.

              This also applies for other distros. Just install that package and you’ll have that app.

            • monogram@feddit.nlEnglish
              6·
              14 hours ago

              I’m glad it worked out!

              Backstory:

              Nowadays audio is all handled by pipewire (no matter which distro/desktop) but the gui to edit the configuration varies, this is how a fix in kde could still work in gnome.

        • entwine@programming.dev
          8·
          18 hours ago

          Audio on Linux, like all things, is a deep deep rabbit hole. Whatever you want to do, you can. Whether it’ll be easy, or accessible through a GUI, or if you’ll have to write your own scripts, who knows. Everything is on the table.

          The best way to get answers is to ask directly in the community for your chosen distro. A lot of people just lazily post in generic linux/tech communities, like /r/linux on reddit, and get lazy replies from people who don’t know, but feel compelled to post anyway. Don’t do that.