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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • With your information, and realizing I still have made virtually no progress…

    Ugh. This is ridiculous. I was aware Apple did shiesty stuff, but never heard of anyone else.

    The difference is staggering, and I have to believe something similar has happened.

    This laptop was previously my test bed for Linux itself. Old Faithful, if you know what I mean. Got me confident enough to actually use Linux. Compile stuff. Tinker. 🥰

    Got me to acquire another, newer laptop for Linux. Confidence, even if only a drop.

    Thank you for replying and sharing. I can’t think of anything else being the issue.





  • Benjamin@lemmings.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlLaptop with Nvidia mx150, gaming questions
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    1 year ago

    I keep reading that anything below the 2000 series has severe Vulkan limitations… I’m wondering if Windows would perform better? Playable?

    I’ve got no clue about video cards, let alone on Linux. I just know I prefer my Debian devices, and this is my first foray into Nvidia and Linux.

    Edit: and I assume an MX250 is a 2000 series. Which makes the cut for Vulkan support fwir







  • Corroded… that’s something I hadn’t considered…

    This is my “outside” laptop… been using it in places I wouldn’t want to risk a more expensive machine… 🤔 think I’ll disassemble it and check for corrosion…

    Could be something in the process of breaking… could explain the erratic behaviors, I guess?

    I haven’t tried any other distro yet. I’ve been with Debian my whole Linux life. But I might try XFCE again… that was my preferred desktop for years, only the new update triggered me to try Gnome properly.




  • I’ve done that again, and now have a working Gnome install…

    But I cannot get the touch screen disabled no matter what I try on it.

    udevadm doesn’t do it x11conf edit doesn’t do it

    Losing my mind with this 🤦‍♂️

    Machine still complains ath10k is missing on bootup, too. I don’t see how it isn’t on this media when it was on the machine after the initial update to bookworm (many installs ago now, since I’ve been trying to get this installed the last 2 days)








  • I’ve clearly broken something then, because after removing my media files… the install is over 200gigs.

    I’m brand new to Gnome; I thought you could freely add Desktop Environments without conflict? I’ve since removed XFCE and am all in on Wayland… I think? Is Wayland the same as XWayland? 🤦‍♂️

    If I install Gnome cleanly, will it still install and use Wayland?

    And I discovered my BIOS is password protected 🫣 and I can’t remember it 😢