X11 or Wayland?
Forgot to say Wayland, yeah, X11 works correctly since it isn’t in a race to see how many times its dev history can outstretch systemd’s.
Which image viewer, and which version of that image viewer? I've never encountered anything like this, and testing Gwenview 25.04.1 on KDE under Wayland just now, it worked fine.
Does steam still enable this shit by default? Just disable it. It was useful on old mesa versions so shaders didnt compile mid gameplay, but nowadays mesa (or the nvidia drivers) should support compiling shaders during loading screens.
Gwenview 25.04.0 on a Thinkpad T480 with the i5-8250U because seemingly every i7 board for the T480 is unstable or in need of reflow by now. If you have the same setup, open a random pic in Gwenview and then open anything on Youtube that is supposed to be playing at 60 FPS while having the FPS counter in KDE enabled, immediate drop to 30 or below for seemingly no reason even with an unlocked BIOS to tweak GPU settings like boosting DVMT to 64MB.
Idk what you need out of your image viewer. If something simple is fine for you. For Wayland. I recommend imv. See if that does any better maybe.
I just don't understand how an image viewer can be a problem. Is Wayland just not properly decoding a specific image format?
You can also use ctrl-z to put process into background.
Idk it could the the specific program he was using. Something weird going on with the driver. Something with kde. Or some combination.
1. He is poo in the loo. 2. I watched deorios videos on him and I do not like him.
he's created lots of videos on linux but a ton of them are him going through loads of trouble to put windows inside of linux so that he can play the 5 garbage games that still require that. i don't really understand him, and i don't know why anyone would play games that try to force users onto specific operating systems. sometimes he even has to do some work to make the games not realize they are running inside virtualized windows, because they are so picky they dont even like that. and of course they are all still full of cheaters, retard developers fighting boogeymen.
Does he just not know how to use WINE/PROTON every well? If not, normies just have poor taste in vidya. Unfortunately, you need them if you want Linux to be successful in commercial activites. People like him are largely why DXVK, WINE anti-cheat, and SteamOS became a thing. They created demand for it. Sometimes bad people can create good externalities.
no, these games have detection for such things. proton would work for them otherwise (in fact, for some games it did, before they blocked it). they are specifically made to break on wine, if that makes sense. if they detect you are running linux under the hood, they throw an error and refuse to launch.
Ctrl-z suspends/stops the process, you'll need to run bg to resume the process in the background.
You sure seem to have a lot of issues with people wanting to use Linux for gaming. I thought the point of Linux was being able to do whatever you want to do on your computer, no?
He mentions a lot that he runs Windows in a VM for Rainbow: Six Siege and Adobe shit. Neither which have Linux support.
He also told people to use Balena Etcher.
Didn't he say a few months ago that he went back to Windows and yet in all his videos you can see the KDE (or Cinnamon?) UI.