juipeltje

I like it mainly because of the image protocol and supporting both x11 and wayland. I still have alacritty installed as well because i like how damn fast it is. If alacritty had proper image support i’d probably only be using alacritty, but they are both great terminal emulators.

I mean, it’s free with prime 🤷‍♂️. That does mean i have a prime subscription though, you got me there.

Not trying to argue with you or anything but i never really understood that sentiment. Don’t you have the same amount of vertical space on an ultrawide?

I have both lol, dual ultrawide setup. My main monitor is a 1440p 165hz ultrawide, and i have a 1080p 75hz ultrawide mounted above it that used to be my main monitor before i upgraded. A decent amount of games support ultrawide from my experience, but for some reason mostly japanese games often times don’t support it. Usually you can find guides to edit the exe to enable ultrawide support, but i haven’t had much luck with that myself. I don’t have an oled display or use hdr though, but from my understanding you might be able to make it work in games by using gamescope. For other types of content hdr isn’t really there yet, but the good news is that the required wayland protocol recently got merged, so it should be a matter of time before it will eventually be working. I usually always have atleast 2 windows open on my desktop next to each other, and ultrawide is really great for that because it gives each window more width to work with, so you have lots of space.

I highly doubt it. Even if they did though, if they just replace it with a firefox fork it could work pretty much as a drop-in replacement.

I’ve been sticking with music players that can output directly through alsa. I settled on strawberry cause it can do that and also has other features that i care about baked in ootb. Deadbeef can also output directly through alsa and i liked it for the most part, but what i didn’t like was that things like mpris support wasn’t baked in, so i would have to mess with plugins. I don’t know if there are any other players that can output directly through alsa, those are the only two that i could find so far.

Yeah i must say i’m a bit confused at why youtubers are glazing this 9070 card so much. First of all like you said, prices are still not down to what they used to be before the first mining craze, second of all: why are they pretending that this is the first time amd has a decent answer to an nvidia 70 series card? From what i remember they always had cards that could compete with that, the problem was usually that they couldn’t compete with the 80/90 series cards (which is probably still going to be a problem now). I also don’t see how this is going to impact competition at all. Most people judging by steam surveys are buying 60 series cards, and those people also seem to keep insisting on buying nvidia instead of an amd equivalent, so i’m skeptical.

I came to the same conclusion recently. Had a bunch of issues after i decided to try running windows 11 instead of 10 in a vm. One of them being that my usb dac refused to work, turns out after googling and finding a weird random chatgpt article that it was caused by a specific update. Had to roll the update back to solve it. Now i have to hope that they solve it before they decide to force the update on me anyways.

I still use a streaming service because it’s just so damn convenient, and also a great way to discover new music, but at the same time i have also started to build up a cd collection of my favourites, so that way i also have music that i actually own.

I’m not a programmer so i don’t have much skin in the game, but from how it’s described it seems like a good idea to me and rust seems like a solid language to me. I do understand the concern from devs who don’t know rust and don’t want to learn it, but i guess that also depends on how much they would actually have to interact with it.

I don’t know how to feel about it tbh. My steam deck and vita have oled displays, the tv downstairs has hdr, but it never made as much of a difference imo. Like when i’m sitting at my va monitor i don’t feel like i’m missing anything. Maybe it’s just a personal thing in terms of what you’re most sensitive to. I feel like i’m most sensitive towards refreshrate. I also don’t bother with ray tracing cause even in the best examples like cyberpunk, people usually have to point out the difference to me because i barely notice it.

I really love bash scripting. I use it to symlink my dotfiles from my git repo, to configure my void system the way i like it, dmenu scripts, and i also use it on my laptop to send me notifications when my battery is almost empty, when i plug/unplug the charger, when it’s fully charged, and to hibernate when it’s lower than 5%. For some reason apps like upower don’t seem to work on my laptop so bash offered a solution.

I didn’t know about bazzite not supporting ntfs. I do agree with you that it’s silly that they don’t allow you to use it, but from my own experience i will say that they are probably right about ntfs having issues in linux. I was using an external drive formatted to ntfs to move stuff between windows and linux, and at one point the entire partition just broke when it was connected to linux. It didn’t seem to be a faulty drive cause after a reformat it worked just fine, but i try to avoid ntfs as much as possible now.

That’s probably just going to be regular ubuntu at some point lol

Flatpak is gonna need some more work for me to accept it as the only way to install software if that were to happen though. The only reason i use them right now is because together with appimages they are the least sucky to use, and it beats manually compiling the software.

Huh, i thought that was something wayland was actually good at lol. Haven’t experienced any issues myself.

Yeah vrr causing flickering on the desktop is a common issue. I’m only using window managers so i just toggle it on or off with a keybind. On kde or hyprland you could try setting it to only turn on for fullscreen applications.

I think what you’re referring to is when you install windows and linux on the same drive. That can indeed cause problems, but if you use seperate drives you should be good to go.

That’s great, thanks for the info!

This is kinda unrelated to the post but do icc profiles now generally work on wayland? I thought last time i read about it it didn’t work yet but maybe i’m mistaken.