Spectranox @ UmbraTemporis @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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When my DE, Budgie, supports it. I'm not too bothered about using it, with a beast monitor and a high-end PC I hardly notice the X.Org quirks.

I'll take it as when Budgie is ready to ship a full Wayland-only experience, I'll be ready to use one.

Like my auto-installed Copilot doesn't launch?

Oh no!

For some context, I've got a Windows install that I primarily keep around for VR gaming which I remove Edge from. That Copilot thing is the only "issue" I've noticed.

Microsoft thinks it's uninstalling Edge.

Packing games for fellow shipmates.

Supernatural spirit from an alternate reality hell-bent on destroying video game monopolies.

That's what I've done, using rclone bisync and my crontab. Like I said it works well enough, but far from perfect. Using a beta backend with an experimental operation, according to the rclone website, puts me slightly on-edge.

I did try Celeste, but stopped using it for two reasons:

• I use Budgie, so Libadwaita apps look incredibly out-of-place. Inconsistency like that makes me physically uncomfortable.
• Didn't really work, just too slow.

I would too, but after like a week I get bored of maintaining it myself when all the expenses summed together aren't much cheaper than Proton or likewise. This is what I was doing before submitting my independence to Proton.

Furthermore Nextcloud is just too damn sluggish. The web interface makes it seem like my server's idea of a CPU is a kid with a calculator and WebDAV isn't designed for cloud storage. I'll take new features being slow over my whole experience being even slower any day of the week.

Proton Drive though 😭. The Windows app is so nice, wish we could get that for Linux.

I've set up an Rclone for the time being, not great but it works well enough for basic bisynchronisation.

In my experience, theming KDE Plasma is an absolute no-go. Not only do the themes themselves just look off, but the desktop feels so much clunkier. Themes also ruin consistency on Plasma, making certain windows look like patchwork.

On the other hand, Breeze (Plasma's default theme) does grow on you. It's like Plasma has some weird spell about it, once it even caused me to prefer light mode! Gah :O

Somewhat unrelated, but by the sounds of it gaming is a focus for you considering the DE jump. I've had the best gaming experience on a distro called Nobara, I think they started shipping Plasma by default for the same reasons you switched. Could be worth taking a look at, if you aren't familiar with it. Obviously it's a perfectly good day-to-day distro too, it's based off Fedora and follows their release schedule closely.

I'm gonna guess ByteDance also wants to enter the AI "art" field.

If you're frequently distro-hopping, I recommend using a seperate /home partition. I did that before I settled down, I can't begin to describe how convenient it was (especially if you use Flatpak).

That's the idea! :D Clean, boring, professional without sacrificing information.

Mine, Fedora Atomic Budgie. Materia GTK Theme. Intended to keep the focus on my windows rather than my desktop or theme.

XFCE-Terminal. Small, lightweight, Wayland if you use it and plenty of config without cryptic dotfiles.

Plus popularity due to it being the XFCE default and contributed towards by the XFCE team.

Accidentally put my comment as a reply to yours, sorry :>

So do I, but I understand why they're holding off.

The entire Steam Deck user experience is directly correlated to Proton's stability and reliability, so they're probably waiting for almost-complete Wayland support. I'd be pretty pissed if I bought a console and my games didn't launch OOB, even if I know how that console works under-the-hood.

Imagine how someone who doesn't know Linux would feel.

Yeah, the unicode blocks.

I could, but like I said in my other reply btop is just a bit overkill for my use-case. Also "fixes" like that just seem a bit hacky, and as if I'm trying too hard to use a program. I shouldn't have to disguise one program as another to be able to use it. That just spells it out plain and clear to me, "I don't need this program".

I find htop to be far more legible, the white blocks of top aren't for me. btop just seems a bit too much for my use, so I never caught on to it. I do believe btop to be better however, since the point of these programs is to see detailed statistics about your system and running programs. btop shoves a lot more information into your face. I really only open htop to find the PID of an app or to find what I need to debloat when I'm in a 1337 h4ck3rm4n mood and trying to make the most minimal system possible.

I tend to go with htop purely out of habit. btop is better but I simply don't think to use it.