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Windows XP loading screen / bootsplash? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Plymouth would be what you're looking for. You'd have to find an XP theme or create one yourself.

4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can't send folders, only files, but that's easily solved with tarballs or RARs.

How to choose your first distro - A guide for beginners (flowchart + text post) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not unintuitive, but thinking about it from a beginner standpoint, calamares-based systems are way easier to 'get'. These distros don't ask for domain names, proxies, usage surveys etc. This stuff isn't that complicated, but they add an extra level of things you need to worry about if you've never used Linux before, which is the kind of person who this flow chart is made for.

Why do most people choose to use WhatsApp over telegram?? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

https://toffeeshare.com/ is what I usually use for big files. But both sender and receiver need to be online for the whole transfer. It doesn't store anything you send on their servers, but that's a feature for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

which linux distro do you NOT like, and why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe check out Void Linux as well, the creator used to work on NetBSD before starting Void

Magic Earth: Privacy friendly maps with turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Settings > Navigation > Car > Head-up Display

How it feels to install windows in 2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

you can type anything you want in both fields to skip it. a keysmash is my preferred method

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[SOLVED] Question about flatpak, nvidia drivers and steam (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Edit: So after an exciting evening of uninstalling drivers, rebooting, playing a round of CSGO and starting over, I can report that nothing is broken. I haven't tried much other than a handful of games though. In the end I removed the drivers in batches, uninstalling all versions of a major version together (all 515.*, then 520.*, then 525.* etc).

Of note is that all the drivers I removed were the 32 bit versions, since the 64 bit one updated properly. This is what's left of the drivers, I believe these are all actually needed and I'm not comfortable removing any of them (and even if they're not needed the space savings would be minimal anyway):

Name                                 Application ID                                             Version                       Branch                  Origin                                 Installation
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-535-54-03                                             1.4                     flathub                                system
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                                           1.4                     flathub                                system

Original post:

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows why flatpak keeps tons of Nvidia driver versions installed. Currently on my Fedora install I have:

Name                        Application ID                                    Version              Branch        Origin                       Installation
nvidia-510-68-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-57               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-57                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-65-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-65-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-76               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-76                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-520-56-06            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-520-56-06                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-60-11            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-60-11                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-78-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-78-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-85-05            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-85-05                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-89-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-89-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-530-41-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-530-41-03                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-535-54-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                         1.4           flathub                      system

A few months ago, when a new Nvidia update came out, usually what I'd do is update then run flatpak uninstall --unused, which would get rid of the older version no problem. As you can see, around driver version 510 this stopped working. If I try to remove them manually with eg. flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02, I get this:

Info: applications using the extension org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02 branch 1.4:
   com.valvesoftware.Steam
Really remove? [y/n]:

My question is, is Steam actually using these drivers? Are these safe to remove? I'd like to get rid of them since they're bloating my root partition and updating 10 driver versions takes ages.