My ASUS laptop runs Linux well. It was around $800 5 years ago, when I bought it.

I am still using it.

There’s so much incompetent advice here.

CPU is fine.

Linux is booting and tries to connect to TPM (trusted platform module).

It has nothing to do with graphics card. Fact it is booting means CPU is most likely likely unaffected.

TPM is most likely fried.

Linux can run without TPM. Plenty of old boards were shipped with TPM socket, but without TPM itself.

Best option is get manual for your motherboard and pull out that TPM.

Any passwords stored there are lost, if you used it.

If TPM is fine, then board pathway to it may be damaged. If that’s the case and you really need it, then board replacement is your option. But that’s only after good TPM was tried.

That’s naive.

US gave the order.

Great story

When i tried it 6 months ago I didn’t like how UI apps took more time to start. Then I realized it is all flatpak or similar. Package management was slow. Installation process took very long time. I assume it tried to auto detect my hardware.

And went back to Arch.

SUSE Feature set is the best.

Given that my monitor is HiDef, no I have no size issues in Gnome.

KDE apps under gnome look like kde apps.

Gnome look like gnome.

After I installed KDE, vscode title bar got bigger.so, KDE impacted look of some apps. Not gnome itself.

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I don’t think my monitors are high def.

It is simply 3440x1440.

Good reason to have external drive backup and remote site backup.

$18.49 + shipping from newegg for new 500 gb sata drive would have saved your data. At these prices it could have been your new drive. Use rsync for quick drive backup.

Remote site backup is cheap these days.

Roughly $5 per 1 Terabyte per month. You can get lower for 160 gb of data with initial upload price spike. Use rclone for offsite backup.

Scary details.

My intel laptop on kde is unreliable, but gnome is super stable.

If you want windows like taskbar, you can turn it on gnome and other features that will make it more like windows.

On desktop with AMD video card I saw no difference between kde and gnome.

I ended up back on gnome. Because it was less distracting. I am a long time gnome user and kde was a curiosity. Latest versions of both (Arch Linux).

How is experience with mounted samba drives?

I found that apps don’t see them easily, which is a usability problem.

Poor integration with Google was a major reason to go back to Gnome.

What’s the value of to do app, calendar, events if I can’t have it synchronized across devices.

I tried it on my laptop. Apps that used to run without any problems would terminate randomly. I also tried it on desktop with AMD video card and didn’t observe this issue.

Overall i went back to gnome 3 days later.

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It depends on your location and particularly on how strong the seasons are at your place.

It is not likely to be XFCE specific.

Make sure you have properly configured swap space and its size is larger than RAM. Because this will be the easiest cause. Some people stated as much as twice the ram size.

There’s a wiki page on arch wiki trying to help with this issue. In short, prepare for a lot of work and good luck.

Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.

For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.

For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.

With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.

Both have quick start wiki pages like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin

Official documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/

Jellyfin, i own my streaming

C will never fully go away.

Constrained environments will always remain in C.

But RUST offers the best trade off today. It is way better than C++.

C IMO is not comparable to RUST.