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Whats a better name for 'graphics cards' that describes the kind of computational work it does

I now do some work with computers that involves making graphics cards do computational work on a headless server. The computational work it does has nothing to do with graphics.

The name is more for consumers based off the most common use for graphics cards and why they were first made in the 90s but now they're used for all sorts of computational workloads. So what are some more fitting names for the part?

I now think of them as 'computation engines' analagous to a old car engine. Its where the computational horsepower is really generated. But how would ram make sense in this analogy?

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What's the best distro for a windows user with some linux experience

Original question by @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world

I have used linux in a past job (I did not set it up), so im not a total noob with linux. But I am far from an expert. I bought a tablet that had a flavor of linux on it and found myself woefully unprepared trying to navigate the tablet. I was planning to use it for DnD for pdf reading, but it apparently wasn't capable of that bcz it was a rather custom OS. With windows 10 support being dropped by Microsoft in the next few months, I want to transition my desktop to Linux, and I thought I'd get a headstart on that. I have a windows 11 laptop (and I hate it), but im kinda stuck with it for now. So, in the spirit of I am a noob who isn't quite a noob, what do ya'll recommend? p.s. I used Ubuntu for a bit way way back in high school
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spartanatreyu

There's some really good recommendations in here, but we can't settle on what to recommend for you without a little more info.

  • Are you planning to game on it? (as in computer game, not ttrpg)
    • If yes, use Bazzite. (it's already set up for gaming, and it's "immutable" which means that it'll be hard for you to break)


  • If not, what experience do you prefer more:
    • Windows 7
    • Use Linux Mint (Cinnamon Edition)
    • Windows 10 (but without all the cortana, and bing stuff)
    • Use PopOS
    • I want something Windows like, but I want more control over how I can customise it
    • Use Kubuntu
    • I want something Windows like, and I want more control to customise it, but I also don't want it to break if I start doing weird things to it
    • Use Kionite (Will look the same as Kubuntu from the outside, but will lock you out from doing or using certain things)


Which one should you pick?

The answer is No (and also yes).

Huh?!

The real answer is not to pick one, but to pick more than one. You can (one at a time) install each of them onto a USB then change your computer's settings to boot up from the USB instead of windows. That way you can try each one to see what you like without installing them on your computer first.

For each one you try, you can check:
- Do I like the interface?
- Are there any compatibility issues? (wifi issues, sound issues, graphics issues, etc...)
- Does my battery last long on this one?
- etc...

Then once you're ready, you can install the one you want to use onto your laptop.

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Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload

I'm looking for some kind of File Drop / File Upload service.

I'd like to be able to create a folder, and create a share / upload link for that folder that I can give to a customer to use to upload their documents.

I've been using nextcloud but I don't use nextcloud for any other purpose and it's a behemoth so I'd like to transition to something else.

Some of these requirements are essential (!):

  • no login for customers uploading (!)
  • optional password protection for uploads
  • can't see / download files already present in the shared folder

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How can I make LUKS show me the number of characters I'm entering when unlocking my drive?

It's kind of buggy where I'll enter characters but they won't register. I can verify this because when booting, sometimes my num and caps lock keys will have a delay after pressing before their light changes.

This is very annoying when trying to unlock the computer, because I essentially have to wait an arbitrary amount of time before I think inputs will register properly. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if I could, you know, get some feedback that they keys I'm entering are actually being entered.

Is there a way to change this to suit my needs better?

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Having to search to do everything..

Not that I don't still love using linux daily, but it is getting a little old having to search for how to do anything even just install a simple program (recently, had a. Deb file to install unifi software that wouldn't install and had to find a custom script to do it).

I feel like there's no way I'd ever learn all the random commands I've been copying and pasting (and keeping in a text file for later) and can't help but feel it's kind of clunky. And I don't feel like I really know anything of what Im doing. Even man pages baffle me. I've been into computing for 20 years but only used linux a little like 8 years ago, but now it's been my main os on my desktops for probably 2 months. I know, maybe that's just not long enough. I just don't like the fact that if I couldn't search, I'd be completely stuck on a lot of tasks.

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Novocirab

A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.

As for man pages themselves (which I often find overwhelming, too), if you're not doing that already, you can pipe it into grep to extract just those lines that contain your search string:

man ps | grep user

# or for two lines of context above and below each match:
man ps | grep user -C 2

Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven't use Fish yet, but it's said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.

PS: I see no good reason why anyone should downvote this question.

Edit: As it so happens, just today I've stumbled into the O'Reilly book "Classic Shell Scripting" by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). What can I say – its age notwithstanding, it's apparently an extremely good book for understanding things and learning how to solve real problems. (It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one's just starting out, the book "Learning the Unix Operating System" may be better.)

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