Neptr

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Even after using PopOS I dont understand the hype. It is Ubuntu-based, meaning that its packages are stale and often quite out of date, which isn't something I would recommend for a gaming distro.

Better to pick one of the following, which are gaming focused, user friendly, and have up-to-date packages for {Mesa, Vulkan, Wine, Kernel, etc}:

Edit: My reason for saying that up-to-date packages are paramount is because a newer kernel supports more features, better performance, new hardware support, less bugs, and the same is true for packages that effect gaming. Desktop environments get better quickly through updates and bug fixes that effect gaming may take a year of more to reach pepetually out of date distros like Ubuntu. It is generally quite important, but less important if you use Steam Flatpak because it is slightly sandboxes.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The AMD rx 9060 xt 16gb GPU looks good.

Then choose whether you want DDR4 or DDR5 RAM, and based on that pick choose a modern Ryzen CPU. For a CPU cooler, I recommend something by Arctic. For example, I got the Arctic Freezer 34 eSports DUO used (because used is basically as good as new but way cheaper).

For motherboard company, I would avoid ASUS because of the recent security vulnerabilities. Maybe try ASRock, as they are budget friendly and aren't lacking. Really anything is fine as long as your CPU fits the slot (and so already should your RAM if you choose a CPU compatible with the right version).

Get an NVME SSD with at least 1 TB of spacs and a HDD for extra, slower storage. You can find some good deals on here: https://diskprices.com/

Get a case that can fit your graphics card and CPU cooler. Also should have space in the front and back to channel wires

Use an online power supply calculator to figure what wattage of PSU you need for your parts. You should get a PSU that is Gold or Platinum rated and prefer ably modular wires.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Recommended Distros

General Use:

  • Fedora KDE
  • openSUSE Slowroll with KDE

Gaming Focused:

  • PikaOS
  • Bazzite
  • Nobara
  • CachyOS

When picking a distro for gaming, I always recommend using one that gets frequent/fast updates. All my recommendations get fast updates. If you are mainly just gaming, go with a gaming focused distro. If you want a system without many apps or modifications, go the general use route.

I can elaborate on each of my picks on request.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That ralsei commenter is stupid gooood at Celeste.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSwAIs4Jd8G1WcUpcWua22g

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

For setting up and selecting Piper TTS voices, use Pied. Then use KMouth by KDE to have an app to paste text in an make use of Piper TTS voices.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

That plus KMouth would be exactly what OP wants. KMouth is an app you can paste text in and have speechd play it.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Mullvad has many methods of obscuring the fact that you are sending VPN traffic, specifically designed to fight VPN censorship and firewalls.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Matrix with either Element or Fluffychat

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You can think yhat Wayland adoption was artificial, bit X.Org is unmaintained software and no developers are picking up reigns of X11. X is dead.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

It is possible on both GNOME and KDE iirc. I never use that feature, but i am sure i saw it in the settings.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 weeks ago

"Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device."

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

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