I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....
I think I know what the issue was… I modified the grub.cfg file and ran grub2-mkconfig and I think it was saying it detected a Linux install at my root partition, but didn’t seem to recognize my /boot or /boot/efi partitions and I couldn’t figure out how to edit that via the grub cli. If that wasn’t the case, then that’s okay. I’ll make sure to teach myself a bit more about the bootloader before trying to edit it again
This is why I gave up on fixing it yesterday lol. I spent a few days setting it up, I didn’t wanna spend a few more days to try to figure out exactly what the issue was when I could just give in and then actually use it
This is reasonably valid. I think Windows makes it a bit harder to do real damage to your system, so I’m used to that. I also have borked installs in VMs before, but that’s never mattered because spinning up a new one takes no time. Definitely a valuable lesson to do more research before running commands, especially as sudo
So I’ve been wanting to try to move to linux for the past few months but have been waiting to be done school, so I could the MS office suite behind me. I’m mostly writing this to share my experience for people who are considering switching....
I seem to have the nvidia drivers working without having had to fuss too much. I think I may have tried running games before rebooting after graphics drivers were installed because I tried just now and it worked completely fine with the same framerate as on windows!
I’m not sure what was wrong with the opensuse install, since I’m pretty sure I got the nvidia drivers to work, but I definitely have everything working with nvidia on fedora
TBH, I don’t really super feel like moving around since I now have something that works. While I do like setting up an environment, I can’t say I wouldn’t rather use it than set it up :P
If I ever feel like going back I may do that. In the meantime I’m very happy with what fedora has to offer me so far. Just finishing installing the software I use regularly now!
I may at some point consider. I’m gonna rock out with this for the time being though, and later down the road if I feel like exploring I can set up a third boot partition. I appreciate the suggstions!
Is this not up to date then? I knew that it was a thing that had worked, based on the previous link but did not think it worked atm. I’ll look into the link you sent tho!
Crosscode is my favorite game ive ever played. I shill for it every opportunity I have. It’s an incredible experience in my opinion and always stoked to hear about people getting into it. Good luck with it! :)
Transistor was also a cool game and it also didnt overstay it’s welcome imo
I’ve managed to set up a baikal server to sync my calendars and tasks instead of using a free cloud service provided by nextcloud. I’m able to reach it from beyond my local network, but this is all very new to me and I’m a little worried about what permanently leaving a port open for this....
So if I understand this correctly, I configure wireguard on the server end and port forward to the IP for the wireguard interface? and then configure devices to send packets through their wireguard interface for specific applications to get synced up? Thanks for your reply :)
Are these all roughly equivalent in security? Or is it a case of some of these being a bit less complex to set up but you sacrifice security? I’ll look into these options though. Thank you
So I’m just taking a look at wireguard on android. I just need to point a specific address to wireguard and it takes care of it then? This seems relatively straightforward to configure.
Last question (hopefully). I’m running this server off a pi with bullseye. The guide on their site for setting up a server uses buster but the client uses bullseye. The buster version needs to setup unstable release packages but the bullseye client doesn’t. This should mean that I’m good to just grab the default Debian package on bullseye?
I think I’ve configured it all (using the the link the other person sent). I think I screwed up the port forwarding tho and I’m not home to fix it for now.
Everything looks like it should work but only time will tell lol. Thank you again for your help!
So I got home and fixed my port-forwarding rule, but I can’t get my phone to connect. That aside, I’m now a bit lost as to how to get access to baikal , or anything else… I can’t seem to find any resources that explain how to do this either. Do you know of anything I can read to try to set that up?
Edit: I sorted out reaching the baikal server from the VPN. Still working on getting my android phone to work with wireguard tho :/
Edit: I apparently can’t read and mistyped a key value. Turns out everything has been working this whole time 🤦
I added a final edit where it turns out I just mistyped the public key and the rest of the config was completely fine. Oops lol. Thanks for your input on this I really appreciate it. Now final question. Since my server now works on a whitelist basis, it should be reasonably safe to leave the port open indefinitely going forward? If not, is there more I should consider doing to increase security?
Thanks again :)
Hey. Seemingly the app won’t let me log into an instance I’ve tried lemme.ee, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.zip. Any ideas?
Editing to add that this app looks really nice! I think my only complaint is that collapsed comments are bright green, unless I’m missing the option to change that
Edit: I am dumb and did not think to scroll further lol oops
Edit: I successfully logged in using username rather than password. That said, the app crashes every time I try to view my profile
I did check the space. It just didn’t seem to want to let me log in via email but like I said, username worked fine! As to the crashing I hadn’t tried from not the bottom navigation bar, so thank you for that. I was mostly just documenting the issue in case other people et encountered it
I am not a regular gamer, but once or twice in the week I am indulging in some after work gaming. Mostly I enjoy games that are either story rich to put different thoughts in my mind or games with a simple, but enjoyable gameplay (not too much micromanagement)....
I’ve put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It’s mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I’m going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading....
Overarchingly, I would say no. I think, for me, the less intense sci-fi aspect is something that appeals to me more, so I quite like it. That said, I understand if you’re More into sci-fi, it would detract from the experience.
Just moved to Linux: a follow up
I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....
Just moved to linux
So I’ve been wanting to try to move to linux for the past few months but have been waiting to be done school, so I could the MS office suite behind me. I’m mostly writing this to share my experience for people who are considering switching....
Firefox Sidebar Addon like Brave or Vivaldi?
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Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of December, 4th, 2023
Steam Autumn Sale 2023 (store.steampowered.com)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/70dfec39-34e1-4f48-bb9f-352d25b8b0c5.png
PS5 Slim Requires an Internet Connection For Its Detachable Disc Drive (insider-gaming.com)
emacs (programming.dev)
Setting up Baikal
I’ve managed to set up a baikal server to sync my calendars and tasks instead of using a free cloud service provided by nextcloud. I’m able to reach it from beyond my local network, but this is all very new to me and I’m a little worried about what permanently leaving a port open for this....
An all too common occurrence (i.imgur.com)
Infinity For Lemmy update just dropped. dev is really active in the community (codeberg.org)
After Work Gaming: What games do you enjoy mostly after a day of work?
I am not a regular gamer, but once or twice in the week I am indulging in some after work gaming. Mostly I enjoy games that are either story rich to put different thoughts in my mind or games with a simple, but enjoyable gameplay (not too much micromanagement)....
What are you Reading? (August 2023) (lemmy.world)
I’ve put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It’s mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I’m going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading....