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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyztoComic Strips@lemmy.worldxRule
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    9 days ago

    You’re not doing it on purpose but your comment does highlight the ease people dismiss the social experience of hidden disability.

    • Oh your that (weird) person always wearing gloves.

    • Why are you so sensitive about your gloves?, just take em off.

    • Someone tried to rip off her gloves the other day and they are in the hospital now.

    Comments in this style are more common for teens but the sense of not belonging even if for something at first glance mundane lasts well into adulthood.



  • For new users the main question is not what operating system but what window manager as that is what shapes day to day user interaction. KDE plasma is a solid choice.

    Installing it on a separate drive should be no problem. Just select the correct drive during install.

    I use F10 to get to the boot menu on drive and select the drive it needs to boot from there. I have used it once in the last year and although it required many updates its still working.






  • I recognize that this is a very different angle but there is a global trend for free open source software which are non profit by design.

    Of course this basically means you need to be a developer and than there is still the question about how to survive within economic society.

    I doubt you want to live from donations coming from where you are now.

    The sweet spot, which might be viable for you is an open source devision within a for profit company. Many industries have started to understand the massive value of open source software and standards. Companies like redhat build open source tools on one side but then sell industry tailored packages and support to enterprises for profit. Even Nvidia has started to open source some level of their drivers because they realized that enthusiast will often improve on those for zero costs.

    I imagine in some of those divisions its just like a normal company with not just devs but all kinda of roles your direct product will be used by the for profit stuff but also be free for everyone else out there that might need it.



  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml...
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    1 month ago

    Something i recently learned:

    Your live usb does not need to be the same distro as your main. (And in retrospect that makes total sense but i never realized)

    My arch install broke and could not get timeshift to roll back using the arch live usb. But a ubuntu-desktop live usb worked flawlessly.










  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    2 months ago

    Just to add some variation to these comments.

    Nvidia works absolutely fine on (arch) linux, that needs to be said. Performance is on par with windows.

    Depending on what your needs are its the better choice. (I have a few pieces of software that greatly rely on CUDA)

    But the elephant in the room is your need for non proprietary driver. The only open source nvidia does is the strict minimum to catch up and stay competitive on linux (they where losing before). There is a clear winner on this front. Que all the other comments.