I have been using TW (and its predecessors) for around 17 years and have no major complaints at all! KDE Plasma is my preferred desktop and TW comes with that option as a default. Wayland is available but still has a few niggles with KDE Plasma in my experience.
TW will play both indie and mainstream games with no problem and comes with many repos of up-to-date packages. CoolerControl is a good app for setting up your Kraken if necessary. Your GPU should work out-of-the-box.
TW supports Secure Boot and should detect it when setting up. My advice for installation is to create a bootable USB stick with the network install version of TW and go from there. The GUI allows you to select a default installation or set things up just how you like them.
I’ve been on TW for 3-4 years now (something like my 4th distro? Been on Linux for 15-ish years), and it’s great. I used KDE for the first 2-3 years until I replaced my NVIDIA card with an AMD card, and now I’m on GNOME because it has much better Wayland support.
I have no complaints about TW whatsoever. My main complaint is that openSUSE seems adamant about eliminating Leap, so I’ll have to figure out MicroOS sometime in the next year or so to migrate my servers. But that has nothing to do with TW or gaming, so it should be irrelevant for OP.
It has for ages, even on X11 IIRC. I happen to have two monitors, one with VRR and the other without, and I needed Wayland to get that to work properly.
Idk, I don’t play competitive games, and I don’t particularly value high FPS gaming (my monitor only goes to 95hz, which is plenty for the games I play).
I have seen that KDE supposedly allows turning it off now, so it’s possible GNOME also does since GNOME seems to generally have better Wayland support. But I’m really not sure, I just generally leave vsync on in games.
I tried the network installer but it keeps failing (i think because of maintenance --> status.opensuse.org/#scheduled-36 ) First of all, i do like the first few hours on TW (installed it on my notebook because cant boot my main machine right now and so i can try to tinker a bit with it).
And yes i do have a few question :)
But first of all i need to know if there is an app which can create WebApps like the WebApp application from mint. I know that i can create such things with chrome but is there an extra app for that available for TW? I searched the web but didn’t find a good solution.
The other things i want to try out first before asking, but i’m realy shure, that there will be a few other things i need to ask :)
This has been my exact experience with Linux throughout the last 2 decades. Old computers, new computers, it doesn’t matter. The reliability of the audio systems have always been horrible for me.
I do not understand how the things work, which means I’m not going to be able to know what needs to happen, but through troubleshooting of specifically audio throughout the years I pretty much get the feeling that most “solutions” are entirely made up and no one actually understands why those solutions work. It’s weird, because other issues don’t generally have that feel.
It’s almost always a compatibility issue. It’s kind of arcane obscure stuff, like the particular version of the particular sound chip that somehow works 99% of the time with the same kernel drivers for the chip family but has some small bug that makes the audio engine bork. Allegedly Pipewire has been working hard at being more resilient to those issues and it’s been integrated progressively in more and more distributions.
Inux might one day achieve 100% compatibility with every gsme ever made running on quad quantum ai kernels and you’ll still be having sound issues, and suspend will sometimes just not work
I know right. All things considered however I’ve not had too bad of a time. Sound wise I think I’ve just been spoiled by my ThinkPad where everything works perfectly 99.9% of the time.
AMD has the AMDGPU kernel driver already in place in the linux kernel, and excluding the newest generations of cards for about a month or two after they come out, that part should work fine. Additionally, you need Mesa installed for the userspace drivers. It is typically preinstalled and covers the OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for your card.
Pretty much the only time you want to run the driver from AMD’s site is if you’re using some particular professional applications, otherwise Mesa tends to outperform it. There are relatively few games that AMDVLK (the AMD official open source Vulkan driver) is ahead, and it’s got an edge in most (all?) raytracing cases currently.
Lastly, the reason it doesn’t work is because the driver install script is checking your os-release version to see if it matches the Ubuntu version it was packaged for. If you’re confident that you can fix any problems that arise from doing this, you could presumably just change the string in /etc/os-release to match what it’s looking for. I don’t recommend doing this, though, unless you don’t care if the drivers break things because they weren’t packaged for the release you’re using.
AMD has the AMDGPU kernel driver already in place in the linux kernel, and excluding the newest generations of cards for about a month or two after they come out, that part should work fine.
Reading his comment, it looks like KDE Neon ships with a two-year-old kernel, so I assume that that’s the issue.
So…what can I do? Neon is mostly Ubuntu 22.04 to most effects. Kernel is 6.2.0-36-generic.
The kernel in use should support RDNA3, I believe.
Edit: judging from the comment made a bit ago, it wasn’t the kernel or mesa, they were just missing the firmware. And yeah, that’ll do it. I remember being frustrated with my 7900xtx not working on Pop! before I pulled in the firmware back on release.
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of the difference privative vs public ones on AMD. On Nvidia (where I came from) it’s kinda the opposite, noveau kinda works, but if you really want to play with proper performance, you should head for the privative one. In the end it was just easier to download the AMD firmware from the latest linux release, and recompile with that. It worked after that.
If you were missing firmware, that’s not actually a driver issue. You do need the firmware and (unless you also installed the professional drivers as well) you should be all good now and using the full open source stack.
Yeah…kinda. Now on multi-monitor setup I have a weird glitch…when one of the monitors are turned off. Screen will start flickering rearranging the windows. Weird.
Do you mean it constantly does it when a monitor is turned off or that when you initially turn off a monitor, it rearranges all windows to fit on the remaining monitor.
If the first, I’m not sure what the problem might be, but the second is pretty normal, I think. The card sees that the display was detached and moves your windows to the attached display so you can see them.
Have you tried extracting everything in game.gog into the folder where you put the TR1X files? From there you only optionally need to download the music (lostartefacts.dev/aux/tr1x/music.zip) and put em to the same folder, and then just run TR1X.
While the explanations are indeed more Windows focused, the advanced installation should cover Linux as well.
TIL Steam supports ChromeOS (and apparently Chrome OS supports APT and flatpacks). Could be good for adoption and pushing Microsoft out of their monopoly, but at the cost of another locked down system being in play.
I wonder, now that it’s starting to get a bit noisy, whether ProtonDB should let you disable displaying Deck and/or Chrome verified game icons.
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