Dual Boot Diaries

Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam hits another major milestone and Will has a bunch of little things he's working on.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:54 - Valve VRAM optimization

00:12:09 - Adam's diary entry

00:35:24 - Will's diary entry

01:08:00 - Homework

01:24:43 - Outro

Links:

- Valve VRAM optimization: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/valve-engineer-shocks-linux-community-with-game-changing-vram-hack-for-8gb-gpus-breakthrough-solution-turbocharges-gaming-by-prioritizing-vram-for-games-while-background-tasks-take-a-back-seat

- DSpico - LNH Team: https://www.lnh-team.org/

- Buy DSpico from Phenom Mod: https://store.phenommod.com/product/dspico-pre-order/

- Set up OpenClaw on AMD: https://www.amd.com/en/resources/articles/run-openclaw-locally-on-amd-ryzen-ai-max-and-radeon-gpus.html

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will takes on the old laptop challenge with a mid-2010's MacBook Pro and Adam supes up his Old ThinkPad.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:14 - Adam's diary entry

00:27:51 - Will's diary entry

00:53:12 - Homework

01:11:02 - Outro

Links:

- Linux market share on Steam: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p

- Save Desktop: https://github.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop

- ThinkPad support from Lenovo: https://youtu.be/OIxpVUzsplU?si=RqlAvKqiyRHVkw19

- USB C charging mod: https://www.instructables.com/USB-C-Charging-for-ThinkPad-T450s/

- Cachy on old MacBook: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/cachyos-clean-install-on-macbook-pro-11-5-mid-2015/24190

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will gets frustrated with issues related to keys and Adam takes on the old laptop challenge.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:08:17 - Will's diary entry

00:22:27 - Adam's diary entry

01:00:01 - Homework & Outro

Links:

- How Fedora updates: https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-quietly-solved-linuxs-update-problem/

- Windows 11 promises: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3093997/windows-11-reset-microsoft-pledges-more-speed-stability-and-control.html

- Lenovo ThinkPad T440s: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/ThinkPad_T440s.pdf

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- Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dual-boot-diaries/id1834486410

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- YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiZwoK8DQiwwpRSLIqYZ4yVuCEIPCr2NL&si=Y_E4Na_TFyudPjAj

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam and Will are joined by Certified Ethical Hacker Mike Danseglio to go over a ton of security related questions.

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam and Will do a quick check in before moving on to some questions.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:26 - Diary entries

00:27:04 - Q&A

00:57:41 - Outro

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will continues down his journey of becoming a distro maintainer and Adam weighs what he does about audio issues.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:07:22 - Will's diary entry

00:37:44 - Adam's diary entry

00:59:54 - Homework & Outro

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will marks a major milestone and contemplates creating his own distro while Adam is stuck in a rut.

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will celebrates using BlueBubbles in order to get iMessages working in Linux and Adam rants about his audio issues in Bazzite.

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam and Will go through all the questions they've received in Discord, including the ultimate question: would you delete Windows or Linux right now?

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Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experiences trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will provides another update for his streaming PC and talks about liquidctl, and Adam recounts his experience with LACT and talks about weird audio issues.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:51 - Will's diary entry

00:29:36 - Adam's diary entry

00:56:57 - Handheld testing

01:17:28 - Outro

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