I use mostly KDE plasma, especially for gaming, but sometimes switch to Hyprland for online Pen and Paper, since i prefer the automated tiling when opening tons of documents
Whatever comes with mint? I had a hard drive die, and my buddy hooked me up when I realized I couldn’t read the windows key on the sticker any more. He was going to do some kind of fuckery to let me keep 7 despite that, but he’d been talking about Linux for a few years, so I asked what he thought about that.
He asked me a few questions, about what kind of programs I need to use, and when none of them were a pain in the ass for an idiot like me to deal with, he set it up for me. Told me it was mint, helped me set things up where they look nice and made sure I have what I need. Haven’t fucked with anything since, and that was about two years ago.
How does loading up a game through steam work with that? I’m a big fan of Sway (and i3) but I don’t use them on gaming focused systems at all, so I’m curious.
Mostly just fine with i3 my experience. Sometimes I have to move the game window to a different workspace if I want to interact directly with steam, or whatever else I have in the same workspace that I launched the game in, because it keeps forcing it self exclusive/full screen. In some instances, depending on the game, that might mess things up (crash, freeze, missing/stuck mouse cursor), but most of the time it works just fine.
KDE on my desktop, GNOME on my laptop. I like both, but I like to tinker more on my desktop, where I have good internet and can do a bunch of downloading and customization comfortably at my desk. With my laptop I want it to just work (and I hate KDE’s defaults) so I use a mostly vanilla GNOME. Also has good trackpad integration so that’s a bonus as well.
I did have a heavily kitted out Arch with XFCE on my laptop before, but I reinstalled my OS because something broke and it wouldn’t boot and I couldn’t be bothered to troubleshoot and just wanted a working laptop lol so I installed Endeavour with GNOME and have been happy
That game once crashed my system to busybox. Are you running it on steam? if yes then verify local files and if that doesnt work then go to properties then go to compatibility and check the “force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” button. this will re download the game but the windows version and run it through a proton version of your choice.
Gnome on my desktop and laptop. I use xfce when working in a vm, because it’s a bit lighter (I usually just need a terminal + text editor). I prefer gnome for regular use.
No DE. Currently on DWL, but I’ve used Hyprland, River, Sway, Qtile, SperctWM, BSPWM, XMonad and Awesome (from most recently configured, to the first one I ever used) . I have used both GNOME and KDE at times where I didn’t have anything else on the system yet, I’ve used Cinnamon full time in the beginning, and I use a lot of XFCE apps as a part of my setup, notable examples being Thunar and Ristretto (and I used to use xfce4-screenshooter).
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