ASUS routers chose to make their USB share Samba V1 for some reason, as do other home NAS plug and play servers.

Thanks for the extension!

I may give it a shot later. Right now I just spent 4 days getting things set up and to a point where I’m comfortable with it’s use. So I may settle down for a bit right now and just learn to use Pop even more. I like it overall, just had a few small annoyances like the desktop shortcut thing. But other than that everything is just working right now, which has not been my historical experience with Linux.

I just want an experience that’s as dumbed down GUI-heavy and easy to use as Windows, and so far this is fitting the bill nicely.

I started with Fedora which was a bad time all around. Even their Nobara special release for Nvidia users geared towards gaming was completely unfunctional on my rig.

I’m on Pop!OS which I like. Most things were done easily, however I have a router that does Samba shares on the LAN and it uses Samba V1 which required some extensive configuration on linux to get operable.

Pop!OS worked out for me in the end.

Linux users can be worse than Jehovah’s witnesses or crack dealers when pushing you to try a new OS.

Mixed feelings. And we’re still very much so in the beginner phase. I can stand issues with scaling since the fix was to set both to the same and just deal with it for now. That’s fine. Getting all my other stuff, games, various devices, all that is much more important right now. Once I know how to do all that and feel familiar with running as much command line as linux demands, then we can move on.

I appreciate the recommendations. So far Pop!OS has been working great for me. It’s a great replacement environment, I have all my stuff more or less configured, and am still getting things deployed. Once I’m more familiar with Linux I fully do intend to revisit this and try some other OS’s out, but for this moment I’m pretty happy with how things are working.

I got KDE running in safe graphics mode, followed the steps to load the nvidia graphics driver, and the instant I did, black screen lol. I followed the exact same process on Workstation 39 and it worked, so I’m not sure what the issue was.

All ASUS routers that have USB file sharing use Samba v1, and only Samba v1. And that’s not the only NAS devices that are still sold with Samba v1 only.

On a current default Windows installation, you can’t connect to Samba v1 at all, you have to manually activate it first.

Also true with linux. The difference is I have to check one box in Windows. In linux I had to edit what are essentially the registry keys for 2 different programs (packages), then add a manual argument in fstab for mounting it. Oh and there was no encompassing tutorial for that task that was easily googlable, me figuring that out was the result of combining like 3 different random bits I got off of forums after almost 8 solid hours of exhaustively searching the subject.

With windows ‘enable samba v1 share’ pulls up result one how to do it, you open one program, check one box, and you’re done.

Guess again if it’s a samba v1 share.

… I’ll check it out I’m sure eventually. I just got a bunch more stuff enabled and I’m almost fully functional. The next step is installing some pirated games and seeing if I can get those working. Mostly because while I do like Stellaris I’m not paying $250 for the full game.

There’s a new update that releases tomorrow and soon after I’m sure there will be a full install with GoG exes. From what I can tell lutro is the way to go for getting those and older games up and running. That’s really the final functionality of Linux I need to work.

I managed to get a huge mod working called BTA3062 which extensively modified a game called BATTLETECH. I was certain it’d be a major hurdle but it worked just fine which is amazing to me that that’s possible.

My first experience was with Fedora. The very first install I tried was the KDEPrism version.

You’re really not selling me here. You had me worried for a second with the old version of Ubuntu 22. But that’s just when they diverged, they have a rolling 6 month release as well and are an active OS after my noob few seconds of googling. I also see dev comments that state that they when they release those updates they’re basically modified versions of whatever Ubuntu is releasing. So looks like for all intents and purposes I’m on the latest version of ubuntu. Reading comparisons between the two, this is kind of a slightly stripped down and debloated ubuntu, which almost makes me want to give that a look.

You’re definitely not going to sell me soon on a version that depends on command line installation. That’s just ridiculous in 2023 dawg. You’re talking to a Windows refugee, who admittedly knows enough about DOS and writes his own .bat files and other stuff, but for a lot of things, I want it as dumb and easy as possible. Pop!OS is doing a great job of that.

I also like that they sell their own hardware. It means they have commercial reasons to want their product to work as best it can, and since I have a pretty close hardware profile to their Nvidia setup, I’m actually even more sold because of the sheer level of compatibility of my existing hardware after looking for a minute.

Pop uses x11 by default but can be switched to Wayland at the boot screen by clicking the gear and selecting Wayland. So looks like either or on the fly.

Oh Lord Omnimessiah, bestow your blessings upon the machine spirit of this workstation. May it’s sacred code be free of blasphemous error and wasted resources. May the magnificence of it’s function be even a pale reflection of your own perfection. In your name we pray, amen.

nordvpn whitelist add 192.168.1.0/24

Fixed my Nord issue, someone did say something about lan discovery mode being a thing, which, as a quality of life thing should be enabled by default I would think, but whatever.

I’m sticking with this distro for a minute, for now I mostly care about text in websites on the big screen and ctrl mousewheel is working fine for zooming a bit for now. Right now I’m all about trying to just get settled and familiar with something before hopping around too much. Pop has been pretty good to me so far. I did try Fedora’s KDEPlasma spin, it did NOT me and I didn’t like it.

Do you have a recommendation for an Nvidia setup should I be interested?

nordvpn whitelist add 192.168.1.0/24

Fixed it for me, I will look at lan discovery mode, that would be the smarter option.

Life in general really.

I will be taking future OS recommendations! For now though Pop!OS has my support because after the dumpster fire of an experience that Fedora was, having something that has a specific Nvidia build (that works, looking at you Nobara).

I’ll be looking into surf shark for sure. Nord is gonna be losing a sub here shortly. Especially if it’s on android as well. Well… that’s if they’re transmission speeds are good. Nord is suprisingly fast for a VPN which is why I still use them. Proxy.sh and a few others I tried really didn’t cut the mustard years ago.

So confident I’m staying! I have a ton of mixed feelings about Linux, right now even though I have some pretty solid functionality there are dozens of small annoyances that need addressing. I need to get my g502 hero and orbweaver chroma online for real for example.

And, while yes Warhammer runs better, currently it is loading really really slow off the HDD when loading battles, significantly longer than it did on windows. So much so I have questions about if it’s maybe in USB 2.0 mode instead of the signficantly faster modes I know it’s capable of.

The real issue is is that it takes literally someone who’s very familiar already with technology and deep experience in running a computer to run linux even at this level. I gotta say, the everyman would never be able to pick Linux up in the state it’s in now.

When the week is out I’m most likely going to do a fresh install to clear up my sandbox bullshit and changes I made but didn’t fully understand following other tutorials that didn’t help.

I’m worried about some of the files I edited being somehow dependent on this program and getting edited back somehow. I’ve saved it to my ‘in case of bullshit and you have to reinstall here’s how to do things’ file. I pretty much guarantee I’ll come around to it sometime this week as I stumble through getting this fully set up. I haven’t even touched my hotas setup yet, or my elgato stream deck, Nor have I even begun to poke at the full range of apps on here.

When everything is set up and I have a full list of notes on how to do everything I fully intend on running through it again though for real just so there’s not a bunch of inept changes I made and didn’t understand.

I did get it fixed, in the weirdest way possible. https://lemmy.world/comment/5325997

Well shit, I just figured out the scaling issue. That was legit a noob move. The scale control is in the Nvidia controls on windows. On linux it’s under the xorg settings. So, one less thing to complain about.