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richardisaguy, in How to fix?
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That’s why I use flatpak

EuroNutellaMan, in Is asus rog strix B55-F gaming wifi ll atx am4 a good motherboard for linux? (known problem?)
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It’s probably gonna work fine but you can always check with live USB probably.

gyrfalcon, in Looking for a "couch laptop"
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I bought a used HP Elitebook on eBay for a similar purpose. I can browse and do video calls on a bigger screen when the fancy strikes. Pretty much any used business laptop should work. I think I paid about $300 for mine and I paid extra for particular hardware I thought was neat but you don’t have to. Only thing to keep in mind is the battery will likely be pretty worn.

interceder270, in Looking for a "couch laptop"

Check out /r/laptopdeals daily until you find something that fits your needs and budget.

Sentau, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

DId your Nvidia drivers update recently? If yes try the older Nvidia driver

dynamo,

nope, they didn’t

jormaig, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?

Anyone good at insulting and ranting can make the cut. It should not be hard to train an AI on it.

d3Xt3r, in Customising keyboard layouts Fedora KDE Wayland

xremap.

  • Actively developed
  • Works on Wayland and is DE/distro independent
  • Written in rust so it’s faster and more lightweight compared to other similar apps written in python
  • Works on AARCH64 (not sure if it works on 16K kernels though, but worth trying)
ProtonBadger, in Is there an easy way to set up an email client so you get system notifications in GNOME once you receive an e-mail?

Suddenly i feel nostalgic for xbiff. No longer useful but he was a good dog.

OsrsNeedsF2P, in Louvre: C++ library for building Wayland compositors.

What does “Single, Double or Triple Buffering” mean?

ehopperdietzel,

The idea of single, double, and triple buffering revolves around how many framebuffers we use for display rendering. Typically, we go with double buffering, displaying one framebuffer while rendering happens on the other. Swap them, and the cycle continues. The goal is to prevent screen tearing and glitches from popping up on the screen.

ijhoo, in Louvre: C++ library for building Wayland compositors.

Do you plan to use vulkan wmi in any way?

Can xwayland be excluded?

ehopperdietzel, (edited )

Honestly, I haven’t explored Vulkan yet. I initially chose GLES 2.0 as the primary renderer to ensure compatibility with a wide range of hardware. Introducing Vulkan myself would be a time-consuming task unless I receive assistance.

Regarding XWayland, Louvre doesn’t currently support it, so it’s naturally excluded. Well, it technically can run in rootful mode, but that is somewhat pointless. To enable independent window management, I believe I would need to create a mini X server, a task I haven’t tackled as of now.

ijhoo, (edited )

It looks very interesting.

I might be wrong, but it seems to me like Vulkan Support in hw is better than opengl:

  • amd since at least Polaris (there is a project to Bring vulkan to really old terrascale graphics, but is jot yet there)
  • Intel since idk broadwell Skylake
  • Nvidia proprietary for sure don’t know since when and it seems that focus on nvk (new open source driver) is going to be on vulkan
  • android since version 7 - Eighty-five percent of active Android devices support Vulkan (this is better than android Version Rollout) developer.android.com/games/develop/use-vulkan
  • rpi, not sure which versions

Probably all of them have better Vulkan than opengl drivers (due to drivers being simpler). David Arlie rather quickly implemented first Vulkan driver for AMD once Vulkan was first released. Just in case you need incentive.

I was thinking of starting something similar as a learning exercise, but I’m really limited in time and not skilled as much in c++, so it would probably lead nowhere. Now I can just build on top - if I get any time for this, will come probably with questions.

Anyway, this idea was to make something modern. Without the legacy crap. Actual goals were:

  1. Vulkan only (move gfx API Info the future)
  2. no x/xwayland (most of the apps in newer toolkits already support Wayland, the others I’d rather avoid)
  3. Multithreaded
ehopperdietzel,

Interesting, I don’t recall where I read about Vulkan support still being experimental in many Mesa drivers; it might have been an outdated post. I’ll look into it, and perhaps I’ll decide to dive into learning Vulkan. Additionally, there are buffer-sharing mechanisms that already work smoothly with GLES, so I need to explore if the situation is similar for Vulkan. Thanks for your response, and if you have the time and inclination to help include it, feel free to do so! 😄

Perroboc, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

How do you handle which GPU is used in which game? I would guess you have an AMD iGPU, and a Nvidia GPU for games, right? Maybe something along those lines got updated?

dynamo,

That’s correct, but i mostly let the laptop handle it, unless i know for a fact that a game needs/doesn’t need the N GPU, in which case i either manually switch it over or (and this is the case for wine apps through bottles) i configure the program to only use the iGPU

Perroboc,

What are you using to switch the GPU? Have you tried alternatives? EnvyControl for example.

Also, have you checked if you’re using ONLY Radeon-Vulkan for the AMDGPU, and not AMDVLK also?

dynamo,

No clue, since mint cinnamon (afaik) doesn’t have a GUI for managing gpu drivers i don’t know how to approach it.

TerraRoot,

Can you simplfy the issue by disabling the nvidia in bios?

TCB13, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software
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What a fucking shock. .

This is what you get when you use questionable open-source.

helenslunch, in A new pilot will investigate the use of Forgejo (A non profit FOSS alternative to github and gitea) in german schools
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Isn’t there a federated version of GitHub?

onlinepersona,

LMAO. That’s hilarious, babe.

helenslunch,
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Sick comment, honey

kadu,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

Gnarly commentary, darling

adam_b,

You might wanna take a look at this ( haven’t read it yet )

andruid,

Not of Github, but Gitlab is working towards it now.

helenslunch,
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That’s what I meant

danielfgom, in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
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The issue isn’t with Linux directly so any distro you use will do the same.

It could be a hardware issue that the machine is not dissipating heat.

Or it could be that you need some kind of driver/controller software for fan. It sounds like the system isn’t properly controlling the fan. It leaves it low when it doesn’t defect usage but when it does, instead of increasing the fan a little bit at a time, it just goes full tilt to be safe. It probably cannot read the temperature sensors and so has no idea whether your need cooling or not.

I don’t know the answer but do some googling around system temperature reading on that model and see if there is a module you need to install.

rem26_art, in on arch btw.
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been playing around with sway on my laptop and it's been pretty fun. Tiling window managers are fun!

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