They seem to have taken a cue from Zowie with a driver-less design and buttons to control the settings, although in Zowie's case, you're limited to adjusting the DPI, but, frankly, that's really all I need.

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Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: Mountain ManWhat exactly qualifies as "gaming hardware"? I have a standard mouse and keyboard, both work out of the box without needing special software, and I am able to play games just fine.

I guess it is like walking shoes: sure, you can walk with any shoes, but these are made specifically for that purpose: comfortable, durable, etc.

Then, if you ask any vendor about gaming hardware, they will probably simple reply: "look, it has 16 millions configurable RGB colors !" :tongue:

A lot of what is passed off as "gaming hardware" is a solution in search of a problem. I've never found any of it to meaningfully improve my ability to play games.

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Quoting: ripper81358

Quoting: Mountain ManRazer products are trash. I suppose it's nice that someone is going to the effort to try and support them in Linux, but why bother for such low quality peripherals when there are much better options that "just work" out of the box?

Sorry but i don't know any gaming hardware vendor that has official linux support for their products.

What exactly qualifies as "gaming hardware"? I have a standard mouse and keyboard, both work out of the box without needing special software, and I am able to play games just fine.

But frankly, my main beef with Razer is that their products are third-rate at best despite carrying a first-rate price tag. In my experience (admittedly from many years ago), you're lucky if any Razer product lasts more than a year without developing a fault. Perhaps their quality has improved since I last used any of their products, but I doubt it when they do things like replace the rock solid and reliable Cherry MX switches in their mechanical keyboards with a cheap Chinese knockoff.

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Razer products are trash. I suppose it's nice that someone is going to the effort to try and support them in Linux, but why bother for such low quality peripherals when there are much better options that "just work" out of the box?

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: drmothDo I really have to spell it out for you?

Yes? Because I've never experienced any breakage?

You listed four issues from your 2 minute search, three of which are unofficial theme issues and one appears to be a broken Manjaro install. Maybe KDE has some quality issues on the "Get New Themes" site, but I have about 20 themes installed and as I say... never experienced an issue. As for Manjaro, I had lots of issues with it, but KDE ran flawlessly, so presumably that near-two year old bug you referenced has been addressed.

I'm trying to decipher the weird language people employ when they have (often misplaced) preconceptions about things. It's frustrating to hear generalised, unconstructive feedback on anything ("it's clunky", "it's bloated", "it breaks") - but it's even more frustrating if/when you discover it's entirely unjustified.

As for Gnome, btw, I've never had it "break" either (visually or otherwise). The only problem I have with Gnome is that extensions frequently refuse to install. That's not "breakage" in my book, just a maintenance issue (and sometimes a dependency issue). It could use more polish, for sure.

Agreed. I've never had a desktop environment just suddenly break on me for no reason. I've been using KDE for over a decade, and it has always just worked.

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Quoting: drmothI want a slick, highly usable, modern DE, that preferably doesn't look like Windows. Gnome is the only decent contender at the moment, but it's not great. Canonical's Unity, once the bugs were fixed, was actually really good. We need something like this again.

KDE says hi.

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All I want is a proper continuation of the Half-Life series.

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Trying to stop crypto miners is akin to stopping pirates. Nvidia might be able to put some speed bumps in the way, but the miners will find a way around them pretty quickly.

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I disagree with the headline. The Smach Z was never promising. Sure, the developers made a lot of promises, but I was never under the impression that they would be able to deliver.

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Love that it's made in the USA... but come on, bro, I need my keypad!

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