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    [–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Can I request something here (it's off-topic) if it's okay ? Can someone recommend me videos of people debunking & exposing Bryan Lunduke for the fraud that he is ??

    [–] TheGingerNut@piefed.blahaj.zone 82 points 1 week ago (3 children)
    [–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    I know it. I'm literally typing this on a Raspberry Pi. I used to run Arch Linux on it, but Arch Linux on ARM has severe issues. It'll literally go months with no package updates.

    One day I'll get brave and switch it to Gentoo. Just need to put together a build server first.

    The maintainer for ALARM literally went on vacation and never came back. All commits are automations on the GitHub account. That's why Asahi switched to Fedora.

    [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I have had great success running NixOS on my Pi. You can build software on your main computer and remote deploy with SSH :)

    [–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Does the cross compilation work fine? I've had some issues in the past building on macOS for x64.

    [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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    [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

    Yes. I only have one extra line in my configuration:

    boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = [ "aarch64-linux" ];
    
    [–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 1 week ago

    SteamOS on the Frame may soon alleviate some of those woes, given it's based on Arch and has an ARM processor iirc. Can't hurt, anyhow.

    [–] johnnei@lemmy.johnnei.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Usually those are from python rebuilds which clog the other packages for weeks at a time. Maybe they could use your build server.

    [–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Python rebuilds don't cause (noticeable) problems for AMD64 Arch Linux.

    And any time anyone offers any kind of help on the Arch Linux Arm forums to try to help resolve the issue, the admins ignore and/or lock the thread. They're not open to help and the people on the forums are super frustrated about it.

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    [–] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

    Yocto and compile it all yourself. Arch people might think they are cool because they have to use a console to install their de but creating the devicetree for your board and then only get a console over a serial connection or ssh is the true linux experience.

    [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I want to quit my day job so I can focus on ARM power mode support in Linux

    [–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

    I would like you to.

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    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    ARM is kinda lacking the hardware to motivate developers, I think. Raspberry Pi generally has good support for server stuff, but I don't think you could really justify desktop use before maybe 2019 (release of rpi 4 with much faster CPU and more RAM), and Android devices are generally really locked down.

    [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Never mind the absolute ocean of ARM SoCs, not to mention Apple's silicon

    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    What we need are more ARM PCs with UEFI and mainline Linux drivers. That way they would run a generic OS image just like an x86 PC.

    Most ARM PCs require an image built specifically for that system. That makes them a real pain the ass to work with.

    [–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    This is why I gave up on a really amazing ARM device that I wanted to use as a router. I ended up having to buy an Intel-based mini PC simply because I didn’t have more time to invest in creating and burning random disk images to SD cards and USB flash drives.

    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    And each of these SoCs requires people, ideally the manufacturer, to actually put in the work to make the hardware work on Linux. So many SBCs with severely outdated kernels ...

    [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I suppose ARM really missed the mark by not establishing a universal power framework.

    [–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

    Those SoCs usually have one distro with a patched out of date kernel and overall lacking support of upstream drivers to install an off the shelf distro.

    Arm devices are notoriously closed. Apple silicon is an extreme example, where it only works thanks to reverse engineering the HW.

    [–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    If the SOC makers want their hardware to be popular for longer, they really need to add mainline kernel support.
    I looked at them as a tinkering platform. But I don't want to buy something which is probably abandoned in a few months.

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    [–] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Hand to God I wish I got into Linux 6 years ago before I bought my current gaming laptop. I would have been perfectly glad to keep rocking my old Lenovo, I loved that little beast of a laptop.

    [–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

    I kept my Win 7 lappy, also a Lenovo, going until the backlight started dying.

    [–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

    Same... All the flash drive stuff and program incompatibility had scared me for too long... But now I'm not afraid to, like, even go to estate sales and try to find a dirt-cheap, old machine to slap Linux on and run it down into the ground until the next one lol. I can live without Cyberpunk 2077.

    [–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The biggest performance boost from an upgrade in the last two decades was switching from a Western Digital VelociRaptor HDD to a Samsung 840EVO SATA SSD. That was going from 6ms to 0.06 ms random access latency.

    The performance boost from switching from Windows to Linux wasn't perceivable even on Gentoo where I literally compiled for the exact hardware, I had and used a custom debloated monolithic kernel. But it got me a massive boost in user agency and freedom of choice.
    You can't beat two orders of magnitude reaction latency reduction with an OS change. Windows is bloated. But it's not that bloated (at least Windows XP, 7, and 10 weren't; didn't try 11).
    I play on Gentoo btw.

    [–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

    Ya, I recently got into computer building and essentially came to that conclusion.

    [–] silasmariner@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You sound like you're talking about application run performance. That shouldn't be noticeably different. Startup and application load time tend to be where the gains are.

    [–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Depends on application and hardware. On pretty low specs you can see larger differences between operating systems.

    [–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

    If I/O latency is bad enough it can affect runtime performance from game FPS to browser "snappiness"

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I wonder if my PC counts as low end by now. I reckon I got a few more years until then.

    [–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Gamers think everything without a dedicated GPU is low end. I play games on Intel HD from 2018. Most work tolerably. I'm not switching until my laptop falls apart or it becomes fully obsolete (to slow to do my productivity tasks).

    It has a hyperthreaded quad-core. While it has less than half of the benchmark scores of modern PCs, it's still better than any used laptops you could get under 300€ (looking at you EU used hardware taxes (also, the taxes conveniently avoid the US ... How did that happen)).

    [–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I am a gamer and can confirm. For gaming, iGPU is objectively low-end. Doesn't mean, you can't play games on it. Current iGPUs are probably better than what games were made to run on two decades ago.
    I did have fun playing a selected set of games on an iGPU a decade ago. Dedicated GPUs just give you more pixels, more textures, more shader quality, more geometry, more FPS, and nowadays more AI inference capabilities. Some game genres profit a lot, some don't at all.

    [–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Factorio ClusterIO megabase with only an iGPU and a pile of rack servers for running all your instances - "Objectively low end"

    Its basically a CPU benchmark disguised as a game.

    The new Intel ARC iGPUs in the H series are actually great and in my opinion could compete with dGPUs. But I'm too poor to even try them.

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    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    TBH most day-to-day stuff still works well on my 12yo mid-tier laptop. I feel pretty good about upgrading its RAM from 8 to 16 last year, mostly to keep up with my multi-tab webbrowsing habits.

    [–] printerhell@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yup, i have a mid 2012 mbp with linux mint xfce and it runs great. My biggest complaint is the hardware support. Had to add a usb wifi dongle because broadcom chip was constantly dropping and the sleep wake takes forever and sometimes it wont sleep. But otherwise runs like a champ. I do kinda wish it would die so i could get a laptop without the sleep/wake issues.

    [–] v3ctors@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I run a 1 year newer mbp with fedora and my main drag is standby voltage. Even if the laptop is shutdown the battery will drain (batt 2 yrs old). Other than that, it still does everything you could possibly ask of it.

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    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    My ThinkPad be like:

    • Core i7
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 256 GB SSD
    • Manjaro Linux
    • 4th gen Intel platform
    [–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Ok? not even remotely impressive

    Yeah bro 12yo refurbished MSI laptop with Mint+Plasma keeps chugging along

    I pretty much only make it do documents and YouTube but still

    [–] trainsrkool@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    dat ssd is doing a lot of the liftin here hehe

    Even without the SSD the things only really slow down when you're booting or loading up an application for the first time. Linux's RAM caching is really nice.

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