It's probably more to do with hardware than distro. That said, using major distros is more likely to win. FWIW I've used fedora and voidlinux on my 3 Dell laptops over the last 12 years with nary a problem. One of them had nvidia but I used nouveau.
StrangeAstronomer
joined 2 years ago
voidlinux still has the 390 drivers available. I'm sure others do too:
[-] nvidia390-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - Libraries and Utilities [-] nvidia390-dkms-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - DKMS kernel module [-] nvidia390-gtklibs-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - GTK+ libraries [-] nvidia390-libs-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - common libraries [-] nvidia390-opencl-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - OpenCL implementation
Much less troublesome to ditch the display managers, log in from the tty and run sway from a script such as mine
actual boomer here with foot on sway
The biggest problem with RDP for me is the lack of a Wayland/sway server. How does the Fedora Sway spin cope with this?
True - but don't forget cost of power ($ cost and environment cost). These old brutes consume a lot esp. compared to the SBCs.
I have a Luckfox Pico Ultra-W running a 'buildroot' linux with a camera module that I use as a security camera. It cost me about A$33.
I also have a Luckfox Pico Max running ubuntu simply to run smokeping 24x7 monitoring - about A$30.
Finally a ESP32 CAM Camera Module With OV2640 camera that can be bought for less that A$15 (not linux but just FYI).
venerable jq
Ha! jq was the bratty kid I yelled at to get off my lawn. Now he's a drinking buddy, but still the youngest!
Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done. I use voidlinux. Best ever.
I've been saying this for 30+ years, but no-one wanted to listen.
As a geriatric user of sway, I don't always remember the keystrokes in the more esoteric corners of my configuration. I find that my script sway-menu helps with the bulk of the uncommon key bindings. But when I drop into a 'mode' (eg "move" mode) I don't always remember all the clever things I programed into it. nwg-wrapper to the rescue - it can display a HUD (Heads-Up-Display) of the keybindings of the mode until I exit it.
Obviously, nwg-wrapper must be installed. Your config file also needs to be changed as described in the help file.
Here's the help:
Usage: sway-mode [-c,--config config-file] [-C,--css css-file] mode
Puts sway into mode 'mode' and displays some help by extracting a
section from the config file.
Options:
-c,--config config_file location of your config file (/home/bhepple/.config/sway/config)
-C,--css css_file location of your css file (/home/bhepple/.config/nwg-wrapper/mode-help.css)
Requires nwg-wrapper https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-wrapper
Assumes modes are defined in the config file like this:
mode "foobar" {
...
}
To use this, reassign the bindkey command for the mode like this:
bindsym $mod+s exec sway-mode "swap"
and in the mode definition, change the mode ending keys to
# back to default mode
bindsym q exec pkill nwg-wrapper; mode "default"
bindsym Return exec pkill nwg-wrapper; mode "default"
bindsym Escape exec pkill nwg-wrapper; mode "default"
Here's a sample CSS file:
window {
font-family: "Monospace";
color: rgba (255, 255, 255, 1.0);
background-color: rgba (255, 255, 255, 0.1);
}
#box-inner {
background-color: rgba (23, 53, 63, 0.7);
border-radius: 5px;
border-style: dotted;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: rgba (156, 142, 122, 0.7);
padding: 10px;
}
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If you're in the US, refurbished thinkpads are probably the best option. Not so much here in Australia (but you mentioned GBP so perhaps you're in UK). Whatever. I bought a refurb Dell Latitude 3120 for AU$229
mfg yr 2021 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N6000 @ 1.10GHz 8Gb RAM Intel UHD graphics Intel Wi-Fi 5 9560 (160 MHz) Bluetooth 5.0 Display: 1366 x 768 11.6" touchscreen 2-in-1 Disc: M.2 256Gb PCIe NVME Class 35 SSD 1.35kg
Runs voidlinux like it was born to it. It's my travel laptop.