How good is this feature with old hybrid AMD notebook? It's an A6 with some HD6000, I don't remember well

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: fagnerlnIt's really awesome, because of it I discovered a big inconvenient, Vulkan uses A LOT of VRAM, I played some games with pretty bad performance and my GPU is good enough to run it, and I noticed that my VRAM was filled up, so I need to turn down some effects to put the game on <4GB range.

I have a 580 4GB, it's like driving a good car with the hand brake applied.

Vulkan doesn't use any more VRAM than any other API. A Vulkan renderer might, but that's up to the developers.

Dude, please...

I remember that I've read some post explaining some differences between Vulkan and high level api, and one of the points are about vram, that uses a slightly more of it (which is not a bad thing), but I can't find it anymore.

The point is that same games uses more VRAM on Vulkan, I don't see any reason to a dev "choose" to use more VRAM on different api without needing, on Doom 2016 have problems in 2GB card on Vulkan, Rainbow Six Siege have people complaining about low vram messages when using Vulkan, I have some games that uses considerably more VRAM on Linux (native and proton using vulkan) than Windows (DX11).

Before I post this comment, I did a small test using the Dolphin Emulator with Mangohud, 2 runs with Vulkan and 2 runs with OGL, the same configuration, the result is that on OGL it uses aprox 1,0GB and Vulkan aprox 1,3GB, 30% is a lot.

I know that the API itself doesn't use more VRAM, but a API without application is useless. I know that there's a lot of variables that changes the VRAM utilization (like the GPU vendor), but my point when I said "Vulkan uses A LOT of VRAM" is that the GAME that uses Vulkan uses more VRAM that the same game on other API, wasn't my intention to said that a API uses more RAM, doesn't make sense.

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I played a lot of SkyRoad, I love it! I'll check it soon

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It's really awesome, because of it I discovered a big inconvenient, Vulkan uses A LOT of VRAM, I played some games with pretty bad performance and my GPU is good enough to run it, and I noticed that my VRAM was filled up, so I need to turn down some effects to put the game on <4GB range.

I have a 580 4GB, it's like driving a good car with the hand brake applied.

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Quoting: jahid65

Quoting: fagnerlnThere's a big hype on this distro, I will try it later. The problem is Gnome, I'm on Ubuntu right now and I'm fighting with Gnome, as it makes everything harder. Want to change the audio output fast? Nope! Install a extension. Want to create a text file on Nautilus? Nope!

I love the look of it btw

Create blank text called New text file.txt and copy that to Templates folder in your home. You can also add odt/docx etc file there.

That's nothing intuitive, they should put some files here by default. Thanks for the tip!

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Quoting: Muvon53

Quoting: fagnerlnThe problem is Gnome, I'm on Ubuntu right now and I'm fighting with Gnome, as it makes everything harder. Want to change the audio output fast? Nope! Install a extension. Want to create a text file on Nautilus? Nope!

Your solution is near and is called KDE :wink:

I used KDE for approximately a year, I found a lot of bugs in Baloo and Discovery on OpenSUSE, and in november I switched to Kubuntu 19.10, which was more stable, but I had some little bugs on Dolphin (it crashes on right clicking some files, for some reason). KDE is really great, everything is smooth, but I'm tired, I don't know why, I'm more comfortable using a GTK DE, like XFCE or Cinnamon. I will eventually install Xubuntu here... lol

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There's a big hype on this distro, I will try it later. The problem is Gnome, I'm on Ubuntu right now and I'm fighting with Gnome, as it makes everything harder. Want to change the audio output fast? Nope! Install a extension. Want to create a text file on Nautilus? Nope!

I love the look of it btw

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Fedora is a great distro, but the fact that it need to be updated in every release (6 months iirc) it can be a headache for a simple user. Fedora needs a LTS or even a rolling version.

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An amazing release, I installed it immediately after the release, it's so stylish and runs so smooth. Everything is working great.

There's 2 "downsides" (which isn't Ubuntu's fault):

1- some trivial thing needs a extension, as a easier way to change the audio output for example.

2- gaming on wayland is curious, it shows more tearing than X when isn't in sync, but it looks and feels better (somehow), I need to do more tests.

I'm very excited with this release.

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Quoting: rat2000

Quoting: fagnerlnI love the color scheme of Manjaro, but I'm really fine with ubuntu (and pretty excited with 20.04, it will be a good day)

Used Ubuntu for years, then I tried Manjaro, but I very quickly gave up, switch back to Ubuntu, at some point I got fed up with Ubuntu and switch back to Manjaro and actually gave it a fear chance. I love it, I actually love it. I used the Budgie version for some time but now I am on Gnome.
Ubuntu is nice, but the software they provide is usually very old, and you have to add PPAs and for a new user I don't think that is very easy. Manjaro, the way I see it, is like Ubuntu but with new-er software, yes it's not that tested, but I didn't have a problem with it until now. And once you get how the AUR works... my god this is like a new experience to Linux in itself.

Maybe when this release comes out, I will actually do a complete reinstall, since I put it on my laptop and PC like 3-4 years ago I never reinstaled the OS but I kind of want have that "fresh feeling" :D

I tried Manjaro some years ago, it looks great but it feels a bit bloated, I know that they improved this in recent versions.

On the last year I bought a new PC, I tried to install Manjaro but it fails, I think that the iso was corrupted, I tried OpenSUSE tumbleweed, which is great, but I find some theming issues and annoying bugs on KDE,and the way that OpenSUSE updates is interesting, but a >GB update daily can be discouraging. So I tried Solus, which is one of the most promising distro that I ever seen, it's so smooth, starts instantly and is beautiful, but I had performance problems in gaming. So I ended up with Kubuntu 19.10, which is a perfect distro for KDE, sadly KDE have bugs here too, and today I will come back to gnome with Ubuntu 20.04.

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