Fal @ Fal @yiffit.net

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Is the next one going to support inverting the X and Y axis on the controller? Or is it going to be entirely unplayable as well?

Lol ghost guns

What a bat shit insane take. 99.999% or more of guns are not used in crime. And how absolutely fucking ableist of you to assume everyone is physically capable of defending themself in hand to hand combat

I thought it was fine

You have friends?

What?

So water was the cure for COVID all along. Genius

Steam deck runs kde ( in the alternate desktop mode, not the steam launcher mode)

I don't use a touch screen, but plasma definitely has support for it. Maybe https://store.kde.org/p/1321391 too? Not sure, I don't use a touch screen

If you're happy, that's fine. Sounded like you weren't happy though

Likely old kernels or old drivers. I suggest trying opensuse tumbleweed. There really shouldn't be anything more than just installing the drivers. Documented here for suse https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers (you'd follow the Yast guide for doing it in the GUI).

What was your issue with KDE on fedora? It was likely running an old version of stuff.

I wasn't necessarily suggesting arch, especially if you feel that strongly about a graphical installer. IMO it's better, but that's fine. Opensuse is also a rolling distro with a graphical installer and everything you would expect, but it has all the latest tools rather than ancient ones.

And I didn't see where Pop was on 6 month cyles. Their "download" link shows it's based on ubuntu 22.04, which like I said has tools from over a year and a half ago. ONLY security fixes get included in those repos. And if you're using wayland, wayland from 1.5 years ago is very different from today.

I've also noticed some sites displaying totally unrelated videos above their news articles. Extremely weird

Also, a side note, a taskbar is a really sad excuse for a list of things that are running on a computer.

It's a great excuse for a list of active windows though. Which is what you interact with. Having to remember which workspace is on what is the worst.

You could theoretically install KDE on your existing system. I don't know what repos Pop uses though. A quick look shows it's based on Ubuntu 22.04, which is pretty ancient and doesn't even have close to 5.27 yet. I think a lot of the problems people like you switching to linux run into is you're running more unique setups, but trying to run ancient distros. Ubuntu 22.04 is over a year and a half old at this point, and was frozen well before then. So any kernel updates or tool updates for new hardware/software just aren't in your repos. And it's why non-rolling release distros are a horrible choice for desktops IMO.

I would normally suggest using arch, even though I know I'll get shit for suggesting that. It's not the most friendly distro, especially in terms of setup (there's no graphical live environment or installer, though there's now a command line installer that works great). An alternative is opensuse tumbleweed. It's KDE native, and a rolling distro so should have all the latest packages. https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ I've never personally used it, but I've heard good things.

All in all, the choice of distro is almost meaningless. What you're really just deciding is how ancient you want your packages (as well as the package manager). (From arch, which means bleeding edge. To Ubuntu LTS, meaning years old). As well as just some default apps. For example, you could install KDE on your existing Pop OS, but you would get 5.24, which I don't think you'd like, it's quite old at this point. And distros like arch don't even come with a DE, you choose that yourself.

As for nvidia, I've never had to do more than install the proprietary drivers. And on my work machine which is ubuntu (unfortunately) there's an nvidia app that gets installed with the drivers that you can set the "Performance Mode" profile. It fixes some of the tearing, but not all. My 2nd monitor isn't great.

Do you know if you're running X11 or wayland? That's a whole other can of worms, but you might have better luck running whichever one you're not running. Though again if you're running 22.04, your wayland version will be quite old. Which honestly might be a lot of your problem. Wayland is brand new, and there's been a LOT of fixes on it. And the latest versions might totally fix your issues.

Are you using gnome? Gnome is fucking awful with fractional scaling, especially of multiple monitors. So much tearing.

Try KDE, as long as your plasma version is >= 5.27

so it looks like NordVPN connections break my local connection in name resolution? How that’s possible is beyond me and I’m a networking guy

This is call "split tunnel". By default almost all VPNs should default to full tunnel because it's more secure. If windows isn't, it's doing the less secure thing. Someone else gave a nordvpn command, but if that doesn't work "split tunnel" is the keyword to search.

Ok yeah if you only charge to 50%. But that would kill me. I hate stopping. And I do have a long range Y

Alt+tab to switch between apps is normally quicker

Except having to cycle through the apps you have open. And if you have, say, 3 or 4 copies of intellij, seeing which one is which is a pain.

As a tesla owner for several years, I find this hard to believe. 15 minutes at a 250 kw charger doesn't even get you 50%. Even if what you say is accurate, stopping 23 times is extremely annoying. When I dive like that I much prefer to just go straight through with minimal stops rather than have to pull over every hour

No, because that's not valid json

I greatly prefer 1 meal a day