Linux is fucking awesome

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

I am more willing to learn things than the average user I'd say - I work in IT and answer incredibly stupid questions more or less daily. Also, im not a shell expert, but I definitely know my way around bash/zsh/cmd/PS, given the system. I have also been using Linux on and off for around 15 years as well - I had things work well in the past.

I'm guessing my custom built PC might be making things harder. The Nvidia card probably doesn't help, but I feel like my MOBO is probably responsible for my sleep issues. Maybe I just need to try Pop again, I'm currently running NixOS which is my favourite OS in theory, but in practice configuration is a brute force guessing game.

[highduc@lemmy.ml]

I haven't had as bad of an experience with Nvidia as people say - but ofc your mileage may vary depending on your compositor, the apps you use, the distro you use, etc.

I also experienced issues with my system completely freezing after waking up from sleep - for me the issue turned out to be due to bluetooth/wifi drivers, and with this workaround things work fine again: https://github.com/alimert-t/suspend-freeze-fix-for-mt7921e/tree/main
My card is mt7922 (found that out with lshw -C network) but I guess it's having the same issue, because after applying that fix it all works now.

It was really annoying and it took me a while to find the issue, because if you just try to google it you find lots of people with lots of different issues, all manifesting in the same way.
If you're lucky this is your issue too, and the fix above should do it.

[shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

American culture is one of the few I've found to be actively "anti-knowledge". It's not just their educational system being bad, it's a genuine cultural tendency of not just dismissing experts, but straight out refusing to learn and snobbing those who do.

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

Yeah. I've been trying to get the word out.

I've been screwing with Linux for decades, but somewhere along the line, Linux got easier and more reliable than Windows. I was as surprised as anyone. My last couple Linux installs were a cake walk.

I also like Linux more than Mac, but I'm a tinkerer at heart, and Mac's (relative) lack of fiddly bits (customization options) has kept me from staying on it long.

[bilb@lem.monster]

Anti-intellectualism seems to be resurgent in recent years. Its the worst I've seen since the Bush 2 era, and it's all pevasive.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Can anybody comment on their experience using Arduino and ESP with Linux? Especially does Linux handle COM ports better than Windows? There's a seemingly immortal problem of COM ports becoming unusable until you go into Device Manager and uninstall them (again and again) - and if that doesn't work, reboot Windows. I experience this less often now than say 5 or 6 years ago, and sometimes it's my fault, but jeez.

[fluxx1@lemm.ee]

Yes, com ports work way better than in windows. I've done a lot of embedded development on linux and it's way more pleasant than in windows. One thing you do have to keep in mind is that access to com ports (USB and real) requires root access by default, but once you've set the udev rule up, it becomes accesible to normal users and/or group of users. After that, it works flawlessly. Android dev also works great and imo better than on win. Proprietary jtags may be an issue, but I've never actually had an unsolvable situation.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Thank you, that's massively helpful! Pasting your comment into my ESP32 project notes so when I soon move to Linux I can remember to figure out the udev rule and jtags.

[lemming741@lemmy.world]

I've had wemos d1 boards from AliExpress show up as a brltty and the braille teletype driver grabs the device. Just something to look out for on some distros

[storageb@lemmy.one]

Running this command was the only thing required for me to get access to the com ports. After that, everything worked perfectly.

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

(note that $USER is part of the command - do not replace that with your actual username)

[psythik@lemmy.world]

Lucky. I couldn't get HDR working properly, and most of my GPU features were missing because Nvidia refuses to support Linux (and AMD GPUs can't keep up). So I had to go back to Windows.

Been trying to switch to Linux since 2004. I'll try again in 5 years.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

Try Nobara or Bazzite. Plasma supports HDR fairly well, and those distros includes a pile of tweaks for Nvidia devices. It might get you sorted.

[kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You would be suprised how cool Linux can get when you go deep down the rabbit hole, if you really want to go deep into Arch I reccomend trying a tiling window manager like Sway or Hyprland :3

(Btw these are the dotfiles I use: https://github.com/koeqaife/hyprland-material-you)

[azvaskvklenko@sh.itjust.works]

Tweaks and preconfigured distros aren’t solution here. The driver is still lacking certain features and that can only be fixed by NVIDIA

[diesertypmatthias@lemmy.ml]

Most of my library just works under Linux.

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

Linux is awesome

& so are you ^ 1, 2, 3, 4… ^

[nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Without having read through your codebase, are you using someone else's top bar, or did you write it yourself in ags?

I wasn't satisfied with the performance of any bars I tried for X11 so I wrote my own custom one using the eww widget system. I've tried ags for a bit but I couldn't even make an empty bar window that attaches itself to the top of the screen and spans the entire width of my single monitor. That part worked flawlessly in eww.

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Nvidia has an open driver now I believe? I install nvidia-open.

Curious to know what you mean by:

AMD GPUs can't keep up

And,

I had to go back to Windows

you had to, because of HDR? I have an Nvidia RTX 2080 Super, and I don't know of any features that are missing. Games can do DLSS and ray tracing and whatever else they need. For me, support seems to be absolutely beast on Linux. ‍️

[coldwater@lemmy.ca]

Aww, thank you