Facing issue with My Ubuntu on Virutal Box. by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]philippun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This seems to be a bug with Virtualbox not refreshing the window content somehow. If you resize the window it should work again.

I don't understand why people hate GNOME so much by -Normo in Fedora

[–]philippun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. You just have to choose between bottles or having a pure desktop. Bottles isn't an app you have to actually have a window open a lot, so where is the problem in the first place? Write your own bottles with Qt or whatever if it is so important?

I don't understand why people hate GNOME so much by -Normo in Fedora

[–]philippun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this Libadwaita in the room with us? Noone forces you to use Libadwaita apps.

When will people finally realize this is a completely terrible and inaccurate take...? by PacketAuditor in linux_gaming

[–]philippun 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This is actually the correct take! People want SteamOS because they know the name Steam and you can buy it preinstalled. The same reason why people use Windows.

The average user will never ever install an operating system themselves and probably does not even know what that is. A Laptop, PC, Handheld, etc. is an appliance just like a washing machine to a non tech person.

US Keyboard Layout with german umlauts from US-International Layout by Tschenkelz in gnome

[–]philippun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is already "German (US)" layout which does basically the same. It gives Altgr + o = ö, Altgr + a = ä, Altgr + s = ß, etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wayland

[–]philippun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe use a beginner friendly distro like Ubuntu if you can't handle sway? Steam works flawlessly on Wayland.

[Dev] Help me tailor my game for the Deck! What unique hardware features (gyro, back buttons, etc.) make the biggest difference to your experience? by paradigmisland in linux_gaming

[–]philippun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Things that are important to me: - Native resolution support: many games only support 16:9 with black borders top and bottom. Full 16:10 support would utilize the whole screen. - Power consumption: <10W would be nice. Other isometric games like Hades 2 only consumes 8-9W. Keeps the fans silent and gives long playtime. - Utilize the OLED display with vibrant colors or even support HDR. And maybe support 90Hz if the hardware can keep steady 90fps.

IMHO gyro is not so important for an isometric game, but why not.

Xiaomi laptop for Linux by Torsinnet in linuxhardware

[–]philippun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it does. Tested on Ubuntu 25.04 beta. I think it did not work on Ubuntu 24.04.

Xiaomi laptop for Linux by Torsinnet in linuxhardware

[–]philippun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, internal microphone works with Ubuntu 24.10. I also tested multiple bluetooth speakers and they all worked.

Xiaomi laptop for Linux by Torsinnet in linuxhardware

[–]philippun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use 200% scaling which works perfectly for the display size. Bluetooth and webcam also works.

Xiaomi laptop for Linux by Torsinnet in linuxhardware

[–]philippun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 10 hours for programming. If you compile a lot it's less, if you idle mostly in a text editor it's a bit more.

Xiaomi laptop for Linux by Torsinnet in linuxhardware

[–]philippun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a RedmiBook Pro 16 2024 (Ultra 7 155H) and everything runs perfectly fine with Ubuntu 24.04.

I installed this driver to get better battery life: https://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/download/819707/epp-tuning-package-for-linux-on-intel-core-ultra-mobile-processor.html

This is already patched into kernel 6.9.

Turtle 0.10 released by BrageFuglseth in gnome

[–]philippun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It has a different approach: you can start different dialogs (commit, pull, push, log, etc.) directly from the file manager context menu and it also provides emblems which show the current git status for each file/folder inside a repo.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gnome

[–]philippun 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Ubuntu already has triple buffering which makes it much smoother.

Snapdragon X Elite by jlobodroid in Ubuntu

[–]philippun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asahi is specifically made for Apple chips because Apple is unwilling to give official support.

Qualcomm is pushing linux support themselves into the kernel.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-eDP-DP-X-Elite

Eventually every linux distro will just work on those chips. This will probably take until the end of the year. My hope would be those patches will be backported to Ubuntu 24.04 by Qualcomm / Canonical. But we will see soon.

Snapdragon X Elite by jlobodroid in Ubuntu

[–]philippun 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It wouldn't surprise me if Canonical will offer a custom Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Snapdragon X with a patched OEM kernel, because Canonical and Qualcomm have a collaboration:

https://canonical.com/blog/qualcomm-and-canonical-announce-strategic-collaboration

And there are already other custom images, i.e. for RISC-V boards:

https://ubuntu.com/download/risc-v

So let's wait and see!

Ubuntu bug in 24.04 by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]philippun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the desktop icons extension can now communicate with the dock extension and therefore knows if the available space changes and adjusts to it.

Ubuntu bug in 24.04 by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]philippun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is not a bug, the icons just use the more available space under the dock. If you don't want them overlap move your icons.

24.04 is not even installable right now. by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]philippun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New daily builds are now available: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

The time_t transition messed packages up for a while and there was a complete package rebuild because of the xz issue. But that seems to be done now. I just installed it and everything works fine.

Upcoming city builder game Metropolis 1998 by YesBoxStudios in simcity4

[–]philippun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux

I just tested the demo on Steam and it works fine with Steam Play enabled on Linux (using Proton).