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So let’s talk about this Wayland thing in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Try using XWayland video bridge. It should allow any XWayland apps to use screen sharing. Unfortunately most distros either don't ship it yet or ship broken versions but you can download nightly Flatpaks from Gitlab CI

3060ti on Ubuntu feels like old Vodoo GPU in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Metro Exodus has a native version with decent performance

This week in KDE: more Plasma 6 dev in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That was my experience a month or two ago but last week I had no problem installing Neon unstable on a test system and it was amazingly stable though far from perfect.

That said, the developers using Plasma 6 obviously compile it themselves, yes.

KDE Compositor Handoff Revolutionizes Wayland - YouTube in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

In addition this feature makes debugging and developing KWin much easier because you can just restart the compositor without interrupting your workflow.

Parmesan Makers Add Microchips To Cheese Wheels To Foil Counterfeiters in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can't wait to play DOOM on a cheese wheel

WORDY: A TUI WORD PUZZLE in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Pretty cool in principle, although the default word list on my system is awful for wordle.

Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sounds awesome, at least in theory. It remains to be seen how much interest there is from Publishers.

I'm hoping he could revive some of the really old and poorly working Linux ports as well as games that barely run on modern Windows or Wine these days.

Although in practice I can't think of any game in my library that is in need of such a refresh, they generally all work decently in Wine (and modern Windows) even if some have a broken Linux port.

Edit: Maybe this is more exciting for macOS as there are plenty of Mac games that remain 32 bit only and thus can't run on Catalina and above (also who knows how long Apple will keep OpenGL compatibility and Rosetta around). And on mac you can't just simply "run the game with Proton" instead.

Also as another thought, while the Linux port requirement is of course a plus for us, it might be off-putting particularly for publishers that have their own shitty stores / launchers without Linux support.

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How do y'all deal with sleep states on modern laptops? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most very recent laptops no longer support S3 sleep which used to be the default for a long time. On my old laptop it allowed me to just close the lid in the evening and open it again in the morning, and it would only loose a negligible amount of charge during that time.

My new laptop (Dell Inspiron 14 Plus, Alder Lake) uses s2idle by default on Linux (Fedora in my case), which depletes the battery very quickly. I tend to shut down my computer every evening now, but even when I just put my laptop in my bag for 2 hours it will have lost 10-15% when I get it out. It's not terrible and I have gotten used to using my laptop like that but there's got to be a better way right?

I know hibernation / suspend-to-disk is an option in theory, but I use secure boot (and also disk encryption), and that makes it a lot more complicated, involving compiling your own patched kernel, so no thanks.

The way sleep on modern laptops is supposed to work is apparently called S0iX but it is not used by default and I don't know if or how I could make use of it on my laptop, and a guide that is linked everywhere on 01.org now just redirects to some generic intel site.

If you have a recent laptop without S3 sleep support, how are you dealing with this? Do you just live with the poor battery life, or is there some secret to getting more power saving sleep on modern machines?

Edit for mare clarification:

The laptop does enter s2idle correctly, it just doesn't get down to a very low power state at all and consumes ~5% an hour
cat /sys/power/mem_sleep only returns [s2idle], no deep sleep is supported. echo deep | sudo tee /sys/power/mem_sleep doesn't work (tee: /sys/power/mem_sleep: Invalid argument)
There's no option in the BIOS to enable other sleep modes
I've even tried patching the ACPI table myself to enable S3 sleep and it didn't work. I have no idea if I did it correctly although according to dmesg it did seem to load my patch

Thank you all for your input but it looks like on this Dell laptop I'm stuck with horrible s2idle sleep :/

Canonical give some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have a feeling they're slowly but steadily moving from deb packages to snap-only completely. Because unlike what Mark Shuttleworth said when they abandoned Unity, Canonical doesn't let their users decide which technologies should catch on. The Linux desktop as a whole is moving to a Flatpak future for desktop apps, yet Ubuntu keeps pushing Snaps down their users throats whether they want it or not and sort of "fight" Flatpak on Ubuntu spins.

I get it, Snaps are more versatile than Flatpak, you could make everything on the system a snap (can't ship a DE or the kernel as a Flatpak now, can you) and CLI programs as Flatpaks also suck compared to snap (and distro packages obviously), but for desktop apps Flatpaks are just the obvious choice and the Linux community has shown that.

I'm waiting for the day where you can install Flatpak as a snap on Ubuntu lmao

Always at the worst times too in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes I'll randomly remember a joke or funny situation from years ago and suddenly grin or laugh about it again. Then people ask me what's so funny and I can't really explain.

MXLinux 23 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Same. I don't care if it "doesn't follow the UNIX philosophy" or whatever, it gets the job done, is IMHO easy to work with and many guides assume that you have it.