I wrote that because I had continuous problems with a specific Bluetooth headset on my Sailfish OS phone, and the headset had no problems with my gf’s iPhone. What was interesting was that Linux did not recognize it correctly. After a Sailfish update, the problem went away. Can of course be still a driver problem, but the Bluetooth drivers are of course specific to the general Linux kernel, not to Sailfish.
The first thing is that I’ve got an nVidia card.
This can well cost you a lot of extra frustration and time. You have been warned.
Could be due to device profiles. Maybe they need some OS support.
You can generally back up your home folder and use it with another distro, without losing data. (though it can happen that stored settings are not compatible with some changed programs).
All your data is in your home folder.
You can install a memory stress test and run it from the boot menu (memtest86).
Could also be a CPU overheating problem and this can be caused by a defect CPU fan. On older systems, that could cause a specific signal when compiling the kernel.
Other potential cause could be file system corruption. Good idea to back up your stuff.
I am in the same boat here. I want a phone to fit into my pocket… personally I don’t like handbags.
Why do you want to start a distro war?
Is this with the intent of trolling our community?
“Let many flowers blossom”.
I have been dual-booting Arch and Debian with an NVidua Gforce-759 Ti since say, 2015 and had several problems, in spite of having an otherwise totally vanilla PC system:
Yes, all that was solvable with some effort, and with experience from 25 years of using Linux.
So, in sum it was perhaps costing one full week, or ten days time.
But I decided that all that hassle and breakage was simply not worth my time, and swapped the card for an AMD Radeon.
No problems since.
The morale is: If you want to use Linux, make sure you use fully supported hardware, with open source drivers from the main kernel. Including laptops.
Everything else is probably not worth the time.
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Why did you switch to Linux? I’d like to hear your story.
I had to do a job (translations) using MS Word 6.0, on a Win 3.11 PC . It was nearly a month of work and I and my gf urgently needed the money. But MS Word kept crashing and nearly obliterated all our work the day before our deadline. It was the most stressful day of my life.
After that, I installed LaTeX for DOS on that 386 PC, and wrote my university lab reports and later my bachelor thesis on it. It was running like a charm. We printed our own christmas cards using LaTeX’s beautiful old German Schwabacher font.
At uni, at that time I was working with a software called Matlab on Windows 95, and Windows always crashed after a day or two - it later became known there was an integer overflow bug in the driver for an Ethernet card. Well shit, my computations needed to run more than three days. So, I switched to a SUNOS Unix workstation which ran much better and had lots of high quality software, including a powerful text editor program called "Emacs“. I could not buy such a SUN computer for myself because its price was, in todays money, over 50,000 EUR and we did often not know how to pay 350 EUR of monthly rent.
The other day, a friendly colleague which was already doing his PhD showed me his PC, a cheap newish Pentium machine. He had installed a system on it called Linux, which I had never heard of. I logged on and started Emacs on it and I thought it must be broken: Emacs was running within less than half a second whereas on the SUN OS workstation, it would have taken five or ten seconds to start. All the computers software was free. I realized that this computer had a value of over 50,000 EUR of software for a hardware price of 800 EUR. I got an own Linux PC as soon as possible.
Yes that was in 1998. I am now almost exclusively using Linux since 27 years.
The exact shortcomings of proprietary software have changed since, and keep changing. But what is always the same is: Proprietary software does not work on behalf of you, the user and owner of the computer. Who writes the instructions for the computers CPU, controls it, and will use this power to favour their own interests, not yours. Only if you control the software, and use software written by other users, your computer will ultimately work in favour of you.
I have not compared them. It works fine.
Sony Xperia III with Sailfish OS flashed on it. Running Android emulation for a few apps like local public transport, K9 Mail. No Google.
Nice thing its easily programmable in Python / Guile / Rust. Plus has a FLOSS Linux app store.
I also have a Gemini PDA with a physical keyboard, which runs Sailfish as well. It’s nice to use vim on it.
The good direction of this regulation was made possible by the hard work of activists and experts like Bert Hubert:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/
Depends on how important it is to keep confidentiality.
Best way to secure already written unencrypted data is probably putting the device into a microwave, and then burning it.
For new data on Linux, LUKS encryption should probably be fine.
Try adding or removing a closing paren. Seems different apps/clients hsndle this differently.
Yup, there are attscks. Also ddos on Codeberg and the xz-utils backdoor.
I’d say look after your kid and try out Linux a bit later when you have Leisure for it. You can use Linux and Windows in parallel on two computers networked with Samba.
You could try also:
No, I mean hibernate, with the PC turned off. In sleep state, you return to the running kernel/OS, so no possibility to boot into another distro, therefore no risk of filesystem damage.
The crucial thing is that file systems need to be unmounted before they can be accessed by another distribution or OS.
see
https://askubuntu.com/questions/55527/dual-boot-and-sleep-hibernate-issues
I was really successful with Debian stable. Zero maintenance fuss.