The Official Linux/Unix Desktop Screenshots Megathread

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Muddling through it lol

 

[Solaris17]

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.

I may have asked this already but Im still not understanding proton. Do you install it separately? is it part of steam? I guess I could grab my laptop and look. (I dont play games on the laptop so haven't dug into this)

 

[SomeOne99h]

I may have asked this already but Im still not understanding proton. Do you install it separately? is it part of steam? I guess I could grab my laptop and look. (I dont play games on the laptop so haven't dug into this)

It is part of Steam, Valve is developing it. They forked it from Wine source code then integrated it in Steam. Just Install Steam in Linux. Right click the game that you want to play then choose Properties then click the Compatibility tab then click the "Force ..." then Okay. Install the game then run it. You will most likely need to use the experimental Proton since it is mostly better than any Proton versions that Steam has. Right click the game from the list again, then look for the setting where you can change the Proton version. Choose the experimental one.

If the game has problems, the game might need a launch parameter to work probably. Go to https://www.protondb.com/ then type the game's name and see what they tell you to do. Sometimes they will tell you to use a certain version of Proton. Go to the game's properties where you can change the proton's version or add the launch parameter.

 

[Solaris17]

It is part of Steam, Valve is developing it. They forked it from Wine source code then integrated it in Steam. Just Install Steam in Linux. Right click the game that you want to play then choose Properties then click the Compatibility tab then click the "Force ..." then Okay. Install the game then run it. You will most likely need to use the experimental Proton since it is mostly better than any Proton versions that Steam has. Right click the game from the list again, then look for the setting where you can change the Proton version. Choose the experimental one.

If the game has problems, the game might need a launch parameter to work probably. Go to https://www.protondb.com/ then type the game's name and see what they tell you to do. Sometimes they will tell you to use a certain version of Proton. Go to the game's properties where you can change the proton's version or add the launch parameter.

cool ty! that's super interesting! Steam fan or not, that compatibility matrix is leaps and bounds further than linux gaming even a few years ago

 

[Easy Rhino]

cool ty! that's super interesting! Steam fan or not, that compatibility matrix is leaps and bounds further than linux gaming even a few years ago

Yes, Steam's decision to integrate it right into the platform makes it really easy to play any of their games.

 

[johnspack]

Well, here is the easiest to install Arch linux ever! It auto partitions if you want, it will install a desktop during install, it will install the latest Nvidia drivers, and basically makes setting
up a basic desktop of any kind on Arch a breeze. Starts with kernel 5.14 out of the box. I will be trying this bare metal next. Also wine is installed by issuing sudo pacman -S wine-staging. That's it. EdeavourOS is now #2 on the
distrowatch.com list:

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Manjaro seemed pretty easy to install as well.

 

[johnspack]

To be honest, still haven't finished installing Manjaro. It was actually easier to install raw Arch and then add Kde. Try Endeavour... I think a lot of newbs will like it much better.
You still get a very base install, and can select which apps go on.

 

[Liquid Cool]

It was interesting reading the last few posts....I moved to Manjaro a few days ago....





I'm pretty sure I've tested every KDE desktop out there. Even the eclectic distros. My favorite out of all of them for stability and feel...openSUSE. There really is no close second. If I wasn't more interested in moving from debian to Arch....I'd plant my flag in openSUSE.

After giving some thought to all of this...If I'm leaving debian and I have to learn a new package manager with Solus. Perhaps it might be a wiser decision to just head on over to Manjaro as a temporary rest stop while I'm brushing up on reading the Arch manuals. With Solus, well..it's a small distro...could be gone in a year. Who knows? Not to mention...SteamOS 3.0 is based on Arch with the KDE Plasma desktop. I plan on centering the future of my gaming around my current desktop and the Steam Deck.

For me...I think this path makes more sense.

Best,

Liquid Cool

 

[R-T-B]

That doesn't happen very often.

Happening more and more these days with proton and dxvk.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

It was interesting reading the last few posts....I moved to Manjaro a few days ago....

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I'm pretty sure I've tested every KDE desktop out there. Even the eclectic distros. My favorite out of all of them for stability and feel...openSUSE. There really is no close second. If I wasn't more interested in moving from debian to Arch....I'd plant my flag in openSUSE.

After giving some thought to all of this...If I'm leaving debian and I have to learn a new package manager with Solus. Perhaps it might be a wiser decision to just head on over to Manjaro as a temporary rest stop while I'm brushing up on reading the Arch manuals. With Solus, well..it's a small distro...could be gone in a year. Who knows? Not to mention...SteamOS 3.0 is based on Arch with the KDE Plasma desktop. I plan on centering the future of my gaming around my current desktop and the Steam Deck.

For me...I think this path makes more sense.

Best,

Liquid Cool

Manjaro was actually the best distro for the Dell XPS17, at least until Ubuntu managed to release a modified kernel that got sound working on many Intel laptops. With Manjaro, you just needed to install it, then update it, and sound worked. Until Ubuntu came through, it either required all kinds of magic dances or stay on the 5.6 kernel, and initially the 5.6 kernel didn't even work, but I think a fix got merged into that kernel only somehow.

 

[Liquid Cool]

Liquid Cool...another distro hop? Are you serious!?

No No gentlemen(and ladies), I'm at home now in Manjaro, so I'm afraid my screenshots will be diminishing to zero.

I'm sure most of you have been around linux long enough to test out plenty of distros and there is always that one...that one distro that stands out from the rest in all the right places. For me...that's Manjaro. Although, the others distros I've mentioned(Debian, Solus, even openSUSE) are solid contenders and worthy of a look. Especially Debian really...because for the first time I can honestly say in - Debian 11 Bullseye - these guys are doing SOMETHING right. Every one of their desktop environments I tested booted up and ran perfectly! This has never happened to me before and I started testing Debian distros many years ago...

On to the reason for my post. This is a "screenshots" thread and I wanted to pass along an article I read about wallpapers from OMG! Ubuntu! awhile back entitled...

The ‘Hey Dude, Where Can I Get That Wallpaper?’ Blog Post

I've always liked Joey from OMG! Ubuntu!, he keeps his site updated continuously. He and Liam from Gaming on Linux are really the only two websites I go to for linux based content on a daily basis. Distrowatch and Phoronix...weekly, but that is about it(I spend a lot of my time here , or gaming!).

In Joey's article he mentions...

Walls by JFL - Free Widescreen

I've been following this Free Widescreen page as it expands(updated almost daily) and I've found quite a few interesting wallpapers for my own collection...so I thought I'd pass it along.



Best,

Liquid Cool

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Last screenshot from me for a while as well.

Over the last week or two I've bounced around to a few different distros, following @Liquid Cool in a way.

Came back to Debian 11 where things seem to be the most stable and complete for my needs. While Debian will quickly fall behind the latest cutting edge distros, I really appreciate the slower and steadier nature. For me, I think one of the biggest annoyances of Windows 10, and now 11, is the fact that something's always changing, and mainly only for the sake of change. I don't need a new weather and news widget crammed into the task bar - If I'd wanted one, I would have put it there.

Anyway. Debian 11 Cinnamon:

 

[johnspack]

Well, 21.10, or Impish Indri has now reached beta status. It should be final shortly. You can now upgrade 21.04 to it using the sudo do-release-upgrade -d command.
It will ship with kernel 5.13. Well here it is on a bare metal install:

 

[XiGMAKiD]

Running EndeavourOS now

 

[Aquinus]

Running EndeavourOS now
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Is your browser window translucent? I feel like I'm seeing your background through the window. For a second I thought my display was exhibiting image retention again.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Is your browser window translucent? I feel like I'm seeing your background through the window. For a second I thought my display was exhibiting image retention again.

I'm seeing the same thing so I'm inclined to think there is a bit of transparency being applied..

 

[R-T-B]

Turns out AIDA64 runs under wine fine (other than well, sensor data, because drivers):

Linux scheduler on Gentoo KDE Plasma putting down some mean Ryzen 5800X cache latencies... through a emu layer... wow.

 

[m0nt3]

Turns out AIDA64 runs under wine fine (other than well, sensor data, because drivers):

Linux scheduler on Gentoo KDE Plasma putting down some mean Ryzen 5800X cache latencies... through a emu layer... wow.

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For curiosity sake and science, figured I would compare with my 3800X running Arch.

 

[R-T-B]

I switched to my gentoo distro on my primary gaming rig, finally. It was worth it, despite the loss of HDR.

I even got Wayland working on nvidia today, despite a lot of fighting. Proof. And marvel at my neat 4K Plasma Desktop with glorious Kerbals going to space:

 

[m0nt3]

I switched to my gentoo distro on my primary gaming rig, finally. It was worth it, despite the loss of HDR.

I even got Wayland working on nvidia today, despite a lot of fighting. Proof. And marvel at my neat 4K Plasma Desktop with glorious Kerbals going to space:

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I have not used Gentoo in 10 years, but I remember compiling KDE for it on my x6 1055t and it taking the better part of half a day. How is it these days with faster CPU's and IO? Looking back on it I probably should have used some RAMFS for compiling from, but I didn't know any better then.

 

[R-T-B]

I have not used Gentoo in 10 years, but I remember compiling KDE for it on my x6 1055t and it taking the better part of half a day. How is it these days with faster CPU's and IO? Looking back on it I probably should have used some RAMFS for compiling from, but I didn't know any better then.

This install took 2 days, probably 1 and 1/2 of them of them due to an old outdated wiki and having to figure things out, the other was just compile times. So yeah about half a day. But I built everything. The kernel. Xorg when Wayland wasn't working. Wayland. KDE. Firefox, thunderbird, and libreoffice TWICE (once for xorg and once for wayland).

So yeah it's gotten faster.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I have not used Gentoo in 10 years, but I remember compiling KDE for it on my x6 1055t and it taking the better part of half a day.

I did that on a Pentium E2180 (a.k.a. "poor man's Core 2 Duo") and it easily took as long as downloading an ISO on 56K! (2010, on my second-newest PC at the time)

I did have my more powerful system of the time with a Core 2 Duo E4500 that was OC'ed of course. But it had Windows or what I don't consider an experimental Linux distro.

 

[m0nt3]

When

This install took 2 days, probably 1 and 1/2 of them of them due to an old outdated wiki and having to figure things out, the other was just compile times. So yeah about half a day. But I built everything. The kernel. Xorg when Wayland wasn't working. Wayland. KDE. Firefox, thunderbird, and libreoffice TWICE (once for xorg and once for wayland).

So yeah it's gotten faster.

When 64 core Threadrippers were announced the first thought I had was making Gentoo usable

 

[R-T-B]

When

When 64 core Threadrippers were announced the first thought I had was making Gentoo usable

Honestly it's a pretty mean linux gaming rig. We'll see if I can survive on 8-cores when I have to do a world update though... I may need a 5950X sooner than later lol.