Mastodawn

My #endeavouros install is bricked because of #archlinux messing with the #nvidia drivers again. And the #GTX1650 is supported in Nvidia 590... I thought... I don't know. Maybe I'm not cool enough to run an #arch variant. I should stick to the #debian and #ubuntu I'm used to.

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milagemayvary Dec 24

RE: https://mstdn.social/@milagemayvary/115771252742712675

@rivercityrandom

The proprietary drivers unfortunately are now dependent on the AUR & may need extra packages to get 32bit libraries for Steam if you use that.

I'm just going to get a used newish AMD card to bypass this issue.
Bye bye my AIO EVGA 980ti, you have done well. 🫡

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River City Random ☑️Dec 24

@milagemayvary yeah, I keep telling myself my next Linux desktop will be 100% AMD from the CPU to the GPU to the chipset but I always end up with old Intel crap with old Nvidia GPUs because that's what people are throwing away and what's cheap now. Being on the cutting edge of Linux is an expensive hobby sometimes.

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milagemayvary

@rivercityrandom

Well if you do go the Debian route, check out zram & setup scratch disk via tmpfs.

Add it to the fstab to have it mount automatically at each boot.

Then have things like screen shots & recent downloads hit your ramdisk to reduce unnessasry disk write wear.

To be noted: Tmpfs is zeroed at shutdown.

I end up running a Luanti/VoxelLibre Server's world sql3lite database on a zram/tmpfs to vastly speed up IO transactions & use rsync to write changes to disk at shutdown.