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Susanna said:
But that's incredibly unfair to systemd (and wayland I guess, but I'm less willing to die on that hill). GNOME is utterly horrid, but systemd genuinely does work very well. And while Wayland is missing a lot of features still, on KDE it's perfectly pleasant to use as long as you're not screensharing. You're going to conclude all three of these things suck, when really it's just GNOME (and to a lesser extent Wayland) that sucks
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Normally I'd agree with you, but Plasma 6 is absolute dogshit compared to Plasma 5. It's like the KDE team inexplicably forgot multimonitor setups exist. I was having all sorts of weird issues like my mouse briefly hanging while switching between monitors, random hangs when alt-tabbing, and artifacting both on Fedora 42 and Fedora 43. GNOME Shell, inexplicably, improvedi n the transition from F42 to F43. No more artifacting, multi monitors work, and Wayland surprisingly hasn't shat itself on me when playing Dark Souls PTDE or Deus Ex GOTY. I specifically remember that happening on F42 in May earlier this year, which is why I switched to the X11 session.
 
Dread First said:
Normally I'd agree with you, but Plasma 6 is absolute dogshit compared to Plasma 5. It's like the KDE team inexplicably forgot multimonitor setups exist. I was having all sorts of weird issues like my mouse briefly hanging while switching between monitors, random hangs when alt-tabbing, and artifacting both on Fedora 42 and Fedora 43. GNOME Shell, inexplicably, improvedi n the transition from F42 to F43. No more artifacting, multi monitors work, and Wayland surprisingly hasn't shat itself on me when playing Dark Souls PTDE or Deus Ex GOTY. I specifically remember that happening on F42 in May earlier this year, which is why I switched to the X11 session.
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I haven't noticed any multimonitor issues in Plasma 6. Which GPU do you use? My desktop only ever uses one monitor these days (a 48" 4k OLED TV, I've got loads of screen real estate), but my laptop uses the TV+the built-in display over USB-C (AMD iGPU), and I've never had any issues.
 
Susanna said:
I haven't noticed any multimonitor issues in Plasma 6. Which GPU do you use? My desktop only ever uses one monitor these days (a 48" 4k OLED TV, I've got loads of screen real estate), but my laptop uses the TV+the built-in display over USB-C (AMD iGPU), and I've never had any issues.
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An RX Vega 64. AMDGPU with the latest Mesa works perfectly, it's adequate under GNOME Shell with Wayland and Plasma 6 under X11, but Plasma 6 is fucking dogshit with Wayland despite it being the whole damn point of Plasma 6 in the first place.

EDIT: I should clarify that I'm using a pair of 1920x1080p monitors, both @ 75Hz. One's an LG 27 inch and the other is an HP 23 inch. Artifacting happens both at 60Hz and 75Hz, and I'm autistic enough to care whenever my refresh rates don't match. It genuinely is a Plasma 6 Wayland problem. There's no getting around it.
 
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Dread First said:
sound's bloody quiet innit mate?
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If you're running Pipewire anyhow, let me suggest Easyeffects. I watch a lot of Twitch, where sound levels are all over the place, and often things are balanced so streamer is like +6 / +10 / +INSANITY dB louder than the game/music/whatever. I use Autogain (EBU R128 volume leveling) and Maximizer for the peaks Autogain doesn't quite respond quickly enough for. Makes my volume levels consistent regardless of what I'm hearing. But yeah, incredibly configurable, and runs a DSP on your whole audio output chain, so you can do literally whatever you want.
 
DavidS877 said:
Good to see that the "curl X | sudo bash" malware vector works for Windows as well.
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It's only a malware vector if you don't think about what you're doing. Chris is also working on a Linux equivalent called LinUtil that works much the same way. The reason people are fine with it is because they trust Chris and his project. In the end it's him who accepts any and all merges and he knows what he's doing with the project. The bigger wildcard is "irm https://get.activated.win | iex", but even then the MAS team has proven themselves trustworthy so far as to not pull any stupid shit with their script, so much so that you have MS tech support recommending it whenever people have issues activating Windows.
 
DavidS877 said:
Until his website gets compromised.
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DavidS877 said:
Or he fails to renew the domain and it expires
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Somehow Debian didn't suffer from these issues when it's 100% vulnerable to them. But it was affected by the xz supply chain attack that of course got swept under the rug as a nothingburger by the entire Linux community because it just so happened that because one autist noticed his SSH session took 0.05 seconds longer to authenticate which prompted him to check the source code which was the only reason the backdoor was ever caught, therefore Linux is not vulnerable to supply chain attacks at all and bring up the xz case is apparently meaningless.

There is so much that can theoretically go wrong with software security, yet it rarely does. And when it does it always gets memory holed or downplayed if it affected Linux in some capacity. Like when CUPS had a major exploit discovered and people just scoffed at it because "use case for using a printer on Linux?".

All of Linux is based on the same trust. But please, do point to hundreds of hypothetical examples where security can go wrong, since apparently security is about hypotheticals.
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At some point when delving into the hypotheticals they cease to matter.
 
analrapist said:
If you're running Pipewire anyhow, let me suggest Easyeffects. I watch a lot of Twitch, where sound levels are all over the place, and often things are balanced so streamer is like +6 / +10 / +INSANITY dB louder than the game/music/whatever. I use Autogain (EBU R128 volume leveling) and Maximizer for the peaks Autogain doesn't quite respond quickly enough for. Makes my volume levels consistent regardless of what I'm hearing. But yeah, incredibly configurable, and runs a DSP on your whole audio output chain, so you can do literally whatever you want.
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I do have EasyEffects installed. Currently have an Equalizer with a very gentle smile curve going on (i.e. 3dB on the lower frequencies, everything 0 on the midranges, 2dB on the higher frequencies), Bass Enhancer with a 2dB boost, and a compressor with an attack time of 15ms, release of 250ms, ratio 2, and everything else on defaults. Does it help? Yes... insofar as not making shit sound flat and dry anymore but it kinda makes shit worse because now I'm starting to hear distortion on some of the local music I have saved if I crank shit up beyond -39dB. Is this *nicer* than PulseAudio? Yes. Is it a panacea that makes my audio woes go away? Absolutely fucking not; PipeWire's biggest difference to PulseAudio is that I'm not mucking about in text files and rebooting every 10 minutes to test my shit.

The Count of Monte Cristo said:
Any time I've reinstalled linux on my system I've had to use alsamixer to crank the audio back to 100%, a little ridiculous that by default alsa puts the slider to 20% :roll:
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On the flip side, all this audio troubleshooting with Fedora does carry back over to Linux Mint since there were several longstanding issues that were "addressed" by simply creating an /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file and applying a "Headphones" boot override via hdajackretask to my motherboard's rear audio jack. All this PipeWire stuff on top, at least to me, feels like "okay, give us a mulligan on how shit PulseAudio was, we now have stuff that's nicer to use... but don't expect miracles because ALSA's still absolute fucking dogshit with your hardware."
 
WielkiWapiesz2137 said:
I never understood people praising KDE - always when i used it it was buggy af on multiple distros and multiple computers. + it looks like even more soulless windows. In looks departament and in bugginess at least in my experience GNOME is preferable and xfce4 to GNOME.
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fluxbox and jwm are the only correct answers
 
Dread First said:
I'm starting to hear distortion on some of the local music I have saved
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I suggested something specific, including a mitigation for compressors causing over-unity samples. "Autogain", the EBU R128 loudness leveling algorithm almost certainly outperforms your compressor for handling loudness changes, and the ZamAudio "Maximizer" is the best free limiter I've found. You can push Maximizer really hard before the distortion becomes unpleasant. Maximizer will help your EQ distortion substantially, I'm willing to bet. Give it a shot for limiting your current setup to listen and demo before you try replacing your compressor with Autogain.
 
Nobunaga said:
Windows is so bloated bro, now let me install 90 programs to open an exe file
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I don't get what you're saying, that Linux distributions should duplicate and ship the entire Windows API so it could run some Windows-format executables? And this to you would be an example of reducing bloat?
 
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