Amateur Linux Hour

[Aidan]

Unless your cache is oddly sized, which I highly doubt, that doesn't seem to be the problem. And this happens only when a game is running? I'd use something like nvtop or amdgputop (name is probably wrong) to see if there's anything weird going on with the graphics card, though that seems unlikely.
I'm also wondering if logging out and back in will "fix it" the same as rebooting which would help narrow things down.

 

[Miller]

Unless your cache is oddly sized, which I highly doubt, that doesn't seem to be the problem. And this happens only when a game is running? I'd use something like nvtop or amdgputop (name is probably wrong) to see if there's anything weird going on with the graphics card, though that seems unlikely.
I'm also wondering if logging out and back in will "fix it" the same as rebooting which would help narrow things down.

Yeah, when I log out or reboot usually the issue is gone.
I have forgotten that I changed the motherboard a month ago, perhaps the issue could come from an older version of the bios? I have just updated to the latest one. I will see if it happens again.

edit: yep, still have that issue.
edit 2: I have changed the refresh rate of my monitor from 200 to 120 Hz and the issue seems to have stopped (I didn't reboot the system).

 

[ghastlyretard]

I have an issue with gayming on Linux (Arch), usually it works really good but sometimes the games on Steam run at a shitty framerate and the mouse lags a lot. So far the only way to fix it is to reboot the computer. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have this issue with my laptop. In my case I've noticed it only occurs after the laptop has returned from a suspended state. I assume because sleep states still suck in Linux it's just that, so I restart my laptop if I'm gonna game on it.

My desktop I don't let sleep, so I have never experienced it there. Both are AMD CPU with nVidia graphics, running Arch.

 

[Max Free]

How can I make my Linux Mint mount USB-Sticks and similar devices in sync-mode automatically? I absolutely detest the retarded way Linux handles copying files to those (lying to you in a false progress dialog, then forcing you to wait minutes when you actually want to detach the device).

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

How can I make my Linux Mint mount USB-Sticks and similar devices in sync-mode automatically? I absolutely detest the retarded way Linux handles copying files to those (lying to you in a false progress dialog, then forcing you to wait minutes when you actually want to detach the device).

Oh man if only Null hadn't banned the 2 or 3 furfag linuxbros who probably knew how to do something like that to transfer their petabytes of porn between drives fast.

The only tip I can give you is to use some syncing app. I don't know any for Linux, but I know there are a few for Windows and I'm sure it exists for linux as well.

AFAIK the few times I moved stuff between my USB and computer I had no progress bar and it just did its thing instantly, so IDK what's wrong on your end.

 

[Max Free]

@Kiwi & Cow: Windows mounts USB sticks automatically in sync mode, which effectively just means when the file transfer dialog says the file transfer is done, it's actually done, i.e. it doesn't lie to you, and you could remove the stick outright with no fear for data corruption.

Linux (Mint, at least) handles this the retarded 2000 era way: Showing you a file transfer dialog where Gigabytes of files are copied magically in seconds, but actually, they are not on the stick. You have to tell the system that you would like to remove the stick now, where it tells you to please, please not do that right now because, uhm, well, akshually, we are still transferring your files to it, just now without a file transfer dialog and only god knows how long it will take.

It's retarded, and Microsoft made sync-mounts rightfully the default way for USB devices because of it. There has to be a simple checkbox (or, for Linux, at least a single line in some config file), to make all USB devices mount in sync mode automatically, preferrably without having to install additional shit.

 

[seri0us]

I don't know any for Linux

Then quit shitting up the thread

 

[Betonhaus]

@Kiwi & Cow: Windows mounts USB sticks automatically in sync mode, which effectively just means when the file transfer dialog says the file transfer is done, it's actually done, i.e. it doesn't lie to you, and you could remove the stick outright with no fear for data corruption.

Linux (Mint, at least) handles this the retarded 2000 era way: Showing you a file transfer dialog where Gigabytes of files are copied magically in seconds, but actually, they are not on the stick. You have to tell the system that you would like to remove the stick now, where it tells you to please, please not do that right now because, uhm, well, akshually, we are still transferring your files to it, just now without a file transfer dialog and only god knows how long it will take.

It's retarded, and Microsoft made sync-mounts rightfully the default way for USB devices because of it. There has to be a simple checkbox (or, for Linux, at least a single line in some config file), to make all USB devices mount in sync mode automatically, preferrably without having to install additional shit.

The only reason I can think of why Linux does that is because it allows file transfers to continue in the background, potentially useful if you are doing it from the text console so it doesn't tie up your console for 30 minutes or whatever long it takes. So dumb tho.

 

[Miller]

No issue since my last post in the thread. I guess I will keep the refresh rate at 120 Hz instead of 200.

 

[Jotch]

@Kiwi & Cow: Windows mounts USB sticks automatically in sync mode, which effectively just means when the file transfer dialog says the file transfer is done, it's actually done, i.e. it doesn't lie to you, and you could remove the stick outright with no fear for data corruption.

Linux (Mint, at least) handles this the retarded 2000 era way: Showing you a file transfer dialog where Gigabytes of files are copied magically in seconds, but actually, they are not on the stick. You have to tell the system that you would like to remove the stick now, where it tells you to please, please not do that right now because, uhm, well, akshually, we are still transferring your files to it, just now without a file transfer dialog and only god knows how long it will take.

It's retarded, and Microsoft made sync-mounts rightfully the default way for USB devices because of it. There has to be a simple checkbox (or, for Linux, at least a single line in some config file), to make all USB devices mount in sync mode automatically, preferrably without having to install additional shit.

I can only think of a couple general pointers right now, but I definitely would like to make this change and didn't know it was possible.
Here are some pointers, I'll get back once I've tried it myself.
First, with your flash drive plugged in, go into gnome disks or some other disk mount editor and make sure write cacheing is disabled.
Then, take a look at org.gnome.desktop.media-handling in dconf.

Edit:
Try setting this to your drives in gnome-disks: