I’d just like to interject for a moment…
Gnome really tends to drag their feet when it comes to new features/wayland protocols to implement. I’m pretty sure they didn’t even have adaptive sync for the longest time, when even smaller wlroots projects already supported it. I don’t hate gnome though, i actually kinda dig their design, but unfortunately i can’t stand using floating window managers anymore, i only use tiling.
Why would you even want ray tracing. Such a waste of power.
If you don’t want to get into the rabbit hole that is NixOS (which is a distro i also like), then i would say void linux, if you still want that arch minimalism. Void is a rolling release, but it’s more like a slow roll if that makes sense and focuses on stability. It’s package manager is also rock solid, fast, and can update even when the system hasn’t been updated in ages. If you’ve done a manual install of arch before, you’ll probably breeze through the install process as well, since it is a guided ncurses installer.
Do you actually need the ram upgrade? Cause if not you might as well wait until you upgrade to a new platform. I went from 16gb to 32gb of ram purely because i still had my old ram laying around from a previous build and decided to throw it in (yeah i know mixed ram is bad and all but i haven’t had any problems so far and i didn’t have to sacrifice that much mhz for it) and if i’m being honest, so far i haven’t felt like i needed 32gb at all. The most i’ve probably done with it is allocate more ram to my vm, which also doesn’t really need that much for my usecase either.
Imagine darth vader calling palpatine main
My repos use main because i guess that was the default, but i don’t really care. I mean i also call my window manager layout master/stack and i don’t see what’s wrong with that.
The only problem i had with my 6950xt was that overclocking was partially broken, but it has already been fixed since kernel 6.7 came out. Other than that i’ve had no problems.
You must have forgotten about why people were so mad at qatar in particular a while back. Remember how many workers died building the stadiums there for the world cup? If you’re american i can understand you weren’t aware of it since european football isn’t exactly popular in america, but it was a huge deal over here with people protesting.
Yeah that’s what i use now too. The official home manager page kinda sucks purely because it has no search function. You’re scrolling forever until you finally find what you’re looking for lol.
And in dutch we would say “ik begrijp er niks van”
While i like NixOS as an entire OS as well, at the moment i’m experimenting with just using nix + home manager on top of whatever distro i want, and i just had the realization that in the rare case that a package is not in nixpkgs, if you make your own derivation for it to build it from source, you can take that with you anywhere as well and don’t have to make another package for different distros you might be running. Pretty cool.
Depends on the game. Bottleneck shouldn’t give you increased stuttering or anything i don’t think, but you’re just leaving potential performance on the table cause the gpu can’t fully stretch its legs. When i went from a vega 64 to a 6950xt, at 3440×1440, i noticed an uplift but depending on the game it wasn’t as big as i thought it would be. Then i upgraded my cpu from a 3900x to a 5800x3d and in gta online my fps doubled. Went from barely hitting 60 to 100+ fps
I decided to finally lean into using systemd more while i’ve been using NixOS, since the OS already relies heavily on it anyway. Created targets for my window managers, starting all my programs with services instead of autostart scripts, etc. And it worked fine for the most part, except for some reason, in qtile the systray widget refuses to load the nm-applet when it’s started through systemd. Waybar does not have this problem. I can’t help notice that systemd is not just a little slower, which isn’t the biggest deal in the world, but it also tends to hang more often when shutting down, which is a bit annoying and reminds me of windows lol. Before NixOS i used Void, and while i never really cared too much about what init system i’m running, i can’t help but really appreciate runit for being so simple and fast. I’m thinking of moving back to Void but using the Nix package manager on top. I recently found a solution to the nix driver problem when using it on other distros, so now i should be able to combine the best of both worlds.
From what i understand the problem is that while systemd is technically split up into different components, you can’t really use it with the stuff you don’t want ripped out.
I feel like it isn’t really specific to arch, every distro has a following, but some are more “passionate” about it than others. I think arch, NixOS, and gentoo are the most notable.
I’m starting to think that in terms of features and possiblities, nix might truly be the best third party package manager of all. But the downside is that especially when using it the way it’s recommended, combined with home manager, it has the steepest learning curve. Also graphical apps can be problematic. There is a tool called nixgl that tries to solve this, but it’s a wrapper, so when a nix application opens a child process that needs to use the native system drivers, that childprocess is also wrapped in nixgl and it breaks. I recently found a neat workaround on github to solve this in a better way, which is to create a driver package manually with home manager, and symlink it to /run/, which is also where the drivers are linked on NixOS. This is a gamechanger to me because with no driver problems anymore, you can install almost everything through nix on pretty much any distro, except maybe for some programs that need system level access to run. You can install graphical programs, cli programs, and even entire window managers with it. I’m using full NixOS at the moment, but i’m seriously debating moving back to void linux with nix on top. Currently messing with it in a vm to test my configs.
Honestly upon looking into it a bit more, it seems like there is actually a dvd release already, or atleast i got some legit search results for that, so if it’s a dvd it’s probably legit, but there doesn’t seem to be a legit blu ray yet.
Nice bootleg bro
I think rmpc can do this too, which is an mpd client with album art support, but it’s terminal based and requires some manual configuring. I’ve been buying CDs over the past couple of years to get rid of streaming as well, and i think i’m finally ready to cut the cord. I’ve been experimenting with different music players but ended up ditching mpd. I like to be able to switch between audio outputs easily, like alsa or pipewire, and since mpd is configured through a config file it kinda sucks for that. I also like to be able to play CDs directly, eventhough i have ripped them all, but i haven’t been able to get any terminal player to play a cd, except for mplayer, which is too minimal for my taste. At the moment i’m really liking audacious. Also tried deadbeef and strawberry, but deadbeef doesn’t have mpris support ootb, and strawberry feels a bit bloated to me. Audacious feels like a nice middleground. Audacious does support viewing lyrics but not synced from what i can tell unfortunately.
Fair enough. If it does everything you need then it’s good lol