You don’t have to install Ubuntu on those laptops. I don’t really understand his point. He wants snaps?
You don’t have to install Ubuntu on those laptops. I don’t really understand his point. He wants snaps?
The terminal killed my dog and raped my wife!
Same here. That’s pretty much a myth. I also have a couple laptops that still have a small windows partition and never had any issues.
That happened ages ago and gets blindly parroted to this day. I’m fairly convinced it’s the same with the nVidia stories.
The system is in Unicode throughout, so it can handle any language, whatever it’s set to. The only thing to check is input. Maybe use a compose key, and or switch to international qwerty.
Whenever I install Linux on someone’s computer, the first thi that they ask is always “why aren’t the corners properly rounded? I can’t use this!”
(No, this has never happened, but it would be funny, I’d get to smack them over the head)
Packt books are typically quite bad. Maybe not all, but it’s probably safe to assume they aren’t great.
The drivers are just as buggy as the Windows versions honestly.
Didn’t they say that the core driver code was the same anyway ? (which would make sense)
They’ve mostly worked as advertised. One problem they’ve had was switching from external to embedded GPUs on laptops. I think that’s fixed now.
My desktops have all had nVidia cards for more than 20 years with no real issues. It’s a meme really.
kind of a bug deal
Maybe that’s why it’s still in beta.
There’s also the option of ssh-ing in to remove the offending process, and possibly restart the display manager.
You’ll need to hav another device available of course.
As long as you know it, it makes everything simple.
If you want something like Fedora that supports nVidia, just run OpenSuSE. It’s also enterprise grade and happily chugs along whatever you do to it.
When nothing happens for too long, the plant withers and starts losing leaves. For each leaf that falls, a random file is deleted in /sbin.
I like it when my crashes come with a plain text explanation of what caused the crash. It just seems simpler to me than having to deal with some barcode removedery.
But you can always count on find being there on any unix system. Fancy exotic commands may have nicer speeds or options, but they’ll only be there on your machine. And one day you’ll be on another, and you’ll be lost.
There are always exotic alternative commands, but those were the standards.
Always learn the standard commands.
Doesn’t kde work on debian? I haven’t used it on the desktop in ages, but that seems odd.
On second thought, they may not have the most up-to-date version. So maybe it’s that.
And if steam could make a Qt client while they’re at it…
That machine was quite annoying because it refused to boot off anything other than its internal disk or an external floppy i.e. no USB sticks, despite it having a USB port. Even back then, stuff was mostly coming out on ISOs for CDs and floppies were phased out. Nowadays it’ll probably require a bit of tinkering (and I’ll have to find a floppy).
Oooh, I have an old Vaio PictureBook Id like to eventually revive. Currently it’s running a very old Mandrake from that time (with KDE). Not sure if I can fit something more modern on it.
Doesn’t it also only support Microsoft Office formats?