

Because in a democracy that owner has not actually many votes. Unlike all the employees who -given results in Kentucky- probably majorily voted for Trump and are now losing their jobs because of it.


Because in a democracy that owner has not actually many votes. Unlike all the employees who -given results in Kentucky- probably majorily voted for Trump and are now losing their jobs because of it.


Realistically older generations didn’t get new stuff in updated drivers for quite some time anyway, so yeah… Doesn’t matter much.
Honestly, if I had a newer card I would be more concerned about that general shift to open source drivers at the moment as they are still far from comparable performance-wise.


Greetings to all the other Maxwell and Pascal users…
nvidia-580xx-dkms (and similiar legacy drivers) is your new best friend. And given the next wave of rediculous price spikes probably for some time…
And if you try often enough it maybe even be a working one…
Wants to be Pro but doesn’t even do it recursive…


I really love all my various Pis but at the moment there are so many refurbished servers available (thank Windows 11) as well as several small form factor x86 PCs that a Raspberry Pi 5 sadly is on the lower end of performance/cost.


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Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?
Certbot’s default timer checks twice a day if it’s old enough to be be due for a renewal… So a change from 90 to 1 day will in practice make no difference already…


Although in many of the tests I have seen, the performance was not actually better in general.
The main benefit so far seems to be not so much a synchronisation that performs better but one that works much more closely to how Windows does it natively thus helping some programs that don’t work well with Wine.
buttsecks
I would have guessed a different age… 😜
Linux is linux. In the end it’s more your personal taste with just a little sprinkle of use case that decides.
The main differences are:
Update speed: How quickly are the repositories getting updates. That’s a spectrum between getting cutting edge version in days or weeks or having things unchaged for up to several years. Or in other worlds you will see more bugs in freshly released software, but also bugfixes often within days. Compared to getting new feature only after years, but rarely any bugs (the very few ones that slip through… well, you will get the fix in a few years). That’s also where use case plays a bigger role. If you use very new hardware and want software that uses their newest features, a rather stale slow updating distro might not be the right fit for you.
Update scheme: Fixed vs. continues release. Continues releases are slowly but constantly changing over time but once installed they can basically used forever. While fixed releases are mostly just shipping critical bugfixes and security patches and doing everything else in big release steps (think in terms of Windows upgrades here: You mostly have the same thing for years but at a certain point there is a newer version that might bring changes in defaults, new pre-installed software, UI changes etc. and after a couple of years you lose support if you don’t do that step).
Also more depending on your personal taste and habits:
How much are you willing or interested in tinkering? Basically all distros give you access to all software. But what is pre-installed changes, both in what is provided by default and also how much software is there already. For example do you want stuff for video editing set up already or don’t you care as you will test out all the options available anyway?
The same is true the basic desktop environment. Gnome and KDE are the two big ones (with some more oftens based or forked from those two). And it mostly a difference of “here is our environment exactly as we think it’s best with very little customisation” (Gnome - also the one with most forks, by people who did not agree with the Gnome devs vision) and “have fun customising” (KDE). Is customising stuff to your liking your thing? Or do don’t care and also prefer something as close to what you are used to on Windows? Again: Distros have all the options available. But some have one environment or the other pre-installed. Or they come in different flavors from the beginning. If customisation isn’t your cup of tea the decision on a certain distro matters much more.
Other considerations:
Things to not consider:


I guess “FBI infiltrated group of immigration activist” would be boring and not fitting the FUD about encrypted messaging…


Nectcloud has always been incredible slow for me. (And that’s beside other issues like updates failing more often than succeeding…)
And as I was using it mostly for basic filesharing between my machines and as a CalDAV/CardDAV server I replaced it with Syncthing and Radicale now.
Someone does this in times of increasing Iridium prices? What a waste…
but it me a couple reads to determine if that was a really bad autocorrect
Fun fact: it took me a couple of reads to understand that you forgot the verb.
Kind of… the regular driver officially supports everything from Maxwell to the newest cards.
But then there is the new open source driver now, supporting Turing and above. Which is recommended to try by Nvidia developers, but also still has issues (like power management problems on Turing for example).
Also CUDA-specific stuff still pulls the proprietary driver as a requirement anyway.
As someone with an ancient 750ti happily running on the regular nvidia drivers…
Dedicated support for “older cards” as in “requiring different drivers” usually starts much later (Kepler and before), so about 4 generations before an 1660Super.


Yes, preventing the boot process when something tempers with the files is the whole point of secure boot.
And beside the backups you should always have (remember: no backup, no pity for you…) the keys to sign your EFI files with are on the encrypted disk so the running system can get updated. So deactivating secure boot again, unlocking your encrypted disk from some live boot stick and fixing it is always an option (as is having a live system at hand signed by the same keys if you want to…).
That article triggered an unexpected roller coaster of “there is something called vimdiff I never heard about?” to “no, there isn’t because for me vim is just an alias for nvim” to “oh, it’s actually just vim -d anyway…”
No, this coding just is actualy complex and low quality pictures don’t show enough