Works for floors!

Blink-blink-blink. Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink-blink-blink.

No, I don’t have something in my eyes, I swear I’m fine looks nervously at boss.

I know this probably isn’t what you want to hear, but imho without knowing in detail all the changes you tried to make and the fixes you wanted to apply, the most effective method to fix these issues might be doing a full reinstall and starting again.

That’s unfortunate. Nvidia can be problematic with Linux (obligatory video).

An important distinction to remember is that with a few rare exceptions, Linux distros are not for profit ventures, and the users helping are not being paid to do so. Some individuals trying to help may have more or less knowledge and experience, but they are trying. I’m willing to forgive rough edges from non-profit foundations more than for-profit companies, personally.

I understand that’s little consolation for somebody who has an issue right now and needs it solved right now, but as the noose of profit models tighten, I hope people have a little more patience for volunteers trying their best.

Ubuntu 23.04

Sorry to hear that. I’m on Ubuntu mainly out of inertia and laziness. I’ve heard good things about pop, so hopefully it works out for you if/when you decide to give it another shot.

Yeah, that is definitely an onboarding issue. Everyone has their preferences, and normally feel quite strongly their favourite distro is the best one.

I think most people would agree that Pop_OS and Linux mint are currently the most newb friendly distros out there.

This comment seems a bit strange to me for a few reasons. The Linux ecosystem has changed and improved drastically in the last few years, and a lot of this reads like it was written a decade ago.

AMD drivers have been rock steady for quite a few years now. The catch is that unless you’re doing some exotic thing (not general-purpose gaming) you should not be installing anything extra. People used to downloading drivers for everything tend to make the mistake of hunting down and downloading the Radeon proprietary drivers when those are not needed, and in some cases actively make things worse. I suspect this is the case because you mentioned Mesa when talking about the integrated graphics card, but not the dedicated one. If I’m right about that, uninstall Radeon and let Mesa handle it with the AMDGPU open source drivers built into your kernel.

Unfortunately, dual GPU setups are still very painful and annoying to set up and use. That is still an active pain point in the ecosystem. DRI_PRIME is still the best solution for this afaik, but it isn’t exactly an elegant one.

Steam comes with Proton built in (their own fork of WINE with a lot of improvements), WINE & Proton have made gigantic leaps forward with the backing of Valve, and pretty much everything gaming related has moved from OpenGL to Vulkan. Anything run in Proton, for example, is going to be using Vulkan, not OpenGL

Checking out Metro’s protondb page, yeah, seems like the consensus is that the devs did a shit job with their port. I’d recommend right-clicking the game in Steam, go to properties, compatibility, and enable Proton there.

It would kind of add to them in a way if you post from your instance or sub from your instance solo

Is this actually true? As far as I understand it, by far the biggest overhead is users browsing. The fewer users you have actually hitting the frontend, the better.

However I believe nostr is a theoretically better protocol than activitypub

With the number of new apps coming out, hopefully somebody will come up with one that you can use without feeling physically ill. There’s going to be a lot of options in a few weeks.

Have you considered writing up what exactly is problematic about the UI? Maybe it’s something that can be resolved

But… why? Do Canadians spend a lot of time writing fancy letters to eachother? Have the beavers stolen your phones and tablets?

Just a humble eastern European trying to figure out what’s going on in your frigid syrup-drenched lands.