Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: wolfyrionThese applications are open by default when the computer starts

[Massive list of apps]

Just curious, is there any reason at all not to close most of these apps when you're not actually actively using them? You can easily install a single indicator to watch your mail boxes at least? And surely you don't listen to music while you watch netflix and play games? Your decision of course, I just don't understand why anyone would do this.

Just a small explanation...

I am working as an IT (Freelancer) doing support to over 30 companies that means most of the day I spend it outside with the clients or inside my house doing remote support and so on... my FREE time is pretty much 0 because I wake up to 6:00 (gym until 7) and end my job around 19:00 and then gym for like 1h....and then back to work/games/hobbies until 24:00.

Clementine is playing my favorite songs that I want to keep me up for the whole day and listening to some rock radio stations as well.
Twiter it gives me daily information about my country news, my interests and many other news I put on #

just a picture of my old pc desktop second monitor



Thunderbird has to be open 24h per day as is my tool to communicate with partners and clients
Imagine that I also have to use teamviewer and virtual machines to start a Windows Server 2012/Windows 7 and 10 in order to explain to some clients what to do...(sometimes)

+ I can use my PC for entertainment as well when I have free time...



When I sit on my PC is like having the whole world in front of me with the 3 monitors available... I want to have everything instantly and yes 1 Sec to open an application it does matter to me! :P
Is an obsession!!!! Is like Steam that I have thousand of games available and when a new game comes out I want to play that game that just got released right now... I buy it and play for 10 mins and maybe never play it again...
I think use my pc like a remote control, I play games for like 10-30 mins , watch an anime for 20 mins or a movie , listen to music for some hours, work for many hours.... and so on..

There was a day that I had 5 Teamviewer clients , 3 VM Machines turn on , answering emails , playing music in the background , libreoffice open both writer and calc with many files open, watching a video on third monitor of how to fix something related with Active Directory.I had also DVD Styler converting one AVI to DVD in order to play it in a presentation and also burn the Video to DVD as well + many other things happening in the background...

Is just I dont want to have LIMITS! simple as that... :P

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I am using by default 32GB Ram on every setup I have build so far and I Am thinking to get 64GB

These applications are open by default when the computer starts

Clementine (-2nd monitor)
Vivaldi (tabs open : tweetdeck,gmail,outlook,youtube,facebok) - 2nd Monitor
Chrome (for netflix) - 3rd Monitor TV
4-5 Plasma Widgets - 2nd Screen
Thunderbird - Main Screen
Cairo - Dock (2x docks - up and down)
2x - Plasma Panels
Firefox as main browser with over 15-20 Tabs
Steam
octopi
caffeine
KDE Connect

and maybe some more when I have lots of work to do ... and no I dont have time to close any of these applications in order to launch a game when I Want to rest a bit...

I am using preload in order to have my system take advantage of all the RAM I have in order to prefetch the applications I Am using more often.

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They were very generous to crowdfunding backers and they gave to them extra copies of the game. Some crowdfunding backers got like 2-3 extra keys , both Steam keys and GOG keys.
Well I guess now all the Gaming Black Markets are flooded with those keys in half price....

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I have a PS4 and I can say I am not that happy at all, however I am enjoying the games that are ONLY for PS4 (no regrets)

I had a GTX 980 and I used to play Rocket League at 2560x1440 and now I am playing rocket league at 1920x1080 and is worst than PC especially the PS4 controller has delays and the game is pretty much unplayable.
I think that games that are ported from PC to PS4 are not that good compared to PC.

I totally prefer playing games on my PC with 4k resolution and invest on good hardware than playing on PS4.

For me that GTX 1080Ti is instant buy :)

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erhmm.. I thought I have backed up this game but I guess I have backed Crossing Souls instead.... :dizzy:
Oh well...Actually I wanted to pledge for

Pledge $25 or more
"I pirated Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island when I was a kid and I feel bad!" This reward tier instantly absolves you of all guilt and includes the Thimbleweed Park game. All subsequent tiers also include guilt absolution."

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: Leopard[

As i see,you have a specific fetish with Gog.Also this Che Guevera guy too.Which i'm so curious,what cause that?

Simple. When I buy a game DRMFREE on GOG, that game is mine and, once I download the install files, I own it forever; I don't need to request online permision for to install and play MY GAMES... And that is because GOG trust me and that is why I trust them.

Can you install an Steam game from a local backup without an internet connection?
No. Steam IS DRM and the fact that you need online permision for to install a game from a local backup, is evidence that you are not the owner of your games...

The only DRM that I happily accept is EA Origin on my Windows 7 machine, because for the 5 U$D per month of EA ACCESS I can play a lot of big EA games for FREE through EA VAULT... VALVe seriously MUST take note about that...

And yeah, I would like to see an interview to the people at Croteam explaining why they put DRM in their Linux games.

I think you have a wrong idea of what steam really is...and yes you can backup your steam games , and can run them any time you want even offline.
Steam creates a folder called SteamLibrary and on this folder are all your games, just backup that folder and you can have your games anywhere, even on an external hard disk. When you want to format your pc or install steam again you just point your location of your steam library , simple as that and you can play all your game offline(excluded games that require online connection)
Also if I dont have the game already installed or something happened with my PC and lost the game and my saved game data I just click on my library to install the game and by some kind of "miracle" my saved games are there as well since the game supports steam cloud :P

Well I dont have time to analyse to you how steam works since I have to go to work.... but you are missing a lot of things like for example games that are not on GOG. Look we are not going to live forever so enjoy your life while you can, play as many games you can DRM or NOT DRM enjoy life and so on...:)

you reminded me a man that wanted to have sex with a pretty girl and I bring him a very pretty girl 9.5/10 and then he says to me. if she is not a virgin I am not gonna have sex with her.... :huh:

Be free to enjoy everything in your life, dont put restrictions to yourself :P

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yay!!! a NEW game that my old laptop with a GeForce GT 525M can run! :P

( I already missed my PC :'( )

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Not FREE!
Existing owners get the base game for Overkill Edition and they have to buy the NEW DLC!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/345180/announcements/detail/681570579428398503 [External Link]

For players who already own the game on Steam; You don't need to buy the Overkill Edition.
The two new DLCs will be available for purchase from our Victor Vran Steam Store page.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMy experience with KDE suggests that leaving the compositor on kills your performance

The only reliable way to eliminate tearing with Nvidia is to enable the "force full composition pipeline" option in "xorg.conf". See the following article:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

I dont have time to do the tests now with the new drivers but as far as I remember force full composition pipeline was giving me horrible frame rates and looked like the game was staling/laging

some others are using

export __GL_YIELD="USLEEP" (which is also causing problems on some games)

some other

export KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1

so now which is better for tearing and performance I have to do tests again but at the moment I will settle with KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1 and some other vsync settings on profile...

My profile looks like this....(the SDL settings is to stop SDL games taking all over my 3x monitors)

# /etc/profile
export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1
#export __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=DVI-I-1
#export __VDPAU_NVIDIA_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=DVI-I-1
#export __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=DVI-I-1
#export SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=1
#export SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_DISPLAY=1
#export SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0
export KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1
export KWIN_USE_BUFFER_AGE=0

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Quoting: BoypageDoes it fix the screen tearing I experience with my GTX1060? I have checked the "advanced" composition boxes in nvidia settings on previous driver. Still not gòod.

You shouldn't have any tearing issues especially if you are using Plasma.

By default ALL Opengl Games/Applications disable compositor so you have to FORCE the compositor to stay on.

No compositor = tearing issues

with the newest Plasma fixes they have added an option to allow applications to block compositor...so this must be disabled(uncheck)
if this is not working you must add a window rule for this to work.

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