I just tried to get Clear Linux to install an Nvidia driver, which was impossible for reasons beyond anyone’s capacity. A developer even deleted his GitHub repo because “helping was using too much time” .
So - back to clean slate after a week of wasting time.
I’m now running a dual Xeon with a Quadro M5000, so nothing fancy, thus I wanna get maximum performance out of this. I was impressed by the speed of Clear Linux, unfortunately, I can’t make it work.
I’ve read about various distros, most recommending Ubuntu or Mint, which I’d consider “bloated”, but I’ve just used Ubuntu for a decade and I think its somewhat unreliable.
“Specialists” recommended Arch, what do you guys think? I mean, the Cracks among you. A distro that doesnt have hundreds of missing files, close to 2000 mismatches and most website links broken by default, like Clear. Something lightweight, fast, that an idiot can get up and running with a proprietary NVidia driver!
I have tried a fair share of Linux distros over time. I’m now using Pop!_OS exclusively. Imho one of the best Ubuntu-based distros out there. And it comes with a version that has the proprietary nVidia drivers preinstalled.
Would you actually recommend encryption or will it slow things down? I have all my “secure” stuff on Windows. Also, I would very much appreciate a working Google Drive client, like Insync. On Clear, there were only very basic, badly implemented non-solutions.
Can you elaborate a little? Do you mean using the terminal?
Encryption doesn’t slow down anything. Opening encrypted containers is done during boot so the only thing that will slow you down is typing your passphrase.
Yes, I was talking about the terminal. I can use it, if course, but out of memory I barely have any grasp on the commands except what is similar ti MS DOS.
I’m trying to get the NVidia Pop OS up and running atm, if course exactly now my USB drive failed and I just got a new one. I’m in a real time crunch now, wasted more time messing with Linux than the 50%+ render time bonus would have been worth
I never used MS-DOS, at least not to the extend I use terminal in linux, but I’m willing to take a risk of saying that you can throw away MS-DOS knowledge since MS-DOS is not UNIX.
My advice is to embrace the terminal for what it is. Your linux experience will be far better that way.
I use it a lot for things like system updates, backing up YT content, or basically any troubleshooting (Blender included). And I’m not an expert by any means.
Also don’t try to learn the terminal as a whole package because you will never be able to do it. It’s too big.
Learn only what you need at the moment.
Well, I’ll do as I go along. I just need something that WORKS longterm. Sadly, so far this has only been Windows for me. Some things Ubuntu pulled were just beyond my understanding, so I hope things have gotten better!
I don’t know if this will help you, but I am on OpenSUSE. Unfortunately, I think it was when 2.8 hit that I needed to upgrade to LEAP (because of the version of glibc I think) which is more advanced and less supported. Overall openSUSE is very solidly built and very well supported. Furthermore you can try SUSE which is a proprietary version where you may be able to get professional help from them, which is the only thing to pay for with them. Just my 2 cents.
Just one more question - you’re not my personal support, so if don’t have time, I’ll be fine!
If I want to access my Google Drive folder through Blender preferences (my asset libraries are stored there), I don’t get my folders like on Windows, but a garbled mess like on Apple devices -meaning, the folders & files have some mixtures of numbers and letters, there is a structure, but it’s not “readble”. In the OS dialogue (file system), it looks just fine. Where does Blender garble those file names and how can i fix it? Or should this go somewhere else?
Just on a side note, the terminal is what stopped the majority of Windows users from switching to Linux.
The average Windows user never nerds to use a terminal.
I grew up using MS-DOS, so I’m not scared of terminals. Just if the language installation is messed up, like on Clear Linux, and my keyboard layout is back at playing games in the 80ies!
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(Professor Emeritus Billy H. Wafflesmith XIV Esq.)
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Don’t fret it. I’ve been using Linux exclusive for nigh on two years now, and I still have to look up terminal commands all the time. If you’re not using them everyday, which I don’t, since I only rarely use the terminal these days, they eventually leak out of your head.
Don’t know if you know this but if you want to use a command you used before just hit up-arrow key to search in your bash history. That’s really useful for upgrades for example.
Least used commands I personally keep in a text file so its a matter of copy-pasting + some tweaks most of the time.
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