Switching to Linux the 30 day challenge, Day 12 out of the challenge has a couple sad things that is mainly associated with the distribution that I am on. I really like a lot of aspects about Fedora 29, but there is one downside that I really do not like.
General Update
-Resized Home Directory
-Cloned Drive
Pros
-Uptick in Audio Quality compared to older videos.
-Linux has a ton of selection
Cons
-Fedora 29 doesn’t support Vega 64 OpenCL. AMDGPU-Pro is needed for advanced graphics for DaVinci Resolve and Gaming Performance. .
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Nothing, absolutely nothing compares to Photoshop, period. Especially if you do professional photography. One of my biggest reasons for not using Linux.
Finally what PDF software do you use in linux rigth now? can you sign pdf, print with append pages?
That's why I just run one / partition instead of /, /home, and swap
What do we learn from that: think before you type. Just put your home directory on the new drive and mount said drive as /home. This way you can keep all your files and don't screw up your fstab.
Just rename home as root, mount your new drive to home, move the directory over and be done with it.
Also all the packages are just archives, in theory packages from Debian (Ubuntu) can be converted to rpm.
Also with Arch you can pretty easily use rpm and deb to install
so Fedora is a testers OS, which is why it has a 6 month release cycle – RHEL and CentOS are the fully functional, like windows, distros. RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 are being based off Fedora 27. RHEL 7 and CentOS was based off of Fedora 19. For CentOS 7.4, it was using a 3.x kernal, but 8 will be using a 4.x kernal. the new fedora 30 uses a 5.x
so Fedora is a testers OS, which is why it has a 6 month release cycle – RHEL and CentOS are the fully functional, like windows, distros. RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 are being based off Fedora 27. RHEL 7 and CentOS was based off of Fedora 19. For CentOS 7.4, it was using a 3.x kernal, but 8 will be using a 4.x kernal. the new fedora 30 uses a 5.x
LOL 'DD' is built into linux – you don't need third party software. for graphical user interface, use gNome disks (aka 'disks' just like in macos). It comes native, for sure, in gNome DE's and Cinamon, but I have been able to install and run it on every DE I have tried
LOL 'DD' is built into linux – you don't need third party software. for graphical user interface, use gNome disks (aka 'disks' just like in macos). It comes native, for sure, in gNome DE's and Cinamon, but I have been able to install and run it on every DE I have tried
The reason GIMP is all over the Linux community i because it's a tried and true editor for Linux, It's been around since the 90's
Krita is much newer and therefore doesn't have as much of the foothold in the Linux community as a Photo editor.
I mean the original Krita was about 10 years newer than gimp and by that time gimp already had a stronghold in the linux community.
Fun Fact: Krita is Swedish for Crayon.
Yeah i couldn't use fedora with the lack of proprietary drivers, 3rd party codecs, closed source software. I just couldn't
Maybe try out Manjaro. Manjaro is always bleeding edge, but they make sure their stuff works stable and properly before they release anything.
I use Manjaro MATE and love it. I have bounced on a few distro's and for some reason Manjaro just grabs me…Hehehe.
The reason for a home partition is so you can re-load your OS or a new OS and keep all your personal settings untouched. 😀
I can see the bug is there..You might go back to Windows one day but it'll last a short time because of 2 things and these 2 things are major..We shall see..Oh Arch is more bleeding than Fedora but it requires a brain
I've moved /home often:
<contr>+<alt> <F1>
login as root
umount /home
nano /etc/fstab (or vi/vim if your'e a masochist 😉 )
—> edit /home, set the new partition
—> save file
mount -a
mount | grep /home
—> see if /home is mounted to the new partition
mount -t ext4 /dev/hdd… /mnt
cp -pru /mnt /home
—> if no errors
—> run the last command if errors or try to find the cause of them.
umount /mnt
exit
<alt> <F7>
—> login as user
I moved /home this way since i started using Linux (1998).
Well, I like Fedora 29. Installed your fedora-post-install and your Windows "theme", if that's the correct term. I've tried most of the Debian distros, but always come back to Fedora, then I have used it since Fedora 14. Just instaled the "bloated windows" on Windows 10, amazing, definite increase in speed. Of course, I only use it for blogs, email(I use evolution, best Outlook alternative going, Thunderbird leaves me cold) and just end-user stuff really.
next time, use LVM right off the bat, so you can expend size of your partitions 😉
New to Linux myself. Using Peppermint 9 at the moment. Just email (Thunderbird) and internet (Firefox). No gaming. Don't suffer from hoppatitus either. Anyway wellcome to Linux.
About 6:15 ~ If you want the test & development phase of the next premier corporate Linux, as used by many Fortune 500 companies, the US Military, the US intelligence community, the Hollywood CGI server farms… Fedora is free, and it is the test phase before RedHat start using that general group of packages, in the next Rehat Enterprise Edition.
It's not written or maintained to suit gamers, or avg home users. It's written for corporate, military, spooks, server-farms, cubicle-farms…
Ubuntu and Mint are both made for every-day end users. I'm not quite sure how you do this in Ubuntu, but in Mint, on the control panel, there's a tab for drivers, and it will look at what you have now and what your hardware is, and go see if there's a newer & better version of the proprietary binary blob graphics driver. These are proprietary closed source drivers, but they do generally work a bit faster and better, and getting them and installing them is a completely trivial GUI job away.
Doing things the RedHat way, is 50 times harder.
There are reasons they do it that way, but it's not representative of what most normal users (who game) would go through. It's like driving a nail in with a shifting-spanner. It's not that you can't do it, but you're not using the thing the way it was designed to be used. It's a bit like borrowing a hearse, to do a road test, and then complaining about the acceleration and handling & cornering. You're quite right, and your mother's 10 year old Corolla would indeed be better, but you're not testing a Corvette, are you?
Linux users tend to accumulate a lot of choices in the GRUB boot menu.
Yeah, I just installed a Samsung 1 TB drive that I purchased for $127.00 plus tax and shipping, and I'm going to have to clone my 128 GB SSD to my 1 TB SSD, but I have to plan this carefully, since the UUIDs will be different. I'm running Fedora 29, and am using LVM with encryption.
For AMD I'd stick to open source drivers to be honest. I've only really had issues with older AMD GPU cards. I see you have Mesa 18.x.x you could try pulling in the latest stable (not saying you should just saying you might want to try) ? Have a look at https://linuxconfig.org/install-and-test-vulkan-on-linux
might be useful. Also I know on Ubuntu you can pull in a ppa for latest xorg drivers https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates maybe Fedora has a similar one?
Glad you're enjoying it. These days I stick with an Ubuntu flavour or spoinoff like kbuntu or Mint. But dialing down what you like/don't like in a distro and sticking with it like your doing is a really good way. Constantly distro hopping, you end up not knowing the corner cases etc. I'd try straight Ubuntu, Kbuntu or maybe Elementary OS (a very different Linux ethos/experience b.t.w. ). Mint 19 will be upgrading to 19.1 soon with some modernising of the Cinnamon desktop.
PS: do your research on Davinci Resolve on Ubuntu base if you really want it. It's not officially supported but it's certainly doable. But if you really want Davinci, best know what you are in for first should you hop to Ubuntu flavour.
You should try manjaro or solus if you into bleeding edge. Budgie is my favorite desktop environment. Deepin and kde are alright too.
Next time backup your home directory to external drive, then export your installed files list using dpkg or similar, then 'nuke and pave' your system, reinstall software software with dpkg or similar, finally restore your home directory. This process can be done in little under an hour (depending on size of home directory, transfer speeds, etc).
Nevertheless, you learned something worthwhile. Great update video!!!!
one down, many more to go, none of them will be the "one", been there, done that, have fun but i wasted a lot of time with linux.
Love the discussions your videos create in the comments. It makes watching that much more pleasing.
i think you would love LMDE if you want more stability
and centos is painfully outdated so don't do that its only good for long time use on a server
Man, I had my Linux Mint install go belly up on me last night. Firefox crashed and wouldn't restart because it was still running. I tried to restart the computer but after that it would only boot into something called Busybox.
I was fairly upset, I have been running this Linux Mint install for 3+ mouths and I was thinking I was gonna need to install another distro all over again. Fortunately the fix is actually fairly easy, if not user friendly. You just type "exit" then it will tell you you need to run fsck manually on one of your partitions. Just type "fsck /dev/*whatever drive it's telling you is broken*" at that point it will guide you through fixing all the issues. Restart and your system should boot.
I don't know what the issue with firefox was, but it kept doing it. So "sudo apt-get autoremove firefox" fallowed by "sudo apt-get install firefox" fixed whatever was causing the issue.
Aren't AMD's official GPU drivers open source now? At least for modern cards. Any other drivers wouldn't work well for AMD. Maybe that was your issue?
@1:06 Did you change swapiness to 10 or created a cronjob for trim, so that root and home get trimmed regularly? AFAIK, in Linux you have to set up trim manually. You use too many read and write cicles if you keep swapiness on 60.
I would say if you want a well rounded distro Check out Ubuntu MATE, or LinuxMint. Both are Ubuntu based unless you want to use LinuxMint Debian.