Many retro games are better. AA games were made with heart back then & that made it possible to make games that are incredible both in terms of artistry, grandeur and gameplay. Games like Baldur’s Gate 1-2, Chrono Cross etc are not possible in today’s climate.
On the other hand we have been handed indie games like Celeste and Hollow Knight, so I don’t know. Amazing games still exists, it’s just not really comparable.
It's been fairly stable as I would expect from an LTS. There's LOT of hiccups with whatever is happening in the tray area (power and battery sometimes doesn't work).
Language is pretty screwed up. I speak both English/Spanish in a Spanish location. Installer chooses half spanish and english in the /etc/locale, and has issues changing it in the frontend.
Overall nothing I can't fix as I put stability overall
You only used it for a week and already had issues and the team did not even brick your system with an update yet. xd
Neon maybe has its niche (though I question the point of User Edition), but regular users should stay very far away. Arch is far more stable and it’s less effort to maintain it too. If you want stability and LTS go with Kububtu or Debian.
That’s something i’ve been occasionally experiencing with my Amerano usb as well. Though it’s a kernel related problem, because switching to pulse does not solve it, booting up a 18Lts iso does.
In fact it’s a bit better on pipewire and you can also experiment with a low latency kernel.
I’ve installed TLP on my Lenovo ThinkBook laptop and was wondering if there are additional steps I can take to extend the battery life when using the laptop unplugged....
if battery is the priority the single biggest gain I can recommend is to use xorg with compositing off. (Gnome cannot do this, KDE can, if you use a WM then don’t use Picom etc)
If you can tolerate screen tearing you can save a significant amount of power while web browsing.
I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.
I used it before, but ultimately it comes down to compatibility. Broadcomm is dominating the router space and 3rd party firmwares are a nono for that. So I just got an Asus that is supposed to be supported for a very long time.
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
It’s not really card related, but rather it just comes up sometimes in niche circumstances. I only had this on my second monitor and then it went away with an nvidia driver update. (since then i moved to amd)
(Bonus update) I’m back on KDE6 and it’s actually working! I ran Cinnamon for about a day before missing KDE and tried a fresh install of EndeavourOS. It worked fine, Wayland still doesn’t work but I’m only getting minor bugs with x11 compared to when I tried to update from 5.27...
You were super unlucky then, had you installed Endeavor with the same settings, it could have crashed the exact same way.
The difference between Archinstall installed Arch & EndeavorOS is very minimal and overrated. In this case I think the fix would have been picking the LTS kernel until 6.8 is released.
So I’ve had enough from partitioning my HDD between Linux and Windows, and I want to go full Linux, my laptop is low end and I tend to keep some development services alive when I work on stuff (like MariaDB’s) so I decided to split my HDD into three partitions, a distro (Arch) for my dev stuff, a distro (Pop OS) for gaming,...
I don’t understand why would you want to use Arch for dev work and popos for gaming. Arch is not stable and will cause some issues every now and then and PopOS is worse for gaming, but is far more reliable on a production machine.
I have heard good things about nobara. I don’t mind doing a little thinkering to have things work but I also don’t want to spend hours doing recharch on how to fix things....
Mint is a huge community distribution and Nobara is one guy maintaining a gaming PC for himself and his father. He has done a lot of good for the community and is very smart, but I would never use his kernel, ever.
Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)
Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?
Less DRM, smaller filesizes, no stupid anticheat, and no always online bs. Anyone agree with me?
Do you guys actually move aroung your ascended gear to play your alts?
Seems like too much work to me, so I started getting duplicate pieces just to save the hassle, but a few guildies said I was crazy.
Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience (www.youtube.com)
Spoiler: GNOME wins...
Is Neofetch abandoned?
Ive noticed its has been any activity in their github for a longtime. github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch...
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
Guild Wars 3 | Most Wanted Wish List (www.youtube.com)
Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Please share your power optimizations to maximize battery life
I’ve installed TLP on my Lenovo ThinkBook laptop and was wondering if there are additional steps I can take to extend the battery life when using the laptop unplugged....
EA Kernel Level anti cheat will be added to Battlefield V (www.ea.com)
As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?
I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.
Tuxedo Laptops - Any good?
I’m looking at getting myself a new laptop to replace my Dell Inspiron. I’ll be using it for some on the go video editing....
Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
Btw (lemmy.ml)
The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater (ff8isthe.best)
First real Arch user moment [Mission Failed]
(Bonus update) I’m back on KDE6 and it’s actually working! I ran Cinnamon for about a day before missing KDE and tried a fresh install of EndeavourOS. It worked fine, Wayland still doesn’t work but I’m only getting minor bugs with x11 compared to when I tried to update from 5.27...
Questions about Linux-Linux dualboot
So I’ve had enough from partitioning my HDD between Linux and Windows, and I want to go full Linux, my laptop is low end and I tend to keep some development services alive when I work on stuff (like MariaDB’s) so I decided to split my HDD into three partitions, a distro (Arch) for my dev stuff, a distro (Pop OS) for gaming,...
As a first time Linux user pretty much what should I use for gaming.
I have heard good things about nobara. I don’t mind doing a little thinkering to have things work but I also don’t want to spend hours doing recharch on how to fix things....