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  • masterofn001@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Trying Linux after using Windows for decades
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    19 days ago
    my gear

    I still use HDDs because my 2 PCs are very old. But they both run versions of Linux mint 21.3 (the current release) without issue. Mint xfce on my 15 year old optiplex with 4Gb ram.(because 2 slots are fried) My other different model optiplex (also about 15 years old) has mint xfce, mint, another mint (different purposes) a shared volume, a timeshift partition (snapshots) on a 1tb hdd and windows on its original 320mb drive. 8Gb ram, onboard video, external soundcard

    things

    Over clocking on Linux… Not sure if necessary? Linux uses a CPU governor which throttles or maxes CPU based on … Things. Same with memory.

    I don’t play games, but I do run other processor heavy stuff. I know nvidia has/had issues depending on certain seemingly random things. Their drivers, I believe, are mostly NOT open source.
    WINE is a godsend, especially the latest version 8. Wine gives you the ability to natively rum most windows apps. (Some run better on Linux, lol) You could install windows as a VM, too. But wine works for what I need (fl studio basically)

    booting issues

    If you dual boot, windows must be installed first. Windows (MBR) and Linux (GPT or MBR) use different partition table types. Windows stores the boot loader in the MBR (master boot record) which is usually the first 100mb of a disk. Linux gpt can install boot record to disk (/dev/sda), to disk boot partition(/dev/sda6), and to BIOS. Windows will often overwrite the Linux boot loader (GRUB) Boot menus in Linux are fully customisable text files. They can be simple text menus, or fancy graphical ones. When GRUB is.used it finds other OSs on your disks. It makes a menu. It works. Separate drives helps. Linux isn’t limited to 4 logical volumes or the need for extended partitions. Linux can see all filesystem types. Windows?

    ::: filesystem’s Linux uses a fuckton of different filesystems for different functions (Linux is at its core -simple, but it is voluminous in the knowledge base - 15 years later and I’m still going, 'oh, that’s cool, I didn’t know I could do that) Anyway, the main fs on Linux is ext4, but it can read/write/modify NTFS, fat, vfs, luks, and on and on. Windows does NTFS and fat. :::

    ::: don’t be scared The terminal is actually, really, truly, for real, your best friend and portal to power potential :::

    Resources may seem overwhelming at first. Linux uses a lot of words to do things. The GUI has gotten prettier, but the real customisation comes in text files(all of Linux is text files) there’s not registry that is mostly unreadable/unusable.

    Linux manages resources much better (Maybe because it doesn’t try to stuff ads all over the place and spy on you)

    Use the manpages man7.org or sjmilar Use archwiki.org Use bash.org Use your distros site (or use Ubuntu.com or Debian.org for deb/Ubuntu variants like mint)

    Learn your package manager. (Apt, pacman, whatever it is). Install apps from there. Unless trusted or you’ve reviewed the code, avoiding installation from websitez is good practice.

    Everything is a text file. Configuration files are usually easily readable and configurable. Though some may be in json and some in Java and some in Matlab and some in sh and some in plaintext (the joys of not having monolithic monopolies controlling everything)

    Anyway. Its late. I’ve rambled. Happy fossing

  • masterofn001@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•The Average™ arch user
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    2 months ago

    I don’t use arch, but this applies to my android habits.

    Nova has way too many settings now, though.

    I use gestures and look&feel and that’s about it. Custom icons here and there. Maybe my app drawer has custom folders, colors, tabs. And maybe my folders use custom gestures, transparency, and colors, and icons.

    But that’s it.

    On Linux I use the fuck out of custom aliases for basic commands like ls or grep or less - mainly for appearance.

    This is the most useful alias to me personally: ls=‘ls -aph --color=always --group-directories-first’

  • masterofn001@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ | Globalnews.ca
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    2 months ago

    In Windsor the line for one food bank near me has gone from a few people to hundreds.

    But they aren’t Canadians.

    90% are foreign students.

    One is a tenant here.

    He throws away 75% of the food he gets. 2 days ago he threw away 6 boxes of kd. 3 pies. A jar ofbbq sauce. Buns, bread, candy, pasta. He kept the 3 tomatoes. (I kept the kd and BBQ sauce because there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. The pies were eaten by animals instead of hungry people)

    You can watch others take their boxes and bags of food, sift through and throw out what they don’t want.

    Some have taken bags of vegetables only to dump them on the street.

    If they can spend 60k on school they shouldn’t be stealing from hungry Canadians.