Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Lofty

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Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'

I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157 [External Link]

ohh that's not good because i do use sunshine/moonlight.

I'm guessing the bug is specific to my hardware though, the problem appears to be that nothing can turn off vsync so I have higher latency. You can test yourself by bringing the server next to client, opening the website below and shooting a video at slow motion.
https://dregu.github.io/frameskip/ [External Link]

Iirc on wayland vsync can only be disabled for games running in fullscreen

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Quoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

In the meantime, I did actually try it in a VM and it worked. I installed Aurora, then added rpmfusion using their official command for Silverblue, then rebooted and layered broadcom-wl package and rebooted again and then "wl" kernel module is actually available

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Quoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

No, but I did replace entire kernels, and I know people install nvidia drivers on silverblue, as well as that akmods or whatever the module building system is called can actually run when rpm-ostree builds the new image. So yes, I think you should be able to just layer it from rpmfusion or whatever. That being said, can't be sure until you try I guess

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Quoting: rustynailAurora is a distro that both includes all you should need ootb

How can I install a kernel module on aurora? It certainly doesn't have the kernel module I need for wifi (Broadcom wl) and I could not figure out how to make a custom image with the wifi driver included.

If you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

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Quoting: rustynail

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Quoting: Stella

Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍

Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date

I have considered Fedora, never really got into it so far and I've been using Linux for a good long while. I read there are some things missing OOTB that make it not as complete as a distro such as Mint, Ubuntu or even Manjaro.

Fedora is definitely a distro that doesn't really go out of its way to be extra user friendly and it's very vanilla, so it's kinda like Debian with newer packages or Arch without sudden breaking changes, but also the state of vanilla Linux has been so good that people have been calling Fedora a new Ubuntu for a while. Especially if you prefer flatpak apps because Fedora packaged apps have some legal issues with stuff like codecs and hardware video decoding. Also previously mentioned Fedora-based Aurora is a distro that both includes all you should need ootb and is immutable/atomic which means that no matter what you do and how long you use your system, it's guaranteed to always be in the correct state to the point that there is never any difference between an update and a fresh install.

thx for the reply i will check out Aurora Linux reviews to see what it's like. I do tend to lean heavily towards flatpak usage.

im wondering if aurora offers btrfs + Snapper snapshots like cachyos 🤔

Aurora has bootable snapshots and rollbacks out of the box, yes, but it's not really btrfs snapshots, it's sort of implemented at the level of the "package manager" roughly speaking, when you install any system updates, the new version is created as a new system snapshot which you then reboot into, and the previous version is also kept. And before you reboot, your currently running system isn't touched at all, which makes safe auto updates possible, and they are actually enabled by default iirc. I didn't really daily drive Aurora but I did daily drive Fedora Kinoite which it's based on and it has the same system

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Stella

Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍

Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date

I have considered Fedora, never really got into it so far and I've been using Linux for a good long while. I read there are some things missing OOTB that make it not as complete as a distro such as Mint, Ubuntu or even Manjaro.

Fedora is definitely a distro that doesn't really go out of its way to be extra user friendly and it's very vanilla, so it's kinda like Debian with newer packages or Arch without sudden breaking changes, but also the state of vanilla Linux has been so good that people have been calling Fedora a new Ubuntu for a while. Especially if you prefer flatpak apps because Fedora packaged apps have some legal issues with stuff like codecs and hardware video decoding. Also previously mentioned Fedora-based Aurora is a distro that both includes all you should need ootb and is immutable/atomic which means that no matter what you do and how long you use your system, it's guaranteed to always be in the correct state to the point that there is never any difference between an update and a fresh install.

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Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

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It seems that for major corporate distros flathub has a fatal flaw of being outside of the distro's control, which is why fedora also has its own flatpak repo, and Ubuntu has snap.
In the long term it seems snap will replace deb for system and server software, which is fine, but for apps I also hope that most devs will always choose flathub over snap to the point that snap is pointless for that

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: JarmerApparently some developers are mostly using ray tracing not to improve the visuals but as a crutch that allows them to not bother implementing lighting at all as they normally should, like iirc the latest Doom game doesn't work without ray tracing at all, although when you set it to low the performance is not as horrible as you may expect from ray tracing (but still pretty horrible)

This is a pretty unfair take IMO. Lighting the old way is one of the most time consuming things in game development right now. Ray tracing or path tracing would make lighting a game much much less time consuming.

The problem is that over the past decades devs have managed to get pretty close to replicating large parts of the look of raytraced lighting in traditional lighting models.

So now that raytraced lighting is here it only looks marginally better than what traditional lighting has offered. The only difference is that it's much less time consuming to implement. Which is not a crutch but a handy tool to keep dev times down while still making things look good.

I mean, you've just repeated the same thing I said but made it sound positive. Of course it's cool that they don't have to spend time on it, and I guess since I could play Doom Dark Ages at almost 60 fps on my low-mid tier rx6600 after all and it's in theory should only get better in the future, it's probably worth it

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Quoting: helloCLDOn the off chance I actually play through all of this, does anyone have any other recent Quake mods they recommend checking out?

The Immortal Lock was another pretty large mod.

Also other than looking for mods at specific quake community websites like Slipseer both official Bethesda Quake remaster and Ironwail are now capable of browsing and downloading mods right in the menu. Iirc both have relatively small mod lists but since it's so easy to just download and play something you may as well try those

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