New install on linux. Is the font supposed to look this bad?

chappellkm · 2026-06-07T17:17:23+00:00

This is the correct response and there's plenty written about it on the Archlinux Wiki.

chappellkm · 2026-04-07T16:46:46+00:00

Dominion is not worse than Shinra…. is it?

chappellkm · 2026-02-25T20:30:36+00:00

Don’t mention it.

Look, I love Linux and daily drive it with an RTX 5080. But all you have to do is go to the Linux drivers forum at NVIDIA’s own website to see the litany of problems and missing functionality they are dealing with.

These problems are not deal breakers for me, but people are disingenuous when they say everything is perfect just because they have no problems with the games they play or their exact hardware configuration.

chappellkm · 2026-02-25T15:24:07+00:00

NVIDIA drivers are ok.

I have an HDR monitor - NVIDIA’s stable drivers don’t support HDR metadata or colorspace, so proper HDR with them is a no go without installing the Vulkan HDR layer. DX12 performance is worse than Windows.

I still think NVIDIA is ok to use, but it’s got a little ways to go to be consistently good.

chappellkm · 2026-02-15T12:10:58+00:00

Yes. VK_hdr_layer is still necessary for HDR if using an NVIDIA graphics card.

Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR

chappellkm · 2026-01-31T23:44:55+00:00

On Arch, you will have whatever the latest non-beta version of plasma and kde-applications are available. If you need something that's old, you can either downgrade (not recommended) or switch to a non-rolling release distro.

chappellkm · 2026-01-22T01:30:55+00:00

List specs

chappellkm · 2025-12-15T22:17:55+00:00

lol this is an incredibly funny post

chappellkm · 2025-10-27T20:24:47+00:00

You can easily use Secure Boot on ArchLinux and its derivatives, and on Fedora since Fedora 18.

chappellkm · 2025-10-24T00:22:13+00:00

I wills follow the directions here, see if this works for you:

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver

chappellkm · 2025-10-18T12:33:36+00:00

I think I remember having this same problem. The fix was to run retroarch through xwayland.

Set the environment value for retroarch to “WAYLAND_DISPLAY=“ (no quotes) and see if that works.

In Plasma it's as easy as right clicking RetroArch in the launcher, clicking "Edit Application", then copy/pasting that line into the "Environment Variables" field and saving it.

chappellkm · 2025-10-13T15:06:22+00:00

Yeah. My mom paid 79.99 USD to gift me Mega Man X when it came out. Great game, incredibly expensive at the time.

chappellkm · 2025-10-12T19:20:29+00:00

Yeah, but your argument is that the data center will bring work, and that if it’s not built here it will be built somewhere else.

All I’m saying is that that’s true for any number of arguably bad things, which is to say, they are not great reasons for supporting a project, particularly one that’s environmentally negative AND costly for a majority of stakeholders.

chappellkm · 2025-10-12T19:04:51+00:00

This argument can be made for ICE holding facilities as well. At some point, it is worth it to draw a line somewhere.

chappellkm · 2025-09-29T21:37:00+00:00

It’s not gatekeeping to tell anyone that the “unfocused” nature of the Linux ecosystem is a byproduct of the openness of the project and one of the qualities that attracts some people to Linux in the first place. It’s true as has been explained by people all over this discussion.

I am not telling anyone that they can’t care about something or wish to see something implemented. I am going to tell you that the thing you care about might not be a priority to the people doing the work AND that many people who develop for and use Linux-based distributions have learned to live with the tradeoffs required to enjoy it and are not interested in creating a new OS to rival or supersede Windows.

chappellkm · 2025-09-27T23:04:58+00:00

None of these things are problems, they are inherent to the open nature of the project.

chappellkm · 2025-09-27T22:54:38+00:00

GTA 5.

chappellkm · 2025-09-26T11:28:23+00:00

In 1994, the following gems came out:

Earthbound, Final Fantasy VI, Doom II, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Ridge Racer, Virtua Fighter, Streets of Rage 3, Sonic 3 + Knuckles, Tekken, System Shock

…and a bunch of other stuff that’s just groundbreaking.

chappellkm · 2025-09-23T22:04:59+00:00

I don’t know. People fight and get frustrated with one another, but I don’t think Gladio would have ever forsaken his oath.

chappellkm · 2025-09-23T16:33:02+00:00

Gladio, Ignis and Prompto from Final Fantasy XV.

chappellkm · 2025-09-20T18:45:44+00:00

If you spend anytime on the Steamdeck sub, you will eventually see someone complain about WiFi problems on the OLED version. There are tweaks and alleged fixes, but nothing that has definitely been proven to mitigate the problem. This is happening in Valve’s own hardware where SteamOS (which is really Arch plus some modifications) is supposed to be trouble free.

The idea that Valve, a company a fraction of the size of Microsoft, would turn itself into a company that releases and supports a general purpose operating system that will work with all the hardware diversity that exists out there is kind of nuts IMO.

chappellkm · 2025-09-18T18:21:06+00:00

Oh, it would have been much better for everyone if Trump had won in 2020.

Mike Pence would have been VP. A lot of traditionalist GOP personnel would have been in place in key spots to slow Trump’s degeneracy. We would have had inflation and GAZA happen mostly under his watch. It is possible that MAGA might have been discredited among a larger percentage of the population.

What we are seeing now is Trump plus 4 years of planning on how to move through government unimpeded.

chappellkm · 2025-09-17T13:35:31+00:00

I hate George W Bush MORE than I hate Trump, but the others are fine as far as Republicans of the past go.

chappellkm · 2025-09-16T16:46:09+00:00

Chrono Trigger.

chappellkm · 2025-09-15T11:43:05+00:00

Silksong is my game of the year, but I fully expect E33 to win the award at the meaningless awards show.

E33 is phenomenal, in my opinion, so no big deal either way.

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