CAPSLOCKFTW

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[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, haven't realized that the links were in your post...

 

Hey Community,

Since I just read a post about the X11 vs. Wayland situation I'm questioning if I should stay on X11, or switch to Wayland. Regarding this decision, I'm asking you for your opinions plus please answer me a few questions. I will put further information about my systems at the bottom.

  • What are the advantages of Wayland? What are the disadvantages?
  • I do mostly music production, programming, browsing, etc, but occasionally I'm back into gaming (on the desktop). How's performance there? Anything that might break?
  • what would be the best way to migrate?
  • why have/haven't you made the switch?

Desktop: Ryzen 3100, 16 Gig Ram, Rx 570 Arch Linux with KDE 144 hz Freesync Monitor and 60hz shitty monitor

laptop: Thinkpad L540 (iirc), i3 4100, 8 GB Ram intel uhd630 gfx (iirc) Arch Linux with heavily customized i3-gaps

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux Mint is great for beginners. Have you ever installed windows? Installing Linux Mint is as easy as that. The day to day use is not much different compared to windows. Don't be afraid to try it out, you can always go back to windows if it does not work out for you

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The gaming performance is mostly really good as well. Some windows-only games even run better on Linux (some also won't run at all ofc)

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

You can install Win 11 anyway following one of many guides on the internet.

You also can try Linux. It is great.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found two other things that might do the trick:

https://github.com/jgeumlek/MoltenGamepad

this looks like highly sophisticated gamepad emulation. IDK if you can map mouse and keys to your virtual gamepads easily, but the readme suggest that you definitly can. Looks like some work though.

https://github.com/iosonofabio/virtual_gamepad

this one is a fairly simple python script. I don't know if you're into programming, if it works you only need to change it so it registers mouse input and map that to the virtual controllers stick

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Iirc AntiMicroX can do this.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can recommend linkding..

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

activitywatch and rescuetime are the two options i know of.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because she will expierence sexual abuse there.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I have no expierence with the steam deck, so dunno what's up with that. Never expierenced something like that on my PCs tho.

Yes, the flags can be unintuitive for beginners, S stands for sync, which will sync the package(s) specified thereafter with the remote repositories. If the packages aren"t installed it means installing them, if they are already installed it means updating them to the version that is the latest version in the remote repository. Full system update is done by pacman -Syu, where y tells pacman to synchronize the package lists first and u selects all packages that are older than the ones in these package lists for the S.

You can easily learn all that by using fish (or zsh with a sufficient config) instead of bash. Then, you can enter pacman - and hit TAB to get a list of allowed flags and a brief description. Choose one, hit TAB again and get a list of flags that go with the one you selected before, again with a description right out of the man-page. BTW, that works with a lot of command line programs and is imo almost necessary to get in touch with the shell.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Futro S740 with an J4105 CPU consumes up to 14 Watts according to this article. It is faster than a rpi 4b plus i bought it refurbished for 40€. I think a system with an I5 6500t will need even more power under load.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, thin clients are the way to go, but tgey will draw more than 5-7 Watt under load.

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