Choose your Fighter! Which Mecha-Penguin are you piloting?

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I saw this on Facebook and thought I’d pass it along. Originally posted by “Only Linux User Can Understand It”.

1️⃣ Linux Mint: The Starter Bot. Pre-assembled, friendly, zero configuration needed.

2️⃣ Ubuntu: The Standard Droid. Mass-produced, reliable, boring but works.

3️⃣ Debian: The Ancient Tank. Slow, rusty, but absolutely indestructible.

4️⃣ Fedora: The Prototype. Shiny, bleeding-edge tech, might explode unexpectedly.

5️⃣ Kali: The Assassin. Armed with 1000+ weapons. Not for daily grocery shopping.

6️⃣ Arch: The LEGO Set. Assembly required. Batteries not included. Instructions unclear.

7️⃣ Gentoo: The Foundry. Here is some raw metal and fire. Forge your own robot.

8️⃣ LFS: The Manual. Just a book. Good luck. 📖

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It is clever.
Every distro I use has been omitted… Devuan, Void, MX, antiX, Artix.
Not quite, Gentoo is there.
Perhaps I missed the boat?

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I thought a few of you would like the Linux From Scratch.

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That’s me.

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Surely that’s my penguin. But I don’t see why it would be slow and rusty?
Am I getting old, and start to like the rusties? :grin:

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Right ATM - I have an equal number of Debian and Ubuntu systems running…
So I’m a hybrid of the Standard Droid and the Ancient Tank…

Trying out Debian now on new PC… Dell Optiplex 7080, 10th gen i5 - 6 cores (shows as 12 CPU) … 256 GB NVMe SSD - and came with 4 x DDR4 slots - only one was populated - with a single 16 GB module - I’ve added 3 x 4 GB modules to get 28 GB of RAM… And the Intel Arc 310 GPU has 4 GB of DDR5…

It doesn’t support any sort of legacy boot whatsoever… But Trixie boots fine on it from USB… Running the Installer now… Installer ran for less than 5 mins and I rebooted and Debian Trixie has replaced the Win11 Pro it shipped with on the NVME… This thing’s quicker than my now 5 year old Ryzen 7 machine…

I’ve no idea how to tell which GPU is active … you’d a thunk it’d be the one the monitor’s hooked up to… But who knows… HDMI monitor hooked up to Device-2 : Intel Arc A310 - but it’s the 2nd GPU listed :

x@jellyroll:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Intel DG2 [Arc A310] driver: i915 v: kernel

How does one tell which GPU is being used? Running Debian 13 with MATE desktop… But will probably eventually disable the DE/WM and the DM (i.e. login display manager).

And 2 minutes after first boot - installed inxi and git and zsh and openssh-server - and I can do most of the rest of the setup over SSH… Will probably carry on this topic (Dell Optiplex with Trixie) in the other thread about getting JellyFin media streamer running - which I started out on in late December (actually - the thread is about RAM prices)…

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Both are used, or ready to use. Try
inxi -Gxxx
and look for “active”.
On my laptop:

laco@DellG3:~$ inxi -Gxxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,
    DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Dell
    driver: nvidia v: 570.144 arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8d class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 1bcf:28c1
    class-ID: 0e02

On my desktop:

gazda@nagygep-cin-13:~$ inxi -Gxxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e92 class-ID: 0380
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: XFX
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: DP-2,DP-3,DP-4 empty: HDMI-A-4,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ff
    class-ID: 0300

Both have dual GPU’s, on the desktop I use intel GPU only for transcoding video files using quicksync acceleretaion. It’s incredibly fast and good quality.

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Me two nothing béats it

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Try glxinfo.
It might only work for OpenGL

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It wasn’t straightforward - but I realised the first GPU was /dev/dri/renderD28 (integrated), and the 2nd GPU the Arc A310 was /dev/dri/renderD29… So I enabled QSV and pointed it at renderD29…

And the option to enable hardware rendering wasn’t straightforward at all!

The online JellyFin doco states it’s in “Dashboard” - but it’s not! It’s under “Playback”…

Seems to be indexing a lot faster now… the first hour or two - it only got as far as 100-150 movies - subsequently it’s now up over 1700 indexed… So GPU hardware helps a lot… and the Intel Arc should be more powerful than the integrated 630 GPU…

Actually - over 2500 now… exponentially faster using QSV and hardware GPU…

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I see :slight_smile:
For me with an 8th gen CPU it was almost a nightmare. The new ffmpeg (version 7) with libvpx does not support that old hardware. The syntax for VAAPI (which would be supported) with this ffmpeg is ugly as hell.
I “borrowed” libmfx1 from Debian 12, also repacked the old ffmpeg (version 5) and its libraries for my own purposes, and have it installed under the name “ffmpeg5”. As the libs are named differently (for example libavdedvice.so.59 versus libavdevice.so.61), it didn’t cause a conflict with Trixies files and packages.
My older conversions with the older syntax work now as fast as before, just have to invoke “ffmpeg5” instead “ffmpeg”.

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This is me but after too many modifications to the reliable

“Strandard Droid”

I went away from it to find that I can build my own droid who obeys. So I am in the Gentoo land doing my stuff for me and it is really nice :blush: For me the best part is that I don’t have to change a thing, my droid obeys.

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There are half way houses like Void and Chimera and BSD.
You get to assemble your own droid, but not build the components
and
It is possible to do a build from source in any distro,and with BSD a source build is easier than in any Linux.

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Arch is the best fighter. For existing linux users who stayed for couple months, jumping to arch feels really easy. But lately i’m curious to try out gentoo (and heck, even i learned it’s handbook overnight,) but never got to try it as my github codespaces VM keeps shutting down at exactly 30 minutes, no matter what i do :pensive_face:

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@TiffanyLynch ,
I read this

"Codespaces automatically stop after a period of inactivity to conserve resources and control costs, but the underlying VM and storage persist until the codespace is deleted. "

I do not understand why you would choose to use codespaces, rather than work in your own machine?

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What in the Midjourney-DallE sloppery is this?

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Had not hear of this, so I looked it up on the web.
“In just a few seconds, they turn your thoughts into pictures.”

Also sloppery was a new word for me. Looked it up also.
" Besides “out of order” or “not clean,” sloppy can also mean “careless” or “overemotional.”"

Sounds like you disapprove and you have a right to your opinion. I on the other hand liked the posting and thought it was a bit of amusement.

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