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Have you tried using a different desktop environment? Cinnamon is a nice DE, but it's old code base is going to start showing its age more and more. As I understand it, the Cinnamon team has no plans to support Wayland, and X11 is only going to get worse over time. You might want to look into...

Instead of two systems, why not just use the NVIDIA card as an accelerator? You could use the AMD card as your primary display device, and just have the NVIDIA card for NVENC, CUDA, etc. Would save you money from having to build a second system, and you can always block the NVIDIA GPU kernel...

I'd recommend a network share, or if that's not an option then a separate partition that is either FAT32/exFAT or NTFS partition that the each OS can share. NTFS RW is solid these days on Linux, however it is riskier than using something FAT based. I've personally never had any issues with NTFS...

Personally I recommend Fedora if you are beyond the beginner stage. I've been using it for almost two years now, and I absolutely love it. Some aspects aren't as user friendly as Ubuntu, but I've yet to have it break on me. I like that it uses default DE's that I can customize how I want, and I...

Mint major release upgrades are the single most puzzling thing about Mint to me. For a distro that sells itself as the easy to use beginner's distro, which to be fair it really is in a LOT of ways, how the upgrade experience is still a broken mess is just beyond me. What makes it even more...

That's a bit hyperbolic don't you think? I'm sure a 4 core Ryzen 3 mobile CPU with integrated Radeon graphics in a mini PC could handle that as well at around the same power draw, and at least with a PC you have complete control of the software stack. The CPU isn't really what matters as much as...

I do that as well, but I have several blu-rays that I've yet to rip and encode for use with Plex, so to watch those having the convenience of being able to just pop in the disk and watch it directly is nice. No need to wait for the extraction or an encode when we decide to watch a movie I...

The initial decrypt process that MakeMKV does when you open a BR in VLC takes about 20 seconds, but you can check the no menus box which means the movie starts directly. No splash screens (FBI warning, trailers, etc.) And then of course scrubbing through the movie is faster because you can use...

I repurposed an old desktop to drive our home theater projector for family movie nights. Athlon x4 760k, 8GB RAM, GTX 750Ti, 120 GB Kingston SSD, ASUS Bluray Reader, Linux Mint 21. It works great. We can stream from all of the available streaming services, and it even allows us to play our...

286 = 1988 IBM XT Clone AMD 486 DX4 100 MHz = 1993 Canon InnovaMedia PC Intel Celeron 733 MHz = HP Prebuilt (My last OEM desktop) Intel Pentium 3 1 GHZ Coppermine Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Northwood AMD Athlon XP 2500+ OC to 3200+ AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Intel Core Duo (2006 Macbook) Intel Core 2...

This. Computers are NOT smartphones. While I'm sure there are benefits to linking an MS account to Windows, or an Apple account to MacOS, this shouldn't be a requirement. There are many use cases in which linking an online account may cause issues or at a minimum not be desired. Offline...

Look into the CoreCtrl project. It's an open source GUI for controlling AMD GPU's on linux. Allows for overclocking and fan control, including off at idle. Just make sure you do the system setup steps. CoreCtrl by default can do a lot, but a few tweaks to GRUB and polkit really let it spread its...

The Win11OS theme for KDE has a frosted glass panel similar to the implementation in Windows 11. https://store.kde.org/p/1554642/

I wouldn't recommend using the drivers provided on AMD's site. Since you are using Mint, you will be behind the latest Mesa which contains the AMD GPU drivers for Linux. Thankfully though, you can use the Mesa PPA since Mint is based on Ubuntu. The Kisak PPA is the one I'd recommend using. You...

I just recently decided to jump to Fedora after running Ubuntu/PopOS for the last 5 years. I got kind of tired of certain things in Ubuntu, and decided it was time I try an RPM based distro as I've never really used them outside of work. Only been on it for about 2 weeks, but I'm liking it and...

That meme sums up my attitude, but I must admit that I too have a couple of IoT devices in the home. We have an Ecobee thermostat mainly because we have a two story house in a hot climate, and it was the only thermostat I could find at the time that had remote sensors I could place in the...

Here are the answers as I understand them. That being said I could be completely wrong. 1. No. As I understand it, the AD support has been included for the desktop versions of Ubuntu to allow for easier workstation integration into existing AD infrastructure. 2. I believe this is a yes for at...

You could also take a look at Pop_OS!. It's based on Ubuntu but tends to have more up to date software (i.e. Kernel and graphics drivers), and doesn't have as many annoyances as Ubuntu in my opinion. The only thing that annoys me about it is that it uses systemd boot instead of GRUB. Makes dual...

To go back to remote server management on Linux, I can't believe no one has brought up Cockpit. It's a bit more restricted than Webmin, but for routine maintenance tasks and whatnot, it's easy and convenient. I have it running on my TV Server, and I almost never have to go into the CLI anymore...

Sure, you don't need to be an expert until it doesn't work and you have to start troubleshooting. The biggest problem I have with the arguments for everyone building their own PC is what seems to be the assumption that everything will just work fine. But what about when said person builds the PC...

Doubtful. The truth of the matter is most people have no desire to learn how computers actually work, how to fix/maintain them, or how to build them. I understand the sentiment, but it just isn't realistic. Also, that argument is similar to saying that people shouldn't buy cars from...

If the big tech firms have their way I think the vision for the future is no more personal computers. Everything will be in the cloud accessed via glorified thin client terminals. As web apps become more and more dominate I think this is the future we are headed towards. As far as real PC...

My complaints have less to do with the way things look, and more to do with what seems to be a lack of prioritization on Microsoft's part. The point I've been trying to make is that instead of focusing on stability improvements or fixing broken functions, they seem to be more focused on adding...

Complicated or just different from what you're used to? Most users new to Linux, myself included when I first started using it, succumb to the "tyranny of the default" (Credit goes to Steve Gibson for coining this term). Windows or MacOS do it a way, and anything that does it different is wrong...

Yes. My complaint mostly comes down to Microsoft's constant fussing around with the UI while core functionality (search) is still a broken mess. Untrue. What they actually said is that they will do large feature updates when they are ready. They haven't committed to any specific deployment...

Windows 95, ME, and 8 may have all had their problems, but I don't recall updates to them ever deleting users files, and I certainly don't remember it happening with multiple updates. The biggest problem with Windows 10 isn't it as a whole. The base OS is actually fairly solid, and I'd say that...

I'd say use what you think you'd be most comfortable with. For me, I run Plex on Ubuntu Server 18.04 in a headless configuration. If you think Windows is the best for you to work with, especially if you are managing the installation for someone else, then go with that. Although, the suggestion...

It's almost like Red Hat has turned into the linux version of 90's Microsoft. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Well, one thing to keep in mind, is that CentOS Stream isn't a rolling release in the traditional sense. It's only ever going to be one minor point release ahead of RHEL. So if RHEL is at 8.2, then Stream would be at 8.3. So, for dev box purposes that might actually be perfect as you could use...

Yeah, go figure Microsoft still hasn't fixed the installer. Why it doesn't put everything on the drive you tell it to is beyond me.

I'd argue that while the classics from the 90's are great, games peaked somewhere around 2011 in my opinion. That was the point where the visuals were good enough to be convincing, story telling was phenomenal, game mechanics reached a point where a lot of the old annoyances were resolved, and...

This is a good point. Don't know why the Windows installer does this, but it has definitely happened to me on more than one occasion. It's really annoying how little MS has changed the Windows installer in the last 14 years. IIRC, the current installer isn't that different from the Vista installer.

The countless hours I spent playing Duke Nukem 3D in the 90's, followed by UT99. Oh those were the days. Not to mention, am I the only one who fondly remembers overclocking with DIP switches and jumpers? Also, I remember in 93? when we upgraded from out 286 AT clone to a Canon InnovaMedia 486...

The following steps should get you the information you need. Press Shift+F10 in the installer, a command prompt window will open. In this window type diskpart and press enter. Once the diskpart utility loads, type list disk. This will show you a list of all installed drives, the two drives in...

I used to do it all the time back in the day, but now that I'm getting old I just can't be bothered anymore. Unless something breaks or I'm upgrading in a way that would force it I just don't bother.

On the Linux Unplugged podcast, they had a guest from Red Hat who discussed this. Apparently there are going to be expanded free versions of RHEL made available early next year. I'm sure this will be more for personal use type situations, but there also might be options for SMB customers as...

On that we can definitely agree. Like I said earlier, I prefer and use flatpak for desktop applications, and the next time I upgrade my home server I'll most likely utilize Docker for the various services. The only reason I'm not using Docker for my servers as configured now, is because they've...

Semantics. Yes, it is not a default system utility, however the difference is irrelevant to the point I was making considering I said "system utilities and end user applications." The point still stands. That's not what Docker is used for. Docker is used for hosting containerized services...

How do you figure Docker doesn't have this problem? It has the exact same problem, the difference is that the docker compose file declares what access the container needs to the system. If ports aren't declared in Docker compose you end up with the same type of problem. Also, Docker, to my...

Another idea, you could set it up as a Wireguard or OpenVPN server to provide a remote tunnel into your home that you can use while you are away. This of course assumes your router isn't already performing this task for you. EDIT: Ignore everything I just said in this post. Didn't notice that...