Mactan @ mactan @lemmy.ml

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please please please avoid an LTS (long term support) distro for desktop use, especially if gaming. this includes Linux mint which is based on Ubuntu LTS. the packages are painfully old and cause problems playing the latest games, particularly where they don't work out of the box with lutris/proton/wine etc. LTS is great for servers and workstations but not end users

experienced users can make any distro work including LTS but it's extra overhead for new folks

there was some interest in my lug with the different schedulers but attempts at benchmarking all fell within margin of error from our lay attempts at measuring

classic gnome moment

classic gnome moment

nix is like the i3 of package managers. does it work sure but you'll spend your 80% of your time learning code and configuration to make your sick packaging rice /sarcasm

I have no doubt in my mind that there's some subset of the suckless crowd that thinks dns is bloat

exciting to see a little bit more wine Wayland in each of these so far

a community for it makes sense to me, gives a lot of flexibility for filtering to relevant categories, keywords and such, without fear of causing noise/clutter, and that still leaves the door open to cross posting to specific communities too where it makes sense

as a root user you can move files around no problem, I'm sure there's desktop environment hopping articles to refer to, deleting is pretty straightforward too. for my case when I added i3 and hyprland I just tried flipping between the different desktops on a new user to see if anything broke before doing it on my main account, just something I have a habit of doing after some old mishaps

if you're trying out one or more than one DE I suggest making a new user for it, I've accidently messed up my dotfiles more times while DE hopping than I'd like to recall

32bit*

not necessarily about the language, but things periodically getting rewritten or re-implemented is a useful exercise. it's a moment for reflection and analysis of the structures and systems as a whole

not flawless but barely noticeable that it's there. only time I've ever had issues was with cursor warping in one game

philanthropy is the industry of laundering money and reputations

wine Wayland driver

:3

I toggle off my compositor and it makes Warframe much smoother (kde has a default keybinding for it I think)

you can try... to very mixed results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-xugXfSGM

windows can and will destroy your bootloader at least once, show it no mercy

I always refer people to that video when they're confused about DXVK