BartyDeCanter

I’m not certain of the last time I had hardware where sleep didn’t just work in Linux. It’s fine in my oldest laptop that only has limited hardware support for sleep modes and extremely good on everything else.

In short, yes, Fedora, Ubuntu, or whatever will be able to install on your laptop just fine. Since you seem relatively new, I would suggest Mint as it is aimed at new users.

App installers, the way you are accustomed to from Windows, aren’t really a thing in Linux. Most applications are installed by your distro’s package manager. For those that aren’t, there is often a choice of either downloading a package for your distro ( debs in the case of Debian-derived distros like Ubuntu and Mint, rpms for Fedora and friends ) or using something like Flatpack. But really your package manager will handle most things you are looking for.

Anywhere with gravity sufficient to overcome the surface tension of the water from forming around the object or clinging to the container.

I’d prefer that things I don’t want installed, aren’t installed from the beginning.

You have to click to uninstall it? Laughs even harder in Linux.

Don’t forget that DHH is a rascist piece of shit.

Lawyers, courts, and insurance companies still do for various legal reasons. It’s deeply irritating.

It runs just fine on any of the Intel era machines. If you can get it for a good price, that would be a fantastic Linux system.

If you don’t want the M1 anymore, I’ve been wanting to give Asahi a try…

Ha! I recently went through a similar process, trying to get some hardware working for a different project that would close some 15+ year old bugs. AI helped me find it, getting sidetracked by several other small bugs in the same few files along the way.

I then wrote the actual fixes myself as a series of very small PRs. They’re all just a handful of lines each, enabling certain hardware flags, properly bounds checking loops, getting a timer initialization corrected, etc. They are all the sort of thing that once you see where they are, the fix is extremely obvious.

In the meantime, the project has adopted a very strict no AI assistance at all policy after some internal debate that almost tore the project apart.

So now I’m sitting on almost a dozen fixes for longstanding problems and have no idea if I should lie and say yes, I found these entirely by myself, or tell the truth, probably get kicked out of the project, and see how much of a shit storm they cause.

Oh! The algebraic methods will be nice at work.

For the most part you would just build the same machine as if it was a Windows gaming machine. That said, there are a few things to know:

• AMD has historically had better video drivers on Linux than nVidia, though nVidia has made some changes that has improved things quite a bit
• You want a basic, well supported common distribution if you’re not extremely familiar with Linux. Don’t go with some weird niche distro because you heard it will get you 1% better frame rates. Things like Steam and Lutris are well supported on the common easy distros. I would suggest Mint as it is Debian based, and basically everything supports Debian derivatives.
• Not every game will work, but a whole lot will. The things that are most unlikely to are competitive online games with anticheat root kits. If those matter to you, then unfortunately you’re better oft in windows.
• Take a look at https://www.protondb.com/ for a list of what is well supported and any information if they need some trick to run.

That’s quite right, which is why nwipe (the core tool of ShredOS) has a different mode for SSD vs HDD.

It you really care, throw this on a usb stick and sleep well. It replaces to old dban system, which has gone commercial. https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64

https://youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

For a status bar, you can use tmux. Take a look at things like Oh-my-tmux, TPM, and more at https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tmux

Here’s the basic tests to run, one of them will show you what the problem is

• https://memtest.org/
• sysbench memory
• sysbench cpu
• stress-ng
• gpu-burn

This article will give you the details on how to use most of them: https://www.fosslinux.com/42630/best-cpu-stress-test-performance-benchmark-linux-tools.html

Be to do them in that order, you don’t want memory issues to show up looking like cpu issues, or cpu issues to look like gpu issues.

If you’re specifically looking for OpenRC, I’d go with either Devuan or Gentoo, probably Devuan as I’m a Debian-by-default sort of person.

Debian on my severs and workstation. My laptop is also Debian, though I have a Haiku partition that has been a lot of fun to play around with. It’s way, way better than the last time I tried it.

Yeah, I moved into software from electrical engineering. “Software engineers” are rarely doing engineering. Though, weirdly, the LLM-assisted coding methods seems to be leading to more of a focus on specs, design documents, and testing methodology, which almost makes it more like actual engineering.