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I’m not sure what the cause is exactly. Some say it’s user error and they just didn’t realize they had done something wrong, but i’m pretty sure there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to it lol. My guess is maybe you install a package that pulls in the entire gnome desktop as a dependency, but i don’t think that would make it boot into gnome by default just because you have it installed.

I thought this post was referring to the “gnomed” phenomenon where people boot up their pc and all of a sudden it loads up the gnome DE, without having it installed previously lol

Red pill. Tried the green pill but it was just too painfull having to still interact with windows period. Nuked it a few weeks ago. Screw the anti-cheat games lol, i’d rather not play them if that’s what it takes to be free.

I’m assuming this is sway-specific, so just wanted to add that waybar itself also supports toggling hide/show bar by sending it a signal:

kill -SIGUSR1 $(pgrep waybar)

I never noticed that the gnome terminal uses light mode by default. Bit everytime i had to use gnome the first thing i do is turn on dark mode in the settings, so maybe that’s why.

Nope, works really well for me. From all the games i tried pretty much only anti-cheat games and quest 2 vr stuff gave me troubles, but it has been years since i tried vr and i’ve heard it has improved a lot. Recently the hdmi 2.1 situation with amd bit me in the ass when i bought a tv as a gaming display, but i ended up buying an adapter and accepting that atleast for the time being, vrr isn’t gonna work, cause i tried going back to windows instead but at this point it just feels like torture to use now that i’m used to linux. I’d rather lose vrr if it means i get to be free of windows. I also decided to just give up on any game that uses anti-cheat, cause i found myself not really enjoying them anymore anyway.

sigh guess i’ll have to put the mandatory “free as in freedom, not free as in free beer” over here

It’s weird how that happens sometimes. Back when endeavourOS was all the hype i tried installing it in a vm multiple times, and for some reason the installer would always fail. But everyone was singing it’s praises, so i’m assuming i just had bad luck and tried it at a bad time.

Lol, wasn’t that pretty much how it went with that story from a Google employee who claimed their AI was sentient?

Ah yes you’re right, had to look it up to see for myself. It’s weird because i remember specifically changing some of my &&s for ; instead because i wanted it to not continue if exit wasn’t zero, but i must’ve misread it at the time. Time to change it back i guess lol.

Wait, isn’t it the other way around? I thought ; only executed the next command if the previous one succeeded, and && executed the next command regardless of exit status.

At this point it’s usually just whenever i feel like it. Probably at the very least once a month on average.

I like to think it’s fitting for the analogy that with NixOS/Guix, you get access to the entire factory to build your car, since you pretty much have a framework at your disposal to build up your system how you want it.

Edit: should’ve scrolled a bit further, someone already beat me to it lol. Great minds think alike.

Mixed refresh and vrr with mixed displays is one of the big reasons to use wayland lol, because X couldn’t do it.

Bruh, just bought an DP to hdmi adapter a few weeks ago lol. This is good news regardless though, hopefully this hdmi mess is finally going to get fixed at some point.

Ok, so what did xlibre achieve then? Is multi-monitor with mixed refreshrates + vrr a thing yet?

Nah it’s just running RedoxOS

Me when my friend started talking about how he wanted to buy a steam machine as his first entry into pc gaming, and considered installing linux on his laptop cause windows ran like ass on it.

Yeah i just edited my comment, i think the nonguix kernel might actually allow you more finegrained control over which firmwares you want to load. I’ll have to experiment with that a bit.

Edit: can now confirm that removing linux-firmware from my config and only keeping amdgpu-firmware in it only loads the gpu firmware. Could easily tell because my wifi card on my desktop needs firmware, and it stopped working afterwards (i’ll probably try to find the specific wifi firmware as well, but not a priority cause i pretty much never use wifi on desktop).

Well from my my understanding the problem is that you can’t pick and choose specific firmware to run on top of the libre kernel, cause they patched it in such a way that it doesn’t really allow you to do it (not sure how it works specifically). I looked into this a bit cause i’m using gnu guix now, but pretty much the only firmware i need is the one for amdgpu. For everything else i could get by with the libre kernel, so i thought it would be neat if i could load only that one specific firmware, but it seems to only be possible to go full libre, or you just need to use the regular linux kernel with its firmware.

Edit: as i was typing this i realized that the nonguix kernel does differentiate between linux firmware and amdgpu firmware. I might have to try removing linux firmware to see if that works, cause if that’s the case then i can pick and choose my specific firmware after all.