I still remember how I played Need for Speed and heard this one. This song has such an interesting “lone road night vibe” for me, still listen to it pretty often. I do recommend to listen to the band if this song is something you enjoyed. They are very good.
For anyone who did not think about it beforehand and struggled as me. You can run KDE Connect on your machine and send keyboard and mouse inputs using kde connect. Almost 0 input lag. So you can do all you need....
I guess it’s pretty well known and seen by many, but it turned out I forgot about it completely and ranbomly found it on youtube couple of days ago. Decided to show to my wife - we have watched it twice and added to our playlists right away....
I loved a lot of Trent’s early stuff. Then he went to rehab, sobered up, and his music changed. This was one of the first indications I had of his changing style. A lot of fans didn’t like it, but I think his songs became much more focused (especially lyrically). And thematically, this song will never not be relevant.
The Fairphone 5 is modular, made with recycled & fair materials and fair working conditions. I review the phone, the company behind it, the sustanibilty claims & explain their shortcoming.
This song got me through the pandemic. Got me excited about this band, and put the albums on repeat so many times, and bought all the albums. This didn’t go unnoticed with my SO and she secretly gifted me tickets to see them live. They are great live, and we had a blast!...
I was very surprised when discovered that band as late as in 2021. Not only it sounds great, quality of recording and mastering in this one is awesome (I do recommend listening to it in better quality than youtube offers)....
I have Nvidia and 1 monitor, so did not run into mentioned issues. Wayland on KDE did not work well for me, also community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers have some blockers for me. Gnome on Wayland as far as I understood does not work with DRM, so no chance to run VR. Also though I used Gnome before it does not appeal to me today. Plasma on the other hand was exactly what I was looking for, plus it’s actively maintained and updated. Looking forward to see Plasma 6.
When it comes to VR - I was very surprised, it was something I did not expect to work at all. My setup for reference: I have Nvidia proprietary drivers, SteamVR Beta and Valve Index. I had problems with sound (cracking, quality and etc), but using sof-firmware helped to choose proper output channel on Nvidia GPU via Pro profile and it just started working.
No, I just said it’s not appealing to me today as it did before, when I used it, years ago. I’m not implying anythings here, personal taste. I chose plasma.
There are quite some comments and to clarify all misunderstanding regarding Arch vs something else or any other debates in this thread, I would like to add this comment.
I do not recommend Arch based distro over Debian based or anything else. Topic is about using Linux at its current state, I assume that most of distros will be more or less similar when it comes to statements of the post. In my case it was Archlinux distro, because I had prior experience and it’s philosophy is appealing to me. Like rolling release, configure yourself, install only necessary for you things and etc.
I do not recommend to use Arch itself for a new user. I hope from the post it was clear, that new user should not care much about mentioned topics, like Pipewire vs Pulseaudio or Wayland VS X. One can use more high order distros or even different base, like Linux Mint. Which I also used long time ago and was quite happy about.
I do not say that KDE is better or worse than Gnome or whatever. For me it’s just a preference, like possibility to have more control over UI and looks and to avoid some blockers, like DRM on Wayland. You can have them all on your machine, beauty of Linux.
And please do your own research on the topic and do take everything with grain of salt. There are a lots of great distros, desktop environments and other things. And there are tons of good and bad advices, navigating through which sometimes is not so easy.
And I would like to underline that there are not so many up to date objectivly better things when it comes to software, pick what you need and like.
Nice write up. Hope we both will be fine with our installations =)
Regarding “new user” - that’s true, e.g. average person has much steeper learning curve than software dev, DIY enthusiast playing with Arduino or gamer who has his own server for favorite game in the cloud and etc. They might be all “new” to Linux as desktop OS, but not on the same start line.
Though looking at EndeavourOS and recalling my experience with Mint and Ubuntu, it might be possible to have windows like (when it comes to easy to use) installation\configuration and experience out of the box.
It wasn’t my first try, I used arch before. And I would not recommend it to anyone without prior experience or at least software engineering related background.
I hated this piece as a child. I was a fan of the “German school” of composers: strong functional harmony. Sections of music have to resolve tightly and correctly. So when I heard Clair De Lune, it sounded to me like a cat rolling around on the piano keys....
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (2006) (www.youtube.com)
I still remember how I played Need for Speed and heard this one. This song has such an interesting “lone road night vibe” for me, still listen to it pretty often. I do recommend to listen to the band if this song is something you enjoyed. They are very good.
Koi Child-Slow One (2016) (youtu.be)
A powerful blend of jazz and hip hop that I can never skip when it comes up on shuffle
Song I Love And Want To Share - a place to share love for your favorite songs and discover new music. (lemmy.world)
As a big music lover I always enjoy an opportunity to share music I love and discover something new to listen....
P.O.D. feat. Randy Blythe - "DROP" (2023) (www.youtube.com)
I did not expect P.O.D. to make two songs I would like this year - AFRAID TO DIE AND DROP....
P.O.D. (featuring Tatiana Shmayluk) - "AFRAID TO DIE" (2023) (www.youtube.com)
I did not expect P.O.D. to make two songs I would like this year - AFRAID TO DIE AND DROP....
Steam deck keyboard and mouse input from PC via KDE Connect
For anyone who did not think about it beforehand and struggled as me. You can run KDE Connect on your machine and send keyboard and mouse inputs using kde connect. Almost 0 input lag. So you can do all you need....
Bloodywood - Gaddaar (2022) (www.youtube.com)
Some Indian metal for you. I love vibes/energy of this song, it reminds me of late 90s, early 2000s, where most of my music taste formed....
Nigel Stanford - AUTOMATICA (2017) (youtu.be)
I guess it’s pretty well known and seen by many, but it turned out I forgot about it completely and ranbomly found it on youtube couple of days ago. Decided to show to my wife - we have watched it twice and added to our playlists right away....
NIИ - The Hand That Feeds (2005) (m.youtube.com)
I loved a lot of Trent’s early stuff. Then he went to rehab, sobered up, and his music changed. This was one of the first indications I had of his changing style. A lot of fans didn’t like it, but I think his songs became much more focused (especially lyrically). And thematically, this song will never not be relevant.
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Flobots - Handlebars (2007) (m.youtube.com)
This song had a really big impact on me when it first came out. Sadly, it just seems to become more and more relevant as time goes on.
Are "fair phones" really fair? - YouTube (youtu.be)
The Fairphone 5 is modular, made with recycled & fair materials and fair working conditions. I review the phone, the company behind it, the sustanibilty claims & explain their shortcoming.
VOLA - Straight Lines (2021) [Prog Metal] (youtu.be)
This song got me through the pandemic. Got me excited about this band, and put the albums on repeat so many times, and bought all the albums. This didn’t go unnoticed with my SO and she secretly gifted me tickets to see them live. They are great live, and we had a blast!...
No More Stones - Enter The Haggis [Celtic Rock] (youtu.be)
W.A.S.P. - Hallowed Ground (2002) (www.youtube.com)
I was very surprised when discovered that band as late as in 2021. Not only it sounds great, quality of recording and mastering in this one is awesome (I do recommend listening to it in better quality than youtube offers)....
Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).
Finally migrated from Windows to Linux. For anyone wondering, what is the state of Linux as your primary OS for home PC\laptop in 2023....
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Claude Debussy - Clair De Lune (1905) (www.youtube.com)
I hated this piece as a child. I was a fan of the “German school” of composers: strong functional harmony. Sections of music have to resolve tightly and correctly. So when I heard Clair De Lune, it sounded to me like a cat rolling around on the piano keys....
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