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The EADD Linux Technical Gibberings Thread

Hehe. As if I would ever fish for a wee Knock at the door ;):D<3

I do think it's the only chance of me ever getting it right though. And you're always more than welcome with or without yer mad techy skillz. The place is even just about presentable these days 8o

(just so long as you don't go exploring too far away from the living room ;))
 
Just do what I do and reinstall every time you break something (frequently, in Linux) :D
 
Oh I have done. For many, many years. Unfortuntely whatever is fukked carries over each time. Yes I know it shouldn't do but it does. It's not a recent thing - has been happening for years now. Since shortly after I bought my first computer, in fact.
 
Fucking cunty fuck tit wank bolllocks blue waffle smell.

Stripped computer down. Went over all contacts with isopropyl alcohol. Cleaned up processors and reapplied heatsink compound. Hoovered the bastard. STILL DOES NOT WORK. Ordered new motherboard. Not happy.
 
Stripped computer down. Went over all contacts with isopropyl alcohol. Cleaned up processors and reapplied heatsink compound. Hoovered the bastard. STILL DOES NOT WORK. Ordered new motherboard. Not happy.

This is out of date. The new motherboard I ordered was no use as it's a server board and doesn't have the right PCI-X slot or whatever it is for my video card. It was a "fucked" purchase, wasn't paying attention. £20 down the drain. It seems next to impossible to get a socket 940 motherboard these days, I have a Tyan K8WE, saw one second hand on eBay, in the US, for about £250. Jesus!

Anyway, all is not lost as my computer works just fine with only one CPU, so 2 cores. Tried swapping CPUs, it's the board that's faulty, only runs with one CPU, which means I can only populate half the RAM sockets, so only 8GB. SteamOS works fine, and Metro Last Light works just amazingly, graphics up to 11, no audio stuttering which I was getting before. So the new graphics card made all the difference and even losing 2 CPU cores and 8GB RAM has had no negative effect, it all just works beautifully. I'm annoyed about losing the ability to use 2 CPUs but it's made absolutely no practical difference.

So quite happy with my Linux gaming set up, and it's very very quiet now for the first time in the 8 years I've had this box, thanks to the Scythe coolers. I've got a spare one now, cost £30. I've actually got quite a lot of stuff I need to put on eBay now.

I got a raspberry pi ages ago and it's now sitting in the living room connected to my wireless headphones. Connects to my file server via NFS, runs MPD (Music Player Daemon) which I can remote control in various ways, so now I have a low power system for my headphones, very happy with it. But I can't wear the headphones in the shower, so I got another raspberry pi and I've connected that up to the stereo I've got at the bathroom door, which is where my router sits, so it's powered from the USB port on the router.

As my first pi is also hooked up to my amp in the living room, I thought it would be cool if I could synchronize audio output on them, so I hear the same thing in the living room and the bathroom. Like the expensive Sonos system, or the cheaper Logitech Squeezebox system... Quick google, squeezebox server (aka "logitech media server") is actually open source and there are open source clients which can turn a Pi into the equivalent of a Logitech squeezebox radio, so I've done that, and it works very nicely too :)
 
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I like that.

I'm still running Linux Mint after you converted me mate, I'll think of you as I grapple with the command line stuff.
 
"Map of package dependencies in the Ubuntu Software Center" - apparently:

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source: http://tech-foo.blogspot.se/2013/01/visualising-ubuntu-package-repository.html
 
And now we're up and running!

So I grabbed one of these off ebay for £109(linky). It's hillarious that Currys is still selling these for over £200 when they're barely functional out of the box but they make incredible linux machines. I had the 2015 model before which only came with 2gb of RAM and that got me through 2 years of college fine and the current model has 4gb so even better!

I've installed Ubuntu mate 24.04 and everything is working out of the box WIFI included. The only thing I had trouble with is compiz which is apparently bugged on this version of Ubuntu so no wobbly windows for me :(

Besides that though works like a charm. About 1gb of RAM used at idle

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The amount of resources that windows operating systems use is so annoying. I'm in the bad habit of almost on a daily basis opening about 20 you tube tabs before I settle down for my dinner, hoping to chill out with a selection of viewing for a while during and after dinner.

What normally happens is that just as I sit down with my dinner and switch the computer output from monitor to TV the whole thing crashes and hangs. Which has me cursing and swearing as bad as any sailor ever might have done. As I end up having to reboot and load up the tabs (only slightly fewer second time around) all over again, while my dinner gets cold in the meantime. Ubuntu never had this problem. It very very rarely crashed or hung, could handle loads of internet tabs, and that was a on much older and lower spec machine.

The only thing I like about Windows 11 is the screen record function. If it wasnt for that I'd uninstall Windows in a heartbeat and go back to any version of Linux. I'm sure everything would run so much faster without all the bloat of Windows, and that it would be able to cope so much better with having multiple tabs open.

Its slow and laggy in general whenever you have more than 3 or 4 different programs on the go at any one time.

Plus the zero costs required to install and update Linux, and it being virtually indestructible, and nowhere near as vulnerable to malicious hacking are all other such strong benefits of the o/s.

Not to mention that all the conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and Windows being the epitome of a pure evil capitalist monoploy, and constantly spying on it's users every action must be true!
 
The amount of resources that windows operating systems use is so annoying. I'm in the bad habit of almost on a daily basis opening about 20 you tube tabs before I settle down for my dinner, hoping to chill out with a selection of viewing for a while during and after dinner.

What normally happens is that just as I sit down with my dinner and switch the computer output from monitor to TV the whole thing crashes and hangs. Which has me cursing and swearing as bad as any sailor ever might have done. As I end up having to reboot and load up the tabs (only slightly fewer second time around) all over again, while my dinner gets cold in the meantime. Ubuntu never had this problem. It very very rarely crashed or hung, could handle loads of internet tabs, and that was a on much older and lower spec machine.

The only thing I like about Windows 11 is the screen record function. If it wasnt for that I'd uninstall Windows in a heartbeat and go back to any version of Linux. I'm sure everything would run so much faster without all the bloat of Windows, and that it would be able to cope so much better with having multiple tabs open.

Its slow and laggy in general whenever you have more than 3 or 4 different programs on the go at any one time.

Plus the zero costs required to install and update Linux, and it being virtually indestructible, and nowhere near as vulnerable to malicious hacking are all other such strong benefits of the o/s.

Not to mention that all the conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and Windows being the epitome of a pure evil capitalist monoploy, and constantly spying on it's users every action must be true!

Windows is the very definition of code bloat.

The only solution (using Windows) is a shit ton of RAM. I run 64 GB RAM and it's pretty stable no matter how much I push it but I also have another similar machine with 16 GB and Linux and it's just fine. If only Linux supported all my tools, etc. I would only have Windows around to make sure my code runs properly on it.

And we haven't even addressed the "leaky" nature of Windows... I'm running a Beta version of Win 11 and the amount of data it telegraphs "home" is obscene.
 
And we haven't even addressed the "leaky" nature of Windows... I'm running a Beta version of Win 11 and the amount of data it telegraphs "home" is obscene
I've barely used windows 11 (well, I just used it to download Linux and flash it to a stick🤣) but M$ has been off the rails with data collection and advertising since windows 8 so this doesn't surprise me in the least.

@Bleaney it sounds like you still use windows despite having a lot of qualms with it, or are you using a mix?

If you are still using windows full time just wondering what's stopping you from jumping ship? Even gaming is is a painless experience on Linux these days.
 
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