For the linux users

[fender jag]

What's your opinion on hyprland? Been using it for a few months now, and I think it's pretty good.

[Tonepoet]

Haven't tried it. I just use kubuntu with the compositor turned off because I noticed a couple of tests conducted a few years apart which show that K.D.E. Plasma with the compositor off is one of the better performing desktop environments for games.

That and I've been using computers since Mac O.S. 7.5, so I'm not particularly concerned about any G.U.I features much more advanced than what was in that. I'll just resize windows and put them side by side myself rather than trying to use a tiler.

Game perf. is what's most important to me.

[fender jag]

Originally posted by Tonepoet:

Haven't tried it. I just use kubuntu with the compositor turned off because I noticed a couple of tests conducted a few years apart which show that K.D.E. Plasma with the compositor off is one of the better performing desktop environments for games.

That and I've been using computers since Mac O.S. 7.5, so I'm not particularly concerned about any G.U.I features much more advanced than what was in that. I'll just resize windows and put them side by side myself rather than trying to use a tiler.

Game perf. is what's most important to me.

I honestly don't care about game performance to be quite honest. If I'm using Linux, it's to develop or to do something else that I would need it for. Been thinking of daily driving though.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

But you can customize Linux however you want for the most part. Most distros have very little core differences between them.

I still prefer Mint and Manjaro

[Electric Cupcake]

Neofetch deprecating.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/neofetch-is-over-but-many-screenshot-system-info-tools-stand-ready/

This is the worst timeline :(

[Sahelanthropus]

it's great. its main gimmick is to be a tiling wm with eyecandy built-in and it does it well. easy to configure too. but i personally don't like wayland yet so i'm back to xfce until i can find the time to set up i3 again

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Neofetch deprecating.

fastfetch was always better anyway. why wait a second when you can not wait at all?

[r.linder]

Haven't used it, I just use Wayland

[A&A]

Basicly i3 on steroids. I like the idea of ​​how minimalistic a desktop environment can be, but I still prefer to stick with the traditional ones for now.

[fender jag]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Haven't used it, I just use Wayland

What WM or DE? Wayland is the protocol.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by eater_ofcrayons:

Originally posted by r.linder:

Haven't used it, I just use Wayland

What WM or DE? Wayland is the protocol.

KWin, KDE

Wayland works with nvidia properly, hyprland doesn't yet

[Sahelanthropus]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Wayland works with nvidia properly, hyprland doesn't yet

hyprland does work with the proprietary nvidia drivers, but requires some extra tinkering[wiki.hyprland.org] to get it working

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Trout:

Originally posted by r.linder:

Wayland works with nvidia properly, hyprland doesn't yet

hyprland does work with the proprietary nvidia drivers, but requires some extra tinkering[wiki.hyprland.org] to get it working

Let me rephrase, there's no official support yet and there won't be until at least when the 555+ drivers are fully stable and there's been more development on Hyprland, as is it's still not stable in of itself and more prone to bugs than stable DEs like KDE with Kwin.

Since the thread started I tried it at least once with the latest beta drivers and it kind of worked, but not really my cup of tea, I prefer conventional UIs that I've been more familiar with for decades

[The_Abortionator]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Neofetch deprecating.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/neofetch-is-over-but-many-screenshot-system-info-tools-stand-ready/

This is the worst timeline :(

fast fetch is already a great replacement.

[The_Abortionator]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

But you can customize Linux however you want for the most part. Most distros have very little core differences between them.

I still prefer Mint and Manjaro

Can we not recommend Mint for gaming and Manjaro at all?

90%+ of the bugs reports given to the devs of MESA, RADV, and Steam regarding Linux are bugs already fixed months to YEARS ago. There report channels are now being flooded with gamers on distros running older packages like Mint and in worse cases Debian.

And simply telling them to updates their packages manually is not a solution for multiple reasons as distros like Mint are recommended for their ease of use so manually doing anything is beyond that kills the whole reason they chose it. It also takes the distro out of spec. This is obviously worse for the kids building franken Debians.

As for Manjaro, it serves no purpose. It does nothing better than any other Arch distro and its convenience has already been overshadowed.

It has broken the AUR multiple times, it has itself broken multiple times, it holds packages for 2 weeks which would only have a safety net effect for bad packages if it didn't simply just give you known bad packages just 2 weeks later. That means it breaks pace with anything expecting and up to date Arch system while still giving you any package that breaks your system aswell.

Garuda, EndeavourOS, And CachyOS all offer better Arch distros than Manjaro.

[The_Abortionator]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Originally posted by eater_ofcrayons:

What WM or DE? Wayland is the protocol.

KWin, KDE

Wayland works with nvidia properly, hyprland doesn't yet

Its not Wayland that has to work with anything. It seems you may have it backwards.

Nvidia now after being YEARS behind every other hardware company has started adding Wayland support. While its definitely better its not on par yet.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by The_Abortionator:

Originally posted by r.linder:

KWin, KDE

Wayland works with nvidia properly, hyprland doesn't yet

Its not Wayland that has to work with anything. It seems you may have it backwards.

Nvidia now after being YEARS behind every other hardware company has started adding Wayland support. While its definitely better its not on par yet.

Hyprland*

Wayland has worked fine for months on Nvidia, Hyprland has issues because it was already broken and buggy