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Ghoelian, in Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable

Does this apply to Proton as well, or have they had their own fixes for Vulkan or something? Cause I’ve been playing games on Wayland with Proton just fine for a good while now.

Ullebe1,

Proton uses XWayland, this is for proper, native Wayland support. It will make its way to Proton eventually.

deathmetal27,

This is a major change, so I think this will probably be in Proton 9.0, whenever Valve releases that.

avidamoeba, in Cleanest way to maintain AppImage installations?
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Use a package management system that supports this use case.

muhyb, in Noob question: what to arrange before switching to linux

You’re all good to go.

Just wanted to add this though: Pick some of your USB stick and make it your emergency Linux live install media.

Also it would be a nice idea to set your /home directory to a seperate drive, it’s like using D: on Windows.

Good luck on your journey!

possiblylinux127, in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?

Do you need low latency? I use Rustdesk and moonlight/sunshine

redcalcium, (edited ) in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?

Sometimes I use Steam Remote Play to access my personal linux desktop remotely. It’s actually works pretty great and can automatically reduce stream quality to match your current bandwidth. It also has a lot less input latency than VNC or RDP, though it consumes a lot more bandwidth.

sbv, in The Unity Desktop Environment an Underrated Masterpiece

I used Unity for five or six years. It was undeniably fine. I had no complaints.

Mohamad20ZX,

But isn’t the new version great

sbv,

Probably? I switched employers and I’m running osx now. I prefer Unity, but osx works too.

Flaky,
@Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

I used it at university. I don’t think anyone there complained about it, and these people were not Linux users…

toomanyjoints69,

That might be why tbh. Unity seems very intuitive as long as someone has an open mind similar to the expectation that a mac will be different than wibdows.

sbv,

That’s good! It should be usable and intuitive for everybody.

TheAnonymouseJoker, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Windows 7 introducing that optional but pushed telemetry update, when 10 released in 2017. Also 10 shitting itself until a couple years when it stabilised meant Linux must be adopted. WINE also started supporting a lot of stuff, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was the first true viable mainstream Linux attempt in history.

stellarforce, in Why didn't anyone remind me the dual booting exists?

I only boot windows for Fortnite and The Crew 2 because of BS DRM. Everything else runs great.

const_void, in I finally switched back to Linux as my daily driver after a couple of years of being on nothing but Windows.

Why is everyone in here saying “daily driver” all of a sudden?

hugz,

It has always been a very common term to describe the distro/OS of choice. Even moreso when linux was a bit less usable as a desktop OS and dual-booting was pretty necessary

ani,

People using cars as wallpapers on GNU+Linux is trending right now

xfts,
@xfts@lemmy.world avatar

Haha, that’d be funny if this was the meaning.

governorkeagan,

Adding to what has already been said. It can help to differentiate when you use multiple OS’s but end up using one more than the rest.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

It’s been said for a long time afaik. Didn’t start on lemmy

LeFantome,

Well, if obviously comes from the world of cars. My guess is that its use there dates back to before PCs. It just make sense that people that already used it for cars would apply it to computers. It is hard to know the timing. Probably at the point that at least some people started to have access to more than one.

chaogomu,
Sonotsugipaa,
@Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It’s a term that has existed for quite a while, at least in this kind of community.

cows_are_underrated, in what caused you to get into Linux?

I am interested in tech, and also watched a lot of YouTube videos about different topics. Somehow I realised how much data windows sends. Since I was planning to buy myself a new pc(my old one was a Celsius W370 from 2009 that took 20 minutes to boot windows) I decided to not install Windows on this pc but to install Linux. I went the classic way and chose Mint with cinnamon.

That was about 1.5 years ago.

I wouldn say that I’m somehow obsessed with Linux and there’s definitely no way back. I got completely sucked into FOSS. My next phone will be a Google pixel where I will install Graphene OS on. Fuck big tech.

Altomes,

Huge on lineage myself, think its dope

PlexSheep, in I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better

Didn’t know I wanted this, unfortunately I use Cinnamon, but this is a great feature!

crmsnbleyd, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz avatar

Linux user group at my uni. I love Unix like systems, especially Linux.

a_fancy_kiwi, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Plex

At the time, Windows was updating and restarting whenever it felt like it which would stop my Plex server from running until I logged back in. Windows and Macs are now just thin clients that allow me to connect to all my Linux servers.

AceFuzzLord, in what caused you to get into Linux?

On an old laptop of mine that has pretty piss poor specs I ended up messing with the regedit on win10. On the only account on the laptop, I lost admin access and couldn’t change it back. I tried fixing it using a solution online that required downloading Linux and booting it up on a thumb drive. After that failed and I found out that Best Buy was just suggesting reinstalling win10, I just said “fuck it” and installed Ubuntu, which was what I had on my thumb drive. That was a couple years ago. Since then I have switched to Sparky Linux, even though I rarely use that laptop anymore thanks to my desktop.

I’m definitely not ultra obsessed with it, but I do find it’s nice to have.

SpaceCadet, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@SpaceCadet@feddit.nl avatar

Afterstep on Red Hat 5.1

Story: I started a new job as a system engineer in December 1998, it was the heyday of Windows 9x and NT 4.0. First day on the job, the guy who was sitting across from my assigned desk was running something strange and insanely cool looking on a giant CRT monitor. I was mesmerized by the spinning window animations, the virtual desktops, the cool icons, the falling snow… I struck up a conversation with him, asked him what kind of system he was running there. He told me he was running Linux and this was the Afterstep window manager. Turns out he was the local sysadmin there as well as a Linux evangelist and someone I got along with instantly.

I had already been curious about Linux and wanted to try it, so he gave me a copy of Red Hat 5.1 to install on my home PC and I started my journey there. 25 years later I still run Linux, the expertise I developed with it has helped me immensely in my career and I’m still friends with my former coworker.

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