Lol, which is funny as every torrent client gives the example of downloading Linux isos (which is probably for legality reasons)

Good, Maybe a list of “Pirate Distros” would help people.

It appears to be active (running)

Yeah, but the keyword is large. Because there are many community distros that are hardly updated. Case and point, Spiral Linux is still stuck in bookworm, even though this week 450 people downloaded its iso.

Depends really. Small community distros serve a purpose as they either provide some niche configurations or pre-installed software that major distros don’t, or they are made because they are trying to fork a major distros that is becoming too corporate with risk of becoming less open source. Now within community distros there are reputations. Debian is famously a community driven distro that hundreds of other distros are based on, and so is arch. They are pretty stable and will last more and more. Also, corporate distro doesn’t guarantee longevity or stability either, because there are several corporate projects that get abandoned and are picked up by communities.

It’s not a hot take, but it only applies to specific type of newbies who want to keep using Linux like they use windows, because a newbie will stay a newbie on an atomic system. Those who actually wanna dwell into Linux and take full advantages of things like customizing & scripting, will feel restrained. But then again, only a newbie could really tell if that’s the case.

This is not a religion.

Tell that to arch evangelists

Windows -> Mandrake/Mandriva -> Fedora -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> Manjaro -> Arch -> NixOS -> CachyOS -> PikaOS

As a generational discord hater, this pleases me.

Hi, I tried updating the kernel and currently at 6.16, but system still hangs. It only works when nomodeset is added to disable Intel 915 driver completely.

Because I have been asking my wife to switch to Linux for sometime and one time where she finally agrees, this is what happens. Your reasons are valid but even if I could explain all that to her, she already got one of the worst impressions about Linux with this fiasco. I don’t know how to explain this but this small little thing, this bug, not only has kinda killed my credibility as a tech person in my house, it has also killed the hope of moving away from big corporations towards self hosted services.

Yeah, I tried but it didn’t help.

Yeah I tried that, didn’t help. I don’t think it’s swap. It has to do with graphics or display driver.

Well you sent me down a rabbit hole and for a while I thought it was definitely the issue. I found a script that does what the suggested solution in the link says, and I adjusted iccmax values for GPU, but it doesn’t matter what parameters I adjusted, it kept freezing. I tried BIOS firmware downgrade and updates, changed undervolt parameters and so many other stuff, but didn’t help. In fact it kept freezing without going into graphic intensive work, so I tried reinstalling different distro with different DE, yet all of them froze so much much that I gave up. Reinstalled Windows and it hasn’t freeze once. It’s hard to admit as a Linux evangelist but windows works for some bloody reason where Linux simply fails.

Already did. No logs were added before system freezing

Well I did dmesg locally and via ssh, and neither showed any message before freezing. Similarly I did journalctl at next boot and no errors there either.

Capslock doesn’t work, neither can I ping the host. The system is completely frozen and can only be reset with physical power button.

Surprisingly glxgears worked fine and didn’t led to any freeze.

Did dmesg local and from ssh. Also journalctl also doesn’t give anything. PC is completely frozen as it doesn’t respond to pings at all

Already tried, nothing in dmesg

I did both. Local dmesg and from a ssh session as well, both without any entry on freezing. Journalctl is also with nothing out of the ordinary

Also it’s completely frozen, no ping, no caps lock etc.

It’s a mini PC, so of course cannot do that.