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GoodTask instal the new for windows1/15/2024 ![]() ![]() Well, 99% of PC users with Nvidia hardware. > It's just not a real option for maybe 99% of PC users. There might be some kind of compilation needed, but in my experience that's rarely an issue (aside from time), especially if it's coming out of the package manager for a popular distribution. That's probably not going to happen, so the next best option is to install a package from the package manager. It would make them more competitive against AMD and Intel, which both support hardware video decoding. No, nvidia _should_ make it easier for people using the 3rd most popular desktop OS to use their hardware. > I should be working out the dependency story and compiling some driver from Github myself. I don't think it's your fault and I don't think you're using the wrong browser. Haven't had this happen on Linux yet (dual boot) and I've tried everything to avoid these unusual freezes in windows, but nothing seems to help. Look up "PC freezes while watching YouTube" and you will see I'm far from alone with this issue, Asus motherboards with new AMD processors seem to be the common factor. Sometimes it won't happen for weeks, but if I'm unlucky multiple times in an hour. I can still move the mouse for a bit, but clicking does nothing and I'm unable to even save it from a hard reset with Ctrl + Alt + Delete. I'd keep a note of the exact commands on my phone just in case.Īs a sidenote, I've had an issue on a good windows desktop PC where it freezes when watching YouTube or ither streaming services. There you can use `ps`, `kill `, `reboot now` or restart the GUI. On most distros, you can also get into a command line, with the combination CTRL + ALT + F1 - F8 (try out which function keys do it for you and how to get back to the GUI). On some systems you need to enable this feature first, so try it out once to see if it works and look up how to enable it, if it doesn't. If things are so frozen that you can't open System Monitor (task manager), try this: Hold down SysRq and Alt, let go of SysRq, keep holding down Alt, then press these buttons in order (don't need to hold them): REISUB - to remember it: "Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring", also known as "raising the elephant". Think of it like a chef having sharp knives in order to do their job better, it's true that you could do more damage if you fuck up, but their job requires them to have professional knowledge about the tools they use, and the knowledge about how to use those tools in a good way. Linux does want you to learn about the system in order for you to not mangle it, which has it's good and bad sides. I'm guessing the problem of having things stop working/breaking "magically" is a effect of random copypasting stuff into the terminal, not the other way around. ![]() > a lot of things magically stop working or break, forcing me to spend hours on google to fix some crap by copypasting random nonsense into terminal. Processes using up all disk space is a bit harder, but again shouldn't bring the computer down. Processes using up all RAM should be killed by the OOM manager that you distribution should include (but anyways you should have swap setup to avoid the situation in the first place). Processes using up all CPU should make the computer a lot slower to use, but shouldn't bring it down. I've not had this happen for as long as I've used Linux, besides GPU driver bugs/crashes that brought down the computer, but I've had this happen more frequently on Windows than Linux. > any random hang-up is a forced restart, no way to kill offending process as EVERYTHING just freezes up. I usually end up using something like htop for a quick overview, together with nvidia-smi when I do GPU-related stuff. how do you deal with absence of working task manager?
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