Keegen

Keegen , 8 months ago

Honestly anything with a non LTS release schedule will be fine. So long as you keep a relatively recent kernel and GPU drivers it pretty much doesn't matter. You can go for a rolling release like Arch or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or a staged release like Fedora. Even Ubuntu or it's derivatives are fine so long as you stick to the yearly versions and don't have a particularly bleeding-edge hardware.
My only advice is stick to the popular stuff. This applies to both distros and desktop environments. Much easier to troubleshoot things and find help and they have more people using them, which usually means the experience is more polished and bugs get fixed faster.

Keegen , 9 months ago

You're using an RDNA2 card so it's possible your low FPS is caused by this issue. I would try this fix that was mentioned in the comments under that issue to see if your performance improves.

Keegen , 9 months ago

FYI the episode discussions on [email protected] are automated by a bot (the same used on Reddit in fact) and us Kbin users can't see bot posts, so it looks like there are none. I have high hopes that the next big Kbin update remedies this issue.

Keegen , 10 months ago

Using the open source driver with Nvidia is a bad idea, your card is locked at the minimum clock speed and it's general quality is not comparable to the proprietary driver (this is purely because of Nvidia's hostility to open source, not due to any inabilities of the developers of Nouvea.)
I'm gonna assume you are using the default desktop environment of Mint which is Cinnamon. Have you tried booting a different DE, or even better, a different distribution with something like Gnome or KDE to see if the issue persists?

Keegen , 10 months ago

I would try flashing an Ubuntu (or Kubuntu for KDE) or PopOS iso and booting that to try, they both include the proprietary Nvidia driver. This might be a Cinnamon issue or a Mint issue, trying a different distro helps you narrow down the possible cause.
This is probably a pretty unpopular opinion but I would never recommend anything but Gnome or KDE to a new Linux user. Those projects just have so much more development focus on them then all the smaller ones, it just makes sense to default to them for maximum ease of use and compatibility.

Keegen , 10 months ago

Glad to hear it! Enjoy your Linux journey!

Keegen , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

What makes supports unpopular? Many reasons. For one, we have a lot of warframes that are completely self reliant and can do any mission in the game alone, either with their abilities or good guns. Supports also tend to not stack with themselves that well. A Wisp and Mesa are gonna work great together, but Wisp and Trinity? Not so much. Meanwhile having multiple Mesas is nowhere near as bad, you will just have less things to shoot. Supports also rely on your teammates to have a brain to actually use your buffs properly, and we all know how the average public player is. The biggest reason of all is that Warframe rewards speed, as most content is incredibly easy but highly repetitive. Cracking open relics as an example, all that matters is how fast you can kill and how quickly you can extract, so appropriately people will bring nuke frames to speed things along. Death is also by far the best CC effect, all enemies are vulnerable to it and a dead enemy does nothing to threaten you or impact the mission (they also drop loot). Why CC enemies when I can cast 4 as Volt and watch the numbers pop? All of that together makes support/CC frames an unpopular pick, they are still good, sometimes straight up better than other common picks, but the common picks are lower effort while still getting the job done, and for most players that's all that matters.

Keegen , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

The problem is that all of that is completely unnecessary in 99% of the game people actually play (we're not talking about Steel Path endurance). Armor stripping especially is a null point as Pillage is an incredible subsume that is used on a lot of nuke frames that struggle with high enemy armor. Is Banshee's Sonar a huge dmg buff? Sure. But I can bring my Revenant with 105% Roar subsumed and any good weapon to a Steel Path Circulus on Lua, stay to rotation C and not have any issues killing enemies while not having to worry about a thing because of Mesmer Skin. Mesa can full armor strip in two casts of Pillage while having 95% DR, constant shield gating and an auto aim weapons for low effort crowd annihilation. Also, why would I bother supporting my teammates if I can instead get the job done myself? Why would they bother supporting me if they themselves can bring a frame that can get the job done themselves?

Keegen , 11 months ago

Worth noting, we're getting the Angstrum Incarnon next week, so for anyone interested in getting it Prisma Angstrum is the best version of this weapon.

Keegen , 11 months ago

I didn't mind her singing but if they finally shut up Bombastine's lines, or at least made them less frequent, that alone improves my Circuit experience by at least 20%.

Keegen , 11 months ago

Caliban really drew the shortest stick possible. Mediocre abilities, drops from the awful Cetus/Fortuna bounties and requires a resource that can only be acquired in Railjack, and only 1 per mission. If not for him appearing in Circuit sometimes, I would have completely forgot he even exists. Sadly I don't think he's gonna get much love until either DE gives him a Deluxe skin or his Prime comes out (which won't be for a very very long time).

Keegen , 11 months ago

You are right, I completely forgot about that part! He's even more sad than I remembered.

Keegen , 11 months ago

For how great AMD usually is on Linux, it's not without it's issues. RDNA2 (the entire RX 6000 series) still suffers to this day from this 2 years old issue that can cause stutter in games as the GPU constantly downclocks itself aggressively. I still prefer it over Nvidia (having owned one and now using AMD) but just be aware, it's not all as perfect as some Linux users would have you believe.

Keegen , 11 months ago

I liked The New War! The quest was awesome, fighting the Archons as Drifter was fun. The lack of general changes to the Origin system was a bit of a let-down but we did get Archon Shards and the Drifter from it. Kahl though, was a different beast. Doing his missions was fun for maybe a month, then it became tedious as hell. I haven't touched them in months, the extra Archon Shard be damned, it's just not worth it. Also, remember that people having a negative experience are far more likely to post about it than those who just enjoyed the quest and went about their day, so looking at opinions online can give you a skewed perspective.

Keegen , 11 months ago

There are only 3 weekly missions, you can see how that can get old quickly.
The Archon mods are pretty meh overall, Continuity and Flow are OK if you don't have the Prime versions of those yet. Stretch is used on Volt and Gyre sometimes for a minor energy gain. Archon Vitality is good on Ember and can be used on Protea. Intensify could have been good if you could refresh the buff's duration while it's active, right now it's usually too unreliable to use compared to it's Umbral version.
Tip for the future when you get the Helminth, don't sell any non-prime versions of Warframes you have even if you get their Prime, Helminth will love to snack on them and he can't handle Primes, too much gold to digest!

Keegen , 11 months ago

A lot of unexpected QoL changes! The damage numbers look pretty cool, I love that they added an option to shorten them, with how silly damage numbers can get in Warframe this will be a nice improvement in readability. The status changes looks OK? Cold still probably won't see much use considering it combines into Viral but improving Puncture procs is a welcome change for all IPS status weapons. As for the Incarnons, I wish they added a token system, maybe as a reward for rank 9, where after collecting X of them you can exchange them for any Incarnon you want. Having to wait 6 weeks to get a weapon you might want or shill out plat is pretty annoying, especially if they keep adding more and more weapons into the rotation.

Keegen , 11 months ago

True, I underestimated Cold mostly because I absolutely loath primers and prefer to just blow stuff up with raw damage and viral-amplified slash procs. It is a direct buff to Frost (and boy does he need one!) and can make using Sentinels with the cold procing beam weapon a little bit better (still would never use one over a Vulpaphyla).

Keegen , 11 months ago

The current kbin domain block doesn't really work well as an instance block. What it does is block any post linking to that specific domain. It will block a nsfwlemmy user posting images to their own instance, but it won't block lemmy.world or lemmy.ml user posts there as they link to their own respective domains instead. It also won't block any post from that instance linking to a 3rd party domain either.

Keegen , 11 months ago

I keep going back and forth between KDE and Gnome. KDE is great on my desktop where I always have a mouse plugged in, but on my laptop I really like the workflow and gestures that Gnome on Wayland has.

Keegen , 11 months ago

Using LineageOS on my Moto G7 since I got it, no GApps at all. I plan to use it till the battery gives out and then get myself a latest Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it. De-googled Android is probably the best compromise of privacy/functionality you can get, Linux phones sadly are just not there in both hardware and software and I have no desire to trap myself in Apple's walled garden prison.

Keegen , 11 months ago

Valve's Proton never included the build-in FSR that GloriousEggroll's Proton builds had. And it's been gone since GE-Proton 8-1.

Keegen , 11 months ago

Grab it 100%. It's used on most non-ranged melee weapons, a flat +3 range increase is massive.

Keegen , 11 months ago

I always try the native version first if a game has one (old "native" ports using Wine don't count) and only use Proton if it has serious problems. I want to see more Linux native games, and so I go out of my way to play them in their native version. There are some games that I own where the native version is clearly inferior to Proton, but for most it's equal, or only slightly worse at best (I mean "Pillars of Eternity not having cloak physics in native version" level worse).

Keegen , 11 months ago

I've been gaming on Linux for 3 years now and playing Warframe throughout the entire time. With Steam and Proton, the experience is completely painless. Long time ago, you needed a special launch option to have working audio but it's been a while since that was the case. One thing to note, since the Kullervo update you need to use Proton Experimental to run it, but other than that it's flawless. I'm using Fedora Kinoite with an AMD GPU for the record.