Linux really is gaining some traction. I just installed Ubuntu Budgie and it's been pretty great aside from the fact that when I generate an xorg.conf file with the Nvidia settings utility it sets...
Linux really is gaining some traction. I just installed Ubuntu Budgie and it's been pretty great aside from the fact that when I generate an xorg.conf file with the Nvidia settings utility it sets my TV that I use as a monitor to a stupid refresh rate and I can't change it. Deleting the file works to resolve the issue but I can't turn on coolbits to manage my fan curve or OC on my 970 at that point. Been trying out different distros and DE's and I keep coming back to Budgie, it's basically gnome 3 with some custom extensions but works really well.
It's not bad, it's a Gnome 3 fork, so of course you have all the pitfalls and frustrations with Gnome 3, but I feel like Budgie is basically what Gnome 3 should have been from the start....
It's not bad, it's a Gnome 3 fork, so of course you have all the pitfalls and frustrations with Gnome 3, but I feel like Budgie is basically what Gnome 3 should have been from the start. Performance in games is pretty good, desktop usability is really good, the raven status bar on the right-hand side is a nice touch, basically the Windows 10 action bar on steroids, and overall it's just a really smooth DE. I've been trying out a few, and I would really like to use KDE tbh, but it's just so terrible to use with Nvidia hardware that it's not worth the hassle, the screen-tearing is real and I don't want to turn on "fullcompositionpipeline" and kill my performance. Cinnamon is really good, but it's also a Gnome 3 fork, so again it comes with things like mutter being a garbage compositor, but overall I feel that Budgie is the better DE, uses fewer resources and feels incredibly modern. Pair it with Plank and you have an excellent alternative to the Mac OSX interface.
I was wondering if I should post this after I watched it yesterday. Sure, I'm sure for many of us it's just preaching to the choir, but it is a good "state of linux gaming" video. I hadn't heard...
I was wondering if I should post this after I watched it yesterday. Sure, I'm sure for many of us it's just preaching to the choir, but it is a good "state of linux gaming" video.
I hadn't heard of PopOS before this, but I'm considering trying it out since I seem to have had a few minor annoyances with Ubuntu lately. And honestly, I'm very tired of waiting for them to support Vulkan on my system.
Yeah, I used to own a System 76 laptop (which I have talked about before), but I wasn't aware of Pop!OS before this video either. It's pretty cool they have their own distro now and by all...
Yeah, I used to own a System 76 laptop (which I have talked about before), but I wasn't aware of Pop!OS before this video either. It's pretty cool they have their own distro now and by all accounts it's a pretty good one too, so I am also going to have to check it out now.
Pop! OS uses GNOME so it should have a way to disable window animation built in. I hate that shit too BTW and always disable it if I can... animations on that kinda stuff is so pointless and...
Pop! OS uses GNOME so it should have a way to disable window animation built in. I hate that shit too BTW and always disable it if I can... animations on that kinda stuff is so pointless and annoying IMO.
Linux really is gaining some traction. I just installed Ubuntu Budgie and it's been pretty great aside from the fact that when I generate an xorg.conf file with the Nvidia settings utility it sets my TV that I use as a monitor to a stupid refresh rate and I can't change it. Deleting the file works to resolve the issue but I can't turn on coolbits to manage my fan curve or OC on my 970 at that point. Been trying out different distros and DE's and I keep coming back to Budgie, it's basically gnome 3 with some custom extensions but works really well.
How is Budgie? My current install started out as Ubuntu Budgie, but I just couldn't get used to it so I went back to Cinnamon for the time being.
It's not bad, it's a Gnome 3 fork, so of course you have all the pitfalls and frustrations with Gnome 3, but I feel like Budgie is basically what Gnome 3 should have been from the start. Performance in games is pretty good, desktop usability is really good, the raven status bar on the right-hand side is a nice touch, basically the Windows 10 action bar on steroids, and overall it's just a really smooth DE. I've been trying out a few, and I would really like to use KDE tbh, but it's just so terrible to use with Nvidia hardware that it's not worth the hassle, the screen-tearing is real and I don't want to turn on "fullcompositionpipeline" and kill my performance. Cinnamon is really good, but it's also a Gnome 3 fork, so again it comes with things like mutter being a garbage compositor, but overall I feel that Budgie is the better DE, uses fewer resources and feels incredibly modern. Pair it with Plank and you have an excellent alternative to the Mac OSX interface.
I was wondering if I should post this after I watched it yesterday. Sure, I'm sure for many of us it's just preaching to the choir, but it is a good "state of linux gaming" video.
I hadn't heard of PopOS before this, but I'm considering trying it out since I seem to have had a few minor annoyances with Ubuntu lately. And honestly, I'm very tired of waiting for them to support Vulkan on my system.
Yeah, I used to own a System 76 laptop (which I have talked about before), but I wasn't aware of Pop!OS before this video either. It's pretty cool they have their own distro now and by all accounts it's a pretty good one too, so I am also going to have to check it out now.
From the little they showed of it in the video, desktop animations look painfully slow! Hopefully there are settings for it.
Pop! OS uses GNOME so it should have a way to disable window animation built in. I hate that shit too BTW and always disable it if I can... animations on that kinda stuff is so pointless and annoying IMO.
I'm planning on moving to Linux this summer and while I was aware of most of this, the video made me a bit more optimistic about my chances.