Linux Graphics: AMD vs. Nvidia pros & cons?

Trying to figure out which way to go on a new high-end build: GeForce or Radeon.
Someday, in the event GPU's become available again, I plan to get a new one.
And an entire computer actually. Threadripper or Ryzen and higher-end stuff over all.


But I'm a bit torn on AMD vs Nvidia for the GPU.
I'm a content creator, and I also game on Linux and Windows.
I primarily use OBS-Studio, Kdenlive or Flowblade, and Inkscape/GIMP.
BUT, I also might consider moving towards premium editors like DaVinci Resolve or Lightworks.
I'm also toying around with Natron2, but I could eventually move to Blender.


All of my better GPU's have been Radeon, but I'm currently getting by on a lower-end Nvidia Quadro.
I know AMD's official drivers are open-source, and they've often been praised for good performance in more recent times. But in the past some games have been Nvidia-centric especially on Linux. Alien:Isolation was unplayable with my R9-290x on Linux because it was Radeon.
NVENC is pretty useful in OBS-Studio, but I imagine with lots of cores/threads going back to x.264 would be fine, or I could use VAAPI with Radeon.
Would love to hear any thoughts on what I'd gain/sacrifice with one vs. the other currently with Linux.
Cost/value isn't necessarily a concern.

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10 Best Lightweight Linux Distros for Old Computers and Low-Power Systems
https://beebom.com/best-lightweight-linux-distros/

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Tusky, the Mastodon app, has been removed from the PlayStore by Google
https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/105904002285019275

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Wayland in 2021
https://shibumi.dev/posts/wayland-in-2021/

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Give your tab key a break
https://neilmacmullen.github.io/productivity/2021/01/21/jumpfs.html

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Is it easy/viable to install Linux on a second HDD to dual-boot for practice using Linux, or is a VM better if my goal is just gaming and internet (mostly) ?

Title sums it up. I keep looking at guides and there's information overload from the onset, so before I pick one and work with it, to know I'm not wasting my time, is it easy to install Linux on a second SSD and have my laptop give me the option which drive I want to boot from at startup?

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Cheers!

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Key-mapper is our new savior for remapping keyboards. It saved me from XKB config / xmodmap hell and has a great UI
https://github.com/sezanzeb/key-mapper

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Permissions between systems sharing file resources. Can anyone ELI5?

So, I know permissions on a single stand alone system, but I've yet to truly figure out permissions on multiple systems say, sharing access to file resources.

**System 1 (NAS system)**

* userA - userid - 1000 - usergroup - 100 (users)
* userB - userid - 1001 - usergroup - 100 (users)
* nobody - userid - 99 - usergroup - 99/100 (nobody, users)

/arrayofdisks1/ (o/g= nobody:users)

**System 2 (user machine)**

* userA - userid - 1002 - usergroup - 1002 (userA)
* userB - userid - 1000 - usergroup - 1000/100 (userB,users)


NFS mount /mnt/arrayofdisks1/


So can anyone ELI5 when it comes to permissions across systems? Or have a good article/video that can do the same? Is it the name that matters, the number, how does this voodoo work?

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Audacity 3.0.0 released
https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/

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XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-March/003076.html

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[Firefox 88] WebRender will be enabled by default to KDE/XFCE + Intel/AMD users
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696495

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Can I change my kernel in vmware? I have a spin off of Ubuntu 16.04, and I want to upgrade the kernel and version of ubuntu. Is this possible in a virtual machine?

So I wanted to install this bizzar spin off of Ubuntu called "Mangaka", but that's beside the point. The original kernel is 4.4 however I want to upgrade that to the latest 5.11.6, is this possible to do on a Vm using Vmware? I would also want to upgrade the ubuntu version to 20.10.

Notes:

\- I'm using workstation 16.x

\- idk what to say anymore, I'm just trying to get more characters in because the moderators keep on removing this post cause i'm not writing enough in the post.

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Please, try finding an alternative to your Windows application before trying Wine or PlayOnLinux.

I've seen so many people try Wine or PlayOnLinux while not caring about finding an alternative. It is MUCH better to find a good Linux alternative to your windows application since Wine seems to be "emulating" a virtual C drive instead of using Linux's file manager. Please try to find an alternative to your app before trying Wine. Sites like Alternativeto can help you a lot. If there are no alternatives for your app (which is extremely rare) or if you can't find an alternative that you like or works good THEN try Wine.

Example(s): Use Pinta instead of Paint.NET and use Notepadqq instead of Notepad++.

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Every Debian based distro boots to this
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Tooling for managing users, systems, and servers; circa 2021.

Once upon a time, we could use Webmin & whatever to manage our servers are workstations. Now? The firewall stuff barely works (especially the iptables vs FirewallD vs nftables situation). And SAMBA user management really doesn't work if you're using it for AD; it seems like stuff still harkens back to the SAMBA3 days (SAMBA4 came out close to 10 years ago). I also know that at least Zentyal & Webmin, are still Perl-based; when Python & Go have been dominating the tooling space the past 10 years (even with the Py2-3 transition). Even funnier regarding the Webmin-track, is that the default install still includes the use of Flash and Java applets; which I know I've read on here that many a Linux admin will still be dealing with for servers and older systems for the next 5-10 years easy.


Conversely? There are some interesting BSD appliances that can do a bunch of things involving user and network management via a web-UI + versions of software we regularly use for Linux. Windows is still around too; it even can run Linux. Can't easily get Google Cloud or other VPS systems to easily use non-Linux systems though.


These are my observations anyway. I'm sure others have some suggestions or feedback, in light of what we're supposed to be doing in 2021, vs 2001. Hope everyone's keeping safe & well.

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Kooha - A simple screen recorder now available

It can record microphone and speaker sounds and works on both X11 and Wayland. Kooha only uses fully open-source libraries such as GStreamer, but unfortunately, it doesn't support desktop environments other than GNOME. One of the development priorities right now is to support other DE such as KDE and Elementary.

Kooha - Flathub
AUR

You can follow the development on GitHub

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Formatting a new disk

I've just formatted and created a filesystem on a new disk using the Disks program in linux mint, however when its mounted it shows up as sda-there is no sda1 (or 2,3 etc) like there is with my other disks. is this ok? is there another step i need to do?

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Internet Radio / SDR streamer with Fzf / Rofi
https://github.com/AB9IL/Skywave-Linux-v4/blob/master/vlc-playlist

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Job opportunity in Poland
https://fujitsu.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/linux-system-engineer-pl-8870

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Do Not Use '>' in Your Command Prompt (and How to Stay Safe in Shell)
https://tanelpoder.com/posts/how-to-stay-safe-in-shell/

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Shrink root Mount Point

Hi guys,

I have a redhat installed with two disks

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 100G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part
sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
sda3 8:3 0 64G 0 part
vgrhel-lvroot 253:0 0 520G 0 lvm /
sdb 8:16 0 500G 0 disk
vgrhel-lvroot 253:0 0 520G 0 lvm /

I made a mistake and extended the root mount point with the sdb disk, is there anyway to shrink what was assigned from sdb without unmounting the root mount point or remove the disk space assigned completely?

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