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Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylaySadly its written in rust so it takes forever to compile on my computer, even with my cpu with 24 threads

Why not install a binary if the compile times are an issue for you?

It doesn't have a binary version for arch.

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylaySadly its written in rust so it takes forever to compile on my computer, even with my cpu with 24 threads

Took less than a minute for me on my eight cores. I suppose that's pretty long but not quite forever.

You probably already had its dependencies downloaded and built. All rust software honestly has this issue. I remember when yay was getting remade in rust as paru and it also takes 40 times longer to compile than yay. I wanted to try cosmic desktop before it was added to arch repos and it took at least 40 minutes to build (before it failed). My computer can build chromium from source in less time than that.

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Sadly its written in rust so it takes forever to compile on my computer, even with my cpu with 24 threads

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I hope vulkan video encoding becomes usable soon. Nvidia has supported it for quite a while now.

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Quoting: StellaWhy are these Linux patch notes always so cryptic :cry: in the Windows Patch notes, you read things like 'game ready driver for this and that', 'optimal settings for this and that', 'fixed this bug'. Whereas with the Linux drivers i feel like I need a degree to understand that. What the frick is VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control for example

As a programmer I like that its more detailed :)
for example "Added support for mmap of exported DMA-BUF objects." is an important feature, it allows screen recorders to use the relatively new vulkan video encoding fully on the gpu, which allows for significantly better fps in games while recording

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Quoting: ShmerlDidn't AMD's AMF switch to Vulkan video? OBS should just use latter directly (but it doesn't have AV1 encoding yet).

Maybe, but also note that vulkan video encoding is broken in the amd radv driver and the vulkan video encoding in ffmpeg also seems to have issues. Using vulkan video encoding directly is much more complex than using amf.

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Quoting: AronMy bigest problem is, that my steam index always crashes 3 seconds after start it, then I need press "restart healmset", start steamvr again and then it works. It taked me ages to figure it out. I am pretty sure, that not all users have discovered the trick to make it work.

I have the same problem, and even on windows too. So it just seems like valve vr drivers are terrible in general.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualFor me, the biggest one has been multiple monitors with different resolutions. Just flat-out doesn't work on X. Works great on KDE Wayland, GNOME Wayland, and COSMIC. That one's been around for a while, though.

The biggest one in this post is the color management protocol support. Which...I'm surprised KDE is enabling??

What do you mean? you can just set different resolution, it works. Do you mean different dpi per monitor? qt supports it and kde does too on x11 (but in kde that per monitor dpi is hidden behind an environment variable for x11).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt looks like features are starting to creep in that, if I understand correctly, use Wayland to do things you couldn't do in X. Like, can X do per-monitor brightness?

Quoting: TrainDocNo I don't believe X can control per monitor brightness. Glad to see KDE going all in on Wayland.

X11 does support per monitor brightness, just run
xrandr --output DP-2 --brightness 1.5
for example, and it will only apply the brightness on monitor DP-2.

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@TrainDoc why does deckyloader inject into the embedded chromium instance rather than using the official gamescope overlay method with the xatom GAMESCOPE_EXTERNAL_OVERLAY?

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Unfortunately as you said, valve index still works badly on linux (especially performance), even with amd. But fortunately there is now an alternative driver that doesn't use steamvr at all. Monado website has a guide on how to setup monado + libsurvive + opencomposite to make steamvr games use monado + libsurvive driver instead. That driver is much much smoother than steamvr on linux the last time I tested it.
Maybe in the future this setup will replace steamvr completely with just one package install (since it seems like valve has no interest in fixing the performance issues in steamvr on linux, it has been an issue for many years now).

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