I got my new laptop back in April, had a Windows 11 preinstalled (I wish it wasn’t the case, it would’ve been cheaper but it’s very rare to find OS-less PCs in my country)
Anyway, I prepared a Fedora installation before the laptop got home, booted Windows once to make sure everything (regarding hardware) works, and the rest is history.
I’m a developer and the dev tools on Windows sucked and ate my RAM.
I kinda feel like big tech regrets that we got away with PCs running all foss software. The existence of GNU/Linux saved us in a way, I think some still try to lock us behind Windows I guess but Linux options are not going anywhere and they keep growing stronger I believe. However when it came to smartphones they tried so hard to keep them locked and far from what a natural computer would offer (running anything as long as your CPU architecture supports it). While Android phones got some freedom in the past I believe they’re getting more closed and harder to tweak. Also I was there when iOS jailbreak peaked with all the crazy stuff (it was still hard to switch OS though). Fast forward to smart watches, now these are far more locked than phones and very limited in terms of freedom (even tho some run standars CPUs architectures). I think no way would big tech allow glasses to have freedom and they would make them close to what watches offer these days, maybe worse. I really believe that we should be able to run whatever the hell we want on hardware as long as it is technically possible.
Tl; dr: GNU/Linux saved the PC industry, corpos will not let that happen again with another industry.
Running RTX4050 mobile on Fedora 41 (internet too crappy to upgrade to 42)
Works great!
Except for unreal 5 games but idk if that’s a driver or a proton issue :/
Sounds too good for this enshittified dystopia
Steam said it was running
Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows
You could ask your employer for a license I guess
Btw Rider is now free for non commercial use
But but… User dumb!
If you’re not planning to run GUI
This looks like the way, I like it!
I’m only worried about the nvidia driver, will it work with secure boot enabled? Given I install it from rpmfusion
Corporate distros and all
The Linux guys obv
Any immutable distro would do I guess
The registery is much easier to break, much harder to debug and much harder to fix, UNIX config is more human-friendly, I’ll never mess with the registery again
Yes, it’s listed in lsusb output.
Here’s svlogtail output
2025-02-12T11:59:59.37471 kern.info: [ 8726.412768] usb 4-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54085 kern.info: [ 8726.578922] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0b12, bcdDevice= 5.09 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54125 kern.info: [ 8726.578957] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54147 kern.info: [ 8726.578974] usb 4-2: Product: Controller 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54125 kern.info: [ 8726.578957] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54147 kern.info: [ 8726.578974] usb 4-2: Product: Controller 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54164 kern.info: [ 8726.578986] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Microsoft 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54191 kern.info: [ 8726.578997] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 3039564C30313733323634323337 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54164 kern.info: [ 8726.578986] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Microsoft 2025-02-12T11:59:59.54191 kern.info: [ 8726.578997] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 3039564C30313733323634323337 2025-02-12T12:00:00.14687 user.info: Feb 12 15:00:00 mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 2: “/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-2” 2025-02-12T12:00:00.15166 user.info: Feb 12 15:00:00 mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 2 was not an MTP device 2025-02-12T12:00:00.58454 kern.warn: [ 8727.623272] xone_gip: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. 2025-02-12T12:00:00.58477 kern.notice: [ 8727.623294] xone_gip: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel 2025-02-12T12:00:00.58454 kern.warn: [ 8727.623272] xone_gip: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. 2025-02-12T12:00:00.58477 kern.notice: [ 8727.623294] xone_gip: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel 2025-02-12T12:00:00.58454 kern.warn: [ 8727.623272] xone_gip: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. 2025-02-12T12:00:00.58477 kern.notice: [ 8727.623294] xone_gip: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel 2025-02-12T12:00:00.70751 kern.info: [ 8727.745802] usb 4-2: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd 2025-02-12T12:00:00.86144 kern.info: [ 8727.896637] usbcore: registered new interface driver xone-wired 2025-02-12T12:00:00.88730 user.info: Feb 12 15:00:00 mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 2: “/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-2” 2025-02-12T12:00:00.88984 user.info: Feb 12 15:00:00 mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 2 was not an MTP device
Model 1914 (the one currently used with Series S/X) I’m trying to connect it using the usb port
I’d call ones with FreeDOS OS-less