Minor update on this: I ended up returning the Samsung G80SD since it was being a finicky piece of shit in other ways and got an HP Omen Transcend 32 instead (I know, HP sucks, but I have nothing but good things to say about my HP Omen 27i so I took the chance). Same exact 3rd gen QD-OLED panel but this time it just works™. 240hz, VRR, all good out of the box.
So my point about the monitor is kind of moot, the G80SD just sucks, Linux is fine.
Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7
I tend to avoid Gigabyte, but the only stock of 9800X3Ds available was in motherboard bundles on Newegg, so I ended up with it lol
I also noticed that Bluetooth still isn’t working, so I am still waiting for 100% compatibility.
I game on Linux lol
is it even noticeable beyond 100hz when not gaming
Actually yes, honestly it’s most noticeable when moving your mouse or dragging windows around. It’s insanely smooth.
My old monitor was 165hz and I didn’t expect the jump to be noticeable, but it actually was. It’s definitely well beyond the point of diminishing returns (120 is fine imo), but it’s still a nice upgrade.
For sure, if I was in the market for a laptop, System76, Tuxedo, and (while not exclusively Linux) Framework would be at the top of my list
For general PC hardware though, I’ve always been late to the party. I upgraded to Ryzen 3000 right before 5000 was coming out, so hardware support was already perfect on Linux. That’s basically been my upgrade strategy for the past 10 years, so I’ve personally never really encountered these teething problems before now.
adding in support for end user hardware is an accident and requires extra effort on hardware makers’ part who don’t always rise to the challenge when they don’t believe it’s profitable enough for the effort; in which case, volunteers have to step in to fill the gap.
That’s really the crux of the problem. How can we make companies care and/or better support volunteers to get patches out sooner.
I yearn for Fedora
When CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible.
Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.
That’s easy, just pick btrfs, gnome, pipewire, systemd, gdm, grub, and add flatpak in your additional packages.
Every other configuration is wrong.
Now imagine the same meme but with Gentoo and LFS
Readable on Voyager as well.
EDIT: Not to say it looks good, but it’s readable.
Made in Abyss would be a 10/10 show but it has enough weird shit like this unnecessarily crammed into it that I cannot recommend it to anyone.
From what I’ve heard the anime even toned it down compared to the manga. Considering what made it in, I don’t even want to know what got cut.
I’ve switched from Proton Drive and Calendar to Nextcloud, which is an upgrade.
I’ve switched from Proton Pass to Vaultwarden, which works just as well for me.
I’ve switched from Standard Notes to Memos, which has also been an improvement for me considering my notes needs are pretty basic and Memos fits perfectly.
That leaves Mail, Simple Login, and VPN. I have alternatives lined up with Tuta, addy.io, and Mullvad, but I haven’t pulled the trigger yet. I would be paying more than I am now with Proton (2 year plan) and it would be a massive pain to switch email providers.
I’m considering staying with Proton for only those services, but on thin ice. If they fuck up again, I’m absolutely out.
I may end up switching anyway however. This situation has left a bad taste in my mouth, and if I have the motivation and time to deal with migrating one day in the near future, I might just do it regardless. We’ll see.
Pop_OS has fallen behind on updates over the past couple years with their development team focused on their Cosmic DE. I’m sure it’ll catch up later, but Pop definitely isn’t in a state I could recommend to anyone right now.
Mint is a very solid choice, but just to throw another idea out there if you’re interested in out of the box Nvidia drivers, I’ve heard good things about Nobara. You can kind of think of it being to Fedora what Pop_OS was to Ubuntu. A solid base with some of the more finicky packages preinstalled.
Nice, waiting paid off. I’m actually interested in picking up the new God of War and Horizon games now.
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It’s always a gamble
One place will have “ultimate spicy ghost pepper death sauce, you will literally die” and it’s mild as fuck
And then you go to the local Thai place down the road, and the 3/5 star heat level will absolutely kick your ass
Fedora/dnf makes installing additional desktops super easy, also with no risk to data. To hijack your comment a bit:
To install Plasma: sudo dnf install @kde-desktop
Logout and log into the Plasma session to use it.
To rollback, get the transaction ID of the above: dnf history list
And then rollback: sudo dnf history rollback <ID>
If Gnome’s fonts/icons don’t revert, install and open gnome-tweaks and reset settings.
real impact frame from that scene