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azvasKvklenko,

Is it though gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

azvasKvklenko,

Desktop Linux is in its never-ending process of replacing old displaying system with new one. The process is long and not really transparent, because the two displaying systems were designed in completely different times for different hardware and with different security concerns in mind, therefore the X11 clients (all the software that was ever made or ported to Linux) are very much incompatible with Wayland. For backwards compatibility there’s Xwayland, which provides full blown Xorg server running on top of Wayland compositor with all the things X11 app requires. Until now, Firefox, even though had its Wayland backend as WIP feature (possible to activate with environment variable MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1) it defaulted to Xwayland on Wayland sessions. It now uses native Wayland backend by default providing better efficiency, DPI scaling, touchpad gestures etc

azvasKvklenko,

Here’s what works for me: I run Lutris (flatpak), pick up Epic Games on the left panel, proceed with login in Lutris. Once logged in, I pick up a game and hit install. When running for the first time it will install EGS. Proceed with the installation, launch and login in the EGS if it’s first launch. Install the game choosen in Lutris in EGS, then close EGS and Lutris should figure out that the game is now installed. You can test it from there, but you can now add your games to Steam from Lutris by right-clicking them. If adding games from Lutris doesn’t work, it might be problem with Flatpak permissions. I use Flatseal (available on Flathub just like Lutris) to edit them. Lutris must be able to write in ./local/share/Steam and if I remember correctly by default the path was added, but with the :ro flag that I deleted.

azvasKvklenko,

Yes but I experienced periodical logouts from Epic sadly

azvasKvklenko,

A month or two ago. I saw notes in changelog that supposedly it should be fixed, but it kept happening. I might revisit in the future

azvasKvklenko,

Sadly he didn’t clarify why it’s the Linux being problem here. If there are any technical obstacles, why can’t he say something’s too broken on the Linux side of things so that community or Valve could fix it?

azvasKvklenko,

A carpet

azvasKvklenko,

Dear Valve, stop telling me what to do. And no, I won’t wear a hat on a windy day either

azvasKvklenko,

More Wayland adoption, more protocols and desktop portals, color management and HDR getting closer, even better gaming

NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?

azvasKvklenko,

It’s not a revolution, but theres a ton of small features and quality of life improvements, but the big improvement is much more mature Wayland session with improved DPI scaling (fractional scaling), kwin crash recovery (robustness), improved latency in games, smoother cursor, UX improvements (I’m really happy they simplified some of historical UI clusterfucks), floating panel with intelihide and a whole lot more.

azvasKvklenko,

Gosh, NVIDIA literally pays just one guy to do the entire Linux support

Is linux good for someone tech illererate.

Now i’ve been considering moving to linux. I don’t have much of a history using a computer and find it tougher to use than my phone. But I also really appreciate the foss movement. I’ve currently got an old laptop running windows 11 I think and it would prolly speed up with linux too. But I’m afraid I’d fuck smth up...

azvasKvklenko,

Even if you wanted to game casually, getting Steam and games running is straightforward these days. You just need to enable Steam Play for all titles in settings.

azvasKvklenko,

Kdenlive is preety good now

azvasKvklenko,

That depends which DLSS. In my testing DLSS 1 and 2 work fine in games that I tried, with recent Proton enabling it as well as ray tracing shouldnt require extra steps anymore (it was experimental and opt-in using environment variables). DLSS 3 with frame generation is known as no go yet and it’s unfortunately on NVIDIA to provide support for it as it’s very much locked down guarded proprietary stuff.

azvasKvklenko,

Vanilla Arch Linux, AirPods work better than on Android (which was super unreliable), but I also don’t care about automatic profile switching as I actually prefer to switch manually to whatever I need at the given moment.

azvasKvklenko,

Curiosity. I was in primary school in mid 2000’s looking forward to learn more about computers. I only had access to the internet in school but whenever I could freely use it, I mostly spent time reading about history of software and hardware. By the time I received my first PC, which was slightly outdated (late 90’s), but overall fun. The only thing I knew was different versions of Windows and question on alternatives appeared naturally - I was wondering if that’s the only OS that can be used with the hardware. Around 2005 I was conscious of Linux existence, not really sure what it is and how is it possible that it’s free. I didn’t try anything until year later when I ordered free Ubuntu 6.06 CD, but it didn’t play nicely on 128MB of RAM. I managed to make it work anyway by creating a swap partition, however without internet connection there wasn’t that much of use. It wasn’t until 2007 when I finally got in house ADSL and upgraded the PC. Soon after I tried newer version of Ubuntu, struggled to make internet work on it (over tiny little ADSL USB modem that wasn’t well supported yet) but eventually succeeded. Fast forward 16 years later I still daily drive Linux and now work as a Linux admin.

azvasKvklenko,

Wouldn’t be shock for me if it existed. You can definitely do that in rEFInd though

azvasKvklenko,

Not going to happen until NVIDIA proprietary drivers work well in Wayland

azvasKvklenko,

Yes, I tested it. Some issues were fixed, but it’s far from being complete

azvasKvklenko,

From the issues that I encountered:

plasmashel has some artifacts leaving traces after cursor move when blur is enabled (as default)

plasmashell sometimes freezes

Weird frame sync glitches (past frames cross with more recent ones). happens on any compositor when framerate goes below refresh rate

azvasKvklenko,

Don’t hold your breath just yet, it’s a step in the right direction but it’s far from being fully Wayland ready. I think the driver will only be fully ready some time after explicit sync protocol lands in Wayland (see gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/…/90)

OLED Steam Deck Announced, Pre-Orders Begin 16 November @ 10 AM PST (store.steampowered.com)

64/512GB LCD models are being phased out and are permanently on discount until sold out. Seems the 256GB LCD will remain while 512GB/1TB OLED are the other new SKUs. There is also an extremely limited limited edition 1 TB OLED that has a new color way, exclusive to the US and Canada.

azvasKvklenko,

I’d love the new screen, smaller bezels, cooler, quieter, longer lasting deck, but I just bought mine 6 months ago. I’m jealous, but fine otherwise… Ill enjoy the full upgrade in 2~3 years I guess

azvasKvklenko,

They’re pretty clear on that: nope. Maaaybe some 3rd party will come up with something

azvasKvklenko,

That’s deserved, Christmas trees suck

azvasKvklenko,

“It was a man actually”

azvasKvklenko,

I don’t think so. This lets you run entire desktop on Xwayland, can’t see how would that help. Problems with no mixed DPI on Xwayland is due to no mixed DPI on X in general. Currently some compositors work around the issue by letting apps use the native resolution and scale how they want, but by adding mixed DPIs will cause all sorts of issues anyway.

azvasKvklenko,

Death Metal

azvasKvklenko,

Most likely you’d spread some diseases that we’re all immune. You wouldn’t even explain how did you get there and that you’re not a heretic due to the language barrier, so probably end up burned alive or something.

azvasKvklenko,

I would straight up refuse job if it forced me to use Windows, however I mostly do server/cloud/dev so it just makes sense.

azvasKvklenko,

Deck is great value, and as a general purpose PC it’s more than capable, but the main focus should be on how are you going to use it. Laptop has the benefit of being one piece thing that you can grab on a public transportation or any other place and you get access to your usual PC stuff with full blown keyboard. If you need to finish your essay before arrival, you can do so. However, if you want a laptop to game on, it will be either chunky (which defeats the portability argument) or expensive. Also, while having Deck, you can still access your notes, scans, books etc everywhere from the comfort of Deck’s gamepad.

azvasKvklenko,

Most of such packages, be it deb rpm or really whatever, have their AUR entry, install and run fine on Arch.

azvasKvklenko,

It’s not for everyone, but calling it shit just because it doesn’t work easily for your liking is
a bit much since it’s still usable to some. I beat plethora of shooters on gyro and it wasn’t that much harder than playing on mouse once I got used to it.

azvasKvklenko,

I’m blue, da ba dee da ba di

azvasKvklenko,

The classic way of using Wine is as simple as running any Windows binary using Wine program loader. If you’ve got Wine installed, you can likely just “Open with” in the Dolphin explorer, or simply wine program.exe in terminal. That is not a good idea however, because you just have a single Wine prefix (which by default is in ~/.wine and is controllable with env variable WINEPREFIX`) and also you will likely miss at least some dependencies for your game.

Dependencies required for launching a game will be different depending on what that game was built with in what period. If the game uses Vulkan or OpenGL natively, you don’t need any translators, but it still might need .NET Runtime, VC Redistributables, some other Windows libraries that are not (and cannot be due to legality) shipped with stock Wine. If it’s DX 9/10/11 game, you need DXVK. if it’s DX12 you nees VKD3D-Proton. You can install these using Winetricks.

To automate and ease all of that, I recommend Bottles. The app is focused on providing you with generic way to run Windows software instead of collecting scripts, it manages prefixes, install most needed dependences automatically and provide a way to manually install everything else.

I think this is also a good idea to mess with native way pf running things with Wine if you just want to learn more on how it works.

azvasKvklenko,

While creating a Bottle, you choose a profile for “Application” or “Gaming”. It then createa a prefix with most common dependencies for that purpose. It might not install all you need though, but it has menu to install whatever you need manually within few clicks.

azvasKvklenko,

Cannot relate to that. I modify the crap out of my Arch install and keep it in perfect condition all the time.

iPod management software for linux?

Is there any decent iPod management software for linux available? I have a 6th generation iPod that I use only for music and it’s really the last thing that I keep my windows partition around for. The more I use linux, the more unintuitive iTunes feels. I had tried GTKPod in the past and one other, but they didn’t support...

azvasKvklenko,

There used to be the gtkpod project, but it’s now probably unmaintained. Might be useful though

[RESOLVED] Strange Proton Crash with Starfield after 135 hours of playing (AMD/Mesa)

EDIT: This has been fixed, it all mostly chalked up to possibly a driver / kernel bug. Why things managed to work so well for so long, who can say? Anyway all you need to do is upgrade your Linux kernel to 6.5.x, and your Mesa driver to the latest Mesa git....

azvasKvklenko,

Going back to login screen is concerning at the very least, like it wasn’t your game crashing, but the Xserver or Plasma, which could potentially be a kernel bug (with amdgpu) or Mesa, or Xorg…

Try to gather some logs as it happens. See if it’s kernel/amdgpu thing


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo dmesg
</span>

See if it’s something in user space crashing (plasma session? Xorg?)


<span style="color:#323232;">journalctl -b # then press capital G to jump to the end of logs
</span>

I’d try to:

  • trying the Plasma Wayland session to see if it’s not Xorg (should be straightforward given that you’re on AMD/RDNA2).
  • revert back to stock kernel
  • trying mainline kernel 6.5
  • revert to stock Mesa
azvasKvklenko,

I used to work on a tech support hotline for a ISP 10 years ago and that was the usual thing.

  • My shit’s slow
  • Ok, I see you’ve got perfect parameters for your ADSL, I just logged into your router, trying out download… and upload… It works exactly as it should, so maybe your WiFi? Could you connect a wire?
  • Plz come fix asap, TECHNICIAN VISIT WHEN??!!

If the WiFi sucked on router provided as part of the service then sure, I could send a technician, but usually the router only had one ethernet port.

azvasKvklenko,

Close, it’s X11/Xorg

Should I give Arch a shot?

I’ve been using Linux as my main OS for a couple of years now, first on a slightly older Dell Inspiron 15. Last year I upgraded to an Inspiron 15 7510 with i7-11800H and RTX3050. Since purchasing this laptop I’ve used Manjaro, Debian 11, Pop OS, Void Linux, Fedora Silverblue (37 & 38) and now Debian 12. I need to reinstall...

azvasKvklenko,

Arch is what stopped distro-hopping for me. Well, mostly. Sometimes I try some distros on separate install just out of curiosity.

If you use Linux for couple of years, there shouldn’t be too many obstacles. Just read through the Wiki carefully and you’ll be good.

As for reliability, I’d say Arch is fairly reliable for my 10+ years experience with it (apart from my-fault breakages, I remember something unexpected happening maybe 3 times in all that period), but if you want to secure your butt in mission critical situations then 1) don’t yolo upgrade your OS if there’s anything important at the moment. Find the right time for it 2) setup a snapshotting solution to have that quick rollback ability. And it’s not just about Arch, I’d say the same for every distro (maybe apart from immutable ones).

Other than that, remember to have fun!

azvasKvklenko,

funnily enough when that happened I didn’t realize as I was on systemd-boot 😅

azvasKvklenko,

SteamOS 3.5 when?

azvasKvklenko,

They just whitelist few of the “supported”, operating systems. The message says what your OS is because it blindly read that from the UA.

azvasKvklenko,

NixOS seens to tick all the boxes

azvasKvklenko,

What a gentle cat, didn’t take the entire thing, but only an edge

Looking to switch distros (kbin.social)

Hi, sorry if this isn't the right place for this question. I've been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for about 9 months now and have also been experimenting with an Ubuntu GNOME Wayland session for the past month or so. I don't really like distro-hopping, but using X11 isn't cutting it for me. After giving GNOME an honest shot, I...

azvasKvklenko,

Different people have different opinions, but trust me - if you keep your setup simple (and it’s possible to have all the goods you need without much complexity), it can be really robust. In fact, I had much worse time trying to debug Debian-based distros, as they’re much more complex and hard to understand. If you need additional security for your install if it’s critical, consider setting up snapshots.

Is there a proper way to use several DE's on one distro or is it not advised?

I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there’s a safe way to use several DE’s on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I’ve tried it several times and it always messed things up. I’m currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot

azvasKvklenko,

I think it was PureOS or some other distros that allowed to run DEs in containers, but I never tried this. It all boils down to the dotfiles in your home. I used to jump between DEs on the same install and it was perfectly viable, just required a little manual work.

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