This is my PC. I use Catppuccin Mocha on every possible program.

So this time it's a bit more literal (my entry to this thread). I recently got a new GPU, AMD RX 7700 XT, upgraded from my Nvidia GTX 1070. After using it for some time with the Ubuntu 24.04 install I had, 2 days ago I also switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME, that I always wanted to try, but I was afraid of the Nvidia wonkiness I've heard about (now with an AMD GPU that barrier was no longer there).

The performance difference is huge for me with this GPU between the 2 distros.

My desktop is not that different, because most stuff I always set it up more or less the same.

Finally an AMD GPU, drivers now open source and not proprietary, wayland. It's a cool experience, I'm glad I 'took the risk' and splurged for an AMD GPU. I always wanted to try it, but I've had been afraid to part with Nvidia due to my familiarity with it.

I'm also really impressed with openSUSE Tumbleweed as well. It would be hard to make a proper write up, but I just find it so damn impressive, I never could have imagined that I still could be THAT impressed with a Linux distro. It does a lot of stuff really well.

So yeah, new GPU, new OS, new graphics stack, new display protocol (wayland), a lot of new stuff that I'm happy and excited about.



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Quoting: DoctorJunglistSo this time it's a bit more literal (my entry to this thread). I recently got a new GPU, AMD RX 7700 XT, upgraded from my Nvidia GTX 1070. After using it for some time with the Ubuntu 24.04 install I had, 2 days ago I also switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME, that I always wanted to try, but I was afraid of the Nvidia wonkiness I've heard about (now with an AMD GPU that barrier was no longer there).

The performance difference is huge for me with this GPU between the 2 distros.

My desktop is not that different, because most stuff I always set it up more or less the same.

Finally an AMD GPU, drivers now open source and not proprietary, wayland. It's a cool experience, I'm glad I 'took the risk' and splurged for an AMD GPU. I always wanted to try it, but I've had been afraid to part with Nvidia due to my familiarity with it.

I'm also really impressed with openSUSE Tumbleweed as well. It would be hard to make a proper write up, but I just find it so damn impressive, I never could have imagined that I still could be THAT impressed with a Linux distro. It does a lot of stuff really well.

So yeah, new GPU, new OS, new graphics stack, new display protocol (wayland), a lot of new stuff that I'm happy and excited about.

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As a long time openSUSE user who is also running a "version" of Tumbleweed (Aeon and Kalpa) I am still to this day surprised by this system and it is a true miracle. Probably it should opt in for a new world wonder 😅

Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

Quoting: sourpuzI've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I just dislike how GTK has been moving more and more to a GNOME-only toolkit and having things removed from it constantly. It's really been becoming a major pain in some aspects for alternative GTK based desktops like Xfce/MATE/Cinnamon. I honestly dont see much of a future for GTK based desktops that arent GNOME anymore. Qt at least seems like it wants to stay desktop agnostic. It is also very fast and uses far less resources comparably than GTK from what I've seen.

I totally agree. If you're using Gnome itself, you're fine, but they're really hurting other GTK based desktops. Mint had to downgrade some of the bundled apps for their new release, as the current versions only play nice with libadwaita.

I like to use XFCE on older hardware, and it's quite noticeable.

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Quoting: sourpuzI've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I just dislike how GTK has been moving more and more to a GNOME-only toolkit and having things removed from it constantly. It's really been becoming a major pain in some aspects for alternative GTK based desktops like Xfce/MATE/Cinnamon. I honestly dont see much of a future for GTK based desktops that arent GNOME anymore. Qt at least seems like it wants to stay desktop agnostic. It is also very fast and uses far less resources comparably than GTK from what I've seen.

No, I did not forget about August:

I'm still rolling. I'm loving openSUSE Tumbleweed!

Nor September:

tried out windowmaker on my thinkpad while dicking around with slackware, liked it enough to try it on my main Arch rig. without going too deep into customization i believe i've got it in a good spot, how's this?
(trying to cover up the crusty jpeg wallpaper here, lol)


Nothing too fancy as I spent most of the time tweaking my shortcuts to match TDE and getting some essential dockapps working, perhaps I will make my own theme tomorrow

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I've dusted off my 1st gen Ryzen system this week. Hard to believe it's been over 7 years already since this chip came out.

Quoting: Avehicle7887I've dusted off my 1st gen Ryzen system this week. Hard to believe it's been over 7 years already since this chip came out.

I see you "old" Ryzen 1700X and show you my still actively in use 11 years old 3rd Gen Intel Laptop :grin:



Uptime 34 seconds I know I just booted it up for this screenshot :D

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Finally, I'll pitch in here, too! Last weekend I got an extremely good deal on a used ThinkPad that I simply couldn't pass up. After replacing the smallish ssd and some tinkering I'm satisfied with my little XFCE setup.



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For October:

Now that's a full dock, fellow German! And 11 TB of space! I'm officially impressed. Are those good old mechanical hdds? I use those for bulk storage.

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Quoting: sourpuzNow that's a full dock, fellow German! And 11 TB of space! I'm officially impressed. Are those good old mechanical hdds? I use those for bulk storage.

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Some yes some not. Actually these are 3 BtrFS file system which do consist of:

1TB M.2 (root + home)
1TB + 1TB Sata SSDs (Datalake 1)
4TB + 4 TB HDDs (Datalake 2)

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Simon Stålenhag? You have great taste in art!

Here.