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On 16/11/2024 at 06:10, Mindovermaster said:

You have any problems with that 3080? Are you using proprietary drivers?

no problems at all...really love it! Yes I am using proprietary, seems to be faster for gaming.

Thank you for the welcome! Good to be here :)

On 16/11/2024 at 15:55, Apollo13 said:

no problems at all...really love it! Yes I am using proprietary, seems to be faster for gaming.

Thank you for the welcome! Good to be here :)

The times may have turned, but NVIDIA cards have always given me problems, and also, I heard a lot of horror stories about getting it working. That was a few months ago, though.

Always nice to see new members that share the joy of Linux. No matter what distro :)

On 16/11/2024 at 18:14, Mindovermaster said:

The times may have turned, but NVIDIA cards have always given me problems, and also, I heard a lot of horror stories about getting it working. That was a few months ago, though.

Always nice to see new members that share the joy of Linux. No matter what distro :)

Even as of a few months ago, Nvidia cards saw a lot of fixes on Linux. 

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On 16/11/2024 at 22:31, adrynalyne said:

Even as of a few months ago, Nvidia cards saw a lot of fixes on Linux. 

Maybe this was a longer time ago. I don't remember. If he's happy, hora!

(there's been a lot of advancements on AMD, too.. 😛 )

On 16/11/2024 at 22:52, Mindovermaster said:

Maybe this was a longer time ago. I don't remember. If he's happy, hora!

(there's been a lot of advancements on AMD, too.. 😛 )

yeah I am playing Doom Eternal, ORI Will of the Wisps, World of Warcraft all GREAT so far! Steam + Lutris = FIRE!

On 17/11/2024 at 04:15, Apollo13 said:

yeah I am playing Doom Eternal, ORI Will of the Wisps, World of Warcraft all GREAT so far! Steam + Lutris = FIRE!

Luris or Proton, yes. It does wonders :)

On 07/10/2024 at 09:30, Elі said:

Thank you.

Sure, no problem. This one I improved with AI and also created 16X9 versions of it. The one with the word "Improved" on the name is the one I'm using. I made a few modifications on it so it looks better on 16x9.  The one with "Original" on the name is the original picture. However, I also improved it with AI.

https://www.pavlovcentral.com/s/MxNzE4N

Cheers!

Link dead btw

On 24/11/2024 at 21:39, Apollo13 said:

Swapped to Fedora... Ubuntu was crashing a lot...weird...
 

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If you were using the latest release of Ubuntu, yes, it can be quite buggy. Since the October release. Give them time to swat out the bugs. :)

On 24/11/2024 at 21:46, Mindovermaster said:

If you were using the latest release of Ubuntu, yes, it can be quite buggy. Since the October release. Give them time to swat out the bugs. :)

waiting for the new Pop OS actually :)  Fedora will do in the mean time I think...

 

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On 10/02/2024 at 14:46, Raphaël G. said:

Arch Linux ❤️

Clean:

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Dirty:

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Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/96woj1

This has completely inspired me to the point where I bit the bullet today...spent 6 hours learning how to install and work with Arch.  I LOVE this setup you have! Very nice...and Dopamine music player... I am impressed!

 

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clean and dirty, this is so far the most stable Linux install I have done, well worth the time to learn Arch.  Still a lot to learn though.  The rabbit hole gets deeper...

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On 25/11/2024 at 21:25, Apollo13 said:

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clean and dirty, this is so far the most stable Linux install I have done, well worth the time to learn Arch.  Still a lot to learn though.  The rabbit hole gets deeper...

Ah Arch. Stable until it isn’t. 
My advice is to keep snapshots handy and read about breaking changes before updating. Also don’t wait too long between updates. 

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On 25/11/2024 at 23:38, adrynalyne said:

Ah Arch. Stable until it isn’t. 
My advice is to keep snapshots handy and read about breaking changes before updating. Also don’t wait too long between updates. 

I'm quite sure Siduction was the same way, eh? 😛 

Yeah, snapshots can save your booteh.

On 25/11/2024 at 23:10, Mindovermaster said:

I'm quite sure Siduction was the same way, eh? 😛 

Yeah, snapshots can save your booteh.

Yes and no. Debian Unstable is still slower and more curated on updates than Arch. Same with Tumbleweed. 

On 25/11/2024 at 23:19, Apollo13 said:

What do you recommend I do snapshots with? I am still learning all this stuff :)

BTRFS Assistant + Snapper. The assistant is a GUI management tool for Snapper. 
 

Edit: assuming you used BTRFS as your file system. 

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I have found that Linux Mint 22 is the most stable for gaming and has the best NVidia driver implementation with the least amount of bugs.  I don't really like Cinnamon, so I installed GNOME 46 on Mint and so far it has not let me down!  If it weren't for Destiny 2 I would drop Windows for this...it is really that good.  Dual boot is working fine though :)

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On 26/11/2024 at 06:19, Apollo13 said:

What do you recommend I do snapshots with? I am still learning all this stuff :)

I only just saw this question. I think Linux Mint comes with Timeshift already installed? I've never had an issue with it, and it's nice and simple to set up.

On 04/12/2024 at 04:39, Nick H. said:

I only just saw this question. I think Linux Mint comes with Timeshift already installed? I've never had an issue with it, and it's nice and simple to set up.

yes it is installed by default and by the looks of it, doing it's job nicely! 
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On 04/12/2024 at 07:06, Mindovermaster said:

Yeah, it's installed. Looking nice, Apollo.

I don't personally like GNOME, but each to their own.

I try to like KDE but it seems bloated to me...I mean it looks nice, but there are way too many things to mess with or mess up for me... I prefer something more basic.

I appreciate KDE but I felt the same way with it. I've been running GNOME for over a year now and it's pretty much at the comfy stage for me. I've developed a workflow around it that I don't really notice until I try another desktop.

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