amenotef @ amenotef @lemmy.world

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I agree and actually if the commercial areas of the cities become more residencial. In my experience they become safer because some massive commercial areas when the sun goes down they are not nice to walk.

Having an RX 6800, I'm really satisfied with it it when I boot Linux. So far it didn't let me down.

Thanks for sharing. I have an RX 6800 and Ubuntu 23.04

• To be honest the only thing I'm missing from the Control Panel (a thing that I always enable in all games) is "RIS" (Radeon Image Sharpening).
• Control+Shift+O: I replaced it by running "Mangohud"
• Radeon Chill (to cap FPS a bit below my max refresh rate, example 141 fps limit): I replaced it with "Mangohud"
• FreeSync: Well I just have to enable it and run Gnome in Xorg on the logon screen... (instead of Ubuntu wayland).
• Overclock: I'm not doing in Linux because I don't run super heavy AAA like Warzone 2.0. But I have tried CoreCtrl and seems to work. (After enabling OC flag for amd).
• Quick monitoring outside games: "Mission Center" I just installed and it's very similar to W11 task manager in terms of monitoring.
• ROCM: it was a pain in the ass to install. I installed some package that enables opencl / rocm while leaving the linux AMDGPU driver. But then it was still not working, and spend days until I finally discovered that I had to add my user to some groups "render" and "video", something like that. Now I've been using it with CUDA apps like SDXL (in python) and it's working like a charm.

That being said. My main os is W11. If I'm playing a game where my PC is overkill, I stay on Ubuntu (example Monster Hunter Rise or Elden Ring). If I'm playing a game where I need more fps, I go to windows 11 because there is still some % drop by using Proton/Wine etc. Sometimes 20% sometimes 10%. depends. Basically, If the game gives me < 100 FPS in Windows. I stay on Windows. But I don't prefer W11 for gaming because of the Adrenaline drivers. I just prefer it when the performance gap is considerable in games where my hardware is limited.

What were you missing? Just curious.

On the bright side in Linux we have ROCM. In windows they still haven't released it.

These are my list of changes. I still don't use it full-time but I use it outside working hours. I use Ubuntu 23.04 and I dual boot with windows 11:

Install gnome extensions and “dash to panel”

Install Chrome from google site (.deb package)

Same for Steam

Install mangohud sudo apt install mangohud Source: https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud#debian-ubuntu

Disable Intel Bluetooth device so the realtek one is the only one. (Now there is a new option to also disable Intel Wifi adapter in the same word~ document).

Change default display for “Lockscreen”

Change the local time ( timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock enabled RTC in local time.

For Ryujinx I added this “vm.max_map_count=524288” to /etc/sysctl.conf because it was saying it fixes a crash with TOTK

Disk Performance (System hanging with encryption on the SSD): Disabled the ‘no-read-workqueue" and "no-write-workqueue" sudo gedit /etc/crypttab Added "discard" "no-read-workqueue" and "no-write-workqueue" at the end of the string.Looks like this: dm_crypt-0 UUID=4170cddc-59a8-4f4e-afdb-125f70004fef none luks,discard,no-read-workqueue,no-write-workqueue sudo update-initramfs -u -k all sudo reboot

Enable OC en AMD card (Source: https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/increase-power-on-amd-gpus/) sudo gedit /etc/default/grub Somewhere in that file should be a GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= line, followed by a pair of quotation marks. In my case it looks like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" We add amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff at the end. Example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff" Sudo update-grub

Install codec bluetooth AAC for Pixel Buds (codec is lighter than SBC-XQ)

Be sure that bluetooth dongle MPOW is on USB2 and no USB3 which causes interferences (at least in Linux I can suffer it, but not in Windows).

Do the tutorial to make BT devices to work with “Dual Boot” between Ubuntu and W11 without needing to re-pair them everytime (for dualsense and pixelbuds).

Enable AMD ROCM (used to run apps like SDXL).

Also sucks because, since they don't update the software. Then they develop always on the recent or latest hardware (which requires less optimizations) and we end up always stuck in terms of performance and battery life.

For these long dialogues my favorite Doctor.

I can't remember much of it. But I was using it everyday.

This is mainly an issue in countries that still use SMS as main IM platform.

In most countries (where mobile internet coverage is good) the main IM and VoIP platform is an app like WhatsApp and similars.

(The only thing I hate from WhatsApp is that is from Meta and as any Meta app it abuses background usage. I'd replace it with another app but all my friends, colleagues, even shops use it)

I do use Reddit (maybe in the future will start using Lemmy) as a suffix for my searches. But not sure if it counts as one of these searches.

This is true but there are some exceptions like Fromsoftware games, Monster Hunter.

You've become the post!

I sometimes want to do it on my old devices like the Pixel 4 at home. But they are daily used.

And then sometimes I'm tempted in finding out what mods are there. For example in the Pixels you can change the background usage to "Restricted" but you can't change to "Denied" (so app can't do anything in background). And I understand some devices have this functionality. I think Samsung has it. (Restricted doesn't do shit with some apps like Instagram and TikTok).

You can still install LineageOS and probably get even more standby battery life (because I bet their build is more clean than Google's. Google and Pixel launcher together are taking 7% of my battery life with more than a day of background usage).

However the issue for me is that I like to keep the bootloader closed in case my phone is stolen. And I think with LineageOS they don't recommend doing that. So this is one of the reasons I never tried to install it in my wife's pixel 4.

The other reason is the time to restore all the apps, backup, check if the esim is still there and not deleted (it's a pita to get a new esim with my carrier) and all that kind of stuff.

I taught to 2-3 naughty friends how to wipe something in the C:\ drive, some windows folder or something like that, and they did it in some Pentium PCs.

The teachers started looking PC by PC without knowing wtf was going on in the middle of the class.

They spent a few afternoon doing kind of community work at the college as punishment.

Performance is MUCH better now (Reversed List). Maybe it is already "Perfect" but need to keep using the app.

I did some soft scrolling test (lot of light scrolling barely touching the touchscreen) and I couldn't find micro stuttering. (at least not the obvious one!).

I have a doubt: why does "Profile HWUI rendering" (android developer's setting) doesn't show any info when scrolling? Is this because GPU rendering is not used?

Device: Pixel 5

Fromsoftware games and Monster Hunter games

I play on Linux from time to time. (With my desktop which has AMD hardware and with the steam deck)

Desktop performance in Linux for me is like 80-90% of windows performance on AAA games that are DX12 based. So if the hardware is overkill for the game, I play it on Linux. If the hardware is not enough (for 1440p 144 FPS my limit), I play it on windows.

I mostly use it when:

• I need 2 or more rooms.
• I need an apartment for a week or so.

But I never used it as a replacement of a regular hotel double room.

In my case it's like sitting to discuss on a table with 10 people versus 300 where noise is much bigger.