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That it can handle your hardware. There are ways to tell the driver to handle specific hardware
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
That it can handle your hardware. There are ways to tell the driver to handle specific hardware
Which means that your card might actually be supported, but only on a distro that uses newer software
- If you're lucky and there are other cards by the same manufacturer that do work, it's entirely possible that the driver for the other cards will work for your card, but the driver doesn't know
- If you're lucky and there are other cards by the same manufacturer that do work, it's entirely possible that the driver for the other cards will work for your card, but the driver doesn't know
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Which means that your card might actually be supported, but only on a distro that uses newer software
- If you're lucky and there are other cards by the same manufacturer that do work, it's entirely possible that the driver for the other cards will work for your card, but the driver doesn't know
- If you're lucky and there are other cards by the same manufacturer that do work, it's entirely possible that the driver for the other cards will work for your card, but the driver doesn't know
Some more notes about hardware with Linux:
- Microsoft has been known to pressure hardware manufacturers to make things difficult for Linux, your motherboard might be a victim of this
- If you're running a Debian variant such as Mint or Ubuntu, know that they often run older software
- Microsoft has been known to pressure hardware manufacturers to make things difficult for Linux, your motherboard might be a victim of this
- If you're running a Debian variant such as Mint or Ubuntu, know that they often run older software
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Some more notes about hardware with Linux:
- Microsoft has been known to pressure hardware manufacturers to make things difficult for Linux, your motherboard might be a victim of this
- If you're running a Debian variant such as Mint or Ubuntu, know that they often run older software
- Microsoft has been known to pressure hardware manufacturers to make things difficult for Linux, your motherboard might be a victim of this
- If you're running a Debian variant such as Mint or Ubuntu, know that they often run older software
- All feelings regarding fucky family situations are valid, and it sucks you have to deal with it
- Some hardware can be missed by Linux for various reasons, but if you tell me the specific card model I might be able to help you
- Some hardware can be missed by Linux for various reasons, but if you tell me the specific card model I might be able to help you
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
- All feelings regarding fucky family situations are valid, and it sucks you have to deal with it
- Some hardware can be missed by Linux for various reasons, but if you tell me the specific card model I might be able to help you
- Some hardware can be missed by Linux for various reasons, but if you tell me the specific card model I might be able to help you
- That really sucks, I'm sorry about that
- They do, but Windows insists on "Modern sleep" that isn't actually true sleep, so some hardware requires a bios setting (look for legacy sleep options)
- Honestly, depends on your situation, but for most cases yes (reply with more details for advice)
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- They do, but Windows insists on "Modern sleep" that isn't actually true sleep, so some hardware requires a bios setting (look for legacy sleep options)
- Honestly, depends on your situation, but for most cases yes (reply with more details for advice)
1/
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
- That really sucks, I'm sorry about that
- They do, but Windows insists on "Modern sleep" that isn't actually true sleep, so some hardware requires a bios setting (look for legacy sleep options)
- Honestly, depends on your situation, but for most cases yes (reply with more details for advice)
1/
- They do, but Windows insists on "Modern sleep" that isn't actually true sleep, so some hardware requires a bios setting (look for legacy sleep options)
- Honestly, depends on your situation, but for most cases yes (reply with more details for advice)
1/
Depending on what hardware it is you might be pleasantly surprised (unless it's Nvidia), gaming is dead simple as long as they don't depend on kernel anticheat, streaming shouldn't be an issue as obs supports Linux. Art stuff might be a problem unless you already use open software.
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Depending on what hardware it is you might be pleasantly surprised (unless it's Nvidia), gaming is dead simple as long as they don't depend on kernel anticheat, streaming shouldn't be an issue as obs supports Linux. Art stuff might be a problem unless you already use open software.
The anime was my first introduction to yuri, they hold a special place in my heart
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The anime was my first introduction to yuri, they hold a special place in my heart
This, so much this
October 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This, so much this
I have a very important question, did you know that I love your comics?
September 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I have a very important question, did you know that I love your comics?
I also think the same process can use two cards using vulkan, but again I don't have a lot of direct experience with it
September 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I also think the same process can use two cards using vulkan, but again I don't have a lot of direct experience with it
I don't have a lot of experience with frame gen, but if you can do it in two separate processes, you can control which process uses which card
September 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I don't have a lot of experience with frame gen, but if you can do it in two separate processes, you can control which process uses which card
You can, I'm using dual gpus in my desktop right now
September 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
You can, I'm using dual gpus in my desktop right now
Look up the 'rfkill' command, you can list the devices it can control and then turn off the onboard one (I don't know a GUI way to do it off the top of my head)
August 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Look up the 'rfkill' command, you can list the devices it can control and then turn off the onboard one (I don't know a GUI way to do it off the top of my head)
Now, anybody willing to learn how to reinstall an OS (which yeah a little difficult, but most easy distros make it as easy as Windows) can get a functional desktop os, where the only typical pain points are property software and Nvidia drivers
July 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Now, anybody willing to learn how to reinstall an OS (which yeah a little difficult, but most easy distros make it as easy as Windows) can get a functional desktop os, where the only typical pain points are property software and Nvidia drivers
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. I'm not an old timer, but when I started Linux practically every distro would need you to manually configure X11, and if you had wireless you would either need to compile wireless drivers or hope that NDISWrapper would run the Windows driver 1/
July 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. I'm not an old timer, but when I started Linux practically every distro would need you to manually configure X11, and if you had wireless you would either need to compile wireless drivers or hope that NDISWrapper would run the Windows driver 1/
Y'see, being only Windows quality is the issue
July 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Y'see, being only Windows quality is the issue
At least with the firefox package, most people wouldn't be installing that from AUR. Not much help for the other two though
July 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
At least with the firefox package, most people wouldn't be installing that from AUR. Not much help for the other two though
Not really, Linux is really just the kernel (the part that manages the hardware and juggles running programs.) Android does run a modified Linux kernel, but what's known as the "user space" (the software you as a user directly use) is completely different
July 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Not really, Linux is really just the kernel (the part that manages the hardware and juggles running programs.) Android does run a modified Linux kernel, but what's known as the "user space" (the software you as a user directly use) is completely different
Bazzite or Aurora (Fedora silverblue based) depending on if you want a gaming centric desktop or not
May 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Bazzite or Aurora (Fedora silverblue based) depending on if you want a gaming centric desktop or not
I have KDE installed along side hyprland for this very reason
May 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I have KDE installed along side hyprland for this very reason
Hyperland is a tiling desktop that is mostly keyboard driven and every control is customizable. The flip side is the only person that knows how to use it is the person that configured it. I use hyperland and I would have no idea how to use your brother's desktop and he wouldn't mine
May 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Hyperland is a tiling desktop that is mostly keyboard driven and every control is customizable. The flip side is the only person that knows how to use it is the person that configured it. I use hyperland and I would have no idea how to use your brother's desktop and he wouldn't mine
I once saw a video of a person who messes with scammers saying that in a way, bad English is a good filter. Basically anyone willing to reply, in spite of the butchered English, is probably a good mark
May 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I once saw a video of a person who messes with scammers saying that in a way, bad English is a good filter. Basically anyone willing to reply, in spite of the butchered English, is probably a good mark
I've daily driven Arch for about 8 years, I love it but would never recommend it to a beginner. It is very much for people who want to customize their system. I typically recommend Mint, Kubuntu, or possibly Fedora to beginners. Stick with KDE distros if you're coming from Windows.
May 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I've daily driven Arch for about 8 years, I love it but would never recommend it to a beginner. It is very much for people who want to customize their system. I typically recommend Mint, Kubuntu, or possibly Fedora to beginners. Stick with KDE distros if you're coming from Windows.