Peasley @ Peasley @lemmy.world

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Couldn't finish it: too much whining, not enough substance.

I haven't tried hyprland yet but if this is the guy developing it than maybe I'm good.

Cosmic seems promising. Best of luck to system76, happy to see an alternative opinionated desktop getting some momentum.

Thanks for the tip!

I don't know what those are, but I'll look them up.

The linux dependency thing was "Freedom Planet" , an indie retro sonic clone. Trying to use the linux version through GOG, it took me several minutes to figure out and manually install dependencies (which will remain if I remove the game) and even then I couldn't get sound working.

I shoved the windows binary into steam/proton and it worked like a charm

Sure does, though I hope it keeps improving steadily. I've been donating to their patreon almost as long as it's existed.

For me, Lutris works about 50% of the time with no hassle. The other 50% of the time I get an error during installation that I can't figure out, and I end up using steam or giving up.

Recently it was Diablo 1 that I couldn't get working on Lutris, but got working pretty quickly with steam

Works with windows games but not linux native binaries.

So yes, that's exactly what I do for games that I own on GOG but not steam. I actually try lutris first, then steam if it doesn't work.

I've given up on GOG. No linux client means the whole process of installing/launching games is rather tedious. Also linux game dependencies can be annoying to resolve

Steam on the other hand just handles everything. If it doesn't work at first, it probably will with proton.

I'd love to support an anti-DRM store, but it's tough when there is so much friction when actually playing the games

I had no issues with compatibility, just made sure to save documents to older microsoft office formats in the hopes of avoiding issues.

I never had to use an exam browser or anything like that, I'd imagine you'd want to have a polite conversation with the instructor if that were to occur, perhaps they can make an exception or allow you to do it on a library computer

Collaboration was always over google docs, so there were never any problems working with others. My CS classes were all expected to be done in Linux VMs so that was sort of ideal. Other science/humanities classes were totally software-agnostic.

RAID 5/6 aren't yet recommended for general use on BTRFS by the developers.

Other than that I agree it should be suitable for anything, and an improvement over ext4 in some situations.

If you don't know what RAID 5/6 is you are good.

I guess I'm smart enough to install opensuse, but dumb enough that I somehow got slow pacman.

I kid you not, on my hardware zypper is the fastest between ubuntu apt, fedora dnf, and arch pacman. dnf was the second-fastest on my hardware, with apt and pacman being pretty sluggish

I've also used portage which was even slower, but probably not a fair comparison considering how much more complex it is.

One of the best apps on any platform

Wow I must be doing something wrong, zypper has always been faster for me than pacman, both on my newer desktop and my older laptop

Somebody has never used opensuse. Zypper is an amazing package manager, one of the best on any distro.

It can handle flatpacks, native packages, and packages from the opensuse build system, keeping everything updated and organized.

Pacman is very basic by comparison, and a lot slower too in my experience.

I remember a showstopper a while back being that you can't resize the title bar while shaded. That's already the current behavior on x11, so I would be fine with that caveat continuing if it meant wayland support.

On KDE Plasma, my only outstanding bug is that the "window shade" button on my window controls is broken. Too bad since I use that feature a lot.

On GNOME everything seems to work as far as I can tell. It's pretty smooth!

Nice job! If you can get the nvidia driver installed properly, any distro should work in theory.

On Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/nvidia-drivers-installation

On Fedora: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht511074-enabling-nvidia-proprietary-drivers-on-fedora-linux

On Pop!_OS it should be already installed by default

I've been hearing good things about Nobara, Ill have to try it out!

LTS kernels aren't more or less stable. Rather, they have been selected by the kernel maintainers to get security fixes backported to them for a certain time.

Ubuntu does the same thing for the kernels on their LTS versions (technically they usually are not LTS kernels since canonical supports them instead of kernel team)

Overall I'd suggest going with what the distro provides unless you have very new hardware, in which case a newer kernel may be required

Stardew Valley is a very relaxing and fun game where you start a farm in a small town. It has also has optional multiplayer. I found it very addictive.

Just saw your edit. One thing you should be doing is taking ownership of directories you plan to be working in. So for an external drive for example, you'd want to make sure your user(s) have r/w/x permission recursively (granting permission for all files and folders underneath using the same command) on the root folder of the drive then you can move stuff on and off freely.

I agree it could be more straightforward, but ideally you'd only have to do it one time when you first use the drive with that machine

What's the use case? What are you running into that you want to launch as sudo through the gui that isn't pulling up the dialogue automatically?

A few folks have argued this is unnecessary, but I'm curious about your perspective on why and when you think it would be useful