You madlad. This is the greatest comment I’ve ever seen

Oof. I didn’t realise that and assumed it was some new fancy hardware.

My original comment still stands though. The HWE (hardware enablement) kernels on Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu/Mint are your best bet when it comes to new or obscure hardware. They link extra drivers into the kernel and have patches to fix issues you normally wouldn’t encounter, basically stuff they won’t include in the mainstream kernel for the sake of stability or whatever. I always used these kernels before I migrated to Fedora because the extra keyboard buttons on my laptop wouldn’t work otherwise.

It all depends on the context to be honest. I’ve found that tech people, outside of professional contexts, are generally a lot more helpful. Things are different at work.

That’s exactly how protondb works. And you also get hardware and distro information.

You can search and filter reports by all of the aforementioned criteria for any game that’s listed.

Did this happen to you in particular? Most tech oriented people (and Linux users by extensions) are generally chill

I don’t see anyone being toxic here except you so far. If it bothers you so much, just add “Linux” as a keyword to your block filter on whatever client you use to access Lemmy. Easy fix

He single-handedly changed a lot of people’s impression of Linux with a single video, and he did it gently enough to not intimidate and scare them away like many others did. I respect that.

Don’t use the stock kernel. Use the HWE one if you want newer hardware to work on Ubuntu and its derivatives like Mint.

Or try a Fedora live-usb and see if it works with the newer kernels.

What

Knoppix or bust

Last time I used fractional scaling with GNOME/Wayland it was a mess. Not sure of its state nowadays

Gulf of Open Source

Not sure if you know of it, but I found this a while back and it helped me a lot: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

What are you on about? ProtonDB is full of such advice

Or an electric kettle. No idea why they’re so rarely used in the US.

I think what drove me to that decision was the cpufreq extension. It kept breaking with every update. I usually shrugged it off but it really irked me every time.

My last straw was when they changed the theming system to force the use of libadwaita and broke my customised theme and dark mode. I don’t do a lot of customisation in general but I have rigid preferences when it comes to how I want my system to look and behave. They broke it and that drove me to explore other solutions.

I tested KDE Plasma for a couple days and I managed to replicate my setup in like 4 hours—most of which I spent exploring new things that would be impossible to do in GNOME without modifying its code base—and the end result was an improved setup which was less clunky since I didn’t have to use as many extensions as I did with GNOME to begin with. It was bliss for me.

I ultimately decided to move on.

I used to be a GNOME fanatic a couple of years ago. I switched to KDE after I got tired of the perpetually broken state of extensions.

I’m still thankful for all the effort and commitment the GNOME devs have invested over the years though! It’s an excellent desktop environment!

People are weird. Just use Linux! /s

Oof. Right in the nostalgia.

So small it’s almost imaginary