Hello everyone! I know that Linux GUI advanced in last few years but we still lack some good system configuration tools for advanced users or sysadmins. What utilities you miss on Linux? And is there any normal third party alternatives?

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    28 days ago

    LACT. Though I don’t know if it can OC Nvidia, Nvidia support is quite new.

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      28 days ago

      til about this one, nice. i wish discoverability for linux software was better.

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        28 days ago

        Same here. I’m using CorrCTRL for my 6800XT and the VRAM OC is not working properly, will give LACT a try

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          26 days ago

          Chances are that it doesn’t work there either. What actually does the OC is the kernel; the GUIs merely write the desired values into the correct files in /sys.

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            I’ve just got to try it and you’re right. VRAM OC is also broken with LACT though at first it seemed like it worked and I even managed one full bebchmark run in CP2077 but my PC started heavily artifacting and crashed on 2nd run.

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              2 days ago

              Well then it sounds like it works just fine but your chosen value isn’t stable.

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                I can do 2150MHz fast timings on Windows (2000MHz is default). But on Linux even +1MHz is unstable with CoreCTRL and anything above +2MHz is unstable with LACT

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                  There cannot be differences between CoreCTRL and LACT; they use the exact same kernel interfaces.

                  Your issue is therefore also not connected to any of these GUIs but how the kernel applies your policies.

                  I’d recommend you try to reproduce the issue using just the raw kernel files and report the issue upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/

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        28 days ago

        I usually just feed my questions into three different LLMs plus ddg with site:reddit and then check consensus. As good as it gets.

        But then last time I’ve managed to discover DeadBeeF through IRC.

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          27 days ago

          yeah thats how i find them, we have good app stores on linux that could use some community curation though!

          its common on linux for software to be abandoned, only for a fork to pop up elsewhere and it gets annoying.