Up until recently, there was no HDR support at all on regular desktop Linux. Now Wayland has HDR support and Kodi is getting it soon.
CoreELEC on Odroid (and many other ARM boxes) is able to switch between HDR/SDR, different resolutions and passthrough all audio codecs. All of which I need for proper media playback in my home theater.
Neat, I might finally be able to use a proper Linux PC as HTPC instead of an Odroid running CoreELEC once HDR switching works.
Bazzite has a version for legacy Nvidia GPUs (including the 10xx series). I would start there.
SteamOS, even if it releases anytime soon, most likely will not support your GPU.
I switched from Fedora KDE to Kinoite a few months ago. Both were 100% stable for me as well.
The main reason I switched to Kinoite is because I’m a digital hoarder and after 5 years or so all my systems are completely trashed with various libraries, 12 different PHP/.NET versions, custom builds and a bazillion Python packages.
In the end it always causes issues like my builds stop working because I have some ancient version of a library stashed away somewhere.
Immutable distros are really easy to return to “factory defaults”. It keeps a list of all the packages that are installed on the system and everything else now goes in Toolboxes, Distroboxes or Docker containers. If I mess up my C++ environment (again) I can just delete that toolbox and start from scratch.
I still manage to bloat my home directory but that is much easier to clean up than looking through all system files.
We have the same “loop hole” around here.
People started doing protests by sun bathing in front of the rich folks gardens.
That’s a shame. Still very cool and much tidier than doing it directly but I thought you could actually pull windows:latest now and get going.
Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?
I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.
But more users need Linux.
Intel is really struggling right now.
They haven’t been able to compete in the CPU market for quite a while and their GPUs are also not really taking off.
As a result, they have to let people go and outsource more and more of their manufacturing to TSMC, which only deepens the hole they have dug for themselves.
They are on their sixth consecutive quarterly net loss and things are only getting worse if they don’t have a new architecture (that can compete) ready soon.
Them shutting down their Linux support is just the result of years and years of mismanagement at Intel.
If your device supports it, you might want to encode to Opus instead. Opus produces much higher quality files at much smaller file sizes than MP3.
For example, Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent when compared to the source file. You can probably go down to 64-96kbps when its just for playback in your car.
https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings
As for transcoding them, you might want to check out ffmpegfs: https://github.com/nschlia/ffmpegfs
It can create a “virtual” drive based on your source files and automatically transcodes them when you drag & drop files from there onto your device.
ollama, ComfyUI, vLLM, opensplat, and nerfstudio can exceed 24 GB VRAM fairly easily. Memory leaks in games are also sometimes an issue.
To this day I still wonder why they manage to do a reliable GPU reset on Windows but not on Linux.
With every timeout there’s a 90% chance that it takes the whole system with it on AMD.
Luckily I’m on Plasma and the timeouts have gotten really rare on a 7900 XTX. Most of the time my cause is exceeding the VRAM limit, which eventually causes a freeze, pretty much every time.
Fedora Kinoite, because it fits my workflow the best and has a nice mixture of stable and leading edge.
Everything I run was containerized either way (Flatpak, Docker or Podman) long before I switched to an immutable distro.
I have lots of different development environments for various versions of different programming languages that are incredibly easy to setup, throw away and recreate with toolbox without having to dive into the language specific tools for creating virtual environments (venv, conda, …). On regular Linux/Windows systems I end up at a point after a few years where there is junk laying around everywhere from 6 different PHP versions, 7 gcc variants and 8 .NET versions.
I was on Fedora KDE before that and the main reason for choosing it was that Ubuntu/Debian/Mint were too old to include firmware for my GPU. Arch and derivatives are on the opposite side of the spectrum and are too new for my taste, I’m fine with waiting a few weeks for .1 versions to release with bugfixes.
As for why not Bazzite or Aurora: Because I wanted to be as close to the original (Fedora & KDE) as possible. The modifications those distros make (and I need), I can do myself in a few minutes.
I do recommend Bazzite or Aurora for less experienced people though, they have a lot of tweaks that Kinoite is really lacking. Kinoite, just like the Fedora KDE variant has a lot of polishing issues that quickly become gigantic obstacles for beginners (Nvidia drivers, Flathub repository, H264/H265 codecs, missing udev rules, …)
And one dude that really wanted to play Nier Automata on Linux.
what’s to stop me from just selecting Finland and entering bogus info?
The petition needs to be signed with the eID of a EU country, a EU passport or a EU identification card in most countries.
Unless you have one of those, you can’t sign the petition with bogus info.
Not sure how countries that don’t have those handle it.
the Samsung car moving robots are kind of amazing.
Apparently it’s Hyundai, not Samsung. The article mentions Samsung and then links to an article about Hyundai’s robots.
Nonetheless, those things are surprisingly fast. Assuming they work as well as in that presentation.
I don’t have a Behringer UV1 but I do have an UMC404HD and an UMC202HD. Both work flawlessly on Linux out of the box.
Doesn’t work for me unfortunately, always falls back to CPU ever since the packages were split up.
Looks like you’re right.
I switched to it when Alpaca stopped working on AMD GPUs and was under the impression it is open source.
You self host the full Deepseek R1? What’s your hardware?
Also, you might enjoy !localllama@sh.itjust.works