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Same. I adopted a google account a long time ago, but I’ve finally hit my limit on what they’ve been doing with youtube and everything. Free and open source alternatives are the way to go, it may take a while to catch on or may never fully, but who cares. Switching to linux recently was the best thing I’ve ever done.
I really miss old school MTV though. I feel like, for a time, bands were doing some crazy music videos that were as much works of art as the music itself.
ASUS routers chose to make their USB share Samba V1 for some reason, as do other home NAS plug and play servers.
Thanks for the extension!
I may give it a shot later. Right now I just spent 4 days getting things set up and to a point where I’m comfortable with it’s use. So I may settle down for a bit right now and just learn to use Pop even more. I like it overall, just had a few small annoyances like the desktop shortcut thing. But other than that everything is just working right now, which has not been my historical experience with Linux.
I just want an experience that’s as dumbed down GUI-heavy and easy to use as Windows, and so far this is fitting the bill nicely.
I started with Fedora which was a bad time all around. Even their Nobara special release for Nvidia users geared towards gaming was completely unfunctional on my rig.
I’m on Pop!OS which I like. Most things were done easily, however I have a router that does Samba shares on the LAN and it uses Samba V1 which required some extensive configuration on linux to get operable.
Pop!OS worked out for me in the end.
Linux users can be worse than Jehovah’s witnesses or crack dealers when pushing you to try a new OS.
lol… the KDE crowd seems really devoted, and intent on snagging a new convert. I’ll give it a shot I’m sure. But I’m definitely saving an image of this just in case.
I’m the same way. I just started using Linux and Landed on Pop!OS. Tumbleweed is high on my short list of things to try, but I finally got everything working, and boy is it working well.
I think the reason is my hardware profile is extremely similar to Pop!OS products, so I just happened to land on something per-optimized for my system out of dumb luck. I’m frankly shocked at how far linux has come. Lutro is what we’ve been waiting for on game installs for better than 20 years. Steam integration is of course nice, but I hate using game stores and hate being locked into that.
Anyways, been a cool experience so far.
Mixed feelings. And we’re still very much so in the beginner phase. I can stand issues with scaling since the fix was to set both to the same and just deal with it for now. That’s fine. Getting all my other stuff, games, various devices, all that is much more important right now. Once I know how to do all that and feel familiar with running as much command line as linux demands, then we can move on.
I appreciate the recommendations. So far Pop!OS has been working great for me. It’s a great replacement environment, I have all my stuff more or less configured, and am still getting things deployed. Once I’m more familiar with Linux I fully do intend to revisit this and try some other OS’s out, but for this moment I’m pretty happy with how things are working.
I got KDE running in safe graphics mode, followed the steps to load the nvidia graphics driver, and the instant I did, black screen lol. I followed the exact same process on Workstation 39 and it worked, so I’m not sure what the issue was.
All ASUS routers that have USB file sharing use Samba v1, and only Samba v1. And that’s not the only NAS devices that are still sold with Samba v1 only.
On a current default Windows installation, you can’t connect to Samba v1 at all, you have to manually activate it first.
Also true with linux. The difference is I have to check one box in Windows. In linux I had to edit what are essentially the registry keys for 2 different programs (packages), then add a manual argument in fstab for mounting it. Oh and there was no encompassing tutorial for that task that was easily googlable, me figuring that out was the result of combining like 3 different random bits I got off of forums after almost 8 solid hours of exhaustively searching the subject.
With windows ‘enable samba v1 share’ pulls up result one how to do it, you open one program, check one box, and you’re done.
Guess again if it’s a samba v1 share.
I’m not even going to do you the dignity of reading this.
Then feel free to fuck off.
You came in here and started this saying it’s basically my fault I had a bad time with Fedora. Your condescending and pretentious attitude has been noted, but I’m a new user to Linux my man. None of this is familiar. As my day 2 and 3 posts show I can actually troubleshoot and fix things, if I couldn’t figure it out, I’d say it’s indicative of production and deployment issues on the developers end.
But please feel free to not respond, you’re exactly the kind of Linux user that gives the community it’s negative stigma.
…there’s a faq on the router itself that told me how to do it in windows. That was show I got on the right path for Linux. So yes definitely easier when the manufacturer includes instructions for one but not the other. Granted the windows process is significantly easier to get it enabled.
… I’ll check it out I’m sure eventually. I just got a bunch more stuff enabled and I’m almost fully functional. The next step is installing some pirated games and seeing if I can get those working. Mostly because while I do like Stellaris I’m not paying $250 for the full game.
There’s a new update that releases tomorrow and soon after I’m sure there will be a full install with GoG exes. From what I can tell lutro is the way to go for getting those and older games up and running. That’s really the final functionality of Linux I need to work.
I managed to get a huge mod working called BTA3062 which extensively modified a game called BATTLETECH. I was certain it’d be a major hurdle but it worked just fine which is amazing to me that that’s possible.
My first experience was with Fedora. The very first install I tried was the KDEPrism version.
You’re really not selling me here. You had me worried for a second with the old version of Ubuntu 22. But that’s just when they diverged, they have a rolling 6 month release as well and are an active OS after my noob few seconds of googling. I also see dev comments that state that they when they release those updates they’re basically modified versions of whatever Ubuntu is releasing. So looks like for all intents and purposes I’m on the latest version of ubuntu. Reading comparisons between the two, this is kind of a slightly stripped down and debloated ubuntu, which almost makes me want to give that a look.
You’re definitely not going to sell me soon on a version that depends on command line installation. That’s just ridiculous in 2023 dawg. You’re talking to a Windows refugee, who admittedly knows enough about DOS and writes his own .bat files and other stuff, but for a lot of things, I want it as dumb and easy as possible. Pop!OS is doing a great job of that.
I also like that they sell their own hardware. It means they have commercial reasons to want their product to work as best it can, and since I have a pretty close hardware profile to their Nvidia setup, I’m actually even more sold because of the sheer level of compatibility of my existing hardware after looking for a minute.
Pop uses x11 by default but can be switched to Wayland at the boot screen by clicking the gear and selecting Wayland. So looks like either or on the fly.
Oh Lord Omnimessiah, bestow your blessings upon the machine spirit of this workstation. May it’s sacred code be free of blasphemous error and wasted resources. May the magnificence of it’s function be even a pale reflection of your own perfection. In your name we pray, amen.
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