Thanks!

That’s fair, wrong word used. The idea is that someone casually looking at it will not know how to read it.

Thanks 👍

I’m coming back to Linux after a hiatus. I’ve spent most of my time with the Debian flavors. Not afraid of the command line, but not an expert either.

I’m trying out Bluefin right now, semi-immutable atomic os based on silverblue, based on Fedora.

On normal installs, I usually change and install enough stuff, that when it comes time to upgrade to the next os version, I’m sometimes not able to without introducing instability or it outright falling. The former more common than the latter.

Let’s just say I got used to reinstalling and starting from scratch, especially if I experimented too hard and broke something big like my DE or drivers.

So with bluefin I’m hoping to leave everything that’s core, alone. I’m trying to rely on flatpaks, app images, and distrobox for everything else.

So far so successful. I’ve only got a couple minor gripes, some limitations of flatpaks. But I’ve also only been at it for like a week, so we’ll see.

I guess my point is, flatpaks have a place 🤷‍♂️

Just the other day, I was trying to run a CLI program, one I won’t name.

I’m trying out a new immutable distro, and couldn’t install it, so I said hey these new flatpaks are supposed to be all a guy could ever need.

So I downloaded an app that uses this unnamed CLI program as its core. It was a GUI app. And while it worked just fine, I also had very little control over what exactly was gonna happen and how it would happen. I wanted to do some specific things I knew the core program could do, but there was no way to do it.

Eventually I dug deeper and realized I’m an idiot and the CLI program can run without installing it or any dependencies, so it was fine to use natively. I was able to accomplish my task quickly and efficiently after that, happy as a clam.

CLI and GUI both have their place. I prefer GUI most the time, honestly. But having some CLI chops can be extremely useful at times.

PDF has its place. I’m sure there’s something better that could replace it, but PDF is ubiquitous.

I hate getting sent docx files or whatever that stupid iPad notes format is. I open it and the formatting is all screwed up. Or I can’t open it at all.

When I send files, it’s a PDF, so I know they are seeing exactly what I am seeing. Exactly as it was meant to be seen.

Oh man I forgot about the switching accounts while commenting thing. That’s been so annoying to go all the way back out and then try to find where you were.

But spoilers are the biggest one for me, that’s experience breaking right there.

Glad to see they’re still alive and developing,I was worried.

Today, after a restart, I can suddenly make the VM full screen 🤔

The guest resolution hasn’t changed, it’s still less than native, but now boxes is zooming to fill, it seems 🤷‍♂️

Well finding accurate, well written information like that is harder and harder to find in today’s AI slop landscape. So you’re helping out tremendously, even though you didn’t write it.

I’ll find a way to thank the writer if I can 👍

This did it!

Specifically, installing the QXL-WDDM-DoD driver did it!

It’s still not full resolution, it maxes out somewhere below the 2.8k of the framework screen. But it’s almost full screen, and 90% perfect.

Thanks a million man!

Edit: To be clear, they have other options for spice manager and stuff, and none of that worked for me 🤷‍♂️

From what I read it’s immutable-ish. They call it atomic? But yeah, the whole point is stability, so I’m going to try holding off if I can. If I have to break immutability then I might as well go with a different distro. That’s extreme, but you get what I mean 🤷‍♂️

That’s unfortunate that the issues are inconsistent. Still, I might be hold off on upgrading. My plan was to wait until I upgrade my router for Wi-Fi 7, and then upgrade my card at the same time.

The whole Wi-Fi 7 arena is still too new for my taste, a few bugs, and expensive. Plus I don’t really need it yet.

Thanks for this! Those are some options I haven’t come across yet in my research! Looks promising!

Hmmm yeah I think virt-manager requires digging deeper into than os than Bluefin allows, but I’ll look into it thanks!

As for the WiFi, I wasn’t aware the mediatek card was that bad, certainly I haven’t noticed any issues yet. But good to know that the ax210 is a cheap and easy upgrade!

My WiFi cables were definitely a little chewed on delivery though.

That’s just the protective heat shrink they put on it thankfully, but still not cool 🤔

Thanks for the information! I guess that makes sense, kind of different flavors and implementations. Some better at some times than others. I’ll have to tinker with it.

Layering! Of course! It’s so obvious now 🤦‍♂️

While I still hope I’ll find a more bare metal solution, running an ultralight Linux environment in the VM to get the resolution correct, and then virtualizing windows in that, could work. Thanks!!

I’m using gnome boxes, which uses qemu at it’s core. And from what I read, for basic VMs where to don’t need fancy find tune controls, gnome boxes is a solid choice. Unfortunately is giving me trouble.

I’ll dig deeper, maybe I need to get closer to the metal, but that’s hard to do on bluefin.

Winapps looks cool! Thanks! Though it does look like it requires dependencies I may not have and can’t install.

The programs are extremely unique and would reveal more about myself than I care to share, sorry. I didn’t mean to tease, I just wanted it to be clear that I needed Windows, lemmy can get real fired up about ditching Windows 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the tip about bottles! I thought that proton, bottles, and lutris all basically used wine at the core. Mix and match your preferred way of setting it up. I’ll look into it.

Pretty sure windows store apps are still a no go though?

Just wait until the AI assistant gets added 🤢

Kind reminder that words have meaning, and your tone, to me at least, is coming across very combative. I’m just trying to have a conversation 🤷‍♂️

I’m sorry that $100 is out of your reach. The economy isn’t getting any better, it seems.

Truly it seems to me that based on your requirements for hobbies, this is one you may have to pass up. Which stinks, but sometimes that’s how it goes.

For a lot of people, $100 is still a lot of money, but not out of the realm of possibility for a hobby startup. If they were interested, that is.

All that said, going to a club and hanging out with people who have the equipment and would love to share and teach you, is completely free, and a valid option. My club’s radio room is open every Saturday for anyone who wants to warm some clouds with RF. If you’re not licensed, someone will sit with you so you can use their callsign.

There are some crusty old curmudgeony farts in this hobby, sure. But if you only ever look at the negative, you’ll never see the positive. Lot of chill people, some normal, some weird, all harmless, who want to help you 🤷‍♂️

City living is tough for ham activities, that’s fair. I’m in an apartment myself. But I go hiking and bring the radio, set up a hammock and vibe. But that’s not for everyone either.

I agree wholeheartedly, local repeaters don’t really have much of a place anymore. My buddies and I used to chat on our respective drives to work every day, and home. That was a fun way to keep in touch. But we kind of drifted out of the habit.

You have a transmitting SDR? That’s basically a ham radio, which is cool! And also technically illegal to transmit anywhere without a license as it’s not type certified. Maybe the ISM bands are ok? I can’t remember. Anywho I’m no snitch, just letting you know 🤷‍♂️

Bottom line I guess is yeah, sometimes it’s just not for everyone. And that’s ok.

There are some good ideas in there. I definitely agree more needs to be done, and there are definitely lots of bad actors out there. I’m not sure what the final solution will be