How much water do you think thereโll be in your future computer circulating the heat?
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Right, but that is only the kernel module. So you still need the proprietary nvidia for it to be any useful (though I guess the new Nouveau open source nvidia driver replacement is progressing pretty fast).
Nvidia did a really good PR stunt by pretending they open sourced everything when in fact they just opened up a tiny kernel module that is the bridge between the hardware and the actual graphics driver that runs outside the kernel.
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Guess just a bit opensource is still better than being not opensource at allโฆ Especially as thatโs apparently a โbridgeโ linking module of sorts.
I just found out that
~/usr/share contains a folder for most programs, but I canโt find flatpak programs there.@Deathwake do you know where they are installed?
Also, I canโt see any settings to see file extensions on Dolphin. Whatโs up with that?
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Dolphin is an yet another Linux distro of the not-so-popular kin, correct?
No, Dolphin is the file manager.
I just saw that flatpak programs have a folder inside
/var/lib/flatpak. For the file extensions, it seems that some files have an extension and some others donโt? Like Python files donโt have any extension.Unix executables donโt have any extension, so a program may be called script without any extension. Linux has inherited that (as well as Mac). So Windows is the odd one for requiring programs to have .exe suffix to be recognized as programs.
Thatโs probably a system data folder. Flatpak application state and config files etc. are stored in ~/.var/app (at least on Fedora, probably on other distros as well).
I donโt think thereโs any Linux file manager that would hide the extensions. They are always visible, but like I said Linux executables do not have an extension. I just checked and the file browser for GNOME (Nautilus) doesnโt even have an option to hide file extensions.
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sooโฆ some time ago i reluctantly installed an ubuntu virtual machine on my windows 11 laptop, to use it for a very specific and single thing (generating gas giant textures) and that thing stayed there, consuming precious GBs of my precious disk space.
should i keep the virtual box on my computer or it wouldnโt even compare with getting the actual linux?
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Are you using some sort of a program that only works on Ubuntu for the textures?
The performance in a VM is much lower than on real hardware. And unless you have a dedicated GPU to pass through, you probably donโt get graphics hardware acceleration so 3D program speed and compatibility is going to be much much worse.
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I guess VMs can still have uses for some things, even if they arenโt really all that useful for regular stuff. Like testing suspicious files and stuff.
If you just need to test suspicious files and will be keeping windows, linux VMs are overkill. You should instead go to my favorite (very legalโข) website for when I have to use microsoft stuff, https://massgrave.dev/, follow the instructions there, and try out windows professional edition, which comes with a sandbox feature letting you generate an unused vm at runtime whenever you want. Addfitionally if you need to run linux programs, many are available on windows, and you can also run them through the WSL, though i donโt have all that much experience with it and have heard some weird things. Someone whoโs used the WSL for serious stuff could pitch in and explain weather its the solution or not, Iโm not that qualified.
While this is true, some services are a bit odd about itโฆ My college uses canvas, which is I presume running on linux servers, however it uses file extensions to check type, which has in fact saved me on several occasions. Say I finish up an assignment in libreoffice, hit save as, type assignmentname.docx and the upload the file to the assignment on canvas. Well, libreoffice doesnโt care what I named that file, this is UNIX!! Who CARES! Itโs not a docx (read: glorified zip file) itโs an odt, the libreoffice native format. Canvas accepts my assignment but (hopefully before the deadline) I can notice it isnโt showing a preview, and resubmit with the proper file type. If their server backend used a sensible linux library to open the file it would get a valid odt, or if I sent in a file extentionless docx, which has also happened, even if the code was document type dependent, it would open too. But whatever they have that parses docx into html on the backend refuses to know itโs on linux, it runs like a windows app.
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I mean, itโs never bad to be 100% sure, right? As long as the extra space isnโt that much of a problem to a person.
uhhhhโฆ
i actually checked again what was the thing i installed and turns out it wasnโt a virtual machine at all, just a windows subsystem for linux.
You can see im very linux illiterated.
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Donโt worry, everone starts off like that to my knowledgeโฆ
Do you think a pass through would be possible (albeit complicated) with the multiple desktop sessions setup for my future double GPU build?
In fact, I might even want a triple GPU build! Iโll have AMD, Nvidia & Intel GPUs! HAHA! That way, Iโll be able to benchmark those three cards on both Linux and Windows VM (with pass through) and post my reports on Proton!
How much higher will that push the cost?
A few hundred dollars. Not much compared to the other two. Intel is pretty cheap.
Does this few hundred dollars increase include other modifications needed to accommodate the extra gpu?
I might want to add a water block, just for good measure. However, there is no official waterblock for the Intel B580, so Iโd have order a custom one and not every waterblock company does that.