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[–] million@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

How the hell do you forget you have child in a car? That has to be a drug situation or some kind of mental impairment.

[–] million@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Interesting - is that kernel level thing? Could other distros use that on the right hardware or is too much to maintain multiple kernels that are that hardware specific?

[–] million@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What is clear doing that is unique and what are the trade offs?

Why isn’t this mainstreamed into other distros?

[–] million@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The auto shop in my hometown had a sign that said “pumpkin spice oil change”

I appreciate the humor of the random mechanic that thought that was a hoot

[–] million@lemmy.world 79 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What the fucking fuck is this? Websites are comically bad now.

[–] million@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s had a few security issues in the past and last I heard they introduce a lag between packages going into the arch repos and things being available in Manjaro - even for critical security updates.

[–] million@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bummer - sucks to lose a good server

[–] million@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you are dehydrated from an illness typically something Gatorade or water with a bit of salt in it will help you hydrate better then just water.

[–] million@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What happened? Did the instance maintainer just get sick of running it?

[–] million@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I don’t believe those products have native Linux versions. You would need to run them from a compatibility layer. To be honest nothing on my desktop has needed that so not too familiar with the best way to do that.

[–] million@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am trying to dance around Linux distro concepts that are probably not super beginner friendly, so my descriptions might have been obtuse, but yes you can generally do anything on any distro.

Bazzite is a immutable distro, which gives you certian advantages, but makes it harder to accommodate some use cases. In general, if the software you want is on https://flathub.org/ you are golden.

[–] million@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

Desktop mode on the Steam Deck is using KDE Plasma. You can use that on the vast majority of Linux distros.

Here is a few the spring to mind:

  • Bazzite - A good place to start, their project goal is to basically be SteamOS like experience you can put on any machine.
  • Fedora Workstation with KDE - Bazzite is based off of this project, it's a more general experiance, lots of people enjoy it.
  • Kubuntu - Ubuntu is very popular distro, this is their KDE version.
  • OpenSuse Tumbleweed - For folks who want the most up to date software possible.
 

I was recently lucky enough to buy an OLED monitor and it's great. What is not so great is the amount of flickering I get in Gnome now when I have the experimental VRR setting enabled.

Now all OLED monitors have a certain amount of VRR flicker, but I am comparing it to my Windows duel boot and it's absolutely terrible under Gnome, like just a noticeable increase in the amount of flicker under both games and the desktop versus Windows. The only way I get Windows to flicker as much on the desktop is if I turn on "dynamic refresh rate", which kind of appears to be what Gnome is doing all the time. I can turn on the refresh rate panel on my monitor and Gnome can fluctuate all over the place, even on the desktop, whereas Windows is steady at max refresh (again one I turn off dynamic refresh rate, which is a separate setting then VRR).

For games the flicker is way worse using proton under Wayland (which GE supports). Hunt Showdown - which I play a lot, looks incredibly flickery when vsync and Wayland are turned on, it basically has a strobing effect.

Anyone else seen this in action? Any suggestions for a fix? Should I swap over to KDE for a bit until Gnome gets this straightened out or will Plasma have the same problems?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by million@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
 

As the title asks, how does one actually use HDR for games after upgrading to Plasma 6?

This was the feature I was most excited about, and I can hit the HDR button on my display configuration and it looks like the desktop is going into HDR mode, but so far I have had zero luck enabling the HDR feature in games. Every game I've tried had the HDR toggle disabled with no way to enable it.

I am running these games under Proton and I've tried both 8-GE and 9 Beta. Any tips?

Edit: probably important to note that I am using an AMD GPU under Wayland

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