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wow someone is doing benchmarks now

Your keyboard sounds phenominal! What switches do you use?

Great content and I appreciate that you shared your methodology

Nice review! The Wayland support has come a long way and it works flawless now on my brand new laptop with hybrid nvidia! Even fractional scaling works really well now!

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I still using garuda i installed 2 yrs ago

i wanna do a Android Gaming Benchmark on Blend OS,i wanna test if ican found bugs and stuff...

All regular user/gamer day-to-day software can be installed from their app store. Didn't find llvm, git, qemu, neovim though

I can't wait for the new video about the state of Nvidia + Hyprland + NixOS, especially in terms of daily usage and your workflow!

Is she from "girlfriend for an hour service"? I heard it's quite popular in China..

Hi I saw in one of your videos benchmarking Assassin's Creed Origins in CachyOS. Could you please share how you were able to play this game and make ubisoft connect work in CachyOS?

The reason we use it is if something breaks we can actually do something for it. And thats learning works!

Thank you very much! So useful for me!

why there isn't NixOS on a benchmark list? 🫠

KDE Plasma cannot support dual-monitor workstations. It forgets the settings for the secondary desktop with every reboot.

This video is VERY useful! Knowing the problems someone can have after installing the OS and how to fix them with little effort is always better than trying out for yourself when you don't have much experience to begin with (in my case, with Linux in general).

The answer to video title - yes, objectively. As someone who prefers VSync, it caused me a lot of trouble on windows. Because for some reason whenever there's an artificial limit to framerate such as VSync, the GPU's frequency stays low. Seemingly because AMD driver on windows tries to "guess" whenever you're gaming or not. So when it sees low GPU utilization (such as with a framerate limiter) it doesn't let card accelerate which brought me stutter on windows. Uncapping FPS in the game fixes this issue. But it's just nonsense in my opinion. Linux has no issues with VSync and utilizes GPU properly.

Thanks for making this video bro😊

This channel has the linux gaming facts I crave.

I can't believe Wayland is finally fixed, i'm using it right now, Steam and everything are perfect, better than X11 in some ways. I never thought I would see the day

Also, I don't like Calamares installer. The original openSUSE installer that few noobs complain about haves its logic as Yast itself is. Once you learn from the source, you never regret it.

Question is: do you want the impossible with a standardized and main stream like Windows or do you want to gradually tinkering, step by step and starting from (in this case) openSUSE Tumbleweed? The best choice never comes for newbies. Even the sequences on what do you need to install first is crucial. That's why I will always discourage people to chose these distro instead of the main independent ones. Wanna have the chameleon side? Go pure, go openSUSE. Wanna stay Debian? Go Debian 12 and above even if also Mint is a smart solution and more time saver, there is no shame in that. And so on. Tendentiously having the fully independent distro is something that build in your mind the IT education. The order and logic for any configuration system. Reading, learning and giving yourself the right time for your personal learning curve is a must. Linux isn't for newbies that "never have time to learn".

Missing the best CachyOS

offtopic but what's the best linux distro for gaming on amd? i tried endeavouros and it had lots of issues for me

Hey bro please check out Aurora d1x ublue its so good😭 but note rpm ostree is slow, only use if you absolutely need something u can't get through other pkgs ,i use flatpaks and have a container with bazzite and it just works i have the DEV version of Auroroa on Plasma 6🫠 please review bro trust

As system76 devs are around here, here is an idea: i think some people (me included) would like to test the alpha/beta and report some bugs if found, but are more everyday users than pros. Maybe a section on GitHub, or a Video on how to: install and use latest version (as stated in the pinned comment) and how and where to report bugs would be beneficial. On the other hand: maybe thats exactly what you don't want as it could potentially create more overhead than actual benefit? Either way: happy bughunt!

Driver 555 fixes all flickering on wayland, I am running hyprland as daily driver and also have KDEplasma installed for gaming with HDR, I have both installed at least until HDR on hyprland, running on arch btw Edit: I have no issues switching between hyprland and plasma

This was an awesome overall loook at hyprlands current state. When it comes to day to day use I dont really notice a difference between hyprland, gnome, and kde.

Great info, I ran into some issues as well on my single nvidia desktop. I'll check it out again in some time, it seems very promising.

Thanks for these tests

It's really interesting. I recently installed Sway on my laptop running OpenSUSE with an Nvidia GPU to see if I'll get a better experience gaming on Wayland. I look like it's a "Yes" compared to my default DE - KDE. But I still experienced glitches while playing games (still an issue on Wayland + Nvidia driver). I hope to see the next driver 555.xx on OpenSUSE soon. If possible, can you do benchmarks on Sway vs. Hyprland vs. another DE on Wayland?

great video I am thinking of going fully Linux gaming with friends is the only thing that holds me back. Even if there is a 5% loss in performance I will switch

i highly suggest make a video about nvidia 555.xx drivers, it solves a lot of issues in Linux desktop enviroments.

Really didn't expect gnome to win considering how bloated it is. Maybe window managers excell on ram limited systems...

I wonder why hypr is slower than gnome. I would've thought it would be lighter.

Please don't call it an Alpha, because the alpha wasn't released yet! pre-alpha at best

Make sure to also add the popdev:master staging repository, as the version of COSMIC in the release repositories is typically much older than the ones we're working on. It will fix all of the issues you reported here. sudo apt-manage add popdev:master sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade

You've done your homework. I'm getting all the exact same issues. Especially freezing while playing videos.

nvidia 555 and cosmic explicit sync soon?

Have you tried Aerospace? They use something similar to i3wm

it looked like heroic had the LEAST fiddling of them all

so heroic is better than bottles and lutris?

To get rid off the second and nonesxistant (unknown) display, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Nvidia drivers.

I think it would be interesting to try switching her to Linux and making similar video about it :)

This is really early alpha. I'm not sure if it is even cooked enough to compare their design of the desktop metaphor to other DEs yet. I'm sure they will get the technicalities perfect down the line but I'm more excited to see how they approach making a new desktop distinction from Gnome and KDE. Hoping for the best of both worlds. The pretty polished intuitive design of Gnome with the pragmatism of KDE. Make video of your opinions on their design and approach once it is more cooked.

im glad youre back to windows 11

Thank you for going through the trouble to actually test the performance! I assumed when they were talking about performance they meant the desktop was snappier

The random second display you keep getting is the same issue I had. From my research it is something to do with Nvidia GPU and using their proprietary driver. Using the open source driver you shouldn't get the ghost monitor but also performance will suffer(for now). Edit: You can disable them with xrandr on X11. xrandr --output Unknown-1 --off You should possible be able to do it with ddcutil apparently but I don't know how.

Flickering with NVIDIA and Wayland will, within the next few months or so, very likely cease to be a problem. NVIDIA's 555 proprietary drivers have finally exposed a new API, allowing for explicit sync directly with the hardware, and when implemented into the desktops as it is with Xwayland currently, should help to remove the vast majority of visual bugs experienced without it. It's already merged into KDE and Gnome, and are idle in the code until their next releases.

I don't get the wayland hype. I did not see what were your impressions, you talked about the bugs, but what does cosmic bring to the table? What makes it different, the UI only?