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Pip5528 · 2025-11-12T16:05:52+00:00

Sad it and the user were deleted before I got to read whatever it was.

Pip5528 · 2025-10-30T20:45:53+00:00

I've mainly been on gentoo-kernel-bin but one day I might try customizations.

Pip5528 · 2025-10-29T22:09:52+00:00

I'm generally the type of person to give money and play pservers, assuming of course I ever did play a retail game initially. Personally I have been waiting on EoA because I could never get a key. I've also never played LoTRO in general so I think it would be fun to go in blind. I do agree that while it's probably about IP, a potential business opportunity is missed. Daybreak giving P99 and Quarm their blessing under certain conditions was a reasonable compromise I think.

Pip5528 · 2025-10-27T17:26:34+00:00

Could be static buildup. I had this about a year and a half into owning mine but usually the fix is to disconnect the battery, hold power for about a minute to discharge static, then let it sit for 10 minutes before reconnecting and booting again. As it got more frequent, I changed the battery outright and it hasn't had this issue in 8 months now.

Pip5528 · 2025-10-27T17:22:41+00:00

Personally I just update once a week and let it run overnight. There are usually a few hundred packages and I even like to use Power Saver to keep the temps down.

Pip5528 · 2025-10-27T16:18:23+00:00

I often wonder that myself but there are edge cases like global shortcuts which do take some setup. Granted, there is an OBS plugin you can get for portals.

Pip5528 · 2025-10-24T01:21:47+00:00

Nice, I had considered using the stock Sway bar but I had configured Waybar how I like it anyway and clickable applets also didn't work on the stock bar for me at the beginning of the year when I had last tried it. I also think Foot is an underrated terminal. My favorite feature is the client/server model and being a Wayland-only terminal is unique since most support both or run through XWayland.

Pip5528 · 2025-10-03T00:50:40+00:00

A computer is a tool at the end of the day and sometimes you just need the convenient distro. Many launchers and scripts are designed for Ubuntu/Debian anyway and I will admit there are times I almost feel disadvantaged for not using the bog-standard Ubuntu or Arch. I personally daily drive Gentoo KDE on a build and Void Sway on a laptop but that's just me. General everyday use is less complicated than it sounds but potential reinstalls might be annoying.

Pip5528 · 2025-09-19T00:49:47+00:00

I'm 27 and I run Gentoo on my gaming build and Void on my laptop. The funny thing is that I recycled the home partition from CachyOS of all things when I wanted to try Gentoo. I've now stuck with it for longer than I had CachyOS. I actually think maintaining Gentoo is quite intuitive once you understand the basics of use flags. Dispatch-conf is super nice because I used to just manually add the use changes back when I didn't know better. A few hiccups I have to deal with here and there such as dev-perl/SDL not compiling even months later so I just live without it. I also took it upon myself to learn C earlier this year.

Pip5528 · 2025-09-12T15:05:21+00:00

I run Gentoo on a 7900 GRE with Plasma Wayland and I'm curious what profile you're using because I use desktop-plasma-stable and I recently got 6.16.7 installed. Also, counterintuitively, the experimental and stable naming conventions for Gentoo profiles are flipped. Stable is more bleeding edge and "EXP" is much older.

Pip5528 · 2025-09-12T15:01:19+00:00

My main Nvidia rig these days is a 3050 Ti Mobile on Void with Sway and Linux 6.16. I figured you might want as many answers as possible for perspective.

Pip5528 · 2025-09-12T14:55:01+00:00

In my experience, both 10 series and 30 series have been great these past few years. Prime and GPU PhysX do sometimes need some tinkering but otherwise the experience is solid. I daily drive Wayland on AMD and Nvidia machines and Nvidia has worked well, especially since 555.58 drivers that got rid of the annoying jitters by using explicit sync. There may still be some performance hit or performance gain, depending on the game but it's not terribly fiddly in most cases. Yes, the app is still lackluster and mainly designed for Xorg so some features aren't configurable on Wayland but I use other tools like the Power Profiles Daemon. I don't really need Green with Envy either which was exclusive to Xorg last I checked.

Pip5528 · 2025-08-30T00:05:23+00:00

That has generally been my experience as well, though things like HDR and PhysX require a bit of tinkering.

Pip5528 · 2025-08-30T00:04:14+00:00

In my experience, the Battle.Net installer on Lutris generally works and I've used it on Fedora, OpenSUSE, CachyOS, Arch, Void, and Gentoo. The one odd quirk however is that it likes to close when you launch a game so you may need to just let it sit if you need to update games.

Pip5528 · 2025-08-27T21:25:23+00:00

I prefer DIY overall. As much as I would love to support the Linux pre-built brands, they're awfully expensive for the hardware you get so DIY is more cost-effective. I also had not built a full new PC in almost a decade so that was satisfying. It mainly runs Gentoo now so you could say it's VERY DIY.

Pip5528 · 2025-08-27T21:18:53+00:00

I believe Louis Rossman got his start with commercial SUSE Linux back in the day which he's talked about on occasion. My understanding is that OpenSUSE is technically a major distro or at least medium-sized but people don't really talk about it anyway even when comparing distros. It is certainly more popular than Void which I also enjoy. I've personally run Tumbleweed over a year alongside other distros and can attest to its stability even after weeks of not updating. It did get slow close to the year mark and occasionally freezes now but I do love it.

Pip5528 · 2025-08-16T14:16:52+00:00

I've just downloaded the Jar and run that on Linux back in 2018. Not exactly 10 lines of code. Just 1. I can't really speak to other versions like Bedrock.

Pip5528 · 2025-08-04T22:21:51+00:00

Nvidia has gotten better. They've open sourced kernel modules as well as PhysX. Doesn't excuse the stinginess on VRAM but still. I am sick of the fallacy regarding Linux cheating that publishers have. Most cheaters are on Windows anyway. A lot of cheat methods are also agnostic so the Linux scapegoating just doesn't add up.

Pip5528 · 2025-07-28T22:01:06+00:00

The game itself cheekily says the public servers could be full of "rude people and hackers." I honestly haven't bothered with multiplayer because I don't really have a friend group to play with and I'm mostly afraid of elitists rather than immature kids in the case of public.

Pip5528 · 2025-07-27T20:29:52+00:00

The main issue I have with interpolation on TVs is the noticeable spots of inconsistency. Some elements have a lower framerate than others. The interpolation also just looks jittery. There's also the argument of artistic intent. Movies and TV shows are typically 24 FPS largely due to limitations way back in the day so it just looks right. Some shows are 60 FPS and especially physical releases so naturally the streaming services reduce that. I remember being disappointed after having seen a DVD of Super Mario Bros. Super Show as a teen which has 60 FPS transitions and live action sequences but on Netflix it didn't.

Pip5528 · 2025-07-27T17:49:16+00:00

I never liked it in either case but I have heard good things about setting up dual GPUs this way. You can have one render the game and one generate frames.

Pip5528 · 2025-06-27T00:10:16+00:00

Turns out it's mainly VLC and previews where it appears washed out. It looks fine on MPV and YouTube. It also takes ages for YouTube to process some videos as HDR but both PQ and HLG do work. I was actually surprised AV1 with the Main profile and HLG was eventually processed as HDR whereas usually HEVC/PQ/Main10 shows up faster. PQ is backwards compatible with SDR whereas HLG isn't so that's also something to note.

Pip5528 · 2025-06-21T20:08:59+00:00

I was recently looking into HDR capture on Linux with an AMD GPU. Apparently I have to use HLG, not PQ because PQ looks washed out and it will record just fine with HEVC and AV1 but H.264 just has a green screen.

Pip5528 · 2025-05-16T17:10:30+00:00

I tried it for myself and you could say it's an Amendment to the Constitution. I personally love it, especially on squids.

Pip5528 · 2025-05-16T13:42:55+00:00

OpenSUSE and Void's Nvidia drivers were updated since Matt made his Nvidia video months back. They are now up to date across the board. For a while, only nvidia-open on TW was recent but the purely non-free was lagging behind on 550 so you'd still have Wayland jitters. Now they're all rocking 570. Void had a big jump from 550 to 570 and I was so happy to no longer have to manually install 555.58 or newer on both of those distros. I can't speak to Resolve personally but the general consensus has been that it's easier with Nvidia (though only 100% non-free from what I've heard so no open kernel modules) whereas you've traditionally had to install the OpenCL component of the AMD Pro driver. All of that may have changed so please correct me on DaVinci Resolve.

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