While I am enjoying my time with KDE I've always been more at home in Gnome. Hoping promotion of this from experimental to mainstream and HDR support are fast follows. I'd love to have another viable DE for gaming.
Weirdest damn thing, occasionally my network connectivity was being lost. Not the wifi signal, but just the route to the internet. I finally realized today it happens whenever I do a fresh boot (i.e. first time after system boot) of Heroic Games Launcher....
I am using pihole. I will take a look and see if that is happening and report back.
How did you end up fixing the issue?
EDIT: Checked in on it and this is indeed the issue. Heroic is generating thousands of requests and I assume phile is flood controlling it. Two questions:
How can I confirm pihole is flood controlling it? Found a message confirming the rate limiting under Tools -> Pi-hole diagnosis
Man I really want to see that VRR patch merged in, even if it still takes a flag to turn on.
With KDE having VRR and now HDR it feels like the choice you have to make if you are gaming on Linux. I prefer Gnome generally so I would like to see them catch up.
Like the title says I am trying to understand how these things should work together. Part of my issue is I don't have a good mental model on the Flatpak permissioning / sandbox model. My use case is running a game on Lutris, which is a Flatpack, and using my package install of Mangohud. I am also curious if I should using a...
Yeah chalk this up to me needing to read that manual.
I took the instructions there and replaced the Steam flatpak with Lutris and it worked - though Mangohud is not reading my existing config even though it has access according to Flatseal.
It’s weird to me that Flatpaks cans interact with other Flatpaks but not system packages. I would assume sandboxing would prevent both of those cases.
That's a cool program thanks for the recommendation. However, it's disappointing they don't have CPU temps on it. Actually there are CPU temps, just missed it the first time I was looking at the program.
I would just like to preface this. This is the first blog post I've ever written, so please please please give me feedback if you can. I also didn't intend on it being here on Lemmy, but Hugo is quite a complex tool that'll take some time for me to understand. Webdev is not my cup of tea....
Everyone seems shocked when Arch breaks but it’s been my experience with Arch as well. Literally on an old laptop I was basically using for web browsing I had Arch break several times randomly after updates. That was enough for me to give up on it.
Accusing the poster of astroturfing is extremely toxic and warrants revision on your part.
I haven’t used it personally but I’ve seen a lot of folks bad mouthing Manjaro.
Lots of complaints of instability and it being poorly run project. One of the more objective complaints I’ve read is they have a slower release process so security fixes take longer then Arch.
Using this right now. It’s been a little less stable then I’ve heard other people claim, I had about a day and half where I was consistently freezing up 5 minutes after login. After that was patched it has been fine.
The real test for me is if I can walk away from it for 3 weeks and update the system without the world exploding. That was what always broke Arch for me.
As the title says, I am looking to install both the package version (on OpenSuse Tumbleweed) and Flatpak version. I've been running the package version for awhile and it's been fine but I want to play with the Flatpak version to see how that compares - partially because I may eventually go for an immutable distro....
Since I installed native first I wonder if I can point the flatpak version to that. I actually have no idea where it is but I assume it’s outside of the home directory.
Might make more sense to move it into home like you are saying for more seamless flatpak compatibility.
Follow up, have both the Flatpak version and package steam up and running. Moved my game library to ~/Games/Steam. I added ~/Games/Steam:rw (and later ~/Games/Steam:create) to my Flatpak permissions and tried to install a game that already existed to make Flatpak Steam realize it was there, Steam instead gives me a "Disk Write Error". Did you hit this at all, any idea what it may be?
EDIT: Fix it, or it magically fixed itself. I removed the Steam library and re-added it and that seemed to make it happy.
Devils advocate here, but what makes Ubuntu a great gateway distro nowadays?
When Ubuntu came out it had a graphical installer and UI improvements allowed users to do more without the terminal. I feel like at some point other distros caught up and Unity was the unique selling point. Then canonical became more focused on the server and killed Unity. I am not sure what is the selling point of Ubuntu as a desktop in 2024.
This all comes from my personal experience of Ubuntu being my main distro for 10+ years. But when I started distro hoping I realized there wasn’t much difference between Ubuntu and other distros nowadays.
So it's less the Gnome doesn't support VRR and more that "the wayland compatible desktop compositor that the Gnome project prefers doesn't support VRR"?
Yeah I don’t want to insult the KDE folks but I miss Gnome as well.
It is embarrassing as hell that the Gnome folks haven’t merged that commit after this many years. They also don’t have any concrete steps laid out to the contributors to get it merged. It feels like they just don’t give a shit about section of their community and it’s pretty disrespectful to the original contributor to give them no path forward. End rant.
After trying out Nix as a package manager I realized I have a pretty different world view than the makers of Nix. I agree with the end goal but how they are trying achieve it is just alien to me. The nix command line is just downright user hostile.
I am personally hoping that someone else takes a stab at the Nix concept but have accepted Nix isn’t for me.
Quiet quitting refers to a phenomenon where employees, particularly in the United States, increasingly prioritize work-life balance over excessive workplace engagement. Instead of going above and beyond their job duties, these employees simply fulfill their basic responsibilities and are often reluctant to work overtime.
I don’t know if there is objective definition on quiet quitting but this one feels off and a little gross to me. You can work your agreed upon hours with no overtime and still do an amazing job. This definition paints folks working full time jobs as slackers because they aren’t doing overtime, which in most cases is going to be free overtime.
Refactoring is something that should be constantly done in a code base, for every story. As soon as people get scared about changing things the codebase is on the road to being legacy.
Another place that engineers can over-rely on PM is in project management. Because PMs are most active at the start and end of projects - handing the steering wheel to engineers to execute and picking it back up when code is complete to deliver downstream - there can often be blurriness about how much PMs should be project managing in the middle. The TLDR here is that PMs should not be running all project meetings. Engineering managers, IC project leads, or tech leads need to be managing engineering execution, not PMs.
Strong disagree. This drive by style of product manager is so disconnected from the delivery of the team, that the relationship borders on useless. I know product managers are adverse to doing what they see as project management but this particular style of product management leans too far into abstracting the product manager from the product that they are responsible for.
The best, most productive PMs I’ve worked with are part of the team delivering the software.
Discord clicks are going to game in KDE
Me again!...
Gnome 46 getting VRR ( gitlab.gnome.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/25485365...
Launching Heroic Games Launcher brings down my network
Weirdest damn thing, occasionally my network connectivity was being lost. Not the wifi signal, but just the route to the internet. I finally realized today it happens whenever I do a fresh boot (i.e. first time after system boot) of Heroic Games Launcher....
GNOME 46 is Coming in Hot With These 6 Features ( news.itsfoss.com )
Help using Mangohud / Gamemode with Flatpak version of Lutris and Steam
Like the title says I am trying to understand how these things should work together. Part of my issue is I don't have a good mental model on the Flatpak permissioning / sandbox model. My use case is running a game on Lutris, which is a Flatpack, and using my package install of Mangohud. I am also curious if I should using a...
Recommended tools for monitoring CPU / GPU temps?
Mangohud works really great for this inside a game, but outside of that I am not sure what to turn to check temps at idle....
My experience using Fedora Atomic (Budgie) for a month or two. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
I would just like to preface this. This is the first blog post I've ever written, so please please please give me feedback if you can. I also didn't intend on it being here on Lemmy, but Hugo is quite a complex tool that'll take some time for me to understand. Webdev is not my cup of tea....
Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down?
Which one(s) and why?
Installing Steam from BOTH package and Flathub? Any gotchas?
As the title says, I am looking to install both the package version (on OpenSuse Tumbleweed) and Flatpak version. I've been running the package version for awhile and it's been fine but I want to play with the Flatpak version to see how that compares - partially because I may eventually go for an immutable distro....
Thoughts on Kagi?
I've been using this search engine and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with it....
Switched from Ubuntu to Debian yesterday
Why switch?...
Does it matter that Gnome doesn't support VRR? And why?
Question to help me increase my understanding on what’s going on in the Linux desktop stack. I’ve heard Gnome doesn’t support VRR while KDE does....
Good Nix OS series: five articles for new users. ( feddit.it )
I found these interesting Nix OS articles series for users that want to try it and learn first things, have a good reading!...
Why docker
Hi!...
Friendly reminder
This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system....
Recommended linux variant for gaming.
I’ve been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don’t like the direction they seem to be heading....
Blind Developer Interviews Through Anonymized Remote Pairing - An Experiment ( www.blobstreaming.org )
Psychedelic mushrooms and quiet quitting: Psilocybin use tied to working fewer overtime hours ( www.psypost.org )
What are your programming hot takes?
Prompt: `a cute miniature skeleton in bathing bath tub` ( lemmynsfw.com )
Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux ( almalinux.org )
How To Be An Engineer That PMs Don't Hate ( blog.staysaasy.com )