kwin supports this, gnome from my perspective is more about a cohesive experience you either love or don’t

it’s great if your commits are smaller and more focused. main issue is it can be harder to solve some diff issues as it requires solving merges at each commit being rebased. so if you have a large feature branch that can be challenging when it starts to diverge a lot (ex: bug fixes on main). though the argument then is more for keeping branches smaller and focused which is a better process imo.

just beware it can be confusing for newer git users and when using shared branches can cause no ff commits.

he wants to Thanos the world

at the end of the day everything’s a []u8 if you want it to be

they promised Delamain and all we got is Brendan

the main difference is that Microsoft builds features quickly and for profit. that means the focus isn’t always on what the user wants, so they make tradeoffs that are good enough to not disturb the user base. recently with the AI craze basically showing how little they really care for the user.

Linux on the other hand is FOSS, anyone who wants a feature can build it. this is slower to deliver because the profit incentive (if there even is one) isn’t as big but that also means there don’t have to be compromises to delivered features.

looking at both these operating models i would rather be in the group building the future for users rather than shareholders. if it means waiting a few months for a few things to work as smoothly as I want I’m ok with that because it only keeps getting better and it’s literally free.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

might go through some of those troubleshooting steps and make sure you have drm kernel modeset.

one other thing you might try (at end of the page) by setting LD_PRELOAD=”” with the command which can at least rule out features that sometimes break on certain games. I’ve had game recording and overlay cause similar issues and could only launch after disabling those in game settings.

also might not need gamescope? mesa 25.1+ and proton 10+ have a lot of the features built in and I’ve not noticed much if any performance difference. now i only use gamescope if i run into issues and usually only if protondb shows consensus that you need to use gamescope or specific workarounds.

Squad even has imo the best Star Wars mod (Galactic Contention). just be aware it’s a much slower pace than battlefield/Cod and heavily depends on teamwork

i never know what’s expected on those type of captcha. if the handle bars of a bike go into an adjacent box and are 99% covered by a hand does that count? what do you do when you have a blurry image full of jpg artifacts and are asked to identify if it contains a fire hydrant. I’m pretty sure it usually classifies me as a bot for being too exact since I’m asked follow ups for a few minutes until i give up and just close the tab out of annoyance.

yeah the flatpak version of gamescope is the latest version which is meant more to be used in something like lutris or directly with wine. my understanding is a bit hazy on the issue but i think flatpak steam or the Vulcan layers required a specific version or you get something about compatibility and the game would still launch but disable gamescope.

i think the workaround was to install gamescope through pacman and then configure steam to be able to access it.

flapak when i was using it on arch always had issues getting gamescope to run as the flapak version doesn’t match the version in steam. with wine adopting support for native Wayland and improvements to Vulcan layers i think flapak version may start to get more popular. but for now the main limiter is, “do i need gamescope to play?”

tried Razer, Logitech and they just never felt right. got a new zowie (za13-dw) and it felt smoother, good weight and sensors, also no need for extra drivers. they make different shapes for different grips and hand size so you can find what fits. honestly one of the best mice I’ve used, up there with my old mx518

have been using bazzite for a while now and don’t have issues with Firefox, could be tests Google are running. they recently are targeting users of adblockers and artificially setting high load times in hopes users disable them. a decent alternative is freetube (on flathub) which is anonymous so you can’t login but you can import playlists and includes ad+sponsor block. they’re pretty fast at fixing Google’s attempts to break it too, sometimes you might have to change instances to get it working.

no one understands how these models work, they just throw shit at it and hope it sticks

in Windows you separate each drive by a letter like C:, D:, etc, however on Linux your drives are mounted as part of your folder structure. the top level is called root which would be / you can then mount each disc as a folder under root, so for example /home could be a separate hard drive but it’s still mounted under root, note the starting slash. This means the command deletes any and all files+directories under root, this can include mounted USB, mounted network drives and anything mounted to your root. you’re basically nuking all the files you can access when you’re logged in as admin/root.

i love Linux tips! you can also print animated clams on the CLI with :(){ :|:& };: add to your bashrc to be greeted everytime you open a terminal!

but seriously, don’t run that unless you want to reboot.

I’ve been using scope buddy to manage my gamescope config, has auto resolution/hdr detection and you can set global defaults. you still have to pass scb -- %command% but it seems easier to manage. with proton 10 i set it to actually disable gamescope and use it to set the proton Wayland+hdr env variables and haven’t had any issues so far.

my recommendation if you do is to look at refresh rate, going 120hz to 240hz felt like a much bigger upgrade to me than sdr to hdr. especially if you’re playing games that depend on response times, it just feels smoother. hdr in Linux is decently there on kde but there’s still issues getting it to work everywhere like Firefox, though they still look nicer than regular sdr imo. also avoid hdmi, especially if using amd!

make sure to add --no-preserved-root to make sure to update all the English libraries too so you can make sure only freedom fries are respected.

my work we had test, stage and prod. test was very unstable as every merge auto deployed, so stage was semi stable where you would push changes you verified in test. then one day they decided to remove the stage environment. we have no data in test, other teams never passed data there, so we setup a semi production environment that has data and cost 10x as much. now they want to setup a stage environment to save costs but they don’t want to call it stage because that was bad and was too expensive. so they came up with a new name and are making everyone update to push data there. honestly i can’t take watching these people be praised for their innovation and promoted to make more of these shit decisions. the world’s gone mad and the madder you are the more you’re rewarded.