I have several laptops that all have nvidia/intel cards (it’s hard to avoid them). They all work perfectly with sway using the nouveau drivers. I haven’t tried the proprietary drivers as I have no use for gaming, just firefox, emacs, mythtv and mpv movies.
I use mythtv (FOSS) and it’s fine as a PVR (schedule, record and playback broadcast TV) with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun network-attached tuner. It also has playback for downloaded files but I prefer to use mpv for that. Mine is still connected to the internet and I use firefox/transmission for youtube and other functions.
No idea about plex or jellyfin.
It’s probably more to do with hardware than distro. That said, using major distros is more likely to win. FWIW I’ve used fedora and voidlinux on my 3 Dell laptops over the last 12 years with nary a problem. One of them had nvidia but I used nouveau.
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
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.
Just mount the ‘remote’ file system via NFS (or samba, if you must) and play the media on the ‘local’ machine as if it were a local file. Done. What am I missing?