Chewy7324

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Chewy7324,

There’s a Fedora copr with the triple buffering patches and it did improve the perceived smoothness of Gnome’s animations on my 8th gen Intel CPU.

It was especially noticeable if the system was limited in power because of running on battery.

Chewy7324,

If the system can’t keep up with the animation of e.g. Gnome’s overview, the fps halfes because of double buffered vsync for a moment. This is perceived as stutter.

With triple buffer vsync the fps only drop a little (e .g 60 fps -> 55 fps), which isn’t as big of drop of fps, so the stutter isn’t as big (if it’s even noticeable).

Chewy7324,

Yes, Vivaldi is based on Chromium.

Also, (it’s UI isn’t open source.)[vivaldi.com/…/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-sourc…]. Not much of an issue, given all popular browsers aren’t either (except Firefox).

Chewy7324,

You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more.

Chewy7324,

And if a copied file is changed, btrfs only stores the difference instead of two complete files. E.g. if the 1GB file1 is copied to file2, they will take 1GB total. If 100MB is appended to file2, the total storage usage is 1,1GB

Chewy7324,

You’re right, atomic snapshots are a big advantage of CoW fs.

Rsync backups done while the system is running have a chance of being broken, while CoW fs snapshots are instant and seem basically as if the system suddenly lost power.

Chewy7324,

Interesting. f2fs supports file-based encryption and compression. It is designed for flash and is used for many smartphones.

Chewy7324,

FWUPD/LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) has made it remarkably easy to update a lot of system firmware and device/peripheral firmware under Linux. Prior to widespread LVFS support it was often a daunting chore for Linux users to update device firmware with frequently needing to boot into a Microsoft Windows installation, resorting to FreeDOS for system BIOS updates in the olden days, or go without updating firmware.

www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-100-Million-Firmware

Chewy7324,

Some Highlights:

  • A new component “systemd-bsod” has been added to show logged error messages full-screen if they have a “LOG_EMERG” log level. This is intended as a tool for displaying emergency log messages full-screen on boot failures. Yes, BSOD in this case short for “Blue Screen of Death”. This was worked on as part of Outreachy 2023. The systemd-bsod will also display a QR code for getting more information on the error causing the boot failure.
  • Hibernation into swap files backed by Btrfs are now supported.
  • Support for split-usr has been removed.
Chewy7324, (edited )

Ja. Hoffentlich legt Sony keine Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde beim Bundesverfassungsgerichtshof ein.

Chewy7324,

Danke für die Korrektur, da hat mein Textverständnis wohl den Abflug gemacht.

Chewy7324,

Yes. Hopefully they’ll continue to maintain the mautrix bridges they already have.

Also it’s sad to see Beeper misusing the term open source for the source available SSPL [1]. Beeper is free not to use an open source license. But an open source “license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor” [2], so it’s misleading to call their demo [3] open source.

I do believe supporting the different messaging services client side could be a better experience than relying on a server to translate between different protocols.

[1] blog.opensource.org/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-sourc…

[2] opensource.org/osd/

[3] github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

Chewy7324,

Awesome. Now playing 3D games on wine wayland should work fine. The previous patches already enabled Vulkan [1], but mouselock was missing.

I can’t wait to no longer have xwayland running. Almost all apps could work natively on wayland, except Java.

[1] gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/…/4522

Chewy7324,

This article is based on an article from Eurogamer in 2012 [1].

There’re more recent similar rulings like in France in 2019 [2], but Valve already appealed. It will take many years until there’s a final decision.

[1] eurogamer.net/eu-rules-publishers-cannot-stop-you…

[2] tomshardware.com/…/valve-steam-resell-games-ban-f…

Chewy7324,

I try to avoid being in a completely dark room while staring at an LCD because of backlight bleeding. It’s a limit of the technology, so I just turn on a dim light in the other corner of the room and it’s far less noticeable.

Chewy7324,

I’ve set Thunderbird to only use simple html without loading of resources. That should take care of all tracking and exploits, so I don’t think ublock is necessary unless loading images etc. is important.

Chewy7324,

Agreed. PDF Arranger has a great UI like all those apps. Frog and Live Captions are helpful, altough it’d be great if the latter could also translate. Because it only supports english at the moment translations are probably out of scope.

Chewy7324,

I’m so happy I finally ditched Battle.net, since Overwatch is now on Steam. Battle.net through proton and wine often crashed or had other issues.

Chewy7324,

Bcachefs still misses major features, so it’s possible to expect that performance will change over time. Just because bcachefs is upstreamed to Linux doesn’t mean it’s finished.

bcachefs.org/Roadmap/

Chewy7324,

Finally, I might try disabling XWayland once wine wayland ships in proton. The only remaining apps using X11 on my system are electron apps and wine (oh, I forgot Java).

It’s interesting to finally see all the work on wayland coming together. Only a few years ago I still had to switch back to i3 because sway didn’t work well for gaming (no vrr, dmabuf), and now it’s only a few things missing.

Chewy7324,

KDE fixed a lot of Wayland bugs over the last months and especially with the upcoming launch of Plasma 6.0, so I’d give it a try again now or in half a year.

Nvidia also constantly fixes the problems with their Wayland support so it’s only getting better. Debian doesn’t have recent enough packages to have a good KDE Wayland experience.

Gnome Wayland doesn’t support features like vrr/adaptive sync or tearing, so it isn’t a good gaming experience. Otherwise it’s great.

What Tweak, Program, ... changes a Desktop Environment from unusable to great for you?

I have used Linux on and off for 15 years. I consider myself a casual user and stuck to the mainstream DEs (mostly KDE, XFCE and some Cinnamon). Gnome has been a hurdle for me before and after the big version 40 changes, I couldn’t get my head around how they handled the workspaces and workflow. At some point I I tried out an...

Chewy7324,

I really like compositor/wm/DE which allow for keyboard driven movement of windows between workspaces and workspaces between monitors. Especially the latter requirement is only met by a few wms, e.g. sway/i3, hyprland.

I can’t stand it if switching to the next workspace all workspaces on all monitors change. This makes it annoying to use with a second monitor that mostly display the same windows (e.g. messaging, video, docs).

Chewy7324,

I don’t think Gnome, KDE and XFCE support moving workspaces between monitors. They only support moving windows between workspaces and monitors.

Sway/i3 have a single set of workspaces while most DEs have a set for each monitor. On these DEs switching between workspaces applies to all monitors.

New to Linux, have a few questions

I currently use Windows 10 and I’d like to try out Linux. My plan is to set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE tumbleweed and KDE Plasma. I’ve read so many different opinions about choosing a distro, compatibility with gaming and Nvidia drivers, and personal issues with the ethos of different companies like Canonical. I value...

Chewy7324,

If you notice issues with Wayland screen sharing or flatpak file manager not opening, try uninstalling Gnome/KDE. The xdg-desktop-portals for different desktops sometimes don’t work correctly while concurrently installed. If you don’t notice issues, it should work fine.

Chewy7324,

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is an awesome distro with up to date packages. KDE is also a great choice, especially with Plasma 6.0 around the corner.

I wouldn’t worry too much about Nvidia drivers, just follow OpenSUSE’s guide [1]. The remaining issues of Nvidia with KDE Wayland are getting fixed over the coming months.

Edit: OpenSUSE can’t ship some codecs by default for legal reasons (like RedHat, Fedora), but makes it simple to enable them (optionally through graphical YaST) [2].

[1] en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

[2] en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packma…

Chewy7324,

Cal-/CardDAV support in Gnome is awesome. There was no way for me to use the integrated Gnome Calendar.

Chewy7324,

Thanks. Interesting, I didn’t know this was possible.

Is there any way I can make an old XMMS plugin work in any modern player?

Long story short, I learned there is an XMMS release of a plugin I use in Winamp for music playback (mp3PRO). Sadly, I recoded most of my music to mp3PRO back in the day, and now I’m stuck using Winamp, even on Linux. I like the player, wouldn’t change it, but I wanted to switch to something native, like Audacious or Qmms....

Chewy7324,

At some point you’ll have to use a new codec, even if it’s in 10 years. So it might be a good idea to download the music instead of converting.

Soulseek with Nicotine+ seems to be a good way to download music. Or streamrip/deemix with a (temporary) Deezer/Tidal subscription supports high quality audio.

Chewy7324,

Gnome libadwaita apps only change between dark and light mode, which probably can be derived from COSMIC DE’s settings quite easily.

For Qt I’m not sure how it looks by default, but since System76 wants to support multiple toolkits anyway, I guess they’ll have a solution ready.

Chewy7324,

Iirc Gradience punches a hole in the flatpak sandbox for xdg-config/gtk-4.0, which usually is in .config. This makes it work and isn’t a security problem.

Gnome Shell is unaffected because it doesn’t use GTK.

Chewy7324, (edited )

The big advantage for me is that lact runs as a (systemd) daemon. This is more convenient for me than having to autostart CoreCtrl.

A disadvantage of the daemon is that it can’t be packaged on flathub.

Enable and start the service (otherwise you won’t be able to change any settings):
sudo systemctl enable --now lactd
You can now use the GUI to change settings and view information.

LACT has an API over an unix socket.

github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT/blob/…/API.md

Chewy7324,

I have been working on Fly-Pie for more than 3 years now and I am very happy with the result. However, I have always wanted to create a similar application for the desktop in general. This is why I started this project.

Chewy7324,

This project is currently in a very early stage of development. Kando is not yet a functional menu but rather a prototype which demonstrates the feasibility of the concept.

Since Kando is still in early development, it might be a good idea to look at the Gnome Extension Fly-Pie. It’s from the same developer and it looks like Kando will be similar.

Chewy7324,

I’ve not used it yet, but I found bash-completion to be lacking quite often. Completion is one reason I’m using fish atm.

But from the looks of it it’s exactly what bash/zsh is missing for me.

Chewy7324,

I’ve used zsh for it’s support for posix sh and have my config. But I find fish to be faster with the features I want and it has those features ootb.

Maybe I’ll give zsh another try.

Chewy7324,

Any program should have a man page, even if it only lists all options. My point is that a blog post helps some people to learn about a program. For example a post often highlights the most important options of a software.

Chewy7324,

wlroots is a library that can be used to implement a compositor like KWin or mutter (GNOME). In practice wlroots is used in Sway, Hyprland, river, and more.

What wlroots-based compositors, KWin, and mutter share is that they implement a similar set of the display protocol Wayland. E.g. KWin and Sway implement the Wayland extension wlr_layer_shell

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