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TLDR - What you can do to make your computing more European (better-tech.eu)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by bettertecheu@lemmy.world to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is US-based and I say that as a lifelong Firefox user, mind you. Waterfox is a UK-based fork of Firefox. Not owned by Mozilla. Also, based on Chromium (the open source part of Chrome) there is the cool Vivaldi browser (Norway).
Why Ubuntu only? Promoting almost any GNU/Linux distro would be a good move. I will promote the one I'm using: Mint. I'm happy to say that everything works out of the box and have been working great for 4 or 5 years now—and I never have to use the command line if I don't want to... which, frankly, I don't mind using, quite the contrary ;)
Cloud: I tried following the suggest links and gave up on the 3rd one. It's too technical, at least for me. depends what you're looking for but here is a couple of EU/European cloud storage providers I use: Infomaniak (Swiss, works great, more features than just cloud), Filen.io (German, works great, more limited in features but offers full end-to-end encryption).

[–] bettertecheu@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Firefox

I explained that here: https://better-tech.eu/web/article/switch-browsers/ In short, this is the only thing where I believe keeping the web open by using Firefox is more important than using a "European" browser like Vivaldi. If everyone uses a Chrome-based browser, we will end up in an IE6-like situation where it will be extremely hard to create a 100% European browser and get any traction.

Why Ubuntu only?

There are more options here: https://better-tech.eu/infra/article/operating-systems/

Cloud

Cloud computing is always going to be a technical subject, but this is also the part where I still have to do a lot of work and add a lot of content. Maybe I need to make separate pages for home users and for companies to make the information more accessible.

Btw, Infomaniak is mentioned here: https://better-tech.eu/cloud/article/workspace/

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Distributions can be hit or miss depending on the user and hw for sure.
Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel 6.8 whoch means you'll be hitting the terminal to either upgrade to mainline kernel or add extra repositories for the latest drivers if you have f.e. an AMD Radeon 9070.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel 6.8 whoch means you’ll be hitting the terminal to either upgrade to mainline kernel

The last two major updates of Mint were done through some GUI. There were a few warnings (about a few extra apps I had installed) but everything was done through that app and went smoothly. Edit: and so quickly (yeah, I'm looking at you, macOS)

or add extra repositories

I don't think I use extra repositories but I did add two PPAs and did it through the GUI 'Software Sources' that comes with Mint. I just checked, it also offers the option to add 'Additional repositories', if that means 'extra'?

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Re: Kernel Version. The latest Linux Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel Version 6.8, if you want a newer one than that you must add it yourself without depending on Mints own updates.

Re: PPAs and repositories.
Might be that there is an option through GUI to add the kisak/kisak-mesa and get the latest Mesa drivers, but I've not found a single guide that mentions how to do it through GUI.

[SOLVED]Can't get a singe game to run on Mint or POP
Original Post here:

Hi guys, it’s me again.

My issues is that no windows game on Steam will run. With any launch option or proton version (tried about 10). Most just doesn’t open at all. (Click play, nothing happens)

Solution: Pop!_OS and Linux Mint doesn’t have a kernel new enough to support the Mesa 25 drivers needed for my 9070XT. These commands in the terminal was the fix for this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

https://sopuli.xyz/post/25130506

My point was that if the distro had instead been say Nobara (Fedora-based gaming-focused distro made by GloriousEggroll for ease of use for his dad) then no fix would've been needed at all as it already run new enough linux kernel and come prepackaged with all the goodies a gamer need.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

There is an application called Mainline, or Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer, which should work on every Ubuntu based distro. It lets you install kernels up to the very latest one (currently 6.14.2). It has a GUI, or you can just enter sudo mainline install-latest in terminal to install the latest kernel.

Here's a guide how to install it: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/08/mainline-install-latest-kernel-ubuntu-linux-mint/

If you are gaming, it's recommended to use the latest kernel. Newer kernels not only provides support for newer hardware, but can also improve performance.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 4 points 6 days ago

I'm not much of a gamer (I play chess, though), I only wanted to say I needed no 'fix' nor terminal in order to get my Mint to update to its latest versions ;)