boredsquirrel

boredsquirrel, 4 hours ago

Why would you post a screenshot of a neofetch. Just why

boredsquirrel, 5 hours ago

True, but their presentations get better. They are still often messy, but hey, do better?

boredsquirrel, 14 hours ago (edited 12 hours ago)

Ublue Bazzite.

• Chris Titus showcase video
• Chris Titus, usage on main PC
• Chris Titus Livestream
• Interview with Jorge Castro
• Review specific for SteamDeck
• a ton more videos but I dont know the quality

Bazzite is fundamentally different as it is based on Fedora Atomic Desktops. This is huge.

The OS is worlds more stable and reliable.

They use Fedoras base and add all the gaming stuff to it, to work out of the box.

I use Aurora, coming from Fedora Kinoite (KDE Atomic) and then uBlue Kinoite.

boredsquirrel, 12 hours ago

This is neat.

I like the Unix idea of doing one thing. But that was also kinda the issue with Labplot. R can also do conversion, table operations etc.

Excel is very easy to use with no learning curve. But it is of course bloated Microsoft nonsense.

boredsquirrel, 11 hours ago

Plasma 6 has way less bugs for me that Plasma 5!

Which is a very good proof that you are on a really good way.

I still have 103 open reported bugs :D but I didnt have a crashed session, needing a hard shutdown etc. since quite a while.

Using Fedora Kinoite on an all Intel Laptop though, not AMD anymore. Maybe that is a cause too.

boredsquirrel, 10 hours ago

I had freezes on wakeup from suspend all the time on a Thinkpad T495 with mobile AMD Ryzen Vega 8 graphics.

The issues on kernel or whatever never lead to anything as far as I remember.

boredsquirrel, 17 hours ago (edited 17 hours ago)

All guides are different. There are tons of parallel efforts.

I would in general avoid

• opinionated upstream (Ubuntu)
• too outdated packages (everything Debian, when not using Flatpaks)
• pretty unstable (Arch, Fedora Rawhide, Debian unstable/testing)

I tried a lot of distros, wanted to use KDE which was pretty bad until Plasma 6 to be honest. So always hopped and stayed with the distro where “just KDE breaks”. Fedora Kinoite.

The distro upgrades are automatic and either fail or are not applied (atomic). The distro is premade and does not need changes, the base is as minimal as reasonably possible (even core apps are Flatpaks, to separate them from the base system).

But you can install some RPM packages, the exact same that you could install on other Fedora, external repos, COPR etc. The moment you install a single one, updates will take longer. I layer Librewolf, virt-manager and more without issues, and updates are in the background.

As the system is so modular, uBlue came to life. They ship base images but also highly opinionated ones. I always used kinoite-main, which is just the Fedora base with minimal changes and especially included restricted codecs. Currently trying Aurora, which has more fancy stuff. Bazzite is the one you can use for possibly the best Gaming experience on Linux, Chris Titus made a video about that.

Bazzite is pretty similar to Nobara I think, with the difference that they dont disable SELinux (lol) and use the way more stable rpm-ostree, so they will simply not break.

You also always have an entire snapshot when updating, not just a kernel. So you can always reset to the past version.

You can make a manual snapshot of a specific version, also before a version upgrade etc. These stay there forever until you remove them again.

The interface is easy but there is no GUI yet. Wouldnt be that hard to do, I think that would be a cool Qt/Kirigami project.

And if you still have strange bugs, you can reset, this means all the custom changes (installs, uninstalls, …) will be removed and you get the current Fedora base install without modifications.

This is simply unique, as this is otherwise only possible with a reinstall. The moment you start modifying a “traditional” distros base, you are pretty irreversibly different from upstream.

Its pretty scary, and with Atomic Fedora I basically dont plan on reinstalling ever again.

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago (edited 21 hours ago)

Literally yes

This was pretty informative and shocking.

And then Chris Titus made this video

They literally record everything you do, at least if it is a “Copilot plus” PC with a “neural engine”.

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

I hope the update to 24.04 works well

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

Yeah I didnt haha, thats why I mentioned that.

If you do, I made a post about how to circumvent it manually.

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

I currently use Celluloid and really like it.

It is minimal and the flatpak is great

• portal support
• mpv config and input.conf support
• wayland & pipewire support

But I would like to try the KDE equivalent.

Btw, what is up to gstreamer vs. MPV vs. ffmpeg ? I dont get the difference.

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

ChatGPT 4 response### GStreamer **Overview:**GStreamer is a multimedia framework designed to build a wide variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming, and editing. Key Features:- Modular Design: Uses a pipeline-based architecture where data flows through a sequence of elements (plugins). - Cross-Platform: Works on various operating systems like Linux, Windows, macOS, and more. - Extensible: Supports a wide range of media formats and codecs via plugins. - Use Cases: Often used in applications that need complex media processing, such as video editors, streaming servers, and media players. Strengths:- Highly flexible and extensible. - Suitable for custom multimedia applications and complex media processing tasks. Weaknesses:- Can be complex to set up and use for simple tasks. ### Libav **Overview:**Libav is a multimedia library that was forked from FFmpeg in 2011. It provides tools and libraries to handle multimedia data. Key Features:- Libraries: Includes libavcodec, libavformat, libavfilter, and others for encoding, decoding, filtering, and playing audio and video. - Command-Line Tools: Similar to FFmpeg, Libav offers command-line tools for media manipulation. - Cross-Platform: Works on multiple operating systems. Strengths:- Robust libraries for developers needing to work with multimedia data. - Active development and support. Weaknesses:- Can be confusing due to its similarities and differences with FFmpeg. ### FFmpeg **Overview:**FFmpeg is a comprehensive multimedia framework capable of decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playing virtually anything that humans and machines have created. Key Features:- Wide Codec Support: Supports a vast array of codecs. - Command-Line Tools: Powerful and versatile tools like ffmpeg for converting, streaming, and playing media. - Libraries: Provides libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil. Strengths:- Extremely versatile and powerful. - Broad community support and extensive documentation. Weaknesses:- Can be complex to use for beginners. - The command-line interface may be intimidating for new users. ### MPV **Overview:**MPV is a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video and audio file formats, subtitle types, and streaming protocols. Key Features:- High-Quality Video Output: Supports hardware acceleration and advanced video scaling. - Scripting and Configurability: Can be extensively customized with scripts and configuration files. - Minimalistic UI: Focuses on a simple and efficient user interface. Strengths:- High performance with minimal system resources. - Strong support for advanced video playback features. Weaknesses:- Lacks a traditional graphical user interface (GUI) which might be a downside for some users. ### VLC **Overview:**VLC is a free and open-source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files, as well as DVDs, audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Key Features:- Versatility: Supports almost every video and audio format. - User-Friendly: Has a simple and intuitive GUI. - Streaming Capabilities: Can stream media over networks and transcode multimedia files. Strengths:- Easy to use with a graphical interface. - Highly portable and cross-platform. - Extensive feature set with built-in codecs. Weaknesses:- Sometimes considered less performant compared to dedicated players like MPV. - GUI may be considered too basic for advanced users. ### Comparison Summary - GStreamer: Best for complex media processing applications with a need for custom pipelines. - Libav: Focused on providing robust libraries for multimedia handling, similar to FFmpeg. - FFmpeg: Extremely versatile and powerful for a wide range of multimedia tasks, with strong community support. - MPV: High-performance media player with advanced playback features but minimalistic UI. - VLC: User-friendly, versatile media player with broad format support and streaming capabilities.

So basically they all do the same stuff. I dont get it.

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

But you can also use ffmpeg to play videos, through ffplay. Which might use gstreamer under the hood or not?

boredsquirrel, 18 hours ago

Very strange :D

Then Fedora only ships libav stuff, which is forked off ffmpeg, and only includes the free stuff. I wonder how these now work together

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

Great! Used it extensively a while ago, works great and the GTK4 port is really useful

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

Better wayland support, better icons, and idk what else

Also better performance through GPU acceleration

boredsquirrel, 11 hours ago

It seems that Qt5 and Qt6 have GPU acceleration in multiple areas, but I dont understand their landscape with QtWidgets etc.

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

KDE and RAM usage…

i.e. it does not use enough RAM

boredsquirrel, 14 hours ago

Yes. Even though this does not apply for most laptop users. That stuff should be in RAM as even on my crazy new NVME (not supported by many installers etc) it is still slow to launch these effects.

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

Geht es hier um Flüchtenden-Schleuser? Oder wird das Wort noch irgendwo verwendet?

boredsquirrel, 1 day ago

Also adding auto-cpufreq, ryzenadj, tuned.

But this depends on your CPU used.

TLP is good, tuned may be better?

TLP has a common USB lost issue, that is mitigated by disabling USB-autosuspend in the config. TLP config is found here

And if you need a tool for warning about AC disconnect, you can use a systemd service.

<span style="color:#323232;">cat > /usr/local/bin/check_ac.sh <<EOF
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">while true; do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    if [[ "$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online)" -eq 0 ]]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        notify-send -t 20 -a "Power" "AC Disconnected"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		sleep 20
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">EOF
</span>

<span style="color:#323232;">chmod +x /usr/local/bin/check_ac.sh
</span>

<span style="color:#323232;">cat > /etc/systemd/user/ac-warning.service <<EOF
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Unit]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Description=Monitor AC State and Notify
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Service]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/check_ac.sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Restart=always
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Install]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WantedBy=graphical.target
</span><span style="color:#323232;">EOF
</span>

<span style="color:#323232;">systemctl --user daemon-reload
</span><span style="color:#323232;">systemctl --user enable --now ac-warning.service
</span>