Grub should be able to boot mint fine, just know where grub is installed and which disk boots the system before formatting anything. To test, unplug the windows disk and see what happens

Hopefully this isn’t a common problem, but I was running auto bed leveling manually, the getting failed prints because I didn’t save the levelling results to the printer and I didn’t have gcode to load the levelling data and enable it in my slicer settings.

Maybe something similar is happening to you.

You can also try disabling auto leveling and level manually, that was giving me better prints for a while but it’s a pain.

I think xvnc does this with vnc. If using gnome start gnome-remote-desktop with systemctl --user start gnome-remote-desktop then use grdctl to set it up (or the settings gui). I’ve had luck with rdp on a Wayland session this way.

I get paid by the hour! 😅 But for real though it’s a struggle. Mostly I try to use msys2 for everything but. I still have native git. There are some long standing bugs that make the vim excruciatingly slow to open or close, really I should go try to fix it but it doesn’t feel like a fun problem.

For work, I just use windows. Not my machine not my problem.

Also, what do you mean by crashes? Kernel panic? Random app death because the oom killer was activated should be expected when pushing the memory limits on Linux.

I’m running 8 and 32 in my T490, seems to work fine. I’m building software and leaking memory like crazy and it’s never been weird. I don’t see why 8 + 32 would be any different than 8 + 16 other than capacity.

Doesn’t the channel balance not matter that much? Like operations can be done in parallel. I always thought the benefits came from reading different things from each ram chip not synchronizing them byte for byte.

Check your disk usage with df -h

When my machine gets weird it’s always out of disk space.

Yes. Gentoo is always a good idea :)

Let’s see how this goes then revisit the question.

Not a mistake, I’ve got an ender 3 and a cr10. Both are fine, keep your expectations realistic and calibrate each axis, especially the extruders. Use PLA, consider getting a new build plate if your prints won’t stick. I recommend flashing firmware on the ender 3 unless you know what was loaded onto it last, doesn’t have to be fancy firmware just something you know for sure is configured for your printer. A cr10 should probably get firmware as well but I never loaded new firmware on mine and the controller is older so I’m not sure if it’s a good idea.

Don’t forget the cost of filament, if you print a lot you may spend more on filament in a year that your printer budget.

Renoise is sweet as far as trackers go.

Ardour was always my go-to although it’s been crashing on me a lot.

Shout out to BespokeSynth for being amazing, I forgive the crashes because it’s so cool and strongly foss.

Totally possible.

I recommend making room on your drive using windows tools to shrink the windows partition before letting your Linux installer add new ones, or doing it manually. This is just so that no weird filesystem bugs show up after resizing your ntfs filesystem with Linux tools. Never had a problem with them but it’s probably good to use Microsoft tools to mess with the Microsoft filesystem just in case.

I used to use Gentoo on my laptop, mostly for fun but also because I kept having issues on other distros (Ubuntu mostly) where I wanted to run the latest blender release but my libraries were out of date. On Gentoo I could easily get the most recent builds.

My money is on VMware

Maybe watch your system logs on the server when it’s having trouble, could be something random.

Mostly just try Linux on it 😹 Don’t install it just run from a flash drive or something

10/10

Excellent comment, I completely agree.

Anyway I want to add that Linux does not seek market share, it’s an escape hatch for those of us fed up with commercial software.

Linux is used to build plenty of commercial distros like Ubuntu and rhel that do seek market share which is something their companies can worry about.

Plus, more Wayland support won’t break existing X software. If you want to use old systems, don’t expect new software to run on it.

Since 6.12 the Preempt rt patcheshave become canon.

As for older kernels, there’s a thread Here but idk what the current situation is