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OnfireNFS

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  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • Hmm this makes me wonder if the Steam Deck 2 will be ARM. If the Steam Frame works well, that could be a way for Valve to push more performance/battery life out of the deck

  • I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.

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  • This. Even if you were going to run a bare metal server it's almost always nicer to install Proxmox and just have a single VM

  • Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

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  • I like that rust is opinionated by default. It reminds me of prettier. I don't have to argue with teams about what code style were using. I can open up any rust project and know it's readable and formatted with the same specification as any other rust project

  • The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer

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  • That's a really good idea. Something like OpenWrt but for printers would be amazing.

    It's funny, they have their own hardware now. Maybe starting with a open source printer firmware would eventually lead to open source printer hardware.

  • The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer

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  • I've always thought it was interesting we have open source 3D printers but with how often 2D printers break and how expensive ink is no one has made an open source 2D printer. It's nice to see some progress in this field

  • Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?

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  • This reminds me of a question I saw a couple years ago. It was basically why would you stick with bare metal over running Proxmox with a single VM.

    It kinda stuck with me and since then I've reimaged some of my bare metal servers with exactly that. It just makes backup and restore/snapshots so much easier. It's also really convenient to have a web interface to manage the computer

    Probably doesn't work for everyone but it works for me

  • What was your first distro?

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  • Ubuntu 12.04. I really tried to use it as a daily but wine wasn't as good back then, a lot of apps I wanted to run were also platform specific. If a package wasn't in your distros repo you had to try and build it from source which was really difficult for someone just trying to start with Linux. I tried again with Ubuntu 16.04 and it was better but still wasn't quite there.

    Fast forward to now and I'm actually dailying Bazzite 42. I'm not sure if wine has just improved a ton or proton has helped out a lot but windows compatibility has improved so much in the last decade. As much as everyone hates Electron for being heavier than native apps I would prefer an Electron app over no Linux version. Actually a lot of the apps I want to run now ship Linux versions so I don't even need wine for most things.

    Flatpaks and appimages with Gear Lever have made installing apps on Linux as easy as Windows and MacOS. It might not seem like it but it's come a long way

  • GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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  • I'm running a self hosted Gitlab instance right now but thinking of switching to Forgejo. Anyone tried both and have thoughts on each?

  • Slicer software for a Linux system?

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  • Hmm I'm using it on Bazzite with KDE, which is based off Fedora 42 atomic. I haven't really noticed any issues with it, though I haven't printed anything in awhile

  • Slicer software for a Linux system?

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  • I use PrusaSlicer from Flathub. I was using PrusaSlicer on Windows before switching to Linux. I've been using it since the original Slic3r stopped getting updates. Because it's available as a flatpak it should work on pretty much any distro and immutable distros

  • Immutable Linux OS to run Incus

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  • As someone unfamiliar with Incus is this kinda similar to Proxmox? I would love an immutable version of Proxmox. This seems pretty cool

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    Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • Bazzite has a KDE version too. I think it is more popular then the GNOME version of bazzite actually. At least according to the results of the latest steam survey

  • What do you play in your phone?

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  • Pinball Deluxe Reloaded

    It's a fun little time waster, I like that I don't have any ads on it either

  • Hey Lemmy, what browser do you use and why?

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  • I switched to Firefox from Chrome back when they were branding it as Firefox Quantum and honestly I have been happy with it. It has been just as fast as Chrome if not faster, it might use more memory but unused memory means your computer could be caching more.

    I don't love the stuff Mozilla has been doing recently but it's not enough to make me switch. I think the brand redesign in 2024 was pretty horrible, moz://a was genius design compared to the P thing they have now. I think they have also been chasing AI stuff recently. Mozilla has done some pretty cool things in the past though like Rust, Servo and Fluent.

  • NotJustBikes uses Linux!

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  • I've seen a lot of comments online of people saying they'll leave Windows 10 once SteamOS has general availability. I fear that'll lead them to having a bad experience with Linux because they'll be expecting a desktop OS but instead receive an OS that turns their computer into a console. There's a couple features Bazzite has (like printer drivers) which you might want on something replacing Windows 10 but you probably don't care about if you have a handheld or a steam machine

  • NotJustBikes uses Linux!

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  • Bazzite doesn't have this issue. Waydroid actually comes pre-installed as part of Bazzite

  • Atomic Linux Distros: What Barriers Stand Between You and Making the Switch?

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  • I've been running Bazzite for months and I have extremely happy with it. I switched from Windows and only use Windows for SteamVR now. I use atomic distros almost exclusively now.

    If you like to customize and tweak everything about your OS than an atomic distro probably isn't for you. You probably want something like Arch.

    If you need/want an OS that is incredibly reliable at the cost of disk space and customization, than an atomic distro might be for you. The main thing an atomic distro provides that a traditional one can't is reproducibility. Since the distro is a base image with packages layered on top you should be able to repeat those steps and arrive at the exactly same image. The system partition is then made immutable so that it stays in this reproducible state. This prevents users modifying system files and creating a unique system that can't be reproduced. This should make bugs easier to track down because each install of the distro is always identical. You can still add packages by layering them on top (think of each package you layer as another "step" in the image build process. By tracking the steps you have added it keeps the image reproducible). Its pretty similar to how a dockerfile works.

    Bazzite also keeps the previous version of the OS, so if an update fails you still have a working computer. Like others have said you can create snapshots on traditional distros so this isn't really a unique feature, but it is nice it has it by default. I swear Bazzite also used to have A/B partitions as well which is really nice if your OS somehow gets corrupted, but my computer doesn't seem to have them anymore.

    The other nice thing about an atomic OS is because it locks down your system partition the main way to install applications is either flatpaks or appimages. These use more disk space but should always have the correct dependencies (which fixes another whole class of errors). You can also use flatpaks or appimages on a traditional distro but an atomic one enforces it. If you can't install an application as a flatpak or appimage you can use package layering or distrobox to install it. Distrobox allows you to have a traditional distro in a container and integrate its applications into your main atomic OS. If something goes wrong with the container you can delete it and rebuild it without affecting your OS. You can also have a different container for each app so if something happens to one container you don't lose all of your distrobox apps. Also something you could do on a traditional distro but don't need to.

    All of this leads to a really stable base os and the main advantage of an atomic OS: You should always be able to boot your computer. The downside is everything you install needs to be in a container so that if it causes an issue it doesn't affect your base os booting.

    This reminds me of Proxmox and how you really shouldn't modify the host because you risk making your system unbootable and jeopardizing your containers and vms. Its much safer to have a stable, solid base and do riskier stuff in container or vm that can fail and be rebuilt. Proxmox would actually probably be a good candidate for an atomic distribution.

  • [Discussions] Lemmy clients

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  • The best phones with a headphone jack - December 2024

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  • I've never really understood the argument against headphone jacks. I can still use Bluetooth headphones with my phone. I can also use wired headphones and aux cables on my phone. Why would you want less features