Linux - Reddit – Telegram
Linux - Reddit
749 subscribers
4.17K photos
207 videos
39.8K links
Stay up-to-date with everything Linux!
Content directly fetched from the subreddit just for you.

Powered by : @r_channels
Download Telegram
ReBAR commercial hoax to sell more stuff?

So here I am, doing some investigating on resizeable BAR, cause my gpu was fried and apparently some gpus perform abysmal without ReBAR. Why is this important? Because my PC is 10 years old, intel X99 platform and build way before ReBAR was ever a thing. And I needed a cheap-ish GPU that performs similar to the GTX1080 that was in there, but that was preferably not another nvidia card and good Linux driver support.

I eventually found ReBarUEFI, which lets you basically reconfigure any UEFI BIOS with ReBAR support which could help in gpu choice.

Fast forward a few weeks, and I got me nice Asus RX 6650XT real cheap and happy camper. Can play some games again if I want to.

Biggest surprise though? With bios option `4G Decoding` enabled and kernel parameter `pci=realloc` there is full ReBAR support on this platform from 2016 that's never supposed to have it, on Linux.

Whereas in Microsoft-land, you have to have bios updates, update your platform to a supported level, special drivers yada-yada.

Who's fooling who? If you can have it Linux, regardless of what you use, it could be done in Windows as well. Instead, all parties involved appear to pull up artificial barriers and sell more stuff.

Meanwhile, here I am on Linux, using a card introduced in 2022 on a platform from 2014 and being able to use that card to its full potential. Or at least not held back by artificial barriers.

Life's good in Linux land.

https://redd.it/1pzwf1m
@r_linux
How do You guy's listen to Music on Linux?

Before switching to Linux I always used Apple Music. The app sucked but the audio quality was just the best and the selection of music was great. But Apple will never make a client for Linux, Cider is discontinued and the web player is absolutely horrible.

I can't use Spotify because Spotify Premium costs almost twice as much as Apple Music where I live and I can't/don't want to pay that.

I know that Qobuz and Tidal exist. But idk how great their song selection is.

So I'm kind off stuck here. I know that many People self-host music. But idk great sources to get high quality audio, and with the amount of music I listen to it would bankrupt Me to pay for all that. So that also isn't really an option for Me.

How do You listen to music on Linux?

https://redd.it/1pzygwv
@r_linux
2026 Linux Bingo card

This is my 2026 Linux bingo card uhhhh enjoy

1. Linux will reach ~5% of worldwide user base

2. More apps will become native because of the steam machine

3. Steam machine selling ~1 mil in the whole year

4. Nvidia will still be an asshole

5. There will be more tools for making Linux Experience much smoother

6. Wayland will become superior

7. Flood of people from Windows (Microsoft will probably do some dumb shit)

8. More handhelds with Linux distros

https://redd.it/1pzz4h4
@r_linux
I created a wrapper around 'ss -tunlp' to display cleaner output of all open ports
https://redd.it/1q0bi9s
@r_linux
Soccer live updates on your terminal
https://redd.it/1q0d9h6
@r_linux
Happy new year penguins!! What distro spent the most time in your machine?
https://redd.it/1q0dimu
@r_linux
I created a wrapper of ps+lsof+ss
https://redd.it/1q0h9p4
@r_linux
My first time using Linux

I just wanna say I love linux. This is my first time using it and it feels so more smooth and amazing! I should've used this a long time ago ngl. At first I was confused because I didn't know where to start but it went smooth.

https://redd.it/1q0mtnk
@r_linux
Not an endorsement, but Ableton making a hackable Linux-based portable DAW and even outright showcasing it as a use case for the RPi CM wasn't exactly on my bingo card
https://redd.it/1q0qesn
@r_linux
I'm using Linux again after an 15 year break. Wow

I started using linux when I was in middle school. My first install was redhat that I installed with floppy disks (no joke). I quickly moved onto Slackware and FreeBSD (i know, not linux), which I used for years and then Arch. I used it as my primary OS, if something was broken I figured it out. I read slashdot, wrote my own iptables, did my own shell noscripting, absolutely loved it. Everything took a ton of work though. I would spend days troubleshooting at times. Then I got decided on a massive career change from IT security to healthcare. I got an iphone and mac and left linux in the past.

I got bored and decided to install ubuntu LTS on an XPS i bought just for it. Wiped the drive clean and just went for it. Wow, shit just works now. The drivers for everything work perfectly. All the keyboard keys work. Gaming on steam is even better than windows! The UI is sooo clean. Wayland is a HUGE upgrade from x11. Linux is truly ready for prime time now, though I guess people just don't care as much about using a PC now.

Sorry, just had to share. All my linux nerd friends long ago quit and went to OSX and had families same as me. I'm very impressed so far, though I feel kind of like a tool using ubuntu. I'll probably get my feet wet and go back to Arch. Anything anyone else would suggest? What else did I miss over these 15 years?

https://redd.it/1q0rnhx
@r_linux
Uninstalling steam from the official ubuntu app store flooded tge root and bricked my pc
https://redd.it/1q0u3t0
@r_linux