marcie

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

My notes said I tried nobara but they werent very detailed, I assume it wasnt great? Manjaro is one of the ones I didnt test, along with Garuda. I tried Fedora base and Arch base and they didnt work out of the box with most games.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

GUI absolutely does matter for helping adoption of linux, I'm not interested in hearing arguments to the contrary either. Everything should be as GUI'd as possible if we want linux to grow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it have a driver gui?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, thats useful for laymen / people that dont want to tinker a whole lot

 

Lately I've been suggesting Mint or PopOS for laymans looking to swap to linux, but do any of you know of any good gaming distros with a driver manager GUI built in ala Mint?

I've tested most gaming distros with latest (nvidia) hardware and they do not run most major titles out of the box due to driver issues. If there were a gui for driver rollbacks while having great general performance, I could see it beating out Mint/PopOS for my recommendation. Being able to install .deb files is quite nice for laymans too, though I don't know of any other deb based OSes that run well out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Nah, I'm on latest hardware (4080) and did a bunch of tests recently. Mint was the best along with PopOS. A lot of distros like CachyOs or Bazzite have a lot of great enhancements but they break so often without easy rollbacks that a layman shouldnt use them. Mint has a driver manager and can install KDE if you want with no breakage. Bazzite and CachyOS couldnt even run many major titles due to driver breakage and not having an easy way for a layman to rollback. (I could do it, though a layman would hate it). Whereas PopOS and Mint both ran major titles without any configuration.

I don't know of any 'bleeding edge' distros with driver managers, I might ask about that though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

guess a lot of people that post there got banned? idk. i may make an account on ttrpgnetwork 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

I personally found it kinda jank. Mint feels best for a laymans gaming distro ime

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i use it as an editor even though thats not really its use case. i just feel like gimp is far too clunky, it just feels "off" to me in comparison to photoshop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

In general I feel like its probably KDE's best software package outside of its DE. Know of any other super good KDE apps?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My biggest complaints with krita are around it not being easy to align objects and the text tool could use some love. Other than that, it feels like a great photoshop replacement

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Krita, I use it for everything, I hate gimp, it feels so bad

 

Privacy benefits aside, does qubes run better than a typical vm like virtualbox? I tend to fiddle with distros a lot and I feel qubes might be a good choice, though I'm wondering about how efficient it is

 

I'm looking for ones that ideally don't log IP. Is there a guide somewhere that looks into each of these instances and whether or not they fulfill the privacy promise?

I'm most interested in Invidious.

 

I want to ungoogle myself as much as possible, but I've found that Google Maps is by far the best dataset for maps. I can search 'fast food' and it'll pull up anything related to that near me. I've tried things like OrganicMaps, and while it is blazing fast and very private in comparison to Google Maps, it unfortunately does not have the best information.

Are there any apps that are kind of like a proxy/nitter like frontend for Google Maps and it respects privacy? Are there any ways to just straight up rip data from Google Maps and pull it into another app?

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