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fhein, 1 day ago

Hooray, I can finally play it. Had it on my wish-list for years, when I finally bought it I found out that neither the native Linux or the Windows+Proton version was working.

fhein, 1 day ago

I use www.criticker.com for movies because it has a really nice recommendation algorithm based on your personal scores. They also have a section for rating games but I haven’t tried that part

fhein, 13 days ago

It ought to be mandatory to write this out whenever talking about Linux. I’ve seen more than one person bash Linux in a public forum “because it has digital rights management built into the kernel” after they’ve misinterpreted some news headline.

fhein, 16 days ago

Did you try running xev and pressing the key to see if it shows up as something?

fhein, 16 days ago

Maybe they’re afraid of accidentally writing rm -rf folder/.git /* or something

fhein, 14 days ago

If someone is careless, they should create a wrapper around rm, or just use a FM.

I think that’s the situation OP is in… They don’t trust themself with these kinds of commands, while other commenters here are trying to convince them that they should just use rm -rf anyway

fhein, 22 days ago

Everyone’s entitled to an opinion… Unless you have an opinion about someone else’s opinion, then you’re literally Hitler /s

fhein, 24 days ago

If you’re using btrfs then you might need to rebalance it. I had the same problem, i.e. “no free space” while tools like df reporting that there should be available disk space, and it confused the hell out of me until I found the solution.

See manual: btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Balance.html

This are the commands I run every now and then, especially if my drive has been close to full and I delete a bunch of files to make more space:

<span style="color:#323232;">sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=10 /
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=20 /
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=30 /
</span>

The / at the end is the path, since it’s my root mount which uses btrfs. The example in the manual does 40 and 50 too, but higher numbers take longer time, even on an nvme ssd.

fhein, 23 days ago

Don’t know that much about how btrfs works, just had a problem with the same symptoms as OP a while ago… Things started failing due to “no space left on device” despite df reporting several gigabytes available. Took a while to figure out what was going on but eventually found some stackoverflow/reddit post that told me to run the balance command and it worked. Just a single drive with btrfs, no raid.

fhein, 22 days ago

That output means that it did something, but I suspect there’s a risk the same thing could happen in the future. I run this command every now and then in an attempt to avoid fragmentation, especially if the disk has been close to full, but I’m not entirely sure what’s causing it to happen in the first place.

fhein, 27 days ago

Maybe it’s changing now with Windows 10/11, but I think historically Windows has had just as difficult learning curve as Linux. People who have complained about Linux being more difficult than Windows just thought so because they had already spent years learning how to deal with Windows, while if they switched to Linux they would have to learn new things. If someone who has used MacOS 100% of their life were to begin using either Windows or Linux then I don’t think there would be much difference in difficulty.

I’ve come across plenty of bugs and usability issues in Windows, and despite having 10+ years experience with the OS I sometimes found them very difficult to solve, often requiring copy-pasting cryptic texts into the command prompt and/or regedit. I also think troubleshooting on Windows is made worse thanks to them writing witty things like “oops, something went wrong!” instead of actually giving you a useful error message, some many issues are of course unfixable due to its proprietary nature. At best you get an error code which you can look up online, but the OS is not made to be debugged by the user.

In the past Microsoft had really good support which you chat with, but the last time Windows refused to authenticate after an upgrade all the human support appears to have been replaced by automated troubleshooters. It got stuck in an endless loop of “run local troubleshooter” -> “you should try rebooting” -> “run online troubleshooter” -> “you should try rebooting” -> “back to the local troubleshooter again”. At work I still have a help-desk I can call with people who have taken countless hours of Microsoft trainings to get certifications.

just so I wasn’t choosing between 100% and 200% scaling. That’s just beyond the average computer user.

So if I understood you right, Fedora lets you choose either 100% or 200% scaling but you wanted more options than that? I.e. you wanted to overcome a limitation of the OS, rather than having to fix something which was broken? I don’t think the average computer user could do something similar in Windows. For example when I got my work computer with Windows 11, AFAIK there was no option to only show the task bar on one monitor, so it was always visible and taking space on all monitors. IIRC Microsoft added this feature last year, but I think it would’ve been extremely difficult for the average user to find a way to find a way to do it before that.

Guesstimating 99% of the Windows users I know would just accept that kind of thing like “it’s annoying, but this is how computers are”. I have friends, family members and coworkers who use Windows, and I’ve found them all to be extremely forgiving towards computer issues.

fhein, 25 days ago

What does this “the basics” consist of then? I would’ve thought it was something along the lines of installing the OS, connecting a printer, installing common software (productivity suite, games, etc), setting a desktop theme you like and browsing the web, but none of that requires you to learn how to use the terminal.

fhein, 30 days ago

My wife and I gave a Linux computer to a friend’s kid. I think I used something called Grapejuice to install Roblox, which ran perfectly for about a year. Then it broke because they wrote a new game client or something, but the kid just said “it’s ok, I’ll play other games instead.” Best Linux gamer attitude :)

fhein, 1 month ago

I have some hobby projects in Python but I’ve never needed the pro features, I do pay for Clion though

fhein, 1 month ago

Perhaps you weren’t using venv? If you do, it ought to create aliases to both python and python3 to the correct binary

fhein, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

remove ALL features from it

A password manager which only manages passwords? Scandal!

I’m sorry for the dev who obviously isn’t happy with this decision, but it feels a bit blown out of proportion IMO

fhein, 1 month ago

Would be nice if there’s some automatic solution, but after running into this issue I always run a couple different btrfs balance after deleting larger files for good measure. Took a while to figure out why Linux said there wasn’t any space left when df reported several GB available on the root partition

fhein, 3 months ago

I wonder how much would break, and how much time it would take to update everything, if all shells decided to implement a breaking change to prevent these kind of scenarios. E.g. make “set -u” default or some other solution

fhein, 3 months ago

kde has a screen tearing bug for games on a gsync monitor

You mean on Wayland? I play a lot of games, so I haven’t dared try it

fhein, 3 months ago

Xorg, but it has worked without issues on Fedora for over a year, and it also worked on Xubuntu before that :/

I know nvidia-settings messes up the colors if I open its GUI, but I haven’t found any other program which does so. I do use nvidia-settings from a script when power limiting + overclocking my GPU, but I have verified that it doesn’t mess with the colours, and I’ve also had it for almost a year so it’s not new.

fhein, 3 months ago

Colour management/correction is done by the computer without involving the monitor afaik.

But I have a suspicion what might be causing your issue… Computers can indeed control monitor settings such as brightness and power on/off through something which I believe is called DDC/CI (in case you wanna search for more information). When I bought a new Dell monitor I got an issue where it would randomly change brightness every now and then. I have my Linux PC hooked up to 2 monitors, and my work Windows laptop also connected to one of them. So while I was working, my own PC would think that I was idle and dimmed the screens. However, unlike my old monitors, the Dell would accept DDC/CI commands on all connections, not only the selected one. I just turned off monitor dimming in KDE control panel power settings as a workaround, and let it turn the monitor signal off immediately on inactivity.

While researching the issue, I also came across multiple posts by people having problems with Dell monitors randomly changing brightness, with only one computer connected, so it could also be that… Dell has a reset procedure which they claim should fix it, but it’s different for pretty much every model, so you’ll have to find the one for yours, in case you have a Dell monitor. Some people wrote that it didn’t work and they had to RMA the monitors.

fhein, 3 months ago

Thanks! I’ll give it a try. Never used it before but it sounds interesting

fhein, 3 months ago

I meant I use the KDE colour management settings to set the calibrated icc profiles for each display. I guess it uses colord under the hood, since restarting the service reloads the profiles. Or did you mean some other kind of display profile?

fhein, 3 months ago

No worries, any attempt to help solve this is welcome :)

fhein, 3 months ago

When you say you got a new cable, you mean an original tether cable, which is connected directly to the graphics card without adapters or extension cables?

Also, are you using Nvidia’s closed source drivers or Nouveau?

fhein, 3 months ago

Any possibility to verify that the headset’s power adapter is working? E.g. multimeter

I saw someone suggesting a headset firmware reset for this issue, but others are saying they had to RMA their headset when they got solid red lights on it :(

fhein, 3 months ago

I only have a Vive, but according to reddit this how you do it :) reddit.com/…/how_to_reset_hmd_back_to_factory_fir…

And just brainstorming here, I think I’ve had problems in the past where I had multiple high resolution + high framerate monitors, though it might’ve been on my work computer where I had a docking station… What other monitors are you using? Have you tried lower framerates? My last graphics card was a GTX1080 which is similar to yours, but I don’t remember if that one had any peculiarities with VR. Back then I dual booted Windows for VR since it didn’t work well enough on Linux

fhein, 4 months ago

Use whatever you like :) I tried VSCode at work for a few months but it felt quite lacking when working with larger C++ projects. Switched to CLion instead and it felt like it was faster, understood C++ much better, and made it easier to work in multiple files simultaneously. But I could see myseslf using VSCode for some small hobby project, especially if it’s C#

fhein, 4 months ago

security-tracker.debian.org/…/CVE-2023-6246

Don’t know if Fedora has any similar easy way of tracking vulnerabilities

fhein, 5 months ago

It used to be at least, but I’m not so sure that it still is. I’ve been using Linux full time for over a decade, mostly Xubuntu but also other distros and vanilla Ubuntu. Last year my wife decided that she wanted to ditch Windows for good so we installed Xubuntu on her pc, her netbook and our new htpc, and I was surprised that we ran into so many different issues. I could solve some of them but I think it would be much more difficult for a first time Linux user, and potentially give them a bad first impression of Linux OS:es.

fhein, 5 months ago

Small disclaimer: I’m not claiming all these issues can be said to be 100% Ubuntu’s fault, but if recommending a distro to someone who wants to try Linux for the first time they probably won’t care about anything other than the compound experience. I used Xubuntu for many years and remembered it as very stable and the vast majority of things being easy and working out of the box, which is why I was so surprised that I had to spend hours troubleshooting various things that I never had problems with previously.

Some issues and annoyances I remember off the top of my head:

Unable to wake computer after monitor turning off due to inactivity. Happened to all 3 computers which have very different hardware, which seemed a little strange to me. Did some troubleshooting on my wife’s desktop PC and IIRC it appeared to be the program which would ask for your password crashed, causing the computer to turn off the monitor signal again. Uninstalled the xfce4-screensaver package and disabled password on resume on her PC which fixed it there, but her netbook needs to have password and I think it still sometimes has this issue (she doesn’t use it very often). On the htpc I both uninstalled xfce4-screensaver and disabled all monitor power saving, but recently it has started turning off the monitor signal after inactivity anyway. At least it always wakes up from this state.

However, the htpc sometimes fails to wake up the monitor/tv after hibernate. The computer wakes up but the monitor doesn’t, and the only solution I know is the following procedure: Wake the computer up, press ctrl-alt-f1 to switch to a different vtty, press the keyboard shortcut to hibernate the computer, wake it up again, press ctrl-alt-f6 to switch back to the graphical desktop. For some reason that works…

Every time the htpc wakes up from hibernate there’s a notification saying something about the computer being reconnected to the network. There’s a button on the popup for “don’t notify me about this again” but it makes no difference, the popups keep coming. Can ofc. be disabled entirely from some other settings, but it’s not working as expected.

Watching movies in Kodi doesn’t work. It starts playing it without sound, then it begins to stutter after about 10 seconds and it gets worse until Kodi freezes entirely. Haven’t had time to properly debug it, but it worked just fine on Arch (which I wouldn’t recommend to a beginner for other reasons :)) which the previous htpc had. Instead we use VLC for the time being.

We watch various series on youtube and dropout.tv so we have a browser tab permanently open for each, often with longer episodes paused in the middle. About once per month there’s a popup telling us that we must close the web browser so that snap can update it. The popups don’t time out, and need to be clicked to go away. If you click to ignore it too many times it will forcibly close eventually. Occasionally this causes the web sites to forget what we were watching, and it can take a bit of time to find out where you were in a 3 hour D&D actual play. Probably snaps working as intended but both of us find it annoying.

Over all our Brother laser jet + scanner is great with Linux, but I had to spend a few hours to get all features working on my wife’s PC while it was pretty much plug-n-play on my current install of Fedora KDE.

Wife’s PC had issues with monitors losing their relative position and orientation. It might’ve been triggered when one of the cables glitched a bit, and it doesn’t happen now that they’re screwed in properly, but I think the OS ought to remember the configuration better. It also moved the monitors so they weren’t adjacent, which made the mouse pointer behave very weirdly when moved between then until she rearranged them in the settings.

There were some other things that I’m not able to recall right now too, nothing too serious for someone with Linux experience. My wife used Ubuntu at university so she’s not computer illiterate, but I don’t think she would’ve had the time and energy to spend hours troubleshooting issues, searching online and digging around in config files, so she probably would’ve switched back to Windows since it mostly worked for her.

fhein, 5 months ago

Fortunately I dislike Windows so much that I’m willing to spend a few weekends helping someone switch to Linux, especially if it’s my wife :D I’m also realizing I might’ve skipped a step in the conversation since the person I replied to was talking about Ubuntu, and it’s possible that at least some of those problems were specific to Xfce. In my mind I reasoned “I used to think that Xubuntu would be a solid recommendation for a beginner since I had a good experience with it in the past”, and it sounded like others were saying similar things about Ubuntu. Since I discovered that Xubuntu now had a lot of non-trivial issues I had to deal with, I was kind of thinking that it might be the same for vanilla Ubuntu… Or not, it might still be easy to use and a plug-n-play experience for beginners :)

fhein, 6 months ago

In the defence of client side AC; if the entire game runs on the server, then network delay makes FPS:es awful to play. Being able to trust clients and let them do hit detection is quite important in making online FPS:es responsive. In addition, cheats that remove walls/grass, highlight players or even autoaim are near impossible to detect server side. One could try to use heuristics and statistics but it would be difficult to tell the difference between cheaters and players who are just good at aiming and map awareness.

fhein, 7 months ago

Based on the comments here, it sounds like you and others agree that the majority of people who responded to your initial post didn’t do anything wrong, but you thought the overall experience was negative due to a few mean comments, right? So with this meme post, you portray the entire community as a bloodthirsty mob who got angry at you for asking a question. Do you see how this could be considered “not nice” to the people who wrote helpful comments, those who downvoted the negative comments, and people who didn’t even see your post but are still included in the ergo mech community here? While those who wrote mean comments to your post should consider being kinder to newbies, perhaps you ought to consider being kinder to everybody else.

fhein, 9 months ago

Unclear if you’re referring to the meme or if serious, so I’m gonna leave this here just in case: knowyourmeme.com/…/there-are-no-girls-on-the-inte…

fhein, 10 months ago

Regarding the reset button, depending on how your firmware is configured it might be necessary for flashing they keyboard. It seems like most firmwares have keyboard combos for flashing without a reset button though, see this.

fhein, 11 months ago

I swapped space to left side for all my keyboards, otherwise games become unplayable. No idea why default seems to be on the right side.

fhein, 11 months ago

but if you just click Next like most users will do, it’ll be enabled

That’s the definition of opt-out, so they’re telling the truth :) Opt-out is the worse alternative when it comes to unwanted features, opt-in would have been better.