No numpad is a deal breaker for me sadly.

Almost on a daily basis I use my numpad for accounting or product prices, other calculations etc, heck i even avoid laptops which have no numpad.

I'd also like some keys dedicated to being programmable function keys.

This kb is cool idea though. But for now I'll stick to my £10 keyboard that has a numpad and dedicated programmable keys, and backlighting that lights up the letters too😅😂

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Well, for my desktop I've been using Fedora for so long it feels like forever. However, I tend to pick the best distro for the job.

These days for example I have "less important" servers running Debian stable, and more critical servers running RHEL (actual RHEL, not CentOS since the whole shakeup) meanwhile my laptop runs Arch (This one has broken a few times..).

Generally if a system is extremely critical it will be running an enterprise grade OS.

As for my personal desktop, I do prefer to have something quite a bit newer in terms of kernel and mesa, I mean if I tried running my ATI Radeon 5600 XT on Debian stable or RHEL it probably wouldn't be such a great experience, which is stable on Fedora 33 (but not 32).. except for the whole XFCE crashing thing.. which I thought was a kernel or mesa thing until I tried a different UI lol.

With that said, I've never had to reinstall my Fedora systems. Things have broken, mostly nvidia stuff, which is why I went ATI Radeon this time round. Since going ATI I've not really had anything break yet aside from the UI crashing, but it's been doing that since I built my system late last year.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOBS supports building for Debian based systems as well. That is where the lutris package was up until recently when it was uploaded to Debian Sid.

Yup, it's very useful for anyone looking for a simple multi-distro way of distributing packages :grin:

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, I know you will be looking for ways to get back to your preferred desktop, but as a Mate user I'd like to say I hope it treats you well while you're a refugee.

Well.. so far so good. I mean it does miss a few things I really like about XFCE, for example, per-monitor wallpapers, or per-workspace wallpapers, "intelligent" panel hiding (hides when window is maximized, but shows when not), ability to edit the Stick/Min/Max/Close window button layout/settings etc all of which are out of the box supported on XFCE.

Ofc, these are a personal preference thing and ofc you can't expect all environments to be the same. It's also possible I missed a few settings.. but I did spend about 3 hours just going through settings editing things (even in dconf) and forcing it to allow me to disable gnome-keyring in favour of KeepassXC which works perfectly once done.

It's actually throwing me back some memories here though.. I switched to XFCE back before Gnome 3 was released, so I was using G2 prior to switching to XFCE. I think I switched around the 4.6 release period which dates to around 2009.

With that said, I've been able to almost get mate to mimic my previous XFCE setup, using a python script which auto changes wallpaper on workspace switch and hydrapaper for per-monitor wallpapers.

But I do feel a bit restricted, and it feels super weird going back to something I left years ago. I've only been on mate since Tuesday so.. yeah. I did try KDE because of mate restrictions for about 10 minutes before uninstalling it again.. then went back to Mate and decided to mod it a bit further. So I can happily say mate is better than KDE (for my preference)

But at the same time it's a relief to be able to turn my TV on again without my GUI crashing :woot:

It also appears to be very stable and so far not a single crash or bug encountered (that I noticed). So, I'm giving it as fair a try as I can :smile:

Quoting: wvstolzingDoes XFCE 4.16 make a difference? I couldn't wait for the official Fedora release, so I upgraded to the 34 beta for 4.16. No issues so far.

I've not tried 4.16 yet, I'm still on Fedora 33 with XFCE 4.14. I usually try to avoid beta releases best I can. My system needs to be a bit like a workhorse, sure it can play games, but I also need it for managing my business, so I prefer to wait a little bit and have something a little bit more stable :unsure:

I will try it once F34 has had a few weeks of people reporting distro-breaking bugs after stable release :P

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To be fair, flatpak/snapchat on the RPM side are not the only options either, we have OpenSUSEs build system which allows (almost) anyone to create packages suitable for various RPM based distros.

Fedora also provides COPR which allows people to add additional packages easily.

That and of course Snapchat/Flatpak is always available. So yup. This one may be nothing more than marketing.

I mean, I begrudgingly* switched from XFCE to Mate and had to use a COPR repo for a missing item just the other day.

*I love XFCE, but unfortunately with my AMD graphics card it causes a system crash when plugging my third monitor, mate doesn't crash so.. unfortunately switched.

Still Fedora though 👍 but missing some of the customization options of XFCE 😅

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Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: 3zekiello$edow$

This word looks like you tried to write "Windows" and had a race condition problem, which ironically is the problem wine developers have in this case.

Very well.

:grin: Had to login just to give you a like! That's hilarious.

PS:
What happened to Micro$oft and Windoze? :D

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Quoting: RoosterWould this apply to Red Dead Redemption 2? According to ProtonDB, that game is still a hit or miss, when it comes to running it through Proton.

Wait? You mean the online isn't included with the main game anymore? Separate purchases now?

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Well, I hate Amazon.

But I'll happily let them spend their money on Blender as I make video game modifications with it, so the more funding and continued development the better 😺

Blender has lately had the most used time on my tux 😂

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I used to love playing tropico. And I really appreciate the tux support. But at £101 (all dlc+game.. I'll wait for a steam sale 😂

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Nvidia has issues now? Oh I feel a little guilty now 😅

I recently built a new computer and went with ATI Radeon 5600XT and I've found it's been the easiest to setup and use in years (too easy) but prior to this I was always Nvidia since '03.

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Quoting: brokeassbenColorado is pretty spectacular looking and they seem to have captured it well. They're going to continue to get my money with all of these damn DLC.

When some of my friends who do not play video games at all found out that I play a truck sim, they decided it was going to be a running joke and I get soooo much grief for it. Whatever. It's probably the most relaxing game I've played.

American Accent...

Now, don't ya'll be worrying about now what they say about ya. This here be the U S of A and we be proud to be thundering our big rigs down these roads.

Normal accent..

Seriously though, don't worry what people think. Just play your games!

Glad to see this is still being updated and supported, I remember when it first came out a lot of people were doubting how far it would go.

I'll be getting this DLC once I get around to building my new computer as I have all the components, I've just got to put them together, but due to working 14hrs a day, and 7 days a week, I haven't had time yet.

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