u/Goldie323-

I'm on a lenovo thinkpad P1 gen 3 and netflix quality seems very low. I'm not asking what the reasons it's low quality, I know it's because linux can't offer the secure channels netflix wants, or at least not in a way netflix would know how to use but is there some way to get around this, make it work or am I better off with a windows virtual machine and just passthrough my gpu or even just dual boot windows?

I HATE GOOGLE, NVIDIA AND AMD

I run linux and I never have this issue ever happening with anything other then google and it only happens to google if I have an nvidia card and an AMD cpu

It's probably mostly nvidia's fault for not following the standard with their drivers, intel graphics and amd graphics never have this issue, and nvidia and intel work together so nicely.

But chrome keeps crashing, it's because chrome doesn't handle graphics quiet properly to handle certain cases, those cases only ever show up if you have an nvidia card and amd cpu. It's these 3 companies all individually sucking at one specific part of their app and they all suck in such specific ways that they work together to kill my system multiple times. I've tried switching browsers but firefox kind of sucks and I have no other options, if I disable my AMD integrated graphics then for some reason my games lose all the speed they have.

I've thought about switching back to windows but I don't want to dual boot and find it so much easier to program on linux and there's these linux specific apps I'd hate to lose.

I'm a on a system with a GTX 1650. I looked at the arch wiki and can't find drivers that actually work on my system, I've tried installing multiple different drivers, like the nvidia-580xx-dkms drivers and then uninstalled when those didn't work and tried nvidia-dkms but when I tried to install it installed nvidia-open-dkms and so I rebooted and that didn't work. I found this article online that tells me to install the nvidia package, but that package doesn't exist.

[goldie323@arch-acer-goldie323 ~]$ sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings dkms
error: target not found: nvidia

Edit (SOLVED): turns out that for some reason I didn't have linux-headers installed, I installed those and nvidia-open-dkms works.

I can't figure out why it happens like this. It says the one terabyte drive isn't mounted but changing data in home changes data on the drive, they're not mirrored. This is how I want my drives setup with the secondary and larger one as my home folder but it's showing up weird in the terminal for some reason, fdisk says it's mounting root and home from the same filesystem just as btrfs sub-volumes and so why is it writing home folder writes to the second drive?

lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0         7:0    0  49.3M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/26865
loop1         7:1    0    74M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/2411
loop2         7:2    0     4K  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
loop6         7:6    0  63.8M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/2769
loop7         7:7    0  55.5M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2999
nbd0         43:0    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd1         43:1    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd2         43:2    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd3         43:3    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd4         43:4    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd5         43:5    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd6         43:6    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd7         43:7    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd8         43:8    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd9         43:9    0     0B  0 disk 
nbd10        43:10   0     0B  0 disk 
nbd11        43:11   0     0B  0 disk 
nbd12        43:12   0     0B  0 disk 
nbd13        43:13   0     0B  0 disk 
nbd14        43:14   0     0B  0 disk 
nbd15        43:15   0     0B  0 disk 
zram0       251:0    0     8G  0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   600M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0     2G  0 part /boot
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 235.9G  0 part /run/media/goldie323/fedora17
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora16
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora15
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora14
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora13
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora12
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora11
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora10
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora9
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora8
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora7
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora6
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora5
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora4
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora3
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora2
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora1
                                      /run/media/goldie323/fedora
                                      /home
                                      /
nvme1n1     259:4    0 953.9G  0 disk 
└─nvme1n1p1 259:5    0 953.9G  0 part 
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ ls /home/goldie323/Downloads/Pharaoh.tar.xz 
/home/goldie323/Downloads/Pharaoh.tar.xz
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ sudo mount /dev/nvme1
nvme1      nvme1n1    nvme1n1p1  
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt/
[sudo] password for goldie323: 
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ ls /mnt/
home  root
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ ls /mnt/home/goldie323/Downloads/Pharaoh.tar.xz 
/mnt/home/goldie323/Downloads/Pharaoh.tar.xz
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ mv /home/goldie323/Downloads/Pharaoh.tar.xz /home/goldie323/Downloads/test-folder/
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ ls /mnt/home/goldie323/Downloads/Pharaoh.tar.xz
ls: cannot access '/mnt/home/goldie323/Downloads/Pharaoh.tar.xz': No such file or directory
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ ls /mnt/home/goldie323/Downloads/test-folder
Pharaoh.tar.xz
goldie323@fedora-acer-goldie323:~$ WHAT THE HELL, THEY ARE SEPERATE DEVICES

I'm currently on CachyOS but I'm looking for something a little bit more stable. I've had updates break drivers for my GPU and then every game is really slow to render. I'm very used to arch and how that works but realize that I should probably switch to something more stable and reliable, especially cause the most intense games I play are GTA V and modded minecraft. I've thought about Fedora but I'm unsure.

Here are the specs for my computer:
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
40 gigabytes of RAM
1 terabyte SSD and a 256 gigabyte SSD

it's a Nitro AN515-44

I want to setup a computer for my mom, she does basic web browsing and zoom meetings. I currently set her up up with arch linux on LXQt, the issue is that her friends in the zoom meeting see her camera as very laggy and when there's too many people(4+) in the zoom meeting her laptop lags. I thought about switching to cachyOS for the x86_64v3 packages that would run faster but I'm unsure. Anyone have recommendations?

System spec:
AMD A4-9120e RADEON R3
4 gigabytes DDR4 memory
64 gigabytes EMMC storage

Can't find specifications for the wifi card or anything else. The computer is a HP stream 14-ds0003dx.

I tested speed with google's speed test and got 70 megabits per second up and 60 down, this is what most other devices get on my network and so internet is not the issue for zoom since any other device would also have the same issue.

I have these two SSD's, the first one I've had for 5-6 years, the second I've only had for around 1 year. I want to understand the smartctl information about it, some things are obvious of 'data units read' and 'data units written' and 'power cycles' being obvious, but what is 'available spare' or 'available spare threshold' and 'percentage used'

Can anyone explain the information?

First drive:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        55 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    15%
Data Units Read:                    465,184,644 [238 TB]
Data Units Written:                 163,513,937 [83.7 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 6,372,233,483
Host Write Commands:                2,098,631,825
Controller Busy Time:               24,865
Power Cycles:                       1,651
Power On Hours:                     10,398
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   488
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      3
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Temperature Sensor 1:               55 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2:               61 Celsius

Second drive:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        42 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          1%
Percentage Used:                    2%
Data Units Read:                    7,963,091 [4.07 TB]
Data Units Written:                 14,298,651 [7.32 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 49,696,415
Host Write Commands:                167,444,056
Controller Busy Time:               253
Power Cycles:                       184
Power On Hours:                     266
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   50
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      0
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Temperature Sensor 1:               42 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2:               41 Celsius

Why do they force me to use my phone number for 'security reasons' my password is 64 RANDOM FUCKING CHARACTERS. IT IS FUCKING SECURE. I CAN'T LOG IN WITHOUT A PHONE NUMBER and I SPECIFICALLY was using an alt account that I want to have NO PERSONAL INFORMATION. I use google cause it's the easiest email service to use but now it's not so easy with all these small issues and I can't switch because a good chunk of the websites I'm on don't support switching email accounts, and some of them I even logged in with google and they don't support changing account email and password and so I'm STUCK USING GOOGLE and GOOGLE FUCKING SUCKS.