Well the best thing about it is that she wouldn't even touch linux before this. She's primarily a mac user. But after I dragged her to see my desktop modifications, after 10 eye rolls, she said she could do much better job than me.

Hours later she was still at it, hairs scattered, baffled looking... saying how could someone live with so many choices lol.

The good thing out of this was that now she's starting to see the point of linux after all these years.

Close. Army housing. It's free so I am not complaining!

Developers when they search for a bug and no google result comes up. ChatGPT starts hallucinating mad and starts suggesting generic steps that you already did. And you've been slacking off for a few days because you know it's small biscuits and you can clutch in a few hours. But you start working just before the deadline and now the dread is slowly setting in.

Sorry but could you please elaborate. I've been using nvidia forever in linux machines both at work and at home. I work in AI so using nvidia gpus is a must. Maybe there's something that I missed but my experience has been pretty solid so far.

At home I am using openSUSE tumbleweed KDE wayland and at work ubuntu headless.

Eh, let it fall. I have been wanting to replace that samsung 4k crap that looks worse than 1080p chinese monitors

There are so many. By usage however:

Smart Audiobook Player: None of the apps I tried had all the features in one, like reading my complex audiobooks folder structure and auto grouping the books based on that. Timer to pause audiobook that is automatically reset by moving the phone.

Maps: No foss solutions work better where I live than GMaps

YTMusic: So this is a tough one to beat because of the nature of the platform itself.

Notes: I am looking for a P2P syncable note app that can also have a web interface or atleast a Linux version of the App. Allows drawing your notes on an android phone or tablet using stylus, and other usual features. Can also use cloud storage as a backup or sync source. I know this one is a really tall order.

And ping all that data to CCP instead of our corporate overlords? No thanks

I don't see why it won't play nice with linux but as to if you should buy this laptop... it doesn't look in a good shape. I am a bit biased as I had poor experience with laptops with gpus. Old laptops can have bent heatsinks so you can't control the temps no matter what. If yiu are hell bent on buying it then I'd recommend to stress test both gpu and cpu and look for heavy thermal throttling

Okay lol, my bad. I guess I have been living in an echo chamber when it comes to that game. Earth Defense Force. Love the series. You save the earth ... by destroying it.

WTF? I'm automounting my home directory from an external ssd usb for ages now. What is the disaster that could happen you're referring to?

I reckon it could be related to the permissions required to write to the usb. Perhaps udev rules could help here?

I always come back to OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Once I have everything setup, it's stable as a rock and kde works really well on it.

Okay had to dig into it but found it. It's called Anurati font.

I can't say I've ever noticed any significant audio quality difference between this and something like Vinyl even on very good headphones.

But I would say that I've been trying to find equivalent equilizer functions that this app has on desktop. The bass boost function is the best one I've ever used. It even turned my very neutral etymotics er3se into solid thumpers.

After going through a rabbit hole what I learned that this patch does is to allow time critical applications at top priority.

Most of popular linux distributions already have this patch applied in one form or another.

What I think it means for end user is that if applications use this part of linux kernel correctly, then they can speed up some core parts, be more responsive, and stable. But if it's abused, it can end up slowing the whole system.

Oh sorry, guess I missed the random drives part. You're absolutely right in that regard. Also, I use fstab to setup automount, so can't help op with this.

Thank you, I think this one's closest to what we are looking for.

Do you mean in terms of gaming? I admit that I don't do much gaming on linux. Usually just development and browsing.

I also use proprietary nvidia drivers if that makes a difference.

Here you go: https://store.kde.org/p/1425082 Go into the file tab to get the images.

This reminds me of the time I got my first 160hz monitor. Games felt buttery smooth. Like there was some friction that I never thought was present was magically gone. Days later I found out that the monitor was set at a whooping 60Hz in the settings.

My spine is already fucked by years of programming so no worries there mate.

lol I guess you haven't played EDF then?

Finally, thanks for the clear cut answer. I don't have any experience with training on AMD but the errors from nvidia are usually very obscure.

As for using gpus other than nvidia, there's a slew of problems. Mostly that on cloud where most of the projects are deployed, our options seem either limited to nvidia gpus, or cloud tpus.

Each AI experiment can cost usually in thousands of dollars and use a cluster of GPUs. We have built and modified our system for fully utilizing such an environment. I can’t even imagine shifting to Amd gpus at this point. The amount of work involved and the red tape shudder

Thanks, we haven't played through other cod coop campaigns as much as WAW so it's definitely a viable option if nothing else comes up.

Looks like generic chinese mechanical keyboards you get in flea markets.

My first mech was very similar, got it for less than 5 bucks and came with kailh blue switches. Body was solid but switches left a lot to be desired.

Hmmm, this game looks sweet, maybe a good option for future once military fever is down a notch.

Yeah, not what we're looking for right now but we've played through halo games and it was a blast. GOW didn't sit right with us, perhaps due to the third person view, but we are going to give it an another try in the future. Just now, we got the COD itch. We've completed world at war campaigns so many times that now we just blaze through it on full autopilot now...

Yeah unfortunately. We've tried so many things at this point but for some reason only FPS games stick with us

Ah the problem you are describing in wayland actually usually happens only with electron apps. Most of the electron apps require forcing them to run on wayland. They are usually running on X (x-wayland) which cause all sorts of glitches. You can use xeyes to check if the app is using xwayland or not. If eyes move when you move the cursor inside the app then it's on xwayland.

To resolve the issues for the electron apps I pass these parameters: --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

Getting these args to flatpacks could be a bit tricky. You can usually find Appimages that can allow you to run these apps easily on wayland.

I am also on ver 550.120 so doubt that driver is the issue here.

Thanks, we tried this earlier but me and my buddies can't seem to do stealth no matter how much we try. Now if it can be a viable strategy to go guns blazing then that'd be a different story.

Sorry what issues? I'm using syncthing to sync between a macos laptop, a macos vm, and my main linux desktop. I sync my projects folder with a lot of git repos. Maybe I've been lucky so far but no issues with syncthing and git so far

It's really like magic sometimes

While others have answered your question, I just wanted to go on a tangent and add to some of the same frustration that you felt.

I hate hand holding in this game. I feel like missions trap you into playing a certain way. You have to treat the missions like they are an interactive movie experience. But otherwise, the open world exploration is fun.

For future, If you really like freedom but also need some goals and story and not just a sandbox, I would recommend trying either legend of zelda botw or totk. I think you can emulate BOTW on steamdeck.

If you can take some punishment then Elden Ring is also a great choice.

I hope that you can enjoy this game though.

TYSM for bringing this game into attention. After hours of staring at the screen everyday, last thing I want to do is to stare some more. I love playing video games and this sounds like a good compromise compared to listening to audiobooks.

So last when I was following the issue on github, it would need to be supported by electron first. It’s in the works but for now, and take it with a grain of salt, I think the recommendation in the issue was to add the options in the desktop file or executable of the app yourself.

If you are distributing the app with the flags then just a remainder to set the compatibility of the flags such that it also works with X.