Submitted 10 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Now if you don’t mind I’m going to delete the root folder and see what happens.
I’ve been on Mint for about two months now. Took some getting used to and there was a pretty large chunk of stuff to learn, but I’ve got most things figured out now. AlternativetTo.net has been a lifesaver and has helped me find replacements for most programs I use regularly. Though I still desperately miss paint.net.
Now I just need to figure out why my audio crackles sometimes when I’m playing games.
I get the audio crackle also, been trying to figure it out for a while. Some people seem to have solved it by disabling power saving on the audio card. Didn’t work for me but might work for you.
cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/powersave
If it returns a “1” then power save is active
It’s been an unfortunately difficult problem for me to troubleshoot since it only happens occasionally. I appreciate the help though, I’ll give disabling it a shot (it was enabled.)
Linux has been very good for a long time. It’s just gaming that didn’t work very well until DXVK came out and Valve started putting a lot of work into it and Wine.
Lack of gaming compatability would be an absolute deal breaker for a hell of a lot of people, so this has been very recent major progress to set the stage for Linux success.
When I was chatting to someone about building my ‘mid’ gaming pc, we got chatting about RAM and I said I’ve got 16GB set up. His reaction was ‘only 16 gig?’
Well yeah, my OS is only using 16% of it at startup compared to you know what.
I built my mom a cheap PC like 7 years ago right before work from home took off, and at the time it was running Windows 10, but as time went on, it became apparent that the 8GB i built it with somehow wasnt enough so I upgraded it to 16GB. Fast-forward to now, where she's now running Linux because her work didn't want to support Windows 10 WFH anymore (but somehow also supported Linux clients??), and she doesn't even use 8GB of RAM, even with integrated graphics.
I’ve used Linux on desktop, servers, and embedded devices regularly, but my mobile laptop has always been Windows. There were just enough times when a commercial OS was the only working solution to something even if Linux was great for 95% of other things.
Not quite two months ago now, I’ve changed that. I bought a M2 Macbook Air and run Asahi Linux (Fedora Remix) as my primary with the ability to dual boot back to OSX if I need a commercial OS. I’ve only had to boot back to OSX one time (and it really was the only solution). Asahi on M2 isn’t perfect but I’m quite happy with it.
I took the plunge during the holiday interregnum.
A lot of stuff was stunningly simple, some frustrating hiccups/learning experiences here and there but I think all the games I checked are working.
I still have to do some work to figure out how to get mods working (not usually a dealbreaker but I’ve heard they really improve Fallout NV and I’ve been itching to try it) but goddamn it feels awesome to finally leave windows!
Modding manually is a breeze, it’s when you need different sorts of managers or script extenders that it can get a bit wonky. Welcome to the party!
Mod Organizer 2 works great on Linux. It’s a bit trickier to install due to the way Proton works, but there is an installer for it.
wit the specific hardware, its a good system for a potential steammachine if you dont care much for multiplayer, and you are millenial level of tech savvy. gonna need 20 more years to go mainstream tho.
Kirk@startrek.website 38 minutes ago
2025 was the year for me (Fedora Kinoite), in my opinion, is absolutely ready for the mainstream.
baggins@beehaw.org 20 minutes ago
I tried that and it was very good. Have been a bit of a hopper over the years and kept going back to Mint. It seemed a bit slow though and so I tried a few others and ran GeekBench 6 on them and for the last few months have been with Endeavour. It has two results as gusty result is last version.
Beeline Mini PC N100 CPU and 16GB RAM. Numbers are single core and multi core.
Apologies for formatting but it’s a table from Apple Notes 😉
Linux Mint Cinnamon 1077 1650 Cachy OS 1211 2756 Fedora Kinoite 1177 2643 Endeavour KDE 1278/1274 3292/3131 Endeavour Gnome 1135 2110 Manjaro KDE 1117 1848 Zorin 787 1134
Not the most scientific of tests but it might help someone. But for my purposes Endeavour is the one. Also the one I have least issues with.