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yeah I'm so ancient I've read teh books and I also happen to LIKE the much maligned Lynch's adaptation. I can just as well admit am so nerd that I've even watched the docu on the infamous Jodorowski's treatment (pity it doesn't shed much light on what it was to be like despite teasing a huge tome of sketches implying that "it's all there")
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Gnome 3 feels much more homely to me, still customizable, but simpler, and more elegant.
And it has come a long way in its 9 years of development in terms of performance and polish.
Whether using Ubuntu, Pop!OS or Manjaro, you'll have a great experience on all three, it's all about personal preference and how up to date you want your software to be.
I use vanilla Arch for the latest and greatest, and because I feel like Debian-based distros tend to be a bit more of a pain to tinker with. And also, I just dislike spins of spins of spins of distros.
I wanted stable framerate on games, squeezing all the performance I could out of my hardware and saw big improvements with the following:
- Kernel: tkg-pds, present on the chaotic-aur: https://lonewolf.pedrohlc.com/chaotic-aur/
You need the package that works with your CPU architecture, in my case an i5 6600k, nicknamed Skylake, I, therefore, got the linux-tkg-pds-skylake and linux-tkg-pds-skylake-headers packages.
FYI: If using nvidia, also recommend getting the chaotic-nvidia-dkms-tkg package along with the other ones (settings, utils, opencl, etc..) in the same repo.
Although normal nvidia-dkms should also work, it's just not quite as good from experience.
- WM: mutter-performance in place of just mutter
- And for wine games, GloriousEggroll's latest version of Proton: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom#installation
- Disabling mitigations (spectre, meltdown, etc..) for intel CPUs with grub cmdline parameters: https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ (only recommended if behind a secure network, and on a desktop, at home)
- Oh and of course, feral's gamemode, do yourself a favor and just use it: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode
And if the Arch install scares you or you simply don't want to deal with installing it "the arch way", this Calamares installer does the job just fine, I recommend it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/blue-arch-installer/files/arch-installer/
There you go!
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I'm running Salient XFCE (with Zen kernel) and absolutely loving it. Silent Robot has set it up with damned near everything, and has his own repo to ensure ongoing compatibilities. Just started playing Resident Evil 2 Remaster and it's buttery smooth. I highly recommend giving it a try. The Plasma version is also gorgeous, though it was affected by the massive botch update KDE pushed out a month ago.
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But if an iso came out within the month it should be fine.