Fans ramp up when viewing live stream on YouTube, Fedora

[Rand]

I never seem to have a great experience with linux
usually ends up being a driver for something or a random task I do once a year that wont work.
but I'm getting closer to switching
my "daily driver" system to linux with maybe a dual-boot for gaming.

Firefox now randomly hits 20% cpu on my 13700k on the google search page.
I only know because the water cooler fans ramp up like a vacuum

12 firefox windows open including some heavy websites.

2 firefox windows including google.com search window... with a search result.

Add in microsoft being even stupider with their windows update decisions... and
bleh.
https://www.theregister.com/oses/20...ndows-update-a-ctrl-z-for-bad-drivers/5239489

Yep I want them randomly detecting my drivers are bad and replacing them with new from the cloud drivers..
dont see what issues that could ever cause. /sarcasm

 

[Lawnman23]

I never seem to have a great experience with linux
usually ends up being a driver for something or a random task I do once a year that wont work.
but I'm getting closer to switching
my "daily driver" system to linux with maybe a dual-boot for gaming.

Firefox now randomly hits 20% cpu on my 13700k on the google search page.
I only know because the water cooler fans ramp up like a vacuum

12 firefox windows open including some heavy websites.
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2 firefox windows including google.com search window... with a search result.
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Add in microsoft being even stupider with their windows update decisions... and
bleh.
https://www.theregister.com/oses/20...ndows-update-a-ctrl-z-for-bad-drivers/5239489

Yep I want them randomly detecting my drivers are bad and replacing them with new from the cloud drivers..
dont see what issues that could ever cause. /sarcasm

Interest in Linux has spiked once again with the sun setting of Win10 and many people either not able to upgrade or simply despising Win11.

Gaming on Linux is presently worlds ahead of what it used to be, largely thanks to Valve's Proton compatibility layer and the Steam Deck. Generally speaking, most Windows games will run on Linux now, the only caveat are games that use/require low-level kernel anti-cheat clients.

With so, so many Linux distro's available now, start test driving some.

 

[Rand]

With so, so many Linux distro's available now, start test driving some.

I'm test driving one on my obsolete thinkpad t530 (from 2012)
works near perfect so far even 1080p youtube.
the battery even lasts over an hour (org. battery)

but its a whole different game on the stuffed desktop tower of hardware..

 

[Lawnman23]

but its a whole different game on the stuffed desktop tower of hardware..

You can always test drive that with a live USB distro and verify compatibility. No need to wipe the whole system.

 

[BobsArmory]

I started using Fedora when I bought this laptop just because I needed the latest kernel to run sound on this laptop for some reason. Debian wouldn't play well. Tried out CachyOS just for giggles but it was too bleeding edge for my taste. Last week I loaded up the latest version of Debian again and everything works. I think I'll stay with Debian with KDE Plasma just for the stability aspects.

I'm not the most demanding user since I use it mainly for web browsing, movies, BITOG etc.

 

[OVERKILL]

Starting with Fedora 43, its Wayland only. Current stable is 44.

It's been rock solid on many different mini pc's and laptops that I have used it on.

I just rigged up Wayland on FreeBSD 15.0 with KDE, was way easier than in the past, only had to manually enable a few things that don't get enabled by default. I've got it on a pretty recent HP Probook now and it runs like a top.

 

[goingplacesanddoingstuff]

First off, I'm running Fedora KDE latest version and Brave Browser. Everytime I watch Ryan Hall Yall on youtube live stream my fans ramp up to near max on my laptop and the keyboard gets hot. Is there a reason for this and can I do anything about it?

Check your video drivers. Seems like your CPU is working on something the GPU should be doing.

 

[BobsArmory]

I just rigged up Wayland on FreeBSD 15.0 with KDE, was way easier than in the past, only had to manually enable a few things that don't get enabled by default. I've got it on a pretty recent HP Probook now and it runs like a top.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on FreeBSD once you have run it for a while.

 

[OVERKILL]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on FreeBSD once you have run it for a while.

Oh, I've been running it for years. It was my first non-UNIX *nix, I installed it from boot floppy on my 486 in like 1995 over dial-up. I try to always have a BSD box kicking around.

This newer ProBook replaced a G2 ProBook that was also running FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is probably my favourite *nix, part of that might be the nostalgia, and the cute little daemon dude, but it's definitely the best supported of the BSD's, and you can do basically anything you can do on Linux with it, albeit, sometimes with a bit of extra work. For example, PodMan runs containers, so I'm running a Grafana docker container that isn't available for FreeBSD natively as a package, using PodMan.

 

[Plumb Bob]

Oh, I've been running it for years. It was my first non-UNIX *nix, I installed it from boot floppy on my 486 in like 1995 over dial-up. I try to always have a BSD box kicking around.

This newer ProBook replaced a G2 ProBook that was also running FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is probably my favourite *nix, part of that might be the nostalgia, and the cute little daemon dude, but it's definitely the best supported of the BSD's, and you can do basically anything you can do on Linux with it, albeit, sometimes with a bit of extra work. For example, PodMan runs containers, so I'm running a Grafana docker container that isn't available for FreeBSD natively as a package, using PodMan.

It's my favorite too, but the apps world always runs behind linux. The sheer number of developers - and the money flowing to it -on the latter makes the desktop experience a lot more pleasurable. And I'm not just talking about multimedia apps, but even hard-core development apps, such as Rstudio and Julia can be a pain to install and live with on FreeBSD.

As a server it's a rock.

 

[OVERKILL]

It's my favorite too, but the apps world always runs behind linux. The sheer number of developers - and the money flowing to it -on the latter makes the desktop experience a lot more pleasurable. And I'm not just talking about multimedia apps, but even hard-core development apps, such as Rstudio and Julia can be a pain to install and live with on FreeBSD.

As a server it's a rock.

Yeah, definitely depends on what you are doing with it. I don't really do any development, I have two FreeBSD boxes currently, the aforementioned laptop, which will be used for managing network equipment and servers, so predominantly SSH and RDP, and a server box that serves up Grafana, Node-Red...etc. for a bot I run and it also runs my Plex server. Of course the BSD port of Plex is always well behind the current version for Linux, but that hasn't been an issue with the experience.

 

[OVERKILL]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on FreeBSD once you have run it for a while.

Here's the unit in question. Don't have the fingerprint scanner working yet.

 

[Lawnman23]

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Here's the unit in question. Don't have the fingerprint scanner working yet.

Nice AdGuard Home I switched from Pi-hole earlier this year after they dropped support for using Cloudflare Tunnel for HTTPS requests. Liking it a lot more so far.

 

[OVERKILL]

Nice AdGuard Home I switched from Pi-hole earlier this year after they dropped support for using Cloudflare Tunnel for HTTPS requests. Liking it a lot more so far.

Yes, and native support for encrypted DNS, which is a huge plus.