When did you start working around with Linux?

[sykaster@feddit.nl]

I'd love to make Linux my daily driver, but there's an issue with 2d animations on any Linux distro I install on my laptop. Windows 10 does not have this issue. So that means like half the Internet is stuttery.

Until that is fixed, I cannot use it as my daily driver.

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

What kind of graphics hardware does your laptop have?

[sykaster@feddit.nl]

I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (Ryzen 7 5800H + RTX 3060). This happens across EVERY distro I've tried (Debian 12, Fedora 42, Mint Cinnamon, EndeavourOS, Nobara, PopOS) and EVERY browser (Firefox, Brave, Chromium).

Key symptoms:

• 2D browser games stutter badly with low framerate
• 3D WebGL browser games actually run fine (???)
• Native games run perfectly (Captain Claw via Lutris works great)
• Same exact game runs perfectly on Windows 10 on the same laptop

Someone else with an RTX 3060 tested the exact same game, seeing the same ~20W power draw, but has zero stutter issues.

Here's everything I've tried so far:

• Graphics drivers: Both nouveau and NVIDIA proprietary drivers (570.133.07), both with open and proprietary kernels
• Display settings: Tested at both 60Hz and 160Hz refresh rates
• Hardware acceleration: Enabled and disabled in all browsers
• Power modes: BIOS set to both Dynamic and Discrete graphics
• BIOS tweaks: Disabled virtualization, no power management features available in BIOS apart from that
• Performance forcing: Locked GPU clocks manually (nvidia-smi -lgc 1200,2100 and -lmc 7000,7000). Enabled persistence mode
• Added kernel parameters for power management (pcie_aspm=off acpi_osi=Linux)
• Lenovo-specific: Installed the Lenovo Legion Linux drivers from johnfanv2/LenovoLegionLinux
• NVIDIA power management: Tried enabling Nvidia dynamic boost with nvidia-powerd.service

I've monitored GPU power draw during gameplay and it hovers at 20-25W even when the light is red (performance mode) and the card is locked at P0 performance state. This is considerably lower than the ~80W it should be able to draw under load. It might not need to draw much more, but right now it's not drawing any more.

When I run the Firefox profiler to see what's happening, I can see the frame drops but there's no clear cause. And the fact that 3D browser games work fine but 2D ones stutter makes no sense to me.

If you have any idea at all I'm listening, I'm all out of ideas

[eldavi@lemmy.ml]

in 2002 when my windows me computer start looping on the blue screen of death, with all of my college papers/essays/tests/assignments trapped in it.

the recovery media refused to work because i had upgraded the computer several times and i couldn't afford the $180 windows xp cd. so i bought a linux magazine for $5 that included a copy of mandrake linux installation media and used paper printouts from my college's computer labs to help me rescue my work from the computer.

[tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz]

That's how you do it. Waiting to drown but suddenly learning to fly

[swelter_spark@reddthat.com]

I installed Ubuntu in 2007 or so, but moved right after and got a new computer, so I didn't really do anything with it. I installed Peppermint 9 on a new laptop a few years before Windows 7 went EOL because it came with Windows 10 installed but couldn't actually run it. Ran great with Linux. When Windows 7 stopped getting security updates, I installed Peppermint on my desktop, too. After the man dev passed away, the project went it a different direction, so I switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. That was a few years ago. Still with it, still happy.

[shai_hulud@lemmy.world]

Caldera in 1999 or 2000 at home. RedHat and SuSE at work.

I got to cut my teeth on CP/M (not nix of course) on a Kaypro II thanks to my uncle. 1982. I owe him a lot for giving me a headstart on computing.

[sxan@midwest.social]

I know it's just nostalgia, but I sometimes really miss the days when you could memorize the entire memory layout of your computer. You knew that if you poked a value into a memory location, some pixels would flip at a certain place on the screen.

It was nice living in such a small, constrained world.

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

Yggdrasil somewhere around ‘93… maybe ‘94. Recompiling a kernel took a VERY
long time.

I’ve been doing this a while.

[mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Started with Ubuntu's initial 4.10 release back in '04. I wish I still had the Live CD they mailed me. When Ubuntu ditched Gnome for Unity I switched to Mint. Up until a few months ago I was dual-booting Windows alongside it, but with 10's EOL approaching I'm ditching it.

I do keep an old laptop running Win10 specifically for some Audio-related software I just can't get to work in Linux.

[buddhajoe@reddthat.com]

Purchased a copy of Redhat from compusa in 1997... never did get my modem working with it unfortunately,

[buddhajoe@reddthat.com]

Commodore vic20 was my first, then a TRS80 with CP/M

[d_air1@lemmy.ml]

About the time that Windows 10 came out. I was just messing around and ended up liking it.

[untakenusername@sh.itjust.works]

when I first hear about MS recall

[secret300@lemmy.sdf.org]

I was in 8th grade so 13-14 years old right?

[filister@lemmy.world]

I have a physical CD of Ubuntu 6.10, back then they were distributing those over the mail and a friend of mine ordered some and gave me. I still keep it.

[count042@lemmy.ml]

14. Slackware from like 40 3.5 floppy disks.

[mwa@lemm.ee]

I started using linux with dual boot in June 2024 where I installed Fedora/Fedora immutable kde and bazzite.
Tried GNOME on my brother's old Laptop but using Extensions for changing one thing(and breaking every update) was annoying
I have been using Fedora till I stumbled across CachyOS
I switched to Cinnamon around this time from KDE I found kde kinda Buggy (heard it's Nvidia or smth) and it just felt uncomfortable
Around December 2024 Where I used Linux full time (no windows dual boot) this is when I found Cachyos (or arch variants) and Cinnamon comfortable the only problem is that Cinnamon doesn't have Vrr,HDR and Wayland for me but I use Gamescope if I need vrr and HDR

[luffy879@lemmy.ml]

I find cinnamon kind of useless

It just has this beige win 7 look, that is somehow both new and old at the same time. You dont have the Macros and Costumisation of Plasma, but you also dont have the rigidness and tablet-style interface of Gnome. You dont have the ressource friendlyness of xfce. The only thing it has is that it can both render qt and gtk in its own style, but xfce already does that with its very win xp like interface, which both qt and gtk have themes for

[azimir@lemmy.ml]

I still live it. I use some Atmega chips like the attiny85. It only has 256 bytes if RAM and 5 i/o pins to work with. I code in C++ so I have 100% control over memory if I want it.

Someday I'll find a reason to work with attiny10 chips... There's almost no resources on it and it's about the size of a grain of rice!

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/attiny10