Varyag

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[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 minutes ago

They're very different racers. One is arcade racing, drifting fun perfected, the other is an incredibly fun racing career and car collecting simulator (still not an actual simulator, but physics at least resemble the real world)

I say play both GT2 and RR Type 4 and see which one you like better. Alongside Wip3out I'd say these are the absolute BEST racing games of the console.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah except Palworld has joined Sony for their multimedia franchise, so potentially they can get a lot of monetary and legal support from that. Nintendo took way too long to actually do this frivolous lawsuit.

Let them fight.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Update: I checked last night and I already had the plasma-integration package installed this whole time. I'm stumped.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Alright, thanks for that. I'll take a closer look later today when I'm at the PC, but the plan today is to try out different minimal environments to see what I like. And this time I actually remembered to make a Timeshift snapshot ahead of time (my latest one was like a couple of weeks ago)

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

I've been hearing good things about it, makes me wanna try it.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

This laptop does have a dedicated GPU and was quite decent for the time. It was my only gaming machine for quite some years. Now I want to keep it alive with Linux for other general uses or work. Said dedicated GPU has been the source of many issues even when it still was under issues. The setup of Intel i5 with integrated graphics + an AMD Radeon GPU is uh... shaky under most driver circumstances and applications never know which of the two to use (usually defaulting to the wrong one)

I've been running Wayland to "get used to" the newer technology, and I don't think that in itself has much impact on performance... Even if I do turn off the effects on KDE, I still feel like it's doing way way more than I need or want it to do, and it does have a very noticeable impact on the speed things happen. Slightly slower than Cinnamon was, although both are also still way faster than it's last Windows install... lol

Right now the main "problem" I have is that KDE is handling a few things I want it to handle, and that there's a lot of applications I installed alongside it that I'd have to remove to swap fully to another DE. Almost makes me think it'd be easier to do another clean Arch install, but that took me almost a week to fully set up. (as I'd start to find the things that I hadn't yet configured or installed gradually)

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Incredible. I have never even heard of a Kirigami, and here I only thought I had to worry about if applications were Qt (which version) or GTK (also which version) and running under Xorg or Wayland. What the hell is a Kirigami. Well, thanks for the heads up. Such are the joys of being a Linux user!

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago

I did like the Openbox part of LXQt. Might re-install that.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28037255

Hey hey people. Relatively new Arch user here, but not new to Linux in general. I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma on this HP laptop from 2013, and I've been enjoying it a lot after spending a long time on Mint/Cinnamon.

But, I've noted that KDE is a bit slow on this machine, and is probably a bit too much. Earlier today, I decided to try out something lighter, and installed LXQt on it as a second DE. The experience was okay, with much improved responsiveness, a nice customizable retro look, and overall simpleness that still did the job mostly. But I also ran into a few issues that probably had to do with having two different DEs on the same machine and user. One thing in particular ended up annoying me so much I went back to KDE: The Discover app would just refuse to play nice with setting a dark theme on the rest of the environment, even when I tried setting it up with qt6ct.

So now I'm considering going to XFCE instead, as I probably should have done from the beginning. I just wish it had Wayland support already (I know it's being worked on). Do you have any suggestions or tips for me in regards to this? I'm sure a lot of people will recommend their favorite tiling WM which I'm not sure I want to get into.

Also, other than that, upon returning to KDE, I found that my Discover would crash when trying to update Flatpaks (the only thing I install through it) and started thinking this experiment somehow broke it.... but it's Flatpak itself that seems to have an issue today. Might have to do with the latest curl update? Dunno if I should make a separate thread for that. https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-discover-broken-with-latest-curl-update/21475

 

Hey hey people. Relatively new Arch user here, but not new to Linux in general. I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma on this HP laptop from 2013, and I've been enjoying it a lot after spending a long time on Mint/Cinnamon.

But, I've noted that KDE is a bit slow on this machine, and is probably a bit too much. Earlier today, I decided to try out something lighter, and installed LXQt on it as a second DE. The experience was okay, with much improved responsiveness, a nice customizable retro look, and overall simpleness that still did the job mostly. But I also ran into a few issues that probably had to do with having two different DEs on the same machine and user. One thing in particular ended up annoying me so much I went back to KDE: The Discover app would just refuse to play nice with setting a dark theme on the rest of the environment, even when I tried setting it up with qt6ct.

So now I'm considering going to XFCE instead, as I probably should have done from the beginning. I just wish it had Wayland support already (I know it's being worked on). Do you have any suggestions or tips for me in regards to this? I'm sure a lot of people will recommend their favorite tiling WM which I'm not sure I want to get into.

Also, other than that, upon returning to KDE, I found that my Discover would crash when trying to update Flatpaks (the only thing I install through it) and started thinking this experiment somehow broke it.... but it's Flatpak itself that seems to have an issue today. Might have to do with the latest curl update? Dunno if I should make a separate thread for that. https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-discover-broken-with-latest-curl-update/21475

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck. This is me with music production about a month ago. I produced exactly 5 seconds of music trying to learn it after several days of endlessly learning about it.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What about Grim Dawn?

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

They've been doing snaps for a few years already so it already seems like they're keeping up with this bullshit (in fact they're putting more and more stuff there) It's already the reason people stopped recommending Ubuntu to new users and instead go for Mint or Pop!OS

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's amazing that it's still the best rally sim to this day. This game is old enough to drink in the States.

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