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Old enough to necro this year old thread. Been on Linux 21 years, and 18 of those on Slackware... and old enough (and non PC enough) to wish all Merry Christmas and especially A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

and he runs it all on a toaster too!

I pop in from time to time to see whats going on, just don't have a lot of times these days. I still run linux as my daily driver (tried windows 10 + wsl and wsl2 for awhile, but its just wasn't the same). I'm currently been running POP!_OS, I like it a lot.

I thought about buying a system 76 pangolin when i needed a new laptop, but they weren't out yet, so i got a sager laptop (basically a pagolin as they are both the same modeled clevo) and put pop on it. thinking of figuring out how to put coreboot on it, but kinda iffy on that atm. but the laptop runs really solid on it, and with a few tweaks here and there, i can get pretty decent battery life, around 5 to 6 hours, but i don't really go mobile with it.

 

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Still ricing on my secondary, dual-bootin since 2004. Excitedly awaiting release of 470 NVidia drivers on Linux.

I'm not as read up these days on the latest nvidia prop drivers, what is exciting about 'em?

 

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For those stuck with NVidia GPUs and want to use Wayland, all 3D rendering is currently being done on CPU with a software driver. With Fedora 34 going with Wayland as default, it forced NVidia to pick up their game and actually write some code, so 3D rendering will be done on their hardware and maintain performance. It's taken 10 years to get NVidia to move, and do anything meaningful for Wayland. EGLStreams was half-assed and partially only works for desktop rendering, because it wasn't really a response to anything in particular. This time, DMA-BUF is their reaction to being left behind.

I dunno, i don't really blame nvidia for not supporting wayland all these years. I've been using wayland on my laptops for the last few years, its not quite up to snuff imho.

Ubuntu 21.04 is going with wayland (again) too, nvidia wouldn't want to miss out on that install base.

I'm more eager to check out gnome 4.0 than wayland again, but that is gonna have to wait, there are too many gnome plugins i rely on and those will have to be updated before i jump into that pond.

any info on when the 470 drivers gonna be released?

 

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Sounds like Ubuntu 21.04 beta should be out already also.

been out for awhile now. if all goes as planned it should be released before the end of the month.

 

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The NVidia XWayland work can be tracked here (where 470 was first mentioned):

nice.

I installed manjaro on a secondary m.2 i had laying around, installed plasma 5.21 and the egl-wayland package (along with editing grub for the kernel mode setting for nvidia) and it was a very unpleasant experience. half my apps would just launch with a black screen and i had no window decorations...I guess i will wait for 470 before trying again, but i will say this plasma 5.21 is extremely nice, so much so, that i might just be replacing gnome with it. last time i truely used KDE was back in the 4.x days and everytime there were serious issues (mostly crashes or just really strange behavior) but plasma 5.21 at least, seems to have fixed all the previous problems i had with kde plasma. still not quite the glory days of KDE 3, but man is it nice.

currently have it configured in the "unity" look (I had been using unity/gnome in this configuration for so long, its almost impossible for me to go back to something else, i even struggle with windows taskbar lol).

 

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With QT taking the high commercial road, it would be good to have a fully open-source alternative to fall back on.

Oh i don't think KDE is going any where anytime soon, even if the QT company does something stupid like make new versions proprietary with no dual licensing.

Once Gnome 40 is available for Gentoo, I will install it beside Plasma 5 though and try it out.

I've been trying out the livecd of it from time to time over the last few months (since they released the beta), its a lot like the 3 series. they moved the dock to be on the bottom of the screen, and made working with desktops easier/faster, but other than that it still feels a lot like 3. it seems more fulfill the original promises of 3 than anything, not a huge change like 3 was.

I dunno, as long KDE plasma 5 keeps up what they are doing, i think i might just be jumping ship. I like gnome's notifications better than KDE's, and some of the plugins/widgets for KDE are inferior (like the temp/weather widgets), but the system tray and the panel's being editable and me choosing the order the widgets show up, is far superior than gnome's. Plus i haven't had much problems getting my mic working (usually a pita in gnome) and kde remembers which audio device i'm using, where i gnome i always have to set it (as i switch between my wired headphones, hdmi audio and my bluetooth headset), so that is another plus.

I think i like nautilus more than i do dolphin and i def like gedit more than kate (but i'm not sure if it is worth bringing in a large portion of gnome just for gedit).

 

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Heya Transhour ol' buddy! Since you're trying out Live Distros maybe check this out

a bit has changed since my last post. I almost died and bought a m1 mac mini...so i've gone to the darkside.

the jury is still out on mac os, hardware wise this is a little monster, software however...it feels like it is missing something. mac os feels like it is several years behind, even windows. hopefully distro's start rolling out m1 spins sooner rather than later, cause like i said the hardware on this little thing is blowing away my ryzen 3700x desktop and 4700u laptop away. I was compiling something the other night, the cpu was almost at a 100% utilization and the temp of the cpu never peaked above 50c and the fan never kicked on or got louder. my desktop/laptop doing the same thing, would easily hit over 80c, so apple def has the winner there with thermals.