From 8e715c1786a114c7f01d948d26852d6c201e6522 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bfahrenfort Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:45:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Quartz sync: Sep 28, 2023, 11:45 PM --- content/Essays/on-linux.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/Essays/on-linux.md b/content/Essays/on-linux.md index ccc490816..8d8f0bdcd 100644 --- a/content/Essays/on-linux.md +++ b/content/Essays/on-linux.md @@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ Unfortunately, I had to abandon this, as the kernel and drivers weren't in a sta I tried my best to make do with the WSL for my actual Linux needs after that. Any productivity tasks were relegated to PowerShell, which is...lacking, to say the least. - This was broken up by a few attempts to get my eGPU working in external-drive installs of Fedora and Endeavour. Eventually, one worked. -Having to deal with subpar systems after my taste of how convenient Linux made things resulted in a growing distaste for Windows. Once I'd made enough progress on my dealbreaker issues to have a working system that I could replicate, I shrank my Windows partition as small as I could comfortably take it and installed Fedora! I've been happily driving it ever since. $\downarrow$ Here's how that's going: { WIP } +Having to deal with subpar systems after my taste of how convenient Linux made things resulted in a growing distaste for Windows. Once I'd made enough progress on my dealbreaker issues to have a working system that I could replicate, I shrank my Windows partition as small as I could comfortably take it and installed Fedora! I've been happily driving it ever since. + +$\downarrow$ Here's how that's going: { WIP } ### Kernel For the love of god, don't ever use the default kernel when daily driving. A custom kernel will squeeze every ounce of performance out of your hardware the way Windows would. I recommend the [CachyOS Kernel](https://github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos). - Fedora has a copr, and it's available on basically every Arch distro. Sorry debian/ubuntu users. \ No newline at end of file