Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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This evening we played the last of the Q games we own, The Quacks of Quedlinburg.
If real-life rats were as adorable as the ones frolicking around this scoring track, we'd all have rat feeders in our yards.
@peterdrake really should have won tonight's game, but he forgot to use his flask at the end, so I won by a whisker.
@futurebird Right there with you! Impatience is a virtue for the programmer but not, apparently, the artist.
@popey I don't understand what you're saying / asking, but here's the output:
$ env | grep SESS
SESSION_MANAGER=local/CORSAIR-ONE:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1673,unix/CORSAIR-ONE:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1673
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=ubuntu
DESKTOP_SESSION=ubuntu
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=ubuntu
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
GDMSESSION=ubuntu
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
@popey I see no such cog, but does this mean I'm already in xorg?
$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292 Apr 7 2022 ubuntu.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Apr 7 2022 ubuntu-xorg.desktop
Just noticed that the Pearson publishing logo is literally an interrobang. @grammargirl
@popey $ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
All the available drivers are already installed.
(And why on earth wouldn't Ubuntu have installed them when I installed it ten days ago?)
Some variant of "the graphics system is confused" does sound like a reasonable hypothesis. I'll reboot and see if I can find that cog...
@nielsk I'll be on the lookout for apps that are consistently slow. If I find a reproducible problem, I'll explore this. Thanks!
@popey It's a Corsair One. Intel i7 (12 cores), GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
It's lightning-fast under Windows.
@mekuso It's at least on the list here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-desktops-for-beginners/
It's #1 here:
https://itsfoss.com/best-linux-beginners/
It's also what we use in our Linux CS teaching lab; consistency is worth something.
@mekuso I appreciate the advice, but this is exactly what I was hoping to avoid.
Web: Interested in trying Linux? Ubuntu is a good choice for beginners. It's easy to set up and has reasonable defaults.
Experts (in unison): Oh god, anything but that!
30-hour rabbit hole: You should really be using the Svirfneblin distribution. It's still in beta, but if you just recompile the kernel...
I want the least needy OS.
@cdp1337 I have no program called smartctl.
The hard drive isn't that old (and hasn't been heavily used), so I doubt that's the problem.
Nothing sticks out from top or iotop.
@nielsk My Linux skills are ... extremely rusty. I've probably got some reading to do.
I don't have a lot of files yet, if that's what you mean by "data".
I do know that I'm using gnome.
Nothing jumps out as egregious when I run top or iotop.
@cdp1337 I just downloaded fresh drivers from NVIDIA.
#Ubuntu is surprisingly unresponsive compared to Windows. Launching programs can take 5-10 seconds (with no indication that anything is happening). Resizing a window sometimes resizes the frame and then takes a second to fill in the contents. Even the internet seems slow to respond.
Some of this might be due to the fact that Ubuntu is running off a physical hard drive while Windows was running off an SSD, but that doesn't seem sufficient to explain it.
I would have expected to get *more* performance without Microsoft constantly uploading data. Does this match anyone else's experience? Any ideas?
You got trouble, folks, right here in the dog park, trouble with a capital "T"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool #DogsOfMastodon
I have a directory called "sky". I meant to cd to it, but forgot the "cd". The result:
$ sky
Command 'sky' not found, but can be installed with:
apt install beneath-a-steel-sky
Please ask your administrator.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
boosted
ZZ Top: I'm bad, I'm nationwide.
Pitbull: Hold my whiskey.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
