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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I guess mileage might differ. I installed Tumbleweed and then the Nvidia drivers following the wiki instructions. Everything is going great. Running a 3060 with Wayland+Plasma on a 360Hz screen and gaming through Steam. I love Tumbleweed.

    An alternative if just for benchmarking is EndeavourOS, you can choose proprietary Nvidia drivers as a boot option in the installer and then I believe it’ll be installed with them without further ado. Downside is if you use it long term you have to read Arch News before updates to spot breaking/incompatible changes and be knowledagable of things like pacnew/pacsave files, etc.



  • He wanted something that just works and have very straightforward updates. On Arch you should read Arch News and check the output from updates to make sure no manual intervention is required, you need to understand Pacsave/Pacnew files, etc. One can coast along for a while without this but one day things can suddenly get funny.





  • Yeah I’m a grey-beard, my first experience was Slackware in the nineties. I’ve been using Linux since but usually on servers and in VMs only. Recently I’ve been able to go 100% thanks to Proton. I really enjoy the progress made with tech such as systemd, wayland, btrfs, proton and flatpak. Though a lot of grey-beards are very resentful of these I feel they represent real positive progress. There’s also support for kb backlight and other features of my laptop.

    I’m also really enjoying PRIME rendering on my laptop, using Intel and Nvidia at the same time for different things. It works beautifully/seamlessly and even more so that I can just type “yay” and get a new Nvidia driver or a matching driver if there’s a kernel update without having to do any babysitting manually.

    I do everything on Linux now, Office work, Rustdev and I play games like BG3/Guildwars2 simply by launching them from Steam.

    The only pain is that I have to configure each application manually to use Wayland, that’s a bother.




  • Sometimes I just need to type one or two quick commands, maybe at the current path. I don’t think this is necessarily to do a lot of work, it’s just to give some more flexibility. I can see myself tapping F4, typing “chown blabla something”, tapping F4 again, or similar because it’s quick and easy.

    Nothing wrong in having options that some might find useful sometimes. As long as it doesn’t bother those who don’t use it.