I'm one of those weirdos that never thought the screen looked bad to begin with. I'm interested in the upgrade of course, but I can give it another year. The software upgrades alone make it feel like I'm running a new Steam Deck compared to when I got it 1.5 years ago.
I just have no idea what life was like in the before time. All these poor souls
I learned about that in a Trevor Moore song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxjrHPHypA
A cautionary tale of when the ugliness unside morphs the flesh into a lumpy miscolored mass of dangling skin
How anyone looks at this greasy used car salesman, and thinks his dumb Libertarian ideas and shrill whiny vibes are going to solve all their problems....
Not a chance, that crazy boomer is addicted just like the rest of them
They'll take it as far as the pollster wants ask. It's not really about what they believe or say, it's about unwavering support and owning the libs. They know they'll never be tested where they have to choose, so it's just a big game to them.
Right into my veins ..
Embrace the jank
I was using Pop_OS for a while, but I've recently been playing with EndevourOS again the past few months.
20-year boondoggle, you know.. The easy route...
I think you're right about the silent majority. This whole amplifying rage over thing is wild to see in real time. It's scary how many people have Internet brain rot, check these ratios on most any push back to the rabid behaviour.
Are we even living in the same reality? Tech bros? They're a bunch of goofy nerds.
I've tried this also. It works alright unless you write files in Windows, it will set the UID to the Windows SID. WHen you use a Steamlibrary and move back and forth, games that are updated in Windows can give you permission errors in LInux, etc.
It's all workable and definitely an option, but WinBTRFS has a performance overhead, and the dualing permissions made it not a perfect solution.
Things really move fast in AI, huh
It was back working until a few days ago. I have faith they'll figure out a solution
Interesting. I wonder if the difference is you're mounted with the newer NTFS3 driver, where I've stuck with the NTFS-3 fuse one for stability.
The NTFS warning is a little disingenuous. I wouldn't recommend people go with it if they're choosing Linux only obviously, but I'm going to say with years of personal testing about 99.9% of things work just fine using an NTFS drive. I think it's been years since I had any kind of issue with game data that I attributed (and maybe falsely) at the time to the NTFS filesystem.
In steam you'll need to symlink your compatdata folder to a linux filesystem, but that's about it.
It would appear so. I remember reading it was merged into Wayland at the end of last year. I'm able to increase the scale by 5% increments.
Some recent experiences with KDE Wayland on a NVIDIA 3070TI
I've dipped my toes into the Wayland waters a few times of the past years, and I've always been immediately impressed and jealous of the buttery smooth performance, only to come crashing down to Earth with the severe showstoppers and bugs when using a NVIDIA based card.
Despite general instability of the environment, it was lacking support for VRR as well as GAMMA LUT for night mode, among some others.
I had heard that with the latest drivers there actually is GSYNC support now (at least for later model cards), which is something I think a lot of people still don't know based on what I read.
So I went about installing KDE Wayland to give it a try, and I'm really pleased to report the general desktop experience is getting a whole lot better, like almost ready for prime time good!
Pros
Amazingly smooth performance. In X dragging windows when a video is playing , or resizing a browser window made me feel like a second class Linux citizen.
Multi-monitor support with mixed refresh rates!
GSYNC works! (kinda) .. I'm able to enable VRR within the KDE settings, and my monitor does response by adjusting the refresh rate while gaming. I haven't tested this extensively, but my initial impression is that it kicks on "sometimes" and not as stable as in X. With other games its been very stable holding the refresh rates. So there are factors involved that still need working out, but it's basically here guys.
On the topic of GSYNC, I'm acutally getting better game rendering performance. A better and more stable FPS compared to X. I also have not tested this extensively, but general impression is really positive.
Many more apps support Wayland now wihtout a lot of fussing.
Electron apps are running a lots more stable. Firefox and Chromium support is easily enabled with a flag, and makes the performance so good.
MPV , and SMoothVideoPlayer just work without any extra configuration. All little hangups I had in the past
Steam works great. All the wine games work great though it, and also in Lutris / Bottles.
Cons
Still no Night mode support, although I know this is coming.
Still some buggyness with KDE which causes the panel to freeze up sometimes. I set a hotkey to run 'plasmashell --replace' when this happens, and it seamlessly fixes it without interrupting anything else.
Very rare kwin_wayland crash while doing some intensive xwayland stuff.
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I know I'm forgetting some things so I'll answer questions, but I've been basically in Wayland for the past few weeks, and unless I run into any major showstoppers I haven't already, I'm good to stay.
Release 2.9.1 Heroic Games Launcher fixes Amazon support.
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