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The nice thing about gta 4 on linux is that you don’t even need to manually bother with dxvk, which people also use on windows because it improves the game’s performance.

Eventhough i’m a void user i really like the artix logo and i think it’s on of the best looking logos in neofetch/fastfetch

Bruh just use nix, flatpak or appimage 🗿 (we don’t talk about snaps)

Yeah not gonna lie, i think i heard someone in a youtube video a while back talk about how the entirety of wikipedia takes up like 200 gigs or something like that, and it got me seriously considering to actually make that offline backup. Shit is scary when countries like the uk are basically blocking you from having easy access to knowledge.

Well i’m not saying it’s rocket science, but compared to runit/rc.local or simple autostart scripts i do think it’s easier. I converted everything from my autostart script to systemd services when i was still on NixOS, and the whole thing seemed so convoluted. With having to set services to depend on each other, and also had a lot of problems with things like nm-applet or blueman-applet not showing up in the bar at all, and couldn’t find a way to fix it.

You can always… you know… not install it?

For my basic needs it always felt more confusing then necessary. Don’t have a hate boner for it, but i prefer not to use it at this point. I’m using Void and i really like how simple runit is.

I mainly dislike it because of it spamming the loopback devices. I know you can filter those out but i don’t want to lol. Last time i heard their servers/backend or whatever was also proprietary, but i don’t know if that’s still the case. In general i don’t really understand why you would choose it over flatpak, and i’m not really a flatpak fan either :p

Oh that’s weird lol. I think if i remember correctly when i looked it up, the white light on my motherboard is actually staying on as a warning that no display is connected, which is nice and all, but it would have been great if it turned off again when a display is detected, but it just stays on forever. It’s only a very small light but it’s bright as hell, so it’s really annoying and it hits your eye eventhough the pc is off to the side lol.

I have a different problem where if i don’t turn on my monitor in time, it will still work just fine but my motherboard will turn on this annoying little white light that won’t turn off again, so i have to reboot to make it go off again.

That’s awesome. Not a fan of using upscaling tech generally but since they keep trying to improve it, i might give this a try on my 6950xt out of curiousity.

Yeah but i don’t like that it’s chromium, and the crypto stuff has always put me off.

It’s weird how i still haven’t run into any of those sites after years of using firefox. For me it not being chromium is a positive, especially with this recent adblock nonsense that google is pulling.

I finally decided to cave in and give vim a try recently as well, but quickly ended up using helix instead. Mainly because for most of the IDE type functionality you don’t have to mess around with plugins at all, which i really hated about both vim and neovim. I also really like that all my favorite themes are already built-in. As for getting into it, for helix it can be as simple as adding it to your packages list (or maybe there’s a module to enable it, idk). For the lsp to work you just need to install the language server you need and helix should find it on your path. I recommend just going through the tutor, and after that, just get familiar with it by using it for anything you want to edit, even if it’s just simple config files. I still have a long way to go myself but after just a few days i noticed becoming faster and the motions feeling less clunky. Also don’t worry about memorizing all the commands. Just stick with some basics and as you go you’ll find more commands that you realize are usefull, and build your knowledge up slowly like that.

Edit: just realized i may have misread and that you were only asking about how to install the nix way, instead of being new to vim/helix 😶 oh well lol

I have a 28 inch 4k monitor specifically for my ps5, since i prefer 1440p ultrawide on the pc side, and the pixel density is definitely nice. For shits and giggles i tried to look as closely as possible at the screen and couldn’t spot the individual pixels. Something i also like about it is that even games that don’t run at native res still look like they are native when the ps5 upscales it. Either the upscaling is really good, or maybe it’s just not noticable because of the smaller screen size. Either way it looks really good.

Well, if it was used to prolong the life of your gpu it would be nice, but unfortunately it seems to be mainly used by devs so that they don’t have to optimize their games, so the end result is people with new gpus get blurry crap, and the older gpus get left behind all the same.

Bro is like thanos at the beginning of endgame.

I never used them when i was still using a DE, but now as a tiling window manager user i use them all the time, since the point of those is that windows are placed in a layout and don’t overlap, so after opening like 3 windows max, it gets too cramped for my taste and i move to a different workspace.

Are you using any custom launch options? I’ve had this happen sometimes when i tried running a game with gamemode, but then it turned out my gamemode was broken, and when that happens it doesn’t start your game at all and it just stops immediately after gamemode exits with an error.

Better yet, what’s wrong with ext4 lol