I’ve heard nvidia power management is a shitshow for laptops, I know someone that couldn’t get rtd3 power management to work on their 3000 series laptop gpu. that was on arch though, im not sure if Ubuntu has something set up already to handle that
purism librem 5 seems to have everything working https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Purism_Librem5_(purism-librem5)
shit they exist?? tysm!
how did you configure it? iirc vgpus in Linux are pretty bad, virgl is pretty good but it doesn’t have a guest driver for windows
or you can model functional mechanical parts with blender like some masochist (definitely not me)
wireless cards are really cheap on aliexpress and the ones I’ve bought have been actual genuine parts. I recommend getting something like a Intel AX210 for normal use, or a card supported by ath9k if you want to mess around with wifi stuff
I would personally buy a new ssd for Linux, and keep the original windows drive somewhere else for safe keeping. That’s what I did when I migrated
However, you can transfer the entire ssd content including files, partitions, boot stuff to another disk (e.g. your hdd) as long as that hdd is bigger than or the same size as your ssd. have a look at clonezilla for this. You can then read this hard drive’s contents from the new Linux install to copy over files you want.
have you actually tried it? trying mint after using arch for a year (btw), it’s actually really well made and the consistency is crazy good. The UI looks and feels better in person than in screenshots
yeeah I personally wouldn’t trust something that is"probably" e2ee, especially when there are options that are provably e2ee
to each their own ig
can you verify that it’s E2E encrypted?
that’s mainly because of Wayland’s security model I think, it’s trading a tiny bit of convenience for lots more security in terms of things like preventing easy keylogging.
You can still do keylogging in wayland but that has to be done at the compositor or evdev layer, which requires root access or control of the DE, which makes it more secure. I’m sure you could write something in C to do this though
It might be an annoyance for you and I get that, but your small annoyance improves security for lots more people than you realise. I’m sure you can adapt to not using the script though (I also use multiple layouts and I work fine without a script like this)
yeah you sometimes need to force applications to run with xwayland, for qt apps I think you just assert the environmental variable:
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb
that usually works for me
All my experiences with amd gpus have been fantastic, their drivers work beautifully and when they have even a slight issue it’s been problems with protocols adoption and whatnot, never the driver.
It’s such a contrast to the dogshit experience I’ve had with all the nvidia gpus I use, I really can’t think of a reason except cuda that a Linux user should get a nvidia device.
I hope when the people adopting Linux now start building their next pc demand for nvidia noticeably shrinks. Or maybe they’d be bankrupt by then because of the ai bubble crash
probably not, I move SSDs between computers all the time and linux always just works
very different story for windows installations though 🤮
is winboat and Winapps basically the same thing?
also that’s definitely not going to have adequate performance, you’d need something like looking glass and that requires a spare gpu or sriov/gvt-g. it’s probably easier to set up with a standalone vm
that might be true, but no one learns calculus in a ball pit
security you don’t understand is security you don’t have. windows’ exploit mitigations don’t work because the average user doesn’t understand them and can easily be guided into disabling them.
the weakest attack surface is the stupidity of the user and that’s not gonna change however much you try to make your os secure
why not just wipe the ssd and put Linux on it? dual boot should work fine, and if you have problems with it you could post it here
This is a very advanced use case. Be warned.
Let’s first talk about the software you need. This determines the hardware you need to run it.
For the windows VM you need a few things:
To get the GPU, you probably want to pass through a GPU into the VM with iommu. When doing this, you still want your host OS (linux) to have a GPU as well, so you’ll need 2. Use the integrated one for linux, and the dedicated for windows. Make sure that the laptop display is connected internally to the integrated GPU, not dedicated. Otherwise your linux environment would be uninteractable.
Not sure if you can then use the dedicated GPU on linux when the VM isn’t running or not though. You can look this up probably.
Then, for the virtual display and input device, you want to use Looking Glass. It requires you to have a hardware GPU on both the VM and the host, but it allows you to have a latency free interface to the VM. It’s fucking great.
Audio really depends on your situation. If your motherboard’s builtin audio card is in the same IOMMU group as your dGPU, you’re fucked and you’ll need a USB DAC. That shouldn’t be the case though, it’s usually in your iGPU’s group.
Now for the hardware. From the above, you’ll need: