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visor841 ,

Linux may very well not be for you, but using Arch first is like jumping into the deep end to learn how to swim. It’s no surprise you’re drowning. I’d recommend you try a gaming-focused distro like Nobara before you go back to Windows for good.

visor841 ,

Noveau is terrible for gaming. If you want any kind of reasonable gaming experience you’ll need the propietary Nvidia driver (for now).

visor841 ,

If GE received a Cease and Desist, that would be frustrating, but linux gaming would go on. If Proton got a Cease and Desist, that could be catastrophic to linux gaming. Valve could even theoretically get banned from working on linux gaming (like the Yuzu devs got banned from working on emulation). It’s just not worth the risk for compatibility/performance for a smaller proportion of games.

visor841 ,

Well, sometimes Windows games depend on propietary codecs, and until Valve can get the devs to make adjustments so the codecs aren’t needed, the games aren’t going to work properly in regular Proton.

visor841 ,

The issue is one of licensing, not technology. There’s all kinds of patents in the space, and using free codecs could still infringe them. DirectX doesn’t have the same patent protection. I believe in theory you could make a fully open source Linux native version of DirectX.

For more info from someone who knows more than me, see here.

visor841 ,

Even if it wasn’t a gimmick, it still wouldn’t be benevolent. Corporations only lower prices when they think the lower price can make them more money overall.

visor841 ,

This is a great list of USB wifi adapter chipset compatibility.

visor841 , (edited )

I need some advice on what to throw on this laptop - and some suggestions on how to squeeze the best performance out of this (Optimus vs. Proprietary NVIDIA vs. Open source drivers).

One thing here, the open source Nvidia drivers still have a lot of performance issues. It’s only fairly recently that NVIDIA has opened their drivers up enough to allow any kind of reasonable performance from open source drivers, and getting them up to par is still a work in progress. So stick with the propietary drivers for now, but keep an eye on the new open source driver, NVK.

(As far as distro recs go, I recently started using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and am really liking it, but I don’t have enough experience with it yet to make an informed recommendation)

visor841 ,

Just to clarify, a few airplanes still use leaded gasoline. The vast majority do not.

visor841 ,

Hm, what didn’t you enjoy about Elden Ring? I started with Sekiro, finished it, and have moved on to Elden Ring (in co-op tho). I have very much enjoyed both.

visor841 ,

I’m not sure about the latter

I believe it was Xwayland 24.1 that recently released that brought explicit sync support, so you’ll need that.

visor841 ,

Nvidia already opened their driver, at least to the same extent as AMD, which is why NVK is able to exist.

visor841 ,

Seems like a good redesign.

[Solved] Tumbleweed update killed my gaming

Has anyone else had this problem? I updated my openSuse Tumbleweed today (restart required), and now none of my games work. Most are through Steam, so at first I thought it was that. But I have Cyberpunk through GOG launched with Heroic. And even more, Alien Arena has the same problem, so it’s not even a proton issue (I did...

visor841 ,

Yep, this is what I had to do.

visor841 ,

I believe that the custom for a lot of wine patch notes is just to mention the first application reported with the bug even if it affects many applications. So that could be what’s happening here.

visor841 ,

Nvidia users will also need a DE update, but yeah, we’re finally almost there.

visor841 ,

will not solve issues with compositors not having it

Many compositors already have patches for explicit sync which should get merged fairly quickly.

graphical libraries not having it

Both Vulkan and OpenGL have support for explicit sync

apps not supporting it

Apps don’t need to support it, they just need to use Vulkan and OpenGL, and they will handle it.

Wayland doesn’t implement sync of any kind, they probably meant to say “the Wayland stack”

Wayland has a protocol specifically for explicit sync, it’s as much a part of Wayland as pretty much anything else that’s part of Wayland.

Nvidia is not the only driver that needs to implement explicit sync.

Mesa has already merged explicit sync support.

Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....

visor841 ,

Currently yes, tho Wine has gotten pretty far with Wayland support, so it wouldn’t be too surprising to see Wine Wayland be useable for gaming in the next year or two.

visor841 ,

Yeah, Wine is very strict about this; IIRC if you’ve ever even looked at the leaked Windows XP source code, you’re not allowed to work on Wine.

visor841 ,

I’m in a similar boat. I’ve got a bunch of small Wayland niggles, but I’m waiting to investigate them until after I switch to Tumbleweed when it gets Plasma 6 (I’m currently on Kubuntu).

visor841 ,

The games on Steam Deck are already running in Wayland using gamescope IIRC

visor841 ,

Yeah, I love my XCover Pro for this.

visor841 ,

The main thing I would say is that you may run into issues if you want to run software from both OSes on the same partition. If both Windows and Linux are trying to execute or install programs on the same partition, they can end up messing with permissions for the other OS (mostly Windows messing with Linux). Reading and writing data should be fine, so intermingling storage shouldn’t be a problem, but execution can be more complex.

visor841 ,

Eh, IIRC there’s research that if you eat incredible amounts it’ll likely be bad for you. But it’s a lot and the equivalent amount of sugar would be way way worse.

visor841 ,

Eh, IIRC there’s research that if you eat incredible amounts it’ll likely be bad for you. But it’s a lot and the equivalent amount of sugar would be way way worse.

2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip (www.pcgamer.com)

2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm’s new chip::We’ve already reported on Qualcomm’s new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj

visor841 ,

There are tons of x86 Chromebooks still tho.

Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available. (kbin.social)

Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....

visor841 ,

I believe they’re saying that when come back from suspension, the wifi doesn’t work until they reboot.

visor841 ,

Sounds like a “temporary” error message.

visor841 ,

It sounds like what would really be helpful is a way to “pin” or “lock” notifications so they can’t be dismissed easily. This could be a setting for all notifications from certain apps. That way apps can’t abuse it, and users can set it up how they like.

Edit: It could be an app permission as well.

Nvidia SUCKS!

I am trying to repeat my 10 Benchmarks video on my 3080M laptop, which I haven’t really used for a while apart from testing NVK. I had forgotten just HOW much Nvidia sucks. I had to reinstall the OS cause OpenSUSE stopped booting after I installed the drivers the first time. X11 is ALSO buggy on Nvidia and crashes randomly....

visor841 ,

AMD/Nivdia GPUs will still run with RISC-V. RISC-V is a CPU architecture, not GPU.

visor841 ,

Just to let people know, this is a 6 year old article. Not saying it isn’t relevant, but the market of course continues to move over time.

visor841 ,

The first 14 times McCarthy failed to get voted in. They disliked McCarthy so much it took 15 votes to get them in the first place.

visor841 ,

Don’t they need to pass another budget before the Ukraine funding needs to be renewed?

visor841 ,

Worst performance of trying to get your money.

visor841 ,

Plagiarism isn’t just using someone else’s work. It’s when you use someone else’s work and claim it was your own. The programmers aren’t plagiarizing as they’re being freely admitting it’s not their work.

visor841 ,

You can also use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox

visor841 ,

To be fair, I imagine those rules were developed for use with physical writing, when minimizing space used up was more important. Nowadays, even as a native speaker these headlines just take extra effort to parse without much of a point.

visor841 ,

Yeah this feels like Wizard of the Coast’s first response to the OGL drama. Make some changes that are technically better than the first terrible system, but is ultimately still completely unacceptable. WotC eventually had to walk back everything, we’ll see if Unity does the same.

visor841 ,

It even applies to new installs of existing games.

visor841 ,

Sounds like the article uninstalled itself.

Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote. Anna Gomez confirmation means "FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality." (arstechnica.com)

Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote. Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”::Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”

visor841 ,

For it to really stick, it needs to be enshrined in law. Until then it’s just a temporary FCC policy that could get easily removed at some point in the future.

visor841 ,

YouTube Music. Google Music doesn’t exist anymore.

visor841 ,

Steam works on Linux.

visor841 ,

You can’t move around in them, it’s either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don’t have to be short…)

Oddly enough, this seems to be a desktop limitation. I can scrub backwards and forwards just fine on my phone.

visor841 ,

Very high priority isn’t a number that you especially want low (or high), in fact it’s probably not good for it to be 0. It’s just what is considered important to work on. Once those are fixed, even if no new problem crops up, they’ll just relabel existing bugs that they want to focus on getting fixed.

This is in contrast to the 15-minute bugs, that you do want to go to zero.

visor841 ,

Discord doesn’t have sound sharing on Linux whether X11 or Wayland. They just haven’t built the functionality.

visor841 ,

You might find just the inbuilt linux (crostini) under chromeos is fine…

Crostini is only sort of built-in Linux. It’s more like a built-in Linux VM, and performance suffers a bit because of it. If they’re not doing anything heavy, you should be correct, it’ll be fine.

visor841 ,

I mean that’s barely even concessions, that’s pretty much just standard EU membership. Which I agree, the UK will have to take.

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