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bloopernova , in Need a good gaming mouse that is Linux compatible. Any suggestions?
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Ploopy.

Open source QMK firmware, 3D printed with STL files available. Loads of buttons. It’s by far the best mouse I’ve ever used.

ploopy.co/mouse/

spclagntdanazoe ,

This is awesome!

adonis OP ,
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cool... didn't know about this one... but considering my 3d skills, the scroll wheel would get stuck and the buttons would fall apart 😅

Kata1yst ,
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You can buy the kit with everything printed and self assemble, or you can buy it fully assembled.

Nuuskis9 ,

Darn how cool it is and I almost ordered it. Too bad it isn’t wireless using 1850 cells.

drdiddlybadger ,
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Well I just found my next purchase.

Solemn , in Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

Don’t get an HP. Had one for work that I had to change to Ubuntu, and I couldn’t find any compatible WiFi drivers somehow.

PurrJPro OP ,

YEAH it sucks when drivers for hardware aren’t Linux compatible (my current drawing tablet doesn’t support it… RIP). I’ll be sure 2 head ur warning about HP!

tumulus_scrolls , in Keeping and running frequently used commands
@tumulus_scrolls@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

Obvious things I don’t see mentioned:

  • Bash scripts kept in the home directory or another place that’s logical for them specifically.
  • history | grep whatever (or other useful piping), though your older commands are forgotten eventually. You can mess with the values of HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE environment variables in your system.
padook OP , in Graphics Card Help
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Thank you all for the input.

If I was looking for a top of the line card I would dig in and learn everything there is to know about graphics cards to make an informed decision. When it comes to buying a run of the mill card, its hard to get that excited!

Not sure what I’ll buy yet, but you’ve pointed out what I need to look for. Thanks!

min_fapper , in [Suggestions] Good distros for gaming

As someone who uses Arch as their daily driver: DO NOT use Arch if you’re not already very familiar with the Linux ecosystem. It’s very powerful, but not at all beginner friendly.

Vitaly ,
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I respect arch, but you definitely need some experience to use it

iamthatis OP ,

Have used Linux for a fair while but just haven’t gamed on it. Can handle arch but I see your point

min_fapper ,

I see. Your most made me think you’re new to Linux. If you understand the concepts and can keep up with a rolling release, I highly recommend Arch.

My bother uses it for gaming, and it’s great!

niva , in The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops
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Is this with or without the steam deck?

Not that I don’t like the steam deck, I think it is really great for linux adaption. I am just curious.

teawrecks ,

This is in the StatCounter FAQ:

Are laptops included in the desktop platform?

Yes. Laptops and desktop machines are included in the desktop platform together. We use the browser useragent to determine the platform and there is not enough information contained in the useragent to distinguish between laptops and desktops. That is why we do not have a separate laptop platform.

So it sounds like they’re using the useragent to distinguish between mobile and desktop. So most likely, yes, steam decks would be counted as desktops, but only to the degree that they are used to browse the internet. I suspect most steam deck users don’t do that, but I don’t know, I don’t have a steam deck.

niva ,
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That makes sense, thank you!

const_void ,
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Wonder what dent the 40M rasberry pi’s make, not to mention virtual desktops and the like! The number may be higher than 3%!

Dubious_Fart ,

probably not much, since i imagine most raspberry pis are being used for an embedded project and not as a desktop/web browsing computer.

SSUPII ,

Definitely.

ursakhiin , in Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

I have a Darter from System 76 with Pop!_OS as my personal laptop that I code on and I absolutely love it. It runs extremely smoothly and I’ve not had any crashes with it.

I also have a Lemur from them with Ubuntu for work and it’s kinda meh. Is difficult to say what causes the issues I have. It may just be the corporate tools but I end up having hard locks that require a reboot.

If you go with them I strongly suggest Pop! The distro is built for their hardware and works really well.

plebeian_ , in Need a good gaming mouse that is Linux compatible. Any suggestions?

I have an older g502 and while the software is windows specific (maybe there is a mac version too?), the actual settings are saved on the firmware. So connecting it once to windows and configuring it should suffice. Just an idea since you already spent the money…

Fubarberry ,
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This is the what I did. My wife still uses windows so I configured the mouse on her computer, saved the configuration, and have it working smoothly on my PC.

While it was easy to set it up this way, I really don’t like the idea of needing windows to configure my mouse though. I really wish logitech would start offering official Linux support.

Piwix ,

While not official support, I had luck with my logitech g600, using Piper/libratbag on Linux to configure my mouse's onboard memory.

usernotfound ,

I still have a ~10 year old Logitech G500 that has finally started to go bad. I’ve been looking around, and it seems that Logitech’s quality has been going down the drain - apparently sometimes clicks get registered as double clicks on recent models?

Can you (or anyone else who has one) comment on their experience with that?

ExtraMedicated ,

I had a G500 for several years as well as a G5 before that. They worked great for years, but the G5 started to randomly slow down or disconnect/reconnect, and the G500 had that double-click issue you mentioned. I didn’t get another logitech after reading some reviews that mentioned the same issues.

usernotfound ,

That’s promising :/ I really like the shape of that mouse, and the custom weights. What did you end up buying instead?

ExtraMedicated ,

I went with a Zelotes C-12. I don’t like it quite as much as I did the others, but it’s okay and has a lot of buttons. The scroll wheel did break once, but I was able to fix it.

Sordirsin ,

If you still have the G500 (or anyone else who has the double click issue), you can try taking it apart and cleaning it. Mine started to do the same thing about 6 months ago. I followed this guide to clean the metal contacts: …intricus.net/…/how-i-fixed-my-logitech-g500-mous…

I didn’t do step 4 to remove the leaf spring and followed the advice in the Warning section in step 3 instead. It surprisingly worked and I’m still using my G500 now without any double clicks since.

ExtraMedicated ,

Thanks for this. I might give this a shot.

LiveLM ,

I have a G502 and the Logitech Software isn’t even necessary, it works perfectly with Piper.

adonis OP ,
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but I got the g502 x plus, which came out last year. my current g903 works with piper too.

Dumbkid , in The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops
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Linux still doesn’t play nice with nvidia right? Last time I tried to daily drive it I had many issues with my dual monitor setup, where each monitor is a different resolution refresh rate and has gsync.

Has Wayland caught up to WDDM? Microsoft has been steadily improving multi monitor rendering, and this is the only reason I haven’t switch yet

wiggles , (edited )

Nvidia driver still doesn’t work right with Wayland for me on my 3090. It caps at 60fps and has screen tearing. But switching to x11 on fedora 38 is easy enough when I want to game. There is an easy toggle on the Lock Screen to switch between Wayland and x11. For gaming x11 works just fine so far.

cybersandwich ,

It’s way better now. Matter fact, I swapped out my 3070ti for a Radeon 6900xt and I wish I hadn’t. Nvidia cards have so much more to offer and I never really hit major limitations in Linux. Ironically Ive hit more with the Radeon card.

Sethayy ,

Personally I’m still on x11, and have had no issues big with the Nvidia drivers.

The only things are minor annoyances that come with the system being proprietary, ex. Driverctl entirely freezes up when trying to use on a Nvidia driver, and the driver won’t let you live pass through a GPU like nouveau does (supposedly, it’s too buggy so I’ve never been able to try)

maniac , in Need a good gaming mouse that is Linux compatible. Any suggestions?
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Every mouse should be fine. It’s just the ones with software might not be configurable.

Molecular0079 ,

Could be configurable if you pass through the device to a Windows VM. Far from an ideal experience but its doable.

Kerb ,
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afaik that should work,

running the software in wine/lutris could be an simpler solution

Molecular0079 ,

I’ve never had much success with wine when it comes to hardware access or anything driver related, but I could be wrong in OP’s case.

maniac ,
@maniac@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah it’s possible but the solution seems less ideal. Luckily I don’t thing changing settings on a mouse is a common thing.

hiyaaaaa23 , in TechCrunch explains what is happening with RedHat, including today’s SUSE development.

Do they explain it well?

forpeterssake ,

Not half bad, actually! Admittedly, it's a bit of a complicated story.

Katharta , in TechCrunch explains what is happening with RedHat, including today’s SUSE development.
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It's incredible to me that all this has led to Oracle looking like the good guy here. Fucking ORACLE. 2023 is weird, man.

Nefyedardu ,

Oracle's OEL is the reason all of this happened in the first place, lol. I don't think there are any good guys or bad guys in all this, just corporations doing what corporations do: make money. Oracle and SUSE smell blood in the water and are trying to capitalize as much as they can. I don't blame them.

conciselyverbose ,

Oracle repackaging another distribution for no other reason than that they want to is the core concept of the license of the Linux kernel. They didn't do anything wrong. That's how it's intended to work.

RedHat doesn't get to just claim the benefits of that license then shit a brick when someone else does the same. They're perfectly free to write their own OS without GPL code if they don't want to be held to the GPL.

Nefyedardu ,

So far as I know, Red Hat did not violate GPL. Oracle didn't do anything wrong and neither did Red Hat. As I said, there's no "good guys bad guys" here just companies trying to make more money.

DumbAceDragon , in Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages?
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I personally still prefer native, but flatpak is my goto for whenever something isn’t working or when the official repos are outdated.

The other day I tried to use Malt for blender but it wouldn’t work on the native version because it was using the wrong version of python. The flatpak version works perfectly with Malt, but for some reason I don’t feel like troubleshooting, the OptiX denoiser doesn’t work.

Still though, flatpak is a welcome option and is way better than snap.

DidacticDumbass OP ,

That is so strange. I think people are underestimating how important up-to-date packages are for certain kinds of workflows, and short of reinstalling everything onto a rolling distro, the only sane solution is something like Flatpak, or directly installing every new binary as it comes out, which can suck and does not guarantee having all dependencies.

zikk_transport2 , in File system for 3rd hard drive on Win/Linux PC?

Myself I have dual boot. For the sake of simplicity - let’s say I have 2 drives:

  1. 512GB NVME SSD - for OSes.
  2. 2TB SATA SSD - for games.

512gb ssd partitioned into 2 parts - 256 for Linux and 256 for Windows.

2TB ssd without partitions, but a plain BTRFS with zstd compression storage.

Guess what - There is WinBTRFS driver. I am also sharing the same Steam library (on 2TB ssd) between both OSes… 😅 Works like a charm. 👌👌👌

nlm , in Keeping and running frequently used commands
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Fish (or zsh with some addons) will give you tab completion based on previous commands, might be something of interest?

Here’s some addon tips if you’d rather run zsh instead of fish:

gist.github.com/…/a907cdf8a474aa6b569ebe89aeee560…

WretchedRefrigerator ,

Fish shell is great, but the more I’ve used it, the more incompatibilities I’ve found:

  • Can’t use subshells
  • Can’t use bash syntax (it would help if bass would process all commands by default)
  • Can’t use bash completions

Other than that, it just works by default (unlike zsh) and it works even better with an easy-to-install Tide

nlm ,
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Yeah, it has its downsides. zsh with some addons is probably better overall. Or if you’re at least aware of it’s differences from bash and can work with that.

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