Recent content by dmroeder

I use the barcode module in python. https://github.com/WhyNotHugo/python-barcode

I'm curious, how much RAM do you have installed on your system? How much free RAM do you have when the system is up and running?

Long time Linux user here (Kubuntu). I haven't had a windows machine at home for about 12 years. When people ask whether they should make the switch or not, the right answer often is probably not. But I always say, no reason not to try it out. Spin up a virtual machine with VirtualBox and...

Maybe this will help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1398392/ubuntu-20-04-lts-driver-intel-wi-fi-6e-ax211-160mhz

That is because you need to get the amiberry executable. Amiberry is not installed when you install dependencies. You need to download that separately, from the link I provided. Download the correct zip file from assets in the link I provided you. Unzip it. Open the terminal in the...

That command you typed in only installs the dependencies. Once those are all successfully installed, you need to get the amiberry executable: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amiberry/releases Look under assets.

My preference is Kubuntu. I like the KDE desktop environment. Any of the Mint variants are good.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the generation of the chip. While you might find performance differences when running performance testing software, I doubt you'd see much real world performance difference. Video encoding, maybe, general programming, doubtful.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but motherboard (and other) drivers do come built into the linux kernel, or are at least provided by the particular distribution. OP, see this article that talks about installing any additional drivers that might not be included by default...

It doesn't, that is why I pointed it out.

The OP mentioned that they downloaded a .torrent, then were going to rename it to .ISO (post 6). Maybe I misunderstood something. OP, you open a .torrent file with a torrent client, I use deluge (google deluge torrent). The torrent client will download the .ISO. You don't rename a torrent...

Have you considered testing distributions in virtual machines like VirtualBox? While it isn't a great representation of performance, you can easily play around with different distributions without wiping your laptop. You can quickly get a feel for one, if you don't like it, you delete it...

While Debian is the foundation for many other Linux distributions, I prefer not to use it personally. I usually recommend Ubuntu for new users, mainly because when you start googling things like "how do I do X in Linux", the vast majority of the results you will get will be for Ubuntu, so...

Think of a package manager as a Linux equivalent to an app store. It's a source to install software, which have more or less been validated to work on your particular flavor of Linux. I spun up a Mint Cinnamon VM, if you go into the Cinnamon menu (like windows start menu), in the search box at...

You're not going to copy anything to the terminal. Just type: chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.17.run and press enter on the keyboard. Then: sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.17.run Press enter on the keyboard. No mouse involvement here. You won't see anything really happen with the first...