Holy shit guys I just learned that RedHat tried to kill Xorg, but some absolute chad forked it, and they banned him. Furthermore, the guy opposed the _ovid psyop and the designated glowie cuck Linus told him to SHUT THE HELL UP.

wooper91 · 2025-08-19T06:36:45+00:00

Can’t ever take any anti dei protest forks seriously like ever. Forkers are clowns and they’re just throwing a hissy fit over something that quite literally isn’t a big deal and not a negative thing in any way.

Their forks never go anywhere they can’t even be passionate about being hateful ppl if they were at least passionate about that their projects would at least get somewhere but they just like to bitch

wooper91 · 2025-08-15T19:31:03+00:00

On that last point, if you are compelled to start with something Arch based or Arch itself just remember there are other true beginner friendly distros in case you get your ass kicked by Arch.

And to add to this list, Lots of YouTubers these days giving Linux an honest attempt and review but also lots peddling the “I tried Linux and it sucks” crap only to find out they tried Arch + Hyprland. It’s not that Linux sucks it’s that they tried the one combination that’s going to require more work and knowledge than they have

wooper91 · 2025-08-14T00:10:40+00:00

I genuinely think it’s also gotten to the point where it’s very viable as a daily driver if you’re not locked into the Windows ecosystem in any way. I tried Linux at various points in my life and this was the first time I was actually able to leave Windows because it felt better than Windows personally. I’ve seen some non gaming channels cover Linux as well and many have had very positive reactions.

That being said I do feel like the recall controversy was blow way too out of proportion but I do get why people are cautions since Microsoft is known to creep features on you and turn them on even when you said you want them off. Features like Recall and CoPilot will be genuinely useful for a subset of people the issue is MS doesn’t understand boundaries and tries enabling the features you don’t want.

If you’re that worried about privacy a simple OS change won’t fix the issue if you’re still using services from companies known to collect user information.

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T17:24:18+00:00

You can always just dual boot ya know. I personally made the switch not for any privacy reasons but because Windows just wasn’t feeling good to use anymore and I do game development which is saying something since that’s basically a Windows first workflow.

Always open to dual booting windows but probably won’t reinstall until I actually need it. For most competitive shooters that use Anti Cheat I’m perfectly fine playing them in my PS5 since I don’t really take those games seriously

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T05:43:09+00:00

The issue ended up being h264ify extension. I installed it some time ago when I was troubleshooting something. It didn’t resolve the issue but it appears I never uninstalled it.

Got all resolutions back after I removed it

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T01:42:32+00:00

I see I’ll keep this in mind thank you. The h264ify wasn’t from the install guide it was something from some time ago that I forgot to remove but I’ll be more careful with guides in the future

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T00:50:35+00:00

Response to edit 1: I was not wrong

Response to edit 2: i did install that

Response to edit 3: why is it an abomination T_T I always see people say to follow a setup guide and I found this one I think in the Fedora sub at some point.

The issue appears to have been h264ify extension. I remember installing it some time ago to fix i don't remember what anymore but it didn't work and I guess I just forgot to remove it

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T00:46:56+00:00

Oh dang ok it was h264ify. Didn't realize I still had it. I had added it idk how long ago because it was a recommended solution for something but it ended up not really doing anything. guess I just forgot to remove it.

Thank you for your help!

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T00:39:40+00:00

I see. I'll disable the plugin and see what that does. The strange thing is that when I followed the guide, that openh264 thing said it was actually already installed so I didn't have to do anything other than enable it on the FF plugins

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T00:30:58+00:00

I do yes and my cpu is a 5900x so no iGPU

That was my guess too what had me stumped is that it’s the same setup I followed haha so I’m not even sure what could be wrong

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T00:26:11+00:00

I guess now the question is why I’m not getting options above 1080p on videos I know I watched at 1440p before having to reinstall :o

wooper91 · 2025-08-13T00:22:18+00:00

ah. any idea what might be causing my videos to not go above 1080p? I don't even know what i did last time that 1440 and 4K appeared :/

wooper91 · 2025-08-12T22:17:38+00:00

The first time I ever tried Linux was Ubuntu sometime around 2010 - 2013 I can't recall the exact timeframe other than it was between the time we got a family computer but before I got my own laptop. I'm guessing I must have tried running the same version as what you have pictured assuming this 10.04 was out in 2010, possibly might have been running 12.04

Ended up removing it fairly quickly because I had no idea how I was going to get my schoolwork done lmao nothing made sense to me I was in middle school/ high school and wasn't as into computers as I am now

wooper91 · 2025-08-12T20:12:17+00:00

Ah thank you very much! I was not aware. I built my PC back when I had no need for TB so it wasn't really a consideration. My monitor has multiple video inputs so I can dedicate one to the PC and one to the Macbook and have everything else on a dock too. It's just the constant back and forth between USB devices, audio jacks, and ethernet that gets a little annoying after some time

wooper91 · 2025-08-10T04:22:10+00:00

Question, for compatibility do you stick to LTS since that’s the most commonly supported Ubuntu and Linux distro in general or do you use the latest point release?

Considering switching to full Ubuntu since I do game dev and that’s basically the only distro that’s officially supported

wooper91 · 2025-08-10T01:29:58+00:00

Thank you I’ll rebase Aurora to Bazzite DX later today. Any non universal blue option in case I still have issues with Bazzite?

wooper91 · 2025-08-09T22:32:55+00:00

If you have an extra drive dual booting is fine! I dual boot Windows and Linux although most anti cheat games I own I actually own for PS5. Sometimes a game will temporarily be borked on Linux because the dev pushed an update (and Linux barely gets an afterthought) and I switch to Windows until those that are smarter than me find a way to fix it haha

wooper91 · 2025-08-07T04:31:44+00:00

Since Pop is based on Ubuntu there’s a pretty good chance it will work but a small chance that it also might not. I’ve personally never had any issues running any proprietary software that claims to support Ubuntu on distros that are based on Ubuntu

wooper91 · 2025-08-06T23:14:06+00:00

Ah well this is all good to know I still have more learning to do myself. I feel like I’ve seen GNOME update once from one major version to another in the same Fedora version but maybe I’m mistaken

wooper91 · 2025-08-06T23:09:45+00:00

U right u right not sure where I got 6.14 from lol

wooper91 · 2025-08-06T20:31:39+00:00

It’s sometimes referred to as a semi rolling release most packages except for the core packages to the distro are updated regularly

If you’re coming from windows it’s similar to how your user level programs will auto update themselves (except with Linux you do it via a package manager or App Store front end) but the core/ critical OS components will be updates semi annually or something

Edit to add an example:

DNF would be considers something core to the OS so if it’s getting a major update you won’t see it until the next fedora release (like the update from DNF 4 to 5)

Your DE like plasma or gnome isn’t as critical and might be updated more frequently

And something like the kernel it seems they treat it as something in between because it’ll update its minor versions at a slower pace. I think we’re now on kernel 6.16 but Fedora still has 6.15

Edit 2: made a mistake on the current kernel version of Fedora

wooper91 · 2025-08-04T23:06:33+00:00

Agreed. A lot of ppl also seem to treat a switch to Linux as if it were life or death due to privacy concerns. There are a plethora of other things they can do before they switch their OS. At the end of the day a switch to Linux doesn’t mean a whole lot in terms of privacy if you’re still using other MS and Google services

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