Berny23

Berny23, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Schöller Pirulo Jungly

Loved it, this was my favorite Schöller ice!

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/a07a7767-98fe-408e-877e-25be867b67b5.png

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/5e6cb987-03fe-4fc3-b174-3c5b2959fc9c.png

Berny23, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)

Berny23, 2 months ago

When I started my now mostly unused school laptop with dualboot (Windows/Debian) at 3 AM in the basement to solve a router issue. This pretty cheap laptop booted in mere seconds to a completely usable state, sparing my tired self from waiting in the cold for too long.

Right there, in the middle of the night, a flash of inspiration struck me!

How could it be that my way too expensive desktop gaming PC took longer to be ready for everything than this old piece of plastic? What if I completely switched my main machine to Linux, not only for testing, but for real? How awesome would it be to have customization freedom and full control over my own device, without a company spying on me, taking away options or using me as their guinea pig for the next untested updates?

And that’s how it began. Linux Mint as a safe start, then Kubuntu for more customization with KDE Plasma. After that, EndeavourOS for the latest software, and finally Arch Linux … for the lulz (btw).

Berny23, 2 months ago

MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X

Additionally, I had a 3 port FireWire card that I used for digitizing old MiniDV camcorder cassettes. But I had to remove it because someone fucked something up in kernel 6.5, crashing the whole boot process after a few milliseconds.

Berny23, 2 months ago

Does it implement explicit sync for Wayland to fix flickering?

Berny23, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, window managers like KWin have to implement it as well as NVIDIA in their driver. Currently, everyone is waiting for driver support before merging the (mostly finished) feature into master.

• xserver: gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/…/967
• wayland-protocols: gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/…/90
• egl-wayland: github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/pull/104
• kwin: invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4693
• mutter: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/…/3300
• nvidia driver: ???

Berny23, 2 months ago

NVIDIA broke something on every version after 535.

Berny23, 2 months ago

Use driver 535 until explicit sync is implemented by NVIDIA.

Berny23, 2 months ago

Ok, thanks. I already found the tool nvidia-all, which allows me to use old driver 535 until the big wayland regression is fixed (hopefully soon). With that out the way, switching the rest of my software to Arch should be easy.

Berny23, 2 months ago

Great to hear.

Berny23, 2 months ago

How good is your performance (especially gaming) with btrfs compared to ext4?

Berny23, 2 months ago

Thanks for the hints, great list! :) I’m a software developer and Ubuntu/Windows sysadmin, so reading wikis, writing shell script and tinkering with the OS is nothing new to me.

On my private Medion laptop, I even got vanilla Arch installed the hard way by following the guide on the wiki (without install script). I took a picture back then while I was creating partitions and the filesystem:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/43449618-3c32-46b6-a3b3-6593eeb956bd.png

I did this as a challenge for myself and to try hyprland. Didn’t have the time to fully customize the setup, so I chose EndeavouOS as it provides a good base.

Berny23, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Just an update, I successfully switched my whole user data to EndeavourOS and installed almost everything I have used before. Works nice and smooth with KDE Plasma 6 in Wayland (although an NVIDIA downgrade to 535 is required for gaming until the latest driver is fixed).

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/02cc70f4-7375-40e8-b448-320526ff7b6d.png

(I disabled the Polonium tiling for the screenshot.)

Edit: Switched to Arch today :)

Berny23, 2 months ago

Already done: lemmy.sdf.org/comment/9371799

Berny23, 3 months ago

Is a PPA planned for Kubuntu 23.10?

Berny23, 2 months ago

Does it really work on the latest driver? Does it fix flickering in Minecraft and other XWayland games?

Berny23, 8 months ago

Oh no, I also remember the giant water tortoise. Specifically how disgusting the shell opening was with all the guts and slimy white body fat. Nothing I’ve seen in any other “hardcore” horror movie has come close to this scene.

I’ve seen the movie in German, it’s called “Nackt und zerfleischt” (Naked and mangled/mauled) here.