bitwolf

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bitwolf, (edited )

I always interpreted that as a factor of the Plasma team being willing to offer compatibility for things that broke the freedesktop spec.

Whereas Gnome / Mutter for example appear to believe that if they don’t strictly follow spec it’ll perpetuate the fragmentation.

I tend to side with the latter perspective but use KDE + kwin on my desktop for gaming for Wayland + vrr (it’s amazing how smooth and responsive this is). Gnome really shines on the notebook form factor so I use it there.

bitwolf,

Fedora runs at a twice annual release model and includes kernel and firmware updates within those releases whereas Ubuntu matches a kernel with a release.

Their packages, to me, feel much higher quality in terms of reliability and reaction time to reported bugs. They also test and guarantee updates for packages in their repos. I ran my college laptop through 15 system upgrades without any issues, nothing has been that reliable for me.

I enjoyed using Ubuntu for several years and hadn’t considered Fedora until they were the first to default to Wayland (f21) and never switched again.

You can do anything on any distro, so you end up just shopping for your fav package manager and default repo and staying there. I encourage you to play with all of them with a separated /home partition or so it’s easy to shop.

bitwolf,

Does Mint carry on the snap stuff? Usually I recommend POP!_OS for new users.

bitwolf,

How does that work? Do they count user interaction time only by pausing the timer during package downloads?

Or do you need fast internet to play?

What's an alternative to Spotify that doesn't play you the same fucking songs over and over?

I am in an intense love-hate relationship with Spotify. It makes good mixes for me, I have found a lot of great bands that way. BUT IT KEEPS REGURGITATING THE SAME SONGS IN THERE. I know about Song Radios and Artist Radios, so please don’t recommend those. Smart Shuttle doesn’t cut it, either....

bitwolf,

I do it too, just with Plexamp.

The recommendations and radios on plexamp are amazing compared to any other service I’ve tried.

I'm currently downloading a show that is on a service to which I subscribe

I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don’t know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is...

bitwolf,

You don’t need a crazy server either. I got a cheap Intel Celeron motherboard for mine. Peaks at 10w and just hangs out streaming music and videos to our phones.

Perfect for <10 people.

bitwolf,

Playing through games opens great on my desktop but I lose the steam overlay so I just use Wayland proper.

bitwolf,

Nice to see Nvidia getting caught up finally. I switched but I have friends I have told to wait on Linux bc they use Nvidia

bitwolf, (edited )

Just uninstall all the Nvidia stuff and reboot. It’s been great for me so far.

Linux will auto detect the hardware and load the proper modules at boot. I believe initrd does this.

This worked great for Intel -> AMD CPU also. I just removed the Intel microcode packages after I rebooted to save the disk space.

bitwolf,

Depending on how new your GPU is you should be able to try it on the newest Nvidia drivers. :)

You can select it from the login screen (not lock screen), usually it’s a gear icon near the “enter” button on the login screen. Or in the bottom right corner.

bitwolf,

That is how portals work in Wayland.

For X there was only one protocol, so they all wrote for x.
This also allowed some hacky things to be done that are questionable from a security standpoint afaik.

bitwolf,

Pretty.much pure gnome. The only thing I use is the auto night mode extension to make it go dark at sunset.

bitwolf,

Ahem

~/.config/kde

FTFY 🙂

bitwolf, (edited )

It helped me to lean on the different principals as an example.

The easiest being Principal of Induction. Substitute m and n with 1,3,5,7,9…

After going through a few iterations you can see if it holds up enough to keep testing with other principals. (Super simplified).

bitwolf,

Steam Deck gets more popular.

Steam console released with improved multi user experience and VR.

PlayStation sales drop in growth.

Steam OS released, PCs can use it with generic kernels.

Gaming PC manufacturers offer steam OS as a preinstalled.

PC manufacturers start to offer popular distros preinstalled.

System 76 puts their in house laptops into Best Buy shelves.

Adobe and Office no longer stuck on Windows and are distributed as wasm applications.

bitwolf,

There’s also the bare pizza box in the stark white comforter. You know that cardboard isn’t going to keep all that pepperoni pizza oil in for very long.

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