Yeah, I also find it very annoying. I guess Youtube just can’t imagine that people exist who speak more than one language…
Having the option of automatic translations is fine but at least let me (globallly) disable it!
I think, currently, creators can disable it, so you can ask them to do that.
Both KDE Discover and Gnome Software offer similar functionality. You should also be able to use them without their respective shells.
I wanted to write the same thing. E.g., you can run this in bash to set the permissions for all .conf files to 600:
find /mnt/the/directory -iname "*.conf" -exec chmod 600 {} \;
Makes sense. But for an Arc B580 you’d probably want 6.12 or newer (according to https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-gpu-compute). Unfortunately Linux Mint is not that great for running the very latest hardware (and especially GPUs).
Is there a particular reason that you want to update your kernel? Generally, the best idea as a new user is to stick with the default kernel that your distro provides What Stable Kernel Should I Use. Given your hardware, I’d expect that kernel 6.8 should work fine for you.
Linux Mint switched to the HWE kernel with version 22. Theferore, the kernel should be updated to 6.11 with the release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 (planned in a week).
Sorry to hear that Linux Mint is not working well for you. Unfortunately, things can sometimes still be rough when it comes to hardware support. I have personally also had issues with Nvidia GPUs and Bluetooth. Often this is because the manufacturers only provide drivers for Windows and Linux drivers need to be created by the community.
Regarding Nvidia and secure boot. I’ve had the same issue (on both Mint and other distros). After some frustrations (including a BIOS update) I finally gave up and disabled secure boot. Since then, I haven’t had any issues with my dual boot with Win 10 (but I probably won’t buy another Nvidia GPU). What makes you say that Windows requires Secure Boot?
No I didn’t. When I installed Linux mint the first time I was able to fix everything. I needed to reinstall it and that is where this controller issue started
This seems quite weird. Are you perhaps missing a package (e.g. steam-devices)?
Yes, I would recommend creating a backup (perhaps on your phone or a different computer over the network) and then upgrading to 21 and then 22. IMHO Mint has steadily gotten better and there is typically no reason to stay on an older version.
Given that you installed Linux on a separate drive, it’s likely that the Windows bootloader is perfectly fine but your BIOS chooses to prioritize the Linux disk. I would check if you can still select the Windows drive / installation in the BIOS / boot media selection.
Typically, Fedora should also add the Windows installation to its bootloader (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/grub2-bootloader/#_adding_other_operating_systems_to_the_grub2_menu). It uses os-prober to find other operating systems. Can you post the output of sudo os-prober?
Edit: The output of lsblk -f would also be useful (though you may want to anonymize it first).
Yield is the percentage of chips that are functional. Roughly, you can think of it as the probability of a chip having 0 defects. The bigger the chip, or the higher the defect density, the lower this probability becomes. Chip designers will also include mitigation techniques (e.g. redundancy) to allow chips to work even with some defects.
Talking about the “yield” of a process doesn’t make any sense. Yield is a metric for a specific chip fabricated on a given process. This depends heavily on the size of the chip and mitigation techniques.
The “correct” metric to compare processes is defect density (in defects per square cm). Intel claims that their defect density is below 0.4 defects/cm²: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-says-defect-density-at-18a-is-healthy-potential-clients-are-lining-up. This would be relatively high but not much worse than what TSMC has seen for their recent nodes: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/intel-18a-process-node-clocks-an-abysmal-10-yield-report.329513/page-2#post-5387835).
We use Alma Linux at work and it’s fine, I suppose. I see two main reasons why you’d choose an EL linux distro:
Apart from those, it’s a competent distro, Red Hat know what they’re doing. If you want the equivalent to an Ubuntu LTS / Debian in the Fedora world, it get’s the job done. I quite like their approach of keeping the core OS stable while updating drivers, tools, and compilers (e.g., the kernel version number has very little meaning in RHEL).
Is the experience very different from Fedora?
Yes. the age of the core packages is very noticeable. The number of fully supported packages is also very small and you need to go to EPEL very quickly (at which point you’re no longer getting enterprise support…). On the plus side, it’s much more stable than Fedora in my experience.
Edit: My main recommendation for a stable distro would probably be Debian unless one of the above points applies.
It sounds like Proton VPN (or its repo) is causing issues for you. Given that it’s a paid service, you can probably contact their support.
Alternatively, you can also look for the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d, something like /etc/yum.repos.d/file_name.repo, for Proton VPN. You can then disable it by renaming it to .repo.disabled and try again (sudo dnf upgrade in the terminal). Note: This is not really a permanent solution, as it will disable updates for Proton VPN.
It sounds like the criterion is “is newer microcode available”. So it doesn’t look like a marketing strategy to sell new CPUs.
Nice, congrats on getting it to work! :) Native Debian packages are also nice. It can just get difficult if you want the latest stuff.
I used the docker compose template from https://hub.docker.com/_/drupal and mostly changed the image:
# Drupal with PostgreSQL
#
# Access via "http://localhost:8080"
# (or "http://$(docker-machine ip):8080" if using docker-machine)
#
# During initial Drupal setup,
# Database type: PostgreSQL
# Database name: postgres
# Database username: postgres
# Database password: example
# ADVANCED OPTIONS; Database host: postgres
version: '3.1'
services:
drupal:
# image: drupal:10-apache
# image: drupal:10.3.7-apache-bookworm
# image: drupal:10.3.6-apache-bookworm
image: drupal:11.0.5-apache-bookworm
# image: drupal:10-php8.3-fpm-alpine
ports:
- 8080:80
volumes:
- /var/www/html/modules
- /var/www/html/profiles
- /var/www/html/themes
# this takes advantage of the feature in Docker that a new anonymous
# volume (which is what we're creating here) will be initialized with the
# existing content of the image at the same location
- /var/www/html/sites
restart: always
environment:
PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT: "1024M"
postgres:
image: postgres:16
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: example
restart: always
The details for the v11 image are here: https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/drupal/11.0.5-apache-bookworm/images/sha256-0e41e0173b4b5d470d30e2486016e1355608ab40651549e3e146a7334f9c8f77?context=explore
Yes, the docker images don’t use the sury.org php packages (they use the php docker image).
“11.0.5-apache-bookworm” also seems to work, maybe you can try that version?
I wanted to recommend using a Docker container but I ran into the same issue with the default config for “drupal:10-apache” (aka “drupal:10.3.7-apache-bookworm”). Opening “node/add/article” results in the OOM error. Downgrading to “drupal:10.3.6-apache-bookworm” resolved the issue. Looks like a Drupal regression to me. Maybe you can also try an older version of Drupal 11?
How is this too long? I would consider it a reasonable amount of time to receive security updates on a computer.
I have a notebook that I bought in 2012. It can run Ubuntu LTS 24.04, which is supported until 2034, without issue. There is no indication that the next release will stop supporting this hardware. I don’t see why Microsoft couldn’t provide this.