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Well, here's 22.04... Jammy! Heh. I've now done a raw install as it's stable enough. You have to install nftables now to replace iptables in order to run vpn software.
It's about time. It's due to the 5.15 kernel. However I figured why should Arch users get all the fun, and I used mainline repo and upgraded my kernel to 5.16.3.
Beta distro with bleeding edge kernel, wheee! Also just noticed the new ntfs driver introduced with 5.15 is much faster than ntfs3g. Huge improvement.
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johnspack said:
Well, here's 22.04... Jammy! Heh. I've now done a raw install as it's stable enough. You have to install nftables now to replace iptables in order to run vpn software.
It's about time. It's due to the 5.15 kernel. However I figured why should Arch users get all the fun, and I used mainline repo and upgraded my kernel to 5.16.3.
Beta distro with bleeding edge kernel, wheee! Also just noticed the new ntfs driver introduced with 5.15 is much faster than ntfs3g. Huge improvement.
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I've been trying this out. Liking it. It's the first time in years I've considered using a version of Linux that doesn't have "Mint" in the name.
 
Oh c'mon... you know you kwantu.... okay bad, but you really should try it. It's kept me off windows for years now!
 
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Yeah, that's not gonna to happen. Too much of what I need and do either can't be done in Linux or isn't as good in Linux.
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HDR is really the only thing keeping me away... wish they'd fix that (as in, implement it).
 
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HDR is really the only thing keeping me away... wish they'd fix that (as in, implement it).
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That actually doesn't bother me. I think HDR is over-rated. I'm not saying it's not beautiful, just that it's value is over-stated.
 
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That actually doesn't bother me. I think HDR is over-rated. I'm not saying it's not beautiful, just that it's value is over-stated.
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In gaming, I haven't seen a more dramatically useful tech in some time. Goodbye, 8bpc sky banding.
 
johnspack said:
Oh c'mon... you know you kwantu.... okay bad, but you really should try it. It's kept me off windows for years now!
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installed windows 11 on my laptop lately for gaming. Ill still dual boot. Spent days tweaking my Arch but having nvidia is just painful. One game works, other game breaks. Whatever configurations I did. I just gave up. On my desktop, Only time I booted windows is to compare God Of war performance and Amd is just best for Linux
 
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I hope you installed dxvk and vkd3d as well. That basically gives you proton, and the ability to run dx12 stuff.
github.com

Releases · doitsujin/dxvk

Vulkan-based implementation of D3D8, 9, 10 and 11 for Linux / Wine - doitsujin/dxvk
github.com github.com
github.com

Releases · HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton

Fork of VKD3D. Development branches for Proton's Direct3D 12 implementation. - HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton
github.com github.com
And install this first.... oops... https://wiki.winehq.org/Download
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yeah did all that including the dxvk-nvapi... I played around with wine-tkg, frogging family nvidia-all, proton-GE, proton experimental, even tried GE-wine. etc etc... its just not working all. Couldnt find a good combination that will make my games play all
 
Ja.Koolit as much as I also like Arch... Ubuntu is just much friendlier to stuff like this. Maybe try a 3rd install of say Kubuntu and try it. I have multiple os installs for this very reason.
 
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Ja.Koolit as much as I also like Arch... Ubuntu is just much friendlier to stuff like this. Maybe try a 3rd install of say Kubuntu and try it. I have multiple os installs for this very reason.
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thanks for suggestion. i might try. However, one reason why I went with rolling distro is my laptop needs atleast 5.13 kernel, well, I could also of course compile my own.

However, one my "fixing" journey, I believe its because of conflicting vulkan drivers. My laptop does not have a mux switch. I do have like Bumblebee to switch to the graphics, but some games dont like that. If I remove amd vulkan, some games work, some games not. If I install back amd vulkan, the games didnt worked before works but the previous games that work will break. I dont have enough data to prove that but thats what I experienced. Plus, dlss, some games worked, some games do not. I scour the net finding solutions, and Im already kinda tired trying to fix ha ha

On my Amd (cpu and gpu) desktop, no issues at all. All games I throw in there works. Everything works..

But not to worry, Im not wiping my Arch on my laptop. It is still my daily driver. Im only switching to windows when I want to game on my free time. (these are the times when I am away from home due to work reason)
 
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atleast 5.13 kernel
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just enable hwe

Ubuntu kernel lifecycle and enablement stack | Ubuntu

Canonical provides long-term support (LTS) kernels for Ubuntu LTS releases. Canonical also provides interim operating system releases with updated kernels every 6 months. Learn about the lifecycle of each kernel through the lifespan of support.
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Ubuntu release cycle | Ubuntu

Overview of the Ubuntu release cycle - maintenance, support and security coverage, lifetime, upgrade paths, kernel versions and the range of editions and images published by Canonical.
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all HWE compatible LTS releases follow the rolling update model since 16.04
 
That's the easy way out. Try this, 22.04 with kernel 5.16.8... not so hard!
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I'll stick on my Arch ;) I never really understand why I should execute sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade just to upgrade
wherein I could only type sudo pacman -Syu for updates :p

Kernel 5.17rc3

I dont know. Ive just been comfortable with Arch TBH. I wish I could swap my laptop with the full AMD one



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And here's my desktop... relatively easy to customize kernel (after various try since 5.14 ha ha)
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Getting there......

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Found another nice and easy and lightweight KDE Arch distro... Artix Linux:
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Hi,
Wish it only took a desktop image to make an os I'd be all over linux 365

Mint 20.3 is messed up obs studio is having stuttering issues
I should of known better than to install it this early

I installed mint 20.2 on my x299 rig finally with everything now to reinstall back to 20.2 on z490.
 
OBS Studio works perfect under Kubuntu 21.10 and 20.04 lts. I played with Mint, but it ended up annoying me because I just couldn't do as much with it.
Arch is looking better and better all the time... just have to settle on one I like. Think I'll have to dual boot Kubuntu and some version of Arch.....
 
Hi,
Mint cinnamon 20.2 has been fine.
 
Thought I should mention, Jammy Jellyfish... aka 22.04, the newest LTS version of Ubuntu is now final.
It ships with kernel 5.15. Which wasn't suitable for me so I upgraded mine to kernel 5.17. Not hard to do it you need to.
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Aaaaand... Kinetic Kudu, or 22.10 has released first alpha build. Looks like 22.04... and it will for a month or so, and then huge changes will occur.
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MX-21 KDE ran this last year probably going to go back to Debian KDE at some point.
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Thought I'd test out PCLinuxOS... it doesn't use systemd at all. I figured it must use some off branch version of linux... but it is a deb branch in the end. It ships with kernel 5.17 out of the
box, so that's unusual.
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