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Used to be aRatherDapperFox@lemmy.ml. Moved for various reasons, mainly server load.

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As someone who dailied Linux for years and years and whose primary use of my PC is to game... I have to disagree with you. The only title in my entire Steam library that doesn't work is Halo: Infinite, and that only because I'm using an Intel ARC card which has a known issue running Infinite on Linux due to an incompatibility between a specific set of DirectX 12 calls and Vulkan. If I had chosen to upgrade to a new AMD card instead, I'd still be running Linux. But I wanted to support Intel, so here we are. When I'm done playing around on Infinite, I'll switch back and never think about Windows again.

Hell, some of my library runs BETTER on Linux than on Windows with the ARC card. The only game that runs better on Windows is Halo: Infinite, and that's only because it literally doesn't run at all on Linux. šŸ˜‚

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UPDATE: I picked up the ARC A750. Been driving it around for awhile. Older DirectX games perform on par or often even better on Linux with ARC than they do on Windows. DX12 games had negligible performance boosts being run on Windows vs. Linux with ARC save some big exceptionsā€¦

Certain DX12 titles, one of which I own (Halo Infinite) WILL NOT RUN under Linux WITH the ARC card due to a lack of features in Vulkan. There are still some DX12 calls that have no equivalents in Vulkan, and while some games flag this feature set without using it and MAY be able to be tricked into running without it, any games that actually USE those features will not run under Linux with the ARC card, period. Soā€¦ Research your newer AAA DX12 titles first.

Looking for a good Linux to install on a slow 2019 machine. Relative beginner with Linux.

Hello! My old laptops hard drive packed it in, so I got a new one and now need to flash drive an operating system on it. I think this is my time to give Linux a proper go. I tried it before for my gaming PC but switched for a cracked Windows key because I was young and not bothered to learn....

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Linux Mint. You canā€™t go wrong whichever ā€œeditionā€ you download, but Iā€™d recommend Cinnamon. Itā€™s delightfully easy to setup, beginner friendly, has GUI utilities for most of the settings youā€™ll need to tweak, and leaves room to grow as you learn more about Linux. For YouTube and Google Docs, itā€™ll be more than performant enough.

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You need another ~ at the beginning and end to get strikeout.

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I just found out about VSCodium. Its a project that packages the MIT licensed VS Code source without all the M$ telemetry and crud. Be warned, there are apparently many plugins that donā€™t work with Codium, so if you rely heavily on any specific plugin Iā€™d see if it works properly before committing.

Itā€™s still relying on Microsoft code, but at least itā€™s specifically the open source bits. Lol!

What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? ( sh.itjust.works )

I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....

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I adore OBS. Iā€™ve been teaching my friends the basics on how to use it, as theyā€™ve all been using some proprietary crap that makes their lives marginally easier in one or two areas but adds a huge headache in others.

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Hahah! This was done on my phone, actually, with an app called Sketchbook. Not FOSS, I donā€™t believe, but to the other commenters point I typically do photo manipulation with GIMP and actually vastly prefer it to Photoshop. Probably has something to do with the fact that I learned on GIMP instead of PS, but I really do like it better.

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FF is the way. I found out you can get Edge on Linux now and threw up in my mouth. ā˜ŗļø

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Iā€™ve been looking for a good password manager, and Iā€™ve heard a LOT of good things about Bitwardenā€¦ guess Iā€™ll have to bite and see what all the fuss is about!

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Absolutely love Inkscape. Itā€™s one of the first pieces of software I add on any new install.

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These are a lot of great recommendations Iā€™ll have to look at! Especially VSCodium. Iā€™m using VS Code right now for my SvelteKit projects, so if I can add the Svelte and Tailwind CSS pluginsā€¦ thatā€™s really all I need.

I want so badly to hop ship from VS Code, Iā€™m doing a trial of JetBrains WebStorm right now. Another piece of proprietary softwareā€¦

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šŸ˜‚ The mental image is perfect.

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I recently switch to OnlyOffice for their UI/UX, and itā€™s been brilliant. LibreOffice is a delight, though.

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elementaryOS has tried so hard to fill that niche, and they got so far. I just always run into the weirdest issues when I try and daily drive their distro.

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Uhhā€¦ yeah, Iā€™m stumped trying to think of the proprietary alternative to Calibre, too. I donā€™t think there is one in the mainstream? Everywhere I look, the only recommendation is Calibre.

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I donā€™t think Iā€™ve had to reconfigure mine for different window sizesā€¦ of course, I donā€™t typically record individual windows I record a screen.

If I may ask, what do you use OBS for that you have to record individual windows that are sized differently each time?

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I just let it index mine overnight, everything was ready to go next day. Adding new media to the server isnā€™t really a problem, IMO.

Itā€™s worth it for the UI responsiveness alone, disregarding the fact that Plex justā€¦ stopped working one day for no discernable reason. No errors in any logs, my Plex server was running fine. No changes to the network, everything hosted the exact same, all my clients were logged in, running the same way, etc. Justā€¦ stopped seeing each other one day. Couldnā€™t access my server from any device in the home.

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Thatā€™s a strong opinion. Why do you think Jellyfin sucks ass? Itā€™s been nothing but delightful for me.

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Everyone is raving about immutable OSes and itā€™s really making me consider giving OpenSUSE Aeon a tryā€¦ but my Tumbleweed install is set up perfectly for me so Iā€™m hesitant to migrate. šŸ˜…

I could give it a run in a VM, I suppose.

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Oh, I didnā€™t even think of that. Iā€™ll have to cross that bridge one day, weā€™re an always-on subtitles kinda family.

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Right, right. I think itā€™s a little unfair to say OBS isnā€™t simple in that regard, though, as recording small snippets of screens isnā€™t really what itā€™s targeted towards. Itā€™s more of a content streaming/recording software, IMO. I honestly donā€™t know what I would use if I needed to regularly record differently sized small portions of my screen to send to people.

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You might want to check and see what ports you do or donā€™t have open to your local network. I know I had to open port 1900 on UDP to connect from the clients in the house.

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Honestly, never touched the Android app. We use it exclusively on our TVs. I can see why that would be a breaking point for some people though!

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Why would you have to manually set them up? Most smart TVs have a Jellyfin channel/app you can install, and failing that there should be some kind of general media server app you can get on them. Thereā€™s a mobile app for Android (though someone else here says itā€™s pretty trash) and probably for iOS as well. The only device to configure is the server, the app can find a local network server automatically.

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I wonder what % of Linux users are using Edge, and what their reasoning is.

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I am by no means a master at OBS, and I wouldnā€™t know where to point you to learn. Everything I know Iā€™ve learned by either poking around in the software or googling specific questions, i.e. ā€œhow to overlay twitch chat in OBSā€. As you can probably guess, I used to use it to stream to twitch. Not very suddenly, mind, but I did it. Lol!

OBS is designed for streaming out and recording video, not really for music production. Iā€™m sure there are some FOSS music production softwares worth checking out, though!

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? I serve media fromā€¦ the server. All my storage is on the PC running Jellyfin. Itā€™s movie and TV shows, not home videos of my family and photos of my pets. I keep those on my phone. šŸ˜‰

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www.xda-developers.com/how-install-jellyfin-nas/

Why wouldnā€™t you want your home media server software running on the server thatā€™s in charge of storing your media?

EDIT: I apologize, Iā€™m not trying to patronize you or be argumentative, Iā€™m just trying to understand your setup. So you have a PC (NAS) where all your files are stored, a second PC running your home media server software that needs to talk to the first PC and see whatā€™s stored on it so it can then serve that content to clients on your local network, like a TV? Instead of just running the server software on the first PC to begin with?

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I love this.

cujo OP ,
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Iā€™m afraid Iā€™m not familiar with CPJ. For GPU acceleration, why wouldnā€™t you add a dGPU to your server? Or are you talking exclusively pre-built NAS solutions that donā€™t have a dGPU option?

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Wait thatā€™s a thing? Oh, gods. Iā€™m almost tempted, just to see what thatā€™s like, butā€¦ no. šŸ˜‚

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Youā€™re absolutely right, and in lots of areas I use FOSS alternatives solely because they are FOSS despite less resources and objectively worse UI/UX. Photography is a hobby of mine, a huge love. There is nothing on Linux that gives even remotely close to the ease and comfort of use for RAW image editing as CaptureOne Pro, a software I paid a pretty penny for some number of years ago. Iā€™ve tried every RAW image editor thatā€™s been recommended, and I dislike them all so much that I actually prefer to move my RAWs to my phone and edit them there.

Despite that, Iā€™m still running Linux. I understand the trade offs that often need to happen to adhere to an ideal, and I largely agree. However, sometimes FOSS comes out on top in all regards, including UI/UX. And those are the apps Iā€™m inviting everyone to share. šŸ˜‰

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I tried Kodi, it was nice. Biggest issue was no Roku appā€¦

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Oooh, shiny. Iā€™ll have to give it a try! I work with SvelteKit and Tailwind presently, Iā€™ll have to see how it handles that!

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Wait, is 7zip not available on Linux? Then what have I been using??

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Listen, I love GIMP. I would never try to argue that the UI/UX is better than alternatives. Thereā€™s a reason itā€™s not the defacto tool to use in its industry, and itā€™s not the name.

That said, if you take the time to learn GIMP, itā€™s delightful. I personally like using GIMP more than, say, Photoshop, but I also learned photo manipulation on GIMP, and didnā€™t touch Photoshop until well after. GIMPā€™s UX leaves a lot to be desired for a newcomer to the software.

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p7zip. TIL it is not official! Damn.

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I disagree, I think itā€™s still perfectly reasonable to criticize Plex. Specifically for that complacency. Just because they were an important step to getting where we are does not mean they are above reproach.

Besides, I wasnā€™t really criticizing Plex? All I said was that I prefer the UI/UX in Jellyfin, and that Jellyfin is still ā€œJust Workingā€ where Plex failed for reasons unknown. Plex isnā€™t bad, I enjoyed using it while I did. I just found something FOSS to take itā€™s place. šŸ™‚

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I agree with you in the mindset. ā€œFree as in free beerā€ is not the important aspect for me, so much as the ā€œfree as in free speechā€ bit.

Funny that all the things you listed you wished were better than the competition falls almost entirely under the purview of artistic solutions. GIMP, DarkTable, Inkscape, etc. Iā€™ve always heard, and I think for the most part it holds true, that FOSS software for artists is usually a worse experience because itā€™s primarily dominated by software designed and implemented by technically minded people for technically minded people who happen to be artistic, rather than designed by artistically minded people and implemented by technically minded people.

I know itā€™s probably an unpopular view, but Iā€™ve found it to be true a lot.

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Itā€™s notā€¦ unpopular? Or itā€™s not true?

I find the assumption goes the opposite way. Linux, and FOSS as a whole, often assumes the user is knowledgeable and knows what theyā€™re doing. Proprietary software often assumes the user knows nothing and will never know anything if they donā€™t hold your hand through the entire process and obfuscate and abstract all the decisions and work to a place you wonā€™t see it, and then puts obstacles in your way to getting to it.

FOSS says, ā€œyou wanna pop the hood? Here you go, and here are all the tools youā€™ll need to do whatever you want,ā€ and walks off.

Proprietary software says, ā€œare you sure you donā€™t want to drop it off at the shop first? At least call a mechanic. Tools? No, no, you donā€™t need toolsā€¦ donā€™t go find some, thereā€™s no need, we can just call a tow truck. No, no, the nails are supposed to be there. Yeah, I nailed the hood shut. And super glued it. Well, I didnā€™t think youā€™d want in thereā€¦ besides, youā€™re not a mechanic, youā€™ve got no idea how an engine worksā€¦ā€ and once you do get in, itā€™s peeking over your shoulder the whole time reminding you that you really shouldnā€™t be doing that, there are professionals for that sort of thing.

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It does not.

older laptop distro recommendarion

Recently Iā€™ve gave up Windows for Linux and installed Ubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop on my pc and laptop from 2007. Itā€™s an i7 Intel processor with 8gb ddr ram so I thought it would be fine, but it seems quite sluggish. What distro could I use that would be faster and still fully functional? Thanks for your help in advance.

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If youā€™re married to Ubuntu, Iā€™d suggest Xubuntu. Itā€™s Ubuntu using the XFCE desktop environment. XFCE can be a littleā€¦ hard on the eyes by default, but itā€™s super lightweight, very stable, and very customizable. It can be a very aesthetically pleasing DE with a little theming and an icon pack.

Outside of Ubuntu, Id suggest Linux Mint with XFCE. I know, I know, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu so why bother? Well, itā€™s not Canonical. Theyā€™ve done some great things over the years, but recentlyā€¦ I just tend to stay away.

Personally, I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Love it, Iā€™ll never leave it. Itā€™s amazing. But without knowing your personal preferences or use cases, and with the info in your post, I have to recommend Xubuntu or Linux Mint XFCE. Also I agree with the other commenter, youā€™d benefit a lot from an upgrade to an SSD.

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You wonā€™t go wrong no matter which you end up choosing. I am personally a huge fan of the way OpenSUSE runs their ship, and some of the tools there are incredible.

YaST, for example, is a system management tool that provides the most extensive GUI for managing your system settings Iā€™ve seen on a Linux distro period. Yes, all the settings can be managed from a terminal, but itā€™s nice to have a graphical option sometimes.

Just play around with it since youā€™ve already got it installed, and see how you like it. Thereā€™s a strong and friendly community surrounding the distro, so reach out if youā€™ve got any questions! Youā€™re also welcome to ask me. I may not have all the answers, but Iā€™m pretty certain I can find someone who can help lol.

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If you havenā€™t yet, I would run the following commands:

sudo zypper install opi

opi codecs

This will enable the Packman repositories (repos will commonly used non-free software, like multimedia codecs) and install multimedia codecs for watching videos and playing music and the like.

Anyway, Iā€™m glad youā€™re enjoying OpenSUSE! Itā€™s a delightful distro and community.

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There is a place for graphically gorgeous distroā€™s

As a current KDE user but extensive user of XFCE in the past, it may not come ā€œprettyā€ out-of-the-box but XFCE can be a very aesthetically pleasing desktop environment. It can be configured just about every which way, and if I had to switch back to XFCE right now I could have things just about how I want them and be 100% as happy with my desktop as I am with KDE.

Itā€™s got defaults that just make sense, doesnā€™t try to reinvent the wheel or the way we interact with our desktops, itā€™s light and fast and reliable. Itā€™s associated default programs (Thunar, etc.) follow the same design paradigms and are a delight to use.

I Iove XFCE, and it will always have a special place in my heart.

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Plus one for Linux Mint Cinnamon. Easily the best beginner distro, IMO. If youā€™re technical enough to advance past Mint w/Cinnamon, youā€™re probably technical enough to not need a service like the linked website.

Itā€™s still nice to see tools like this coming out, though, as a show of support for newcomers to the ecosystem.

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