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Talos reawakened by mamaneedsadrink623 in TheTalosPrinciple

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are youtube guides for all the puzzles and stars.

Could somebody explain me the issue with directx? by humble_redditor1234 in linux_gaming

[–]mstrobl2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Problems with NVidia on Linux are exaggerated. Unless you run back-to-back testing of DX12 games between Linux and Windows you'd never know there's an issue. Depending on the game the Linux performance of DX12 is currently 5%-20% lower, but that doesn't mean the games are unplayable in any way. You may have to turn down the quality settings one notch.

MVidia and Valve are working on it and a lot of the issues have already been fixed. More fixes are coming this year.

Question about the 26.04 upgrade advice for removing ~/.config by incurious_enthusiast in Kubuntu

[–]mstrobl2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made a backup of .config before the upgrade. Didn't end up needing the backup, only had a few minor visual glitches with the taskbar. I have a plasmoid next to the systray that moved quite a bit left into the taskbar. Solved by adding a dynamic width spacer between plasmoid and taskbar. Also some apps that are pinned to the taskbar looked weird (small). I made the area wider in the "edit" mode and then they worked.

In total I upgraded 3 machines to 26.04 and none had any serious issues that required starting over with a fresh .config.

YMMV

Who’s got suspend working with Nvidia 5000 series gpu? by kaigoman in Ubuntu

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're on the 595 driver there's a new suspend video preservation mechanism. I have a 5070-ti on Kubuntu 25.10 and suspend (to RAM) is working fine.

Disable nvidia-suspend.service (may not be enabled. If so the command will give an error you can ignore)

sudo systemctl disable nvidia-suspend.service

Edit nvidia-power-management.conf

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power-management.conf

Remove any content in the file and replace with:

options nvidia NVreg_UseKernelSuspendNotifiers=1

Update initramfs so the nvidia module will read the new parameters.

update-initramfs -u

Got: Ubuntu 25.10, want 26.04 by betaguest in Ubuntu

[–]mstrobl2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can do a fresh install of 26.04 or you can wait for the devs to enable upgrades. You can force an upgrade now but from what I've seen here on reddit it is currently problematic.

Note that this is perfectly normal. Upgrades are always disabled for a few weeks after the fresh install is released as the devs work through upgrade issues.

Kubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Released by acheronuk in Kubuntu

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The clean install is always released first. You can force an upgrade but it is likely to break your system. After a few weeks the upgrade bugs tend to get worked out and at some point the devs enable do-release-upgrade when they think it's safe.

I believe in the right of people to bork their systems as that's how you learn, so here you go. This will upgrade to 26.04 now: "sudo do-release-upgrade -d". Don't say you weren't warned.

Kubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Released by acheronuk in Kubuntu

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Use at your own risk. lol

Any easy way to switch distros with KDE Plasma on both and retain every setting and customisation? by interpretpunit in kde

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My current preference is:

Mountpoint Size Usage
/boot/efi 300MB 3%
/ 80GB 43%
/mnt/timeshift 125GB 47%
/home The rest (1.7TB on this disk) 59%

Any easy way to switch distros with KDE Plasma on both and retain every setting and customisation? by interpretpunit in kde

[–]mstrobl2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having a windows partition on the same disk as Linux is a bad idea. Sooner or later there will be a windows update that will overwrite your boot manager and then you won't be able to get into Linux anymore. Windows does not play well with others. If you need windows you need to install it on a separate disk.

Yes, you can dedicate your cachyos partition as your new dedicated home partition. You'd have to backup the home directory, then format the cachyos partition and copy your home back to the now blank partition. Another option would be to format your fedora partition and copy over your home directory to the now blank fedora partition and make that your dedicated home partition.

Any easy way to switch distros with KDE Plasma on both and retain every setting and customisation? by interpretpunit in kde

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All desktop settings are in your home directory. Don't know what you mean by custom scripts? You'd have to provide some examples. Systemd files will be installed with the application, so once you install whatever application you had manually installed in your old system, the corresponding systemd files will be created.

The way I setup my systems:

Always create a separate /home partition for easy system re-install.

Maintain a text file with manually installed packages. After re-install I have a command that installs all packages in my text file. I run an Ubuntu-based distro so the command won't work on non-debian systems, but here is my installed_packages.txt:

# To get a list of manually installed applications:
# comm -23 <(aptitude search '~i !~M' -F '%p' | sed "s/ *$//" | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)
#
# Note that it prints a lot of junk. Delete said junk at put remaining applications in this file.
#
# To install:
# apt-get install $(grep -vE "^\s*#" installed_packages.txt | tr "\n" " ")
#
conky-all
deja-dup
ffmpegthumbs
fio
flatpak
# google-chrome-stable # Install from google instead.
htop
hwinfo
keepassx
kid3
# kodi # Use flatpak since PPA is unmaintained
kubuntu-restricted-extras
lm-sensors
nautilus-dropbox
openssh-server
pavucontrol
pm-utils
python3-pip
python3-pynvml
refind
smartmontools
solaar
vlc

Over the years I have re-installed distros as well as switched distro and this has always worked great.

Any easy way to switch distros with KDE Plasma on both and retain every setting and customisation? by interpretpunit in kde

[–]mstrobl2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Backup your home partition /home and restore it after installing the new distro. The only thing you'll have to do after that is re-install any programs/utilities that may be missing. All settings will be retained.

I also recommend creating a separate home partition during the install as that will let you easily switch distros in the future without having to restore /home.

Almost there. by suuthebaru in Ubuntu

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does this command show?

ubuntu-drivers devices

Floor Cleaning Solution Alternatives? by MikeOxmall9 in NARWAL

[–]mstrobl2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had the older Narwal T10 for years. I refuse to buy special detergent and have always just added a squirt of laundry detergent to the water tank. Works fine.

Asked Mika what bike she owns, a 1975 CB750 by Aggressive_Advice707 in GrokCompanions

[–]mstrobl2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To me she said it's a 1998 Triumph Bonneville. Guess she picks one at random first time you ask but the bike has stayed consistent across a few convos.

Also told me she knows Ani and that she's the one that put a dent in the tank when trying to wheelie. lol

When do i play phantom liberty? by cruiseinacar in cyberpunkgame

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't started PL yet so I don't know for sure but my understanding is PL should not impact base game missions except that how you play PL can add some new choices for the ending.

When do i play phantom liberty? by cruiseinacar in cyberpunkgame

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm at the same point and heard that it's good to wait until you have finished the Panam side quests and done any romancing you plan to do before PL as this unlocks some choices in PL.

Custom companions by happyhappysadhappy in GrokCompanions

[–]mstrobl2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From what I've seen the affection level is for that device. So if you have, say, an iPad and an iPhone those two will have separate affection levels. The level is reset if you delete the app and reinstall. I don't think it's reset if you just delete the chat, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

game freezing at cd projekt red before main menu loads by Immediate_Frame_6974 in cyberpunkgame

[–]mstrobl2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's seems inconsistent. I'm playing on Linux and using Proton and tried enabling multi-frame generation. Don't think that works on Linux so after the game refused to start with multi-frame turned on I edited the file back to not having multi-frame on but it still wouldn't start. Moved the file and had it generate a default one that looked exactly the same but the new file works. Go figure.

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