• aeroplayne@lemm.ee
      5·
      12 hours ago

      Really - as someone has moved to a “windows shop” for work… Alot of windows admins have no idea what’s going on. But they’re not even capable of pulling logs (who I’m working with - not everyone).

      It’s all seems to be voodoo and vibes.

      • Owljfien@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Going from windows to linux and having actually useful logs instead of whatever the hell event viewer is meant to be was life changing for self helping

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 hours ago

        We use a third-party IT department for my City, and they just give up and tell us we need to buy a new laptop if it’s more complicated than “check for updates.”

        And since they’re the ones who have the contract to sell us equipment, it works great for them.

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
    118·
    1 day ago

    Fun tip: if you’ve sorted the details list by cpu and the keep dancing around, hold down Ctrl to stop them from getting away while you kill them.

    • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      16 hours ago

      Never knew about it. Mate, I love ya. This is gonna help so, sooo much. ;-; Until I switch to linux anyway.

      • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        14 hours ago

        What’s stopping you from using Linux today? You could be on Linux in less than 10 minutes and most of that is going to be downloading the iso and flashing it on an USB stick.

        • Demdaru@lemmy.world
          4·
          13 hours ago

          I am, in fact, a lazy bastard that values his comfort. Nonetheless, wgen Win 10 hits the end of support, I plan on forcing myself to linux. Planning onon going to Nobara or…was it CachyOS?

          • KarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            4·
            12 hours ago

            Comfort is a big reason. But if you have a sacrificial used laptop and start familiarise yourself with it.

            I started using Linux a few years ago, and from bottom of my heart advise you don’t touch Arch (CachyOS) with a 10 feet pole. You need experience to differentiate bullshit solutions when you search forums. For example I just saw a thread saying you need to modify kernel modules if you want to change the touchpad sensitivity of a wireless keyboard.

            I also advise you against Nobara, just use Fedora KDE. Because it’s unofficially maintained often breaks or just bugs after large updates. As a novice It was easier for me just to reinstall than fix.

            • Demdaru@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 hours ago

              That’s why I am very wary of CachyOS. Been on lemmy for some time now and amount of people saying to not touch Arch…heh.

              But Nobara felt safe and right for my use case. Kinda sad it isn’t so.

              I am trying to install headless debian on old laptop for hosting right now and…I mean I tried to go with gui and laptop had so muc h lag it wasn’t even funny. But again, me being lazy gets in the way. And me losing my only pendrive too.

          • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            If you think you are techy or you think you’re as smart as the average person (or smarter) just use cachyOS.

            You will probably run into some issues but as long as you follow these rules you could be doing very well:

            1. OS drive has OS stuff and packages
            2. Media drive has games and stuff you care about

            The two shall never meet.

            Have an issue ? Wipe OS drive, in 2 minutes you’ll be back in.

            Worried about configurations? Linux is all about using files for config, this pattern allows you to save files and reconfigure systems fast on the fly.

            Worried about something else? Ask me.

            There’s nothing wrong with using another distro.

            • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 hours ago

              Had a course on linux, can move somewhat fludily in console…well, could, prolly forgot a lot. Dunno about architecture or everything else linux-wise, but that’s something I believe I can pick up during usage. Also thanks for the tip of separating OS drive and Media drive. Seems logical but uh, things happen.

              Only thing that bothers me is I have older hardware and this coupled with communities here being overall cautious about Arch distros makes me kinda cautious about Cachy. But it seems like a good choice for my use-case. But I also have everything important backed up anyway so even if I install Cachy and it doesn’t work for me, I will be able to switch efortlessly.

              So, my CPU is supported, but my GPU is actually out of spec for recommended. GTX 750. Would you say to try it anyway or is it better to go Nobara due to that?

              • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                8 hours ago

                I say use a live USB and boot into it and see how it goes. Note that it will be slower than if you were to use a drive BUT you can sort out your worries about wine performance and such right away.

                Mount windows drive, use steam to locate your games. Run them to test.

                Note that this is not a long term strategy, you do not want to use NTFS (windows) drive to play games. But it shouldn’t cause any issues in short term testing.

          • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            15 hours ago

            i’m seriously considering starting one of those companies that tapes up its signs on light poles. it would be “tech support”, but what i’d really be doing is linux evangelism. i’m a proud member of the cult of linus, and i the need to spread his kernel.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      CTRL+ALT+DEL sends a system interrupt which often breaks stuck programs back open.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      16·
      22 hours ago

      This is the way. I haven’t used Ctrl+Alt+Del to open Task Manager since the Windows XP days. The only time Ctrl+Alt+Del is still useful is when you want to interrupt a fullscreen app that is misbehaving and won’t give you the desktop back.

  • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee
    35·
    1 day ago

    Under Linux the program that is used to send termination(and any other, of course) signals is called “kill”.

  • udon@lemmy.world
    10·
    20 hours ago

    Chrome being smart here, telling everyone to run while not running too hard itself so it doesn’t show up too high in TM

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      9·
      1 day ago

      Sure it is. But I feel like you never used Photoshop. It sucks up all the RAM. It’s more RAM intensive than any 3D software or browser I’ve ever used. (That is, except for Substance Painter, which is also in the Adobe family now unfortunately)

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Also code development programs.

        Code OSS (VSCode) in distrobox with clangd language server and NCS for embedded development sucks up like 8GB of my 32 just having 6 or so files open once you start building because it keeps builds in RAM or something. It balloons fast at least lol

        • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
          3·
          21 hours ago

          At least those are handling actual data you’re doing serious work with.

          Chrome is something I’d mostly be using for a few bits (well maybe Kbits) of reference text. I blame the websites as much as chrome itself. I assume the OS is smart enough to cache that somewhere though when I want the ram for something else.

          MS teams is just siting there eating c.1gb for nothing but to be an annoying pos. Outlook doing the same but not as much resources I think.

          But it’s true when I have to kill a task it is much more likely to be one where I’ve knowingly put several GB of data into ram to do stuff with.