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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There should be a a button that you can press repeatedly to open up a boot menu - it can be the delete key, f2, etc.

Depending on how new your laptop is, you may need to disable something called "Secure Boot". Keep in mind if your windows installation is encrypted with BitLocker or whatever else Windows is using these days. If it is encrypted, and you have secure boot enabled you may run into issues booting back into Windows - it will freak out that secure boot was disabled and require your encryption key.

At least, that's what happened with my ROG Zephyrus M16 - I had to find my BitLocker key to boot into Windows and then decrypt it using the settings menu.

Also, if you want to be able to use both Windows and Linux - see if your laptop has an expansion port for a second hard drive. Windows historically has screwed over dual booted Linux grub with updates, and if you can just boot to a entirely different drive that won't happen.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plus oh-my-zsh and the powerline 10k theme - this is my go-to shell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

This game was easily one of my favorites to playthrough blind, then go back and do a 100% achievement run. "Choices matter" actually applies as main characters can just die, and their absence completely changes the outcome of the game.

It was a delight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish someone would actually drop the full leak somewhere. It would be interesting to read this myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, I think CachyOS looks interesting - I'll try that one first. Thanks!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16072674

I've been quite happy with my Steam Deck - both as a gaming console and as a secondary computer when it's docked, but for newer titles I picked up a Rog Zephyrus M16 (2023) last year.

Now that Windows is going off the deep end with AI, I'm looking to dual boot/trial Linux on this laptop with the goal to give Microsoft the boot.

It's a beefy laptop:

  • 13th Gen i9-13900
  • 32GB Memory
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
  • 1TB NVMe (Windows)
  • 2TB NVMe (Linux)

I added the second drive to avoid any issues with dual-booting with Grub/Windows Bootloader - instead making the Linux device the primary boot device and spamming Esc if I want to change to the Windows drive.

For distributions, I'm most familiar with Debian/Ubuntu - it's the daily driver for my work laptop, and the vast majority of my home lab VMs are Ubuntu. With the Steam Deck, I started to get more into Arch with the Steam Deck, and now it's the OS of choice for my HTPCs for simple streaming/Plex media player. I've also messed around with ZorinOS (basically a fancy skinned Ubuntu).

I need some advice on what to throw on this laptop - and some suggestions on how to squeeze the best performance out of this (Optimus vs. Proprietary NVIDIA vs. Open source drivers).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shit, there are discord mods? Is there a list somewhere of popular mods/what do you recommend?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think that mitigation requires two things for it to work.

  1. You need to use a a Type 2 hypervisor (like Virtualbox, VMware Workstation/Fusion).
  2. That VM needs to be configured in NAT mode.

The two primary ways you can configure a network for a local virtual machine are NAT and Bridged.

Bridged mode places your VM effectively on the same network as your host OS, meaning that any DHCP server that exists on your network (rogue or otherwise) will give your virtual machine and IP.

In NAT mode, the virtualization platform itself includes a DHCP server to dole out IPs, and handle the routing between your virtual machine and your host OS's network.

The thought process is that if you trust your laptop, the DHCP address handed out for NAT mode will not have the VPN breaking DHCP option and your VPN inside the VM will not have it's route table screwed with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Adding to the Nazi comment - substack is basically a long form blog format, very similar (AFAICT) to Medium.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Oh, in that case you have a much easier job ahead of you, haha.

All of our Linux servers are running Ubuntu, except the FreeIPA system that runs a Redhat derivative.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Are you looking for a Windows, server, replacement or desktop replacement? Your experience will differ depending on which one you're trying to replace.

For instance, if you're trying to replace Windows active directory services with a single Linux server, might have a bad time. I'm in the process of migrating from AD to FreeIPA, PowerDNS, and isc-dhcp (or something similar for DHCP).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, 35 tmux windows?! That's insane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not that far, it's mostly the battery life of my wireless keyboard that's really poor. I had a Logitech k830 that was amazing, but looks like they don't make it anymore and the replacement K400 chews through AA batteries.

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