voidlinux still has the 390 drivers available. I’m sure others do too:

[-] nvidia390-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - Libraries and Utilities [-] nvidia390-dkms-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - DKMS kernel module [-] nvidia390-gtklibs-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - GTK+ libraries [-] nvidia390-libs-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - common libraries [-] nvidia390-opencl-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - OpenCL implementation

Much less troublesome to ditch the display managers, log in from the tty and run sway from a script such as mine

actual boomer here with foot on sway

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The biggest problem with RDP for me is the lack of a Wayland/sway server. How does the Fedora Sway spin cope with this?

True - but don’t forget cost of power ($ cost and environment cost). These old brutes consume a lot esp. compared to the SBCs.

I have a Luckfox Pico Ultra-W running a ‘buildroot’ linux with a camera module that I use as a security camera. It cost me about A$33.

I also have a Luckfox Pico Max running ubuntu simply to run smokeping 24x7 monitoring - about A$30.

Finally a ESP32 CAM Camera Module With OV2640 camera that can be bought for less that A$15 (not linux but just FYI).

venerable jq

Ha! jq was the bratty kid I yelled at to get off my lawn. Now he’s a drinking buddy, but still the youngest!

Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done. I use voidlinux. Best ever.

I’ve been saying this for 30+ years, but no-one wanted to listen.

Try not using a DM (like sddm) and just logging in to the console tty and then running your sway startup script.

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Wow! acronym soup. I understand almost none of that.

voidlinux: gave me much better battery life - I assume because it starts as a minimal system and one adds only the essentials to do the job - compared to the soup-to-nuts distros that pile everything in so that newbies are acccomodated. Of course, the voidlinux approach needs more linux skills - but it’s not that hard and the doco is great.

Also, I love the back to basics runit init system and runsv service runner (I’m old so I like that stuff) and the ultra fast xbps packaging system.

Thanks (to all the authors) for your hard work and contributions.

BTW - thanks for Mistral. Another tool in the box!

Quite right!

You need to take it all (AI or internet searches) with a huge pinch of salt. Even ye olde text books were not infallible and often out of date, so sodium chloride was also required even then.

The code either works or it doesn’t - it’s all in the testing. If you deploy AI suggestions without thought you deserve the consequences.

so just use chatgpt or gemini - pretty sure they sucked in all of reddit to form their KB

I followed up on github as you suggested and a very nice young man took a look at it and said that the code already does work the right way (at least the way I and their little poll think it should work). But, it turns out that the fix (from 2021) has not been deployed - it’s to be in the next release.

So I don’t know what will happen now - I’ll continue to use my workaround, so I’m happy enough.

So he’s a journalist </s> Thanks for the warning, saved me a read.