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Latest Comments by fagnerln
Plasma 5.21 Beta is out and it's a thing of beauty, towards first-class Wayland support
26 Jan 2021 at 1:11 pm UTC

Quoting: no_information_hereI find Dolphin the most powerful file manager in the linux world. I have tried working with other desktop environments (I try to be agnostic) but Dolphin is the main thing that prevents any long-term move. I haven't really had any issues with Dolphin for years and years.

My KDE themes all work seamlessly between GTK and QT apps. I do admit, though, that I don't use Baloo and I always uninstall Discover and just use Synaptic.
Dolphin is great for sure, it's the manager with the most features, to be fair looks a bit too much, but this is customizable. I sadly found this bug with a folder, and one of the nicest feature is to search files, which uses baloo. So as you can imagine, I found 2 potential bugs in it.

Nautilus was awesome, but sadly every new version had less features. Thunar is ok, have less features but is pretty usable, isn't that stable, but not breaks a lot too. Nemo is the FM that I used less, but feels good, like the good old nautilus.

About the themes, I use a lot GIMP, and every dark theme that I tried, had problems in it.

Plasma 5.21 Beta is out and it's a thing of beauty, towards first-class Wayland support
23 Jan 2021 at 9:31 pm UTC

Quoting: Bumadar
Quoting: KohlyKohl
Quoting: fagnerlnThis twilight theme is really beautiful! KDE breaks a bit too much IMO, but I'm for sure will try this with Wayland
Way too many times after updating packages my KDE will break in all sorts of fun ways. I've had this issue for years with every KDE distro and is a bad user experience.
Running tumbleweed since it was released, with kde and I have to say that kde breakage I can count on one hand....
Like I said, probably a bad luck. I'm in love with their implementation of XFCE, but for sure I'll try 5.21 here... Well there's always a snapper to help

Plasma 5.21 Beta is out and it's a thing of beauty, towards first-class Wayland support
23 Jan 2021 at 6:46 pm UTC

Quoting: no_information_here
Quoting: fagnerlnThis twilight theme is really beautiful! KDE breaks a bit too much IMO, but I'm for sure will try this with Wayland
I am curious, which things break for you? I run the stable Plasma 5.18 that comes with KDE Neon LTS and it seems pretty solid to me.
I had issues with Dolphin, I had a folder that crashes it, I don't know why, Nautilus, Nemo and Thunar opens it without problem. Had issues with baloo, sometimes works, but sometimes simply don't find anything and I had to recreate the database to maybe work. Discover which is IMO a bad joke as Gnome Software. And the most annoying is the theme support, Breeze is ok, but if change anything, it will appear some bug, mostly on GTK apps. Now with a nice default theme, I think that it will fix this problem.

I used it on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which is a rolling distro, maybe I had some bad luck, but I had problems with Baloo, Discover and with themes on it. After this I tried Kubuntu 19.10, it feels more stable, Baloo worked, Discover worked (but, argh...), but I've encountered bugs with Dolphin and again with themes.

I feel more comfortable with GTK, but for sure KDE has a lot of potential. To me XFCE is by far the best DE, it's stable and more customizable than the majority of DEs. But the problem is the slow development, I think that Wayland is a game changer, who knows when they will start to work with...

Plasma 5.21 Beta is out and it's a thing of beauty, towards first-class Wayland support
22 Jan 2021 at 4:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

This twilight theme is really beautiful! KDE breaks a bit too much IMO, but I'm for sure will try this with Wayland

AMD make switching between Vulkan drivers AMDVLK and RADV easier
8 Jan 2021 at 1:20 pm UTC Likes: 8

AMD and Valve are two of most helpful companies and must be supported from us.

I think that this is the best approach possible to the driver.

The Linux distribution I was most thankful for in 2020 - EndeavourOS
6 Jan 2021 at 11:39 am UTC Likes: 1

Endeavour looks good, I hope that they succeed, and not finish like Antergos.

I tried Antergos two times, and in both, the installation failed, I don't know why. So I tried Manjaro for a few days, and in that time it was too much bloated. I know that it improved this way a lot, but every time that I consider to use it, I read some annoying thing about. Manjaro is a good project but with bad leadership, some weird choices. It reminds Mint, which is a project that now I despise, that Chromium controversy was the limit of acceptable, it cut off the snap from default (which is ok), blocked the snap installation (not ok) and don't give any alternative to chromium in that time.

So, nowadays I prefer to support more "root" distro. If I decide to use an Arch based system, I'll try to learn how to install Arch, it's a bit silly to use a derivation just because of the installation, I mean, the distro should add features to the base, like what Ubuntu did with Debian. The same for Ubuntu too, if I need to use it, I'll install it (or some flavor), not mint, zorin, pop...

Nowadays I'm on OpenSUSE TW, amazing distro with an amazing community, I'm using for months and never had any issue, it's really underrated. Maybe we need to shout more about it.

Linux on the Nintendo 64? Yes that's possible and there's a new up to date port
5 Jan 2021 at 10:53 am UTC Likes: 2

I don't see much utility on this, but would be nice if this helps to improve the features from the launchers. I mean, I have an "alternative" flashcard (cart?) Which works great and I still have a lot of fun, but two things can be better:
- Emulate special chips(CIC, iirc) to increase the compatibility
- Emulate the gamepak, for games that uses it to save

It's nice as concept btw

Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor delisted for Linux and macOS on Steam
4 Jan 2021 at 1:31 pm UTC Likes: 5

Doesn't matters if the game is old or not, this is sad. We are seeing less ports, more games with EAC and more games with DX12, and now losing the support from a big developer

Atari VCS games really are just plain Linux desktop builds
29 Dec 2020 at 10:44 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: RafiLinux
Quoting: slaapliedjeAnything in particular you'd like to see?
Installing the other OS options - Loading my GOG/other DRM Free game collection.
That should work fine. I'll see about slapping Lutris on there tonight. So far I've tested Debian Sid with Mad Max (plays using the Experimental Vulkan on High with a little bit of hiccups here and there, but otherwise pretty smooth at 1280x720). I installed Doom (2016) to test proton, but it was taking it's time to download the 59gb...

I've also ran PCSX2 and Dolphin on it with decent results.
To be fair, it's a bit disappointing 720p with hiccups on MadMax, 1080@30fps would be nice. They are using an APU like R3 2200G?

Great nonogram puzzler Pixross from Kenney is now on Steam and upgraded
16 Dec 2020 at 10:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

I love nonograms and kenney's work, I'll buy it as soon I boot my PC.