Digester

Digester , 10 months ago

Fuck Empress, however she’s right on this specific matter.

Digester , 10 months ago

I felt the Adobe part. I bought Photoshop CS2 back in the day then sadly lost the license key a few years later. I never felt bad for pirating the latest version.

Another example of ethical piracy would be when offline games force you to be online all the time. Minecraft forces me to be online to play through the official launcher. Since I also play with mods that are still a few versions behind, I downloaded a cracked launcher so I can play even when I don’t have internet access.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

Enabling G-Sync and increasing digital vibrance on my second monitor. Everytime I need to increase the vibrance on my second monitor I have to first boot into xfce, open nvidia settings until the profile loads then log out and then log into hyprland. It’s very annoying.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

I have to log in to xfce for the profile to take effect. I set Nvidia settings to start at login, even though the process does start on Wayland it doesn’t apply anything until I enter xfce, then I can exit it and start my Hyprland session

Digester OP , 11 months ago

Thank you, I will read it

Digester OP , 11 months ago

It kinda is, just went from EOS to Arch with Hyprland today. It’s hard to move to something that feels less up to date.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

i3 for while but I mainly used xfce. Hyprland overall feels “new”, unlike X11, Wayland just “flows” better in a way. i3 felt more clunky but overall more stable, if that ever makes sense.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

What Arch based distoe were you on? I would love to spend some time on Debian and OpenSUSE eventually. Also Fedora is intriguing, I wished I tried it already.

I’ve had experience with Debian based and Arch based distros only. I was on Majaro for months before I had to switch back to windows and leave Linux behind for awhile

Digester OP , 11 months ago

I used to be on Majaro for awhile, years ago but I wouldn’t recommend it now. It doesn’t have any of the advantage of an Arch based distro. Their own repo has issue. I would recommend Endeavour OS

Digester OP , 11 months ago

Not much difference between sway and Hyprland

Digester OP , 11 months ago

Want your brains blown? Check out ArchCraft. Yes it’s a pay to download thing but they cover everything, i3, Sway, Hyprland, QTile. You name it, they have it (as long as it’s WM). For people like me who don’t have time (nor skill, I’m humble enough to admit it) this is gold. And you can change themes as you like as long as you have basic intermediate skills. As long as you can use a text editor and have some basic arch skills you can customize upon it.

With that being said, I don’t like pay to download content, reason why I’m on Linux first and foremost. But I gotta give credit where credit is due. ArchCraft is blowing away everything else when it come to pre customized WM experiences. Such an eye candy omg.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

Depends on the distro, something like EOS is basically Arch with fancy pants on.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

btrfs snapshots

I had a snapshot with Timeshift but did not revert back any changes made to the theming I was working on, so I distro hopped.

Digester , 11 months ago

Anything Arch, because it’s hard, it’s a pain in the ass and as an intermediate user I need Arch to break on me so I can fix it and learn.

Digester , 11 months ago

Anything Arch, because it’s hard, it’s a pain in the ass and as an intermediate user I need Arch to break on me so I can fix it and learn.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

That’s it. I don’t know why it was commented in the first place. Thanks for pointing it out! Now it works

Digester , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

If music production is your main objective, I would suggest Windows. I do some home recordings as well and have quite a baggage of pluggings and tools that are either unavailable, not compatible or not up to date on Linux (I’m on an Arch based distro). I have Windows and Linux on two separate SSDs for this exact reason. I managed to set up my Linux system in a way where I can work on some projects and got most programs to work one way or another but I always encounter hardware issues that have to do with drivers, especially with some of my older equipment. If you have the the option you can install another drive on youtrlaptop and run both Windows and Linux.

Now, there are folks out there that do music on Linux but there is a lot of work to do to keep things running, especially if you use lots different softwares and pluggins.

Digester , 11 months ago

I understand and using Windows for certain things is perfectly valid. Perhaps things will change in a few years and we’ll be able to run all the plugins with a system similar to WINE, or something like that.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

It is indeed, I tried to go straight WM (i3) but I’m not used to it so I installed xfce which I’m familiar with (I’m also using it on my server running Lubuntu).

Digester OP , 11 months ago

It is indeed!

Digester OP , 11 months ago

Thanks a lot!

Digester OP , 11 months ago

Honestly I have no idea.

Digester OP , 10 months ago

Easy actually. I’m on arch (Hyprland) right now, so no longer EOS but it’s been refreshing. I’d recommend EOS as a base for any arch install, better than “arch installer” by a long shot. If you have dedicated storage I’d recommend using it and booting to the respective system through EFI rather than relying on software bootloader (windows likes to break it). I am running arch on a dedicated SSD and it’s been smooth so far.

Digester OP , 10 months ago

My recommendation would be to have Linux on the 500gb drive and then install windows directly on the other drive without partitioning. I wouldn’t install Linux on a partition as Windows likes to mess with the bootloader but if Linux is on it’s own drive you can always boot it from EFI without issues.

Digester , 11 months ago

I installed Endeavour OS today and I’m liking it a lot.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

I fixed it, somehow the drivers I got from running

nvidia-inst

Showed some incompatibility, I restored the OS and installed the drivers from a difference source

What’s strange was the fact that many other users reported the same problems but they weren’t able to find a fix, even when using alternative drivers.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

I tried Endeavour on i3 exclusively earlier and I was able to set up the monitor correctly by editing the config with vim. I think the problem was when I reinstalled it using xfce, the drivers I automatically got from

nvidia-inst

Didn’t work right so I had to find an alternative source. Now everything functions perfectly.

Digester , 11 months ago

Did you manage to get similar performance on Linux? Halo Infinite on windows 10 gives me an average of 150fps with medium settings, on Linux I get 70fps with he low prest and more stuttering. I use gamemode as well. My GPU is rtx 3070.

Digester , 11 months ago

Would you be able to point me to some documentation to configure NVIDIA to use X11 and to enable NVIDIA-settings?

Digester , 11 months ago

How exactly did you install steam? Maybe delete the files and try installing it from a difference source.

Digester , 11 months ago

Try running these commands

mv ~/.local/share/Steam ~/SteamBackup

mv ~/.steam ~/SteamBackup steam

Then launch steam by disabling direct write

steam -no-dwrite

Digester , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Did you check if you have any conflicting libraries?

You can also try replacing the steam folder with the one on your laptop. If that doesn’t work it’s a problem with the OS on your PC. If you can’t trace it back you might want to reinstall the distro. Just back up your files

Digester , 11 months ago

I’m glad everything works now

Digester , 11 months ago

I’m liking Jerboa more than I initially did. It need improvements of course but things will eventually come along. What all third party apps desperately need is adding functions for moderators. Everytime I have to log in to the browser version of my instance just to pin or delete spam comments. Not very convenient.

Digester , 11 months ago

Copyright infringement laws vary but even though simply downloading copyrighted material is against policies, it’s hard to enforce and most copyright holders don’t always find grounds for a lawsuit or it’s straight up not worth pursuing. You downloading a movie off a website is the same as a friend of yours sharing the same movie with you on a USB stick.

Actions against unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials (especially if it’s for profit) on the other hand are much more easily enforceable.

Digester OP , 11 months ago

That explains it thanks. I thought we were mutually defederated (that’s what I heard anyway). So essentially, if I were to comment under one of their posts, their users won’t see my comment?

Digester OP , 11 months ago

I think because of different political view. They’re not allowing content from other instances that might share different opinions.