I did install it via package manager back when I used this distro and it worked well, but some weeks after, I switched distros to Kubuntu. Now I’m using Arch btw. with latest KDE Plasma (I recommend this).

Windows XP on a laptop. Then Windows 7 on a new laptop. After that, Windows 10 and Windows 11 on desktop and another new laptop.

Tried Debian on my laptop. Later, switched completely to Linux Mint on desktop. Distro-hopped to Kubuntu (KDE Plasma). Wanted to get Plasma 6 immediately after release, so I installed EndeavourOS on my desktop and laptop.

Now switched to pure Arch Linux on my desktop PC, didn’t boot Windows on any of my private PCs for months (no dual boot, only GPU passthrough VM).

Here is a comment I made in another thread:

For pirated games, I recommend Bottles installed as a flatpak. That’s because it has a per-game toggle for sandboxing the app, not giving it access to your complete home folder and optionally no network access or audio output.

Even when using trusted sources, you can never be safe enough. Bottles with sandboxing will at least protect your files from crypto trojans and prevent you from becoming part of a botnet. It should not have any impact on performance.

Remember to put all installer files anywhere inside the prefix folder, otherwise sandboxing denies access to them. After creating an empty game entry in Bottles, check the 3 dots menu for the option to open it in your file explorer.

For pirated games, I recommend Bottles installed as a flatpak. That’s because it has a per-game toggle for sandboxing the app, not giving it access to your complete home folder and optionally no network access or audio output.

Even when using trusted sources, you can never be safe enough. Bottles with sandboxing will at least protect your files from crypto trojans and prevent you from becoming part of a botnet. It should not have any impact on performance.

I hope that too, this is by far the best player I have tried on Linux.

Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Eraserhead (1977), Underground (1995), The Holy Mountain (1973), Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), Ichi the Killer (2001), Inside (2007)

Recently, I watched and really liked the japanese movie Ritual (2000).

I watched all of the above with awesome German dub.

Whoa, that’s a lot of comments. Thanks for your suggestions, guys. I will think about this.

I … bought an official digital Windows license back then before I even thought about Desktop Linux. Now I feel dirty …

Just to piss Microsoft off, I used the activation script for my GPU passthrough Tiny11 VM instead of simply signing into my account. ;)

Windows licenses are cheap

Bullshit, keys are not the same as licenses. A license costs ~150 Euros.

That’s true only for AMD or Intel users.

Use NVIDIA driver 535 until 555 is released.

Using Wayland with KDE Plasma 6 on Arch btw. But I installed the old NVIDIA driver 535, waiting for explicit sync in 555 to fix flickering in games.

I tried it now with these options and the latest driver 550.67. Nothing has changed, the terrible flickering is still there in all XWayland games and Steam is completely corrupted now.

Steam video: https://youtu.be/N_M9cJTeze8 Games video: https://youtu.be/aactSIQZ5l0

Mint -> Kubuntu -> EndeavourOS -> Arch (btw)

Schöller Pirulo Jungly

Loved it, this was my favorite Schöller ice!

MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X

Additionally, I had a 3 port FireWire card that I used for digitizing old MiniDV camcorder cassettes. But I had to remove it because someone fucked something up in kernel 6.5, crashing the whole boot process after a few milliseconds.

NVIDIA broke something on every version after 535.

Yeah, window managers like KWin have to implement it as well as NVIDIA in their driver. Currently, everyone is waiting for driver support before merging the (mostly finished) feature into master.

• xserver: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967

• wayland-protocols: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/90

• egl-wayland: https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/pull/104

• kwin: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4693

• mutter: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3300

• nvidia driver: ???

When I started my now mostly unused school laptop with dualboot (Windows/Debian) at 3 AM in the basement to solve a router issue. This pretty cheap laptop booted in mere seconds to a completely usable state, sparing my tired self from waiting in the cold for too long.

Right there, in the middle of the night, a flash of inspiration struck me!

How could it be that my way too expensive desktop gaming PC took longer to be ready for everything than this old piece of plastic? What if I completely switched my main machine to Linux, not only for testing, but for real? How awesome would it be to have customization freedom and full control over my own device, without a company spying on me, taking away options or using me as their guinea pig for the next untested updates?

And that’s how it began. Linux Mint as a safe start, then Kubuntu for more customization with KDE Plasma. After that, EndeavourOS for the latest software, and finally Arch Linux … for the lulz (btw).

Does it really work on the latest driver? Does it fix flickering in Minecraft and other XWayland games?