drwankingstein

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drwankingstein,

a capitalist funded anarcho-comunist ecosystem, ironic

drwankingstein,

I actually really like Chrome OS myself. For the people around me who are less tech literate, Chrome OS is actually great. It’s quite easy to support. It’s fast, and it’s got a really good ecosystem now thanks to all the integrations.

drwankingstein,

Year of the chromeOS desktop maybe, may faith is low

drwankingstein,

I really don’t like nate’s take here. IMO it’s really not that good, Wayland is still outright lacking features, even when using the craptastic xdg portals junk

drwankingstein,

while I do agree that x11 could be better in that regard, having the baseline critical features met matter a lot more then security for me.

I personally really like wayland, I just wish it actually was properly usable in all my use cases

drwankingstein, (edited )

I didnt even remotely imply that x11 doesn’t have issues, so im not sure why that was brought up. The goal is to make wayland an acceptable and universal replacement, Everyone knows x11 is dying but wayland isnt ready to replace it yet

Things like window embedding, the wayland way is for each app to have it’s own embedded compositor. Wayland has no support for things like overlays/always on top (Useful for OSKs PR has been made but like all wayland things, we might not get it for another couple years, or perhaps never), currently missing support for reading other window states (PR made for this as well, but again, who knows how long it will take), Still no support for window positioning (again PR made), Emulated input events (libei is not universally supported) And these are just the ones off the top of my head, There were others but I cant think of them ATM

drwankingstein,

I would say plasma, Gnome has too many stupid issues for it to be a real contender IMO. I constantly found gnome to be laggy on my chuwi, even to the point that it would occasionally drop inputs.

drwankingstein,

Gnome might be built for touch, but that doesn’t make it a great experience. Also KDE automatically rotates for me too.

drwankingstein,

off the top of my head,

  1. Performance of gnome isn’t great I often find it laggy on my lower end devices.
  2. Configuring gnome requires two separate GUI apps, and then you still may need cli.
  3. Gnome apps like nautilus, the file browser are also absurdly slow, sometimes taking more then 4 seconds for me (and others see here medium.com/…/gnome-mess-is-not-an-accident-4e3010…) to load thumbnails.
  4. I found gestures to be inconsistent on my Chuwi hi10x too. They often times wouldn’t work and I would need to try multiple times.

I did have other issues, but I didn’t exactly log them.

Looking for a good tablet PC distro

I just inherited a handful of Samsung Series 7 Slate PCs that I’d like to rebuild to be as “tablet-like” as possible for a few non-technical friends and family. They power up but arrived with non-functional Windows 7 installs. They’re Intel Core i5s with 4G RAM and 128G SSDs, so they should run pretty well under any...

drwankingstein,

each one of them has issues, I cant in good conscious recommend any atm

drwankingstein,

I think it’s worth keeping in mind since when people ask for something, they generally want something specific. in this case they asked for a distro, so there is a non insiginificant chance they wanted a “generally agreed upon distro”

drwankingstein,

you will likely find that most people will disagree with that, the general consensus of a “Linux distro” is that gnu/linux stuff. Personally I would consider it distros in which the apps would mostly use the general linux runtime stacks since musl based distros I would still consider a general linux distro. Android uses it’s own distinct runtime, for the vast majority of usage, and although using things like termux we can get close, how android is setup it lacks a good chunk of things that can only be resolved with a chroot/proot

drwankingstein,

While I agree that it is the best tablet experience, I think that’s strething the definition of a distro pretty hard lol

Linux video editing and Kdenlive tips and tricks for a returning user?

Just recently switched back to Linux after more than a decade away. (I’m currently running Mint Cinnamon if anyone is curious) On Windows I was using the free version of Davinci Resolve for all of my video editing. I quickly discovered that the free version of Resolve for Linux doesn’t support H.264/H.265 so after trying...

drwankingstein,

A couple other things, you generally want to do pixel format conversion before the codec, is specified. You should be able to get satisfactory results with ffmpeg -i input.mpv -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:v libx264 -preset medium -crf 24 -c:a aac output.mp4 Play with preset a bit since that is where your Quality/Compression : Speed ratio comes in, CRF is the quality it handles. So you set CRF for a ballpark quality you want, then change the preset, slower = higher compression, faster = lower compression.

you can find more info here trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264#a2.Chooseaprese… but generally you don’t need to muck about with profiles or tunes or anything else

drwankingstein,

using openh264… well that’s a choice. I would recommend to everyone that they use x264 whenever possible, and make sure to specify output crf and likely preset when you fo

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

drwankingstein,

correct, this is the same issue, this generally really only happens with a sustained all core workload that will consistently leave you cpu at 100%, since if it’s not sustained, the kernel will allot some time to the programs, and the crash wont happen

drwankingstein, (edited )

this is a wayland issue. Due to how wayland works, it cannot drop messages, this means if the messages stop being accepted (IE. the program becomes very slow and not very responsive) the application will wind up dying. EEVDF helped resolve a lot of these issues. but they arent gone yet.

a fairly easy replication cause is to start a large rust project compile since cargo will thread to oblivion if it gets the chance, then use the PC on wayland. Applications can frequently die, Firefox, MPV, Kate, gnome web, chromium, games, etc. it also doesn’t matter what compositor you use right now as gnome, kde sway all share the issue

EEVDF really does help stop a lot of these crashing though

drwankingstein,

while this is good on theory, when your CPU is being absolutely hammered, you need to re-adjust priorities to make a system responsive again, it’s actually not a simple thing to do without a context aware scheduler. Even though EEVDF is pretty good, it still struggles some times

drwankingstein,

Man incapable of reading rules gets angry when punished for violating rules

drwankingstein,

the general Idea I am getting from this would be something where the phone itself could be swapped out

drwankingstein,

this is possible in theory, libcamera can expose all of the bits that are needed, have fun actually finding hardware to support this though

drwankingstein,

so I don’t know if they run their own apps, or if they run Linux programs. If they run Linux programs, then it’s just a case of finding one that controls your specific camera, and has the controls that you want.

we can run linux desktop, linux mobile or android apps, but camera support in waydroid is broken for a while when using v4l2

drwankingstein, (edited )

one of the issues I have with mobile linux is flutter has some really good apps, but when you try to use them on linux the performance plummets, this makes a whole slew of great touch primary applications unusable.

this article was pretty hard to read, but I greatly disagree with android having bad UX, maybe for some users but to me android’s UX is pretty great

drwankingstein,

It seems highly likely they are actually talking about userland driver, not kernel driver

drwankingstein, (edited )

You can run different userland drivers but not kernel drivers. Thankfully the kernel drivers are pretty much unified for AMD. to use the proprietary ones, install the appropriate driver in the distrobox container.

Vulkan and Opengl are different drivers so you will need to figure out the flags you need to set appropriately. arch wiki is a food resource for this.

For rocm and stuff make sure your kernel has the necessary bits, this will be distro specific, but I can at least say arch will work fine simply. and fedors too iirc

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