[–] 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If your main concern is boat, you will likely be fine with any Linux distribution. There are more beginner friendly ones out there.

That said, if you play lots of PC games, even if they’re Linux compatible, switching away from Windows isn’t going to magically double your FPS. Hardware still matters.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I've tried just about every distro over the past decade, and I always come back to Ubuntu. It commands the largest share of the Linux market by a large margin, especially when you consider its derivative distributions like Mint and PopOS. It also has excellent support from hardware vendors, specifically NVIDIA in my case.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    I started a “songwriting sprint”, and I think I got one or two usable tracks out of it. I’ve also been playing a new Minecraft survival world and reading a book.

    Does anyone know the root cause of these frequent outages and if there’s anything we members can do to help out?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Star Labs is a European company that sells laptops and two-in-one tablets with excellent Linux support. They don’t meet all the criteria you listed, but they’re good to mention

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Proton’s privacy policies state that they retain unencrypted metadata (addresses, timestamps, etc.) which are required to provide the service. This information may be disclosed to law enforcement. However, the actual content in your account is largely end-to-end encrypted. Law enforcement might request it, but without the keys to decrypt it they won’t be able to read your data.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    When I was in grad school, I had a Light Phone II as my primary device. It was more than sufficient for texting and calling, and I could even listen to podcasts. It had a GPS, but it was pretty bad. After graduation I moved to a new area and ended up getting an iPhone. I average around 3-5 hours of screen time per day, but that doesn't include my computer (8 hours a day at work as a computer engineer) or TV. Eventually I would like to return to my Light Phone, or even upgrade to the new third-generation model.

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  • Desktop Grid Quirks (lemmy.sdf.org)
     

    I have my Mac desktop configured to snap icons to a grid. However, for a while I've noticed that moving an icon causes them to snap to the upper-right corner of the screen, ignoring where I actually want them and overlapping existing icons. The only way around this seems to be going into Display Settings, changing any parameter such as Grid Size, and then moving the icons again. Has anyone else been experiencing this?

    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
     

    I am interested in dual-booting a Linux distro (probably Ubuntu) on my 2019 MacBook Pro. Ideally, I would have a shared data partition so that I could access my documents from both OSes. Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to accomplish this?

    UPDATE: created macOS, Ubuntu, and data partitions. Was able to mount and access data partition from both systems without any issues. As a bonus, Ubuntu let me replace the standard documents, photos, videos, etc. folders with symlinks to the data partition.

     

    Does anyone here have a BOOX e-paper tablet? I'm a big fan of e-paper devices—I love my Pebble smartwatch, Kindle Paperwhite, and Light Phone II. I've been eyeing the Tab Ultra C for quite a while, and I am considering the pros and cons. Mostly, I intend to use it for browsing the web and maybe some light note taking and document writing.

    Suzuki Omnichord OM-108 Unveiled (www.suzuki-music.co.jp)
     

    Suzuki's much anticipated re-issue of the Omnichord is here! It's a faithful modernization of the iconic form factor and sound of the OM-84, and it's expected to retail for around $800. Given that in 1984 these instruments went for between $260-$300 ($700-$1500 today), that's exciting!

    I've got an original OM-84 that's still going strong, but I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this new line.

    Yubikey on Linux? (lemmy.sdf.org)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
     

    Hi friends! Has anyone here had success using Yubikeys on Linux? I've been going back and forth with support to no avail, trying to get my Yubikey 5C NFC to play nicely on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Any suggestions are appreciated.

    I have the following Yubikey-related packages on my system:

    libyubikey-udev 1.20.0-3 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── udev rules for unprivileged access to YubiKeys
    
    libyubikey0 1.13-6 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── Yubikey OTP handling library runtime
    
    python3-yubikey-manager 4.0.7-1 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── Python 3 library for configuring a YubiKey — transitional package
    
    yubikey-manager 4.0.7-1 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── Python library and command line tool for configuring a YubiKey
    
    yubikey-manager-qt 1.2.4-1 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── Graphical application for configuring a YubiKey
    
    yubikey-personalization-gui 3.1.24-1build1 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── Graphical personalization tool for YubiKey tokens
    
    libfido2-1 1.10.0-1 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
    ├── is installed
    └── library for generating and verifying FIDO 2.0 objects
    
    python3-fido2 0.9.1-1 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── Python library for implementing FIDO 2.0
    
    pcscd 1.9.5-3ubuntu1 [Ubuntu/jammy universe]
    ├── is installed
    └── Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC (daemon side)
    

    UPDATE: After working my way down the entire software stack, I contacted the vendor of my USB-C port and requested a replacement. It did the trick...

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