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[Ja.KooLit]

just playing around with LXQT. It looks neat but not so customizable. But I would choose this over XFCE

 

[Easy Rhino]

Anyone check out the Gnome 40 new UI? I like it.

GNOME 40

The next step in focused, distraction-free computing..

forty.gnome.org

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Anyone check out the Gnome 40 new UI? I like it.

GNOME 40

The next step in focused, distraction-free computing..

forty.gnome.org

I need to give 'new' Gnome another chance. I wasn't a fan when the big change happened. After Gnome 3 and Ubuntu's Unity desktop, which were both about 10 years ago - yikes, I stuck to Gnome 2 based DE's.

Thanks for posting that.

 

[johnspack]

Still don't understand the mac way of doing it. It's just more mac. KDE does it right. But what ever floats your boat.

 

[Ja.KooLit]

tried to play around with gnome 40 before. Good thing about Gnome 40 is that seems wayland works alot better in Gnome than any other DE.

Difference or improvement over the past gnome is I honestly cant tell. Im not really a fan of the tablet type app launcher.

But if youre a gnome fan, i think you will like the new 40. Heard alot of good things from gnome users

 

[Easy Rhino]

It is interesting the focus more on a mobile friendly DE for linux. I really only want a bit better integration with Wayland.

 

[TxGrin]

Now that Steam brought us proton and lutris bringing support i now have all my steam games working and all my epic games working in linux they have come a long way

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Still fine tuning Cinnamon getting ready to move my data drives to the Linux box.

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Laptop ready to go.

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Where I'm spending most of my time lately.

The neckbeard is coming along nicely.

 

[johnspack]

Well, looks like Ubuntu Impish, or 21.10, will ship with the 5.13 kernel. Mine just updated itself from 5.11 to 5.13.
It's also running plasma 5.22, but that's been backported to 21.04 as well:

 

[johnspack]

Here's 21.04 with the plasma backport to 5.22. Also just finished cracking a rar hash using gpu assist with hashcat.... and yes it's legal....

 

[lexluthermiester]

and yes it's legal....

Why wouldn't it be?

 

[johnspack]

Crack.... legal? Because most people don't realize you have to test security to make sure it works. They also see crack, and think, that can't be legal.
Most people don't realize this goes on all the time. And linux is the best to test it under. I finally know how, but I'm still a
noob. Much more fun will come for me!!

 

[Liquid Cool]

Debian 11 with a simple uncluttered desktop....



I recently dropped the dual boot with Windows 10 I've had since Ubuntu 16.04 and moved my whole system over to Debian 11.

Runs like a dream....

Best Regards,

Liquid Cool

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Debian 11 with a simple uncluttered desktop....

Absolutely thrilled with Debian 11

 

[Deleted member 212040]

Ditched Windows a week ago and went to Kubuntu, then made the move to Arch on EndeavourOS. Windows partition wiped. Absolutely in love. Every game works & the alternatives for some of my programs are fantastic, plus there's functionality (like explorer tabs & split view -- come on Microsoft.) that was not present in Windows.

Microsoft will not be seeing me utilizing their OS again.

It feels good to be part of the 1%.

(did I mention every game runs faster, especially Minecraft's new 1.18 snapshots... went from 20 FPS on Windows to 800 in here. That's well over 5000% increase.)

 

[Easy Rhino]

Ditched Windows a week ago and went to Kubuntu, then made the move to Arch on EndeavourOS. Windows partition wiped.

That is quite the journey you made in a week! Well done.

 

[Liquid Cool]

Yeah...Debian 11 ran like a dream alright. Until I started loading my newer titles. It seemed to handle the usuals(Skyrim, Oblivion, FO3, and FO:NV) just fine, but when I started going Fallout 4 and newer? Not so much. I've been wanting to get back to Chernobylite and Terminator:Resistance and that is where everything quickly turned into a story filled with graphical glitches, intermittent slowdowns, and mandatory re-installs. I went at it hard...no luck on either title.

As the linux veterans know...just par for the course. If one doesn't work, move to the next one on the list. Although, I'm not the distro-hopping type. I prefer to find something that "Just Works"(insert Todd Howard Flashback here) and stick with it. Personally, I thought I had found that in Debian. The last thing I wanted to do is go back and start testing more distros, I've already tested 26. Just glad I took notes! When I went and thumbed through the pages...one name kept coming up that just seemed more stable than the others from the get go. Solus.

I was actually going to transfer over to Solus back in 2017 when their lead dev(Ikey Dougherty) up and left. I had my concerns with the way it was handled...so I went with Ubuntu instead.

Although, my decision might have been a little too quick and premature, it appears as though Solus has been left in some pretty capable hands(Josh Strobl). If I had to describe Solus in three words or less? "Smooth as butter" would be the response. Haven't had a single hitch since the initial install. In fact...when you see the picture below. It has the feel of Windows 7, but with a few modern twists added in for good measure. I also liked the fact I could easily connect to my Smartphone(Moto G7) through using open source software on F-Droid. I de-Googled my phone from the get-go and I've never had access to Google's play store. No loss....

Here is the Solus KDE Plasma desktop. Solus is bar none the most "responsive" desktop out of the 26 I tested.



If I had to rate the 26 different desktops tested through a "full install", not a LIVE install using a USB flash drive or Virtual Machine, but a complete full install. I would have to rate Solus Mate as number one for "out of the box" stability. Followed closely by Zorin OS, and Mint as third. Opensuse(KDE, Plasma) fourth, and Fedora(Gnome) fifth. The largest surprise out of all the distros? Was Garuda Linux and Feren OS. I wasn't expecting much from either one of these...and boy was I wrong. I'm keeping my eyes on Feren OS...I like what I see there. Garuda? Might be more for the younger crowd. .

From this day forward...I'll be recommending Zorin OS 16 Core over Mint and Ubuntu for new users.

Best Regards,

Liquid Cool

P.S. This is how I personally set up my own system for gaming. The latest AMD/Vulkan drivers were preinstalled. So, all I had to do on a fresh install was to do all of the system updates, restart...then run "sudo eopkg install steam" at the command line. Let it install....then install Lutris(if you're going to...) from the Software Center and lastly, back at the command line..."sudo eopkg install wine wine-devel wine-32bit winetricks". After the last installation completes...restart...and you're done. If you're completely new to linux and not comfortable doing anything with the command line you can also install everything through the Software Center. In fact...with Solus, you can completely avoid the command line if you wish to do so. Best of luck.

 

[Deleted member 212040]

Clicked this button and my 150+ game library remained the same.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Clicked this button and my 150+ game library remained the same.

View attachment 216491

That doesn't happen very often.

 

[Easy Rhino]

Yeah...Debian 11 ran like a dream alright. Until I started loading my newer titles. It seemed to handle the usuals(Skyrim, Oblivion, FO3, and FO:NV) just fine, but when I started going Fallout 4 and newer? Not so much.

Yes, I unfortunately ran into that exact issue with FO4. It just will not run stable with Proton. They must be using some really unusual APIs and libraries in that game for Proton to not be able to load it properly.

 

[Deleted member 212040]

The biggest advantage of Linux so far was OpenRGB just detecting all of my devices straight up. On Windows it would only detect the RAM. This eliminates the need for bloaty, crappy RGB software. Love it.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Plain ol' Ubuntu 21.04 here. Really like the snappiness of Wayland. I've been playing a game or two, but this is mostly my darkroom machine. There's also an SSD with Windows 10 on it, but I never go there. My smartphone is the Terracube 2e, which I got from e.foundation.

 

[Liquid Cool]

That doesn't happen very often.

LLM...

After the recent updates to the Steam client, even when I'm doing a fresh install in linux all of my games show up "before" I opt into Steamplay and restart. It didn't used to be this way. When I used to do a fresh install, only a small percentage of my complete library was visible because those titles were deemed "linux compatible", the rest were hidden until I joined SteamPlay. Now...I'm assuming they're saying ALL games are compatible or have the possibility of becoming compatible. I don't now for sure, other than to say it's interesting.

Yes, I unfortunately ran into that exact issue with FO4. It just will not run stable with Proton.

ER...

I had no trouble with Fallout 4 in Solus, but ran into troubles in both Mint(Black checkered boxes, freezes, and popping.) and Debian(Immediate crash to desktop) that I couldn't overcome. In Solus...all I did was add this line to my "launch options" command ine and I was up and running.

Works perfectly...

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command%

I also use the above in the launch options with Skyrim(and others). It kills the issue with not being able to hear the NPC's audio and usually any crackling/popping audio issue as well.

As far as I'm concerned, both titles run just as good in Solus as they do in Windows. I personally believe "vanilla" Fallout:NV and Fallout 3:GOTY look MUCH better in linux than Windows. The first time I played Fallout:NV in linux...I was constantly saying WOW...I never noticed that before! It was surreal. Everyone who loves these two Fallout titles should try it at least once.

I told myself I'd stop at loading 10 games - for now. So, from my list here are the games I've loaded that are running beautifully. It's not all roses though...and I'll explain the problems briefly. I don't want to get too far off topic here.

These 9 are pretty much perfect, despite my weak graphics and having to play a few of the titles in 720p...The Outer Worlds loads a little slow when going in to new areas, about 2-3 seconds but I think it's just more than my system is able to handle. Other than that...plays beautifully.

FO3:GOTY, FO:NV, Fallout 4, Oblivion, Skyrim:SE, Metro Exodus, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, The Outer Worlds and Terminator: Resistance.

1 needs a little work. I think it's because the title is new?

Chernobylite

It runs fine but the cutscenes are giving me some problems(blacked out, missing audio). I'm working through them now, looks like a simple video conversion issue.

I wish my graphics were about 20 to 30% more powerful. I'm used to working with...well, not much...so I can deal with it effectively, but in 2021...i'm pushing the limits here(After selling every graphics cards in my stash at hugely inflated prices...I'm sitting on a pile of cash, so I'm not suffering...I'm just waiting patiently.).

I think Solus is spoiling me...none of the above is usually this easy. Maybe it's because I'm using all AMD? I don't know.

Best,

Liquid Cool - 1%er

P.S. If you're using nVidia/Intel on Solus...search for "Hardware Drivers" at the start menu for DoFlicky. It will get you up and running. Also...doubly make sure Gamemode and Gamemode-32 bit are installed. With AMD these are installed by default.