I know it's called plasma, and I don't know if it's actually plasmas fault, don't judge me, it's for the meme

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[–] 85 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Some people have KDE problems because they use Nvidia. I have KDE problems because I switched from Nvidia to amd but there's no way to uninstall Nvidia drivers in arch without a os reinstall and I'm too lazy for that (games still work, but many of my KDE bugs are probably caused by Nvidia drivers still being present). We are not the same.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Just switched from 2080 super to 7900xt last week on Endeavour. Install amdgpu, vulkan and mesa, reboot and install, uninstall nvidia stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How do you like this setup? I'm on the same thing, using nixos. It's great, but Nvidia is clearly a buggy mess when I compare to my steam deck (I know not apples to apples)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I am loving it. Most recent builds have been absolutely smooth. My only complaint, a minor one, is I'm lazy and would like to see Discover added and populated with flatpak and appimage support more easily.

    It was good with the 2080. It's great with the 7900. Everything I throw at it, maxed out 4k, streamed via Sunshine (max detail/quality all) to an nvidia Shield or Steamdeck running moonlight, is so closely synced that audio is pretty much matched.

    And since getting rid of nvidia, no more waking up in the mornings to find the thing had crashed and rebooted to maintenance mode during some sort of unattended update or process.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Wat

    sudo pacman -Rnsc nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils
    

    Unless you went to the NVIDIA website and ran the .bin, you're not supposed to do that on any distro unless you want problems.

    Although it still shouldn't use an inactive driver.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I feel your pain, I was there once my friend, just hold on plasma 6 is coming.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    just hold on plasma 6 is coming.

    It's only a matter of time until Nvidia will fuck up compatibility again. Waiting for workarounds to Nvidia problems is not the solution.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I really wish Linux hardware companies would stop selling Nvidia, and that Linux users would stop buying Nvidia. They don't care about us.

    EDIT: Yes I know people with Nvidia switch to Linux with existing hardware. That's not what I'm getting at and I hope those people choose their next GPU wisely.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I just have "plasmashell --replace" mapped to meta + del.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I've had to have such a shortcut for... 4+ years now.

    It gets used too often

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    You know what's funny... I use Windows still for gaming and I have KDE connect installed to control stuff from my phone, and I have a "Refresh KDE connect" shortcut because the connection sometimes bugs out.

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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I eventually want to return to GNU/Linux, but I just don't see a DE that has no drawbacks. The most reasonable choice I think is to just return to MATE, even though it looks dated and doesn't feel to innovate.

    I really want to try KDE out but it looks like a cluster fuck for me.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    ah a fellow Waterfox user, flatpak or appimage?

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    AUR waterfox-bin, btw (Β¬β€ΏΒ¬") I'm almost glad to have made the mistake to install Arch because through AUR I don't have to get involved in these flatpack/snap/appimage wars xD (also because I have no clue what I am doing, but don't tell anyone)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    ahah lol that's fair, i maintain the flatpak so whenever i see someone with Waterfox on Linux I get curious. Love the AUR but I'm mostly on immutable distros so I don't get to use it qwq

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is unrelated but what's the appeal toward immutable distros to you?

    I don't mean this in a hostile way I'm genuinely curious to know. I usually consider the ability to change anything about Linux as quite a big selling point so these distros seem kinda counterproductive to me.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    i mostly use kde apps like krita and kdenlive, although when i did use plasma i didn't have these issues. i use sway now because i wanted fully functional tiling (both polonium and bismuth were weird/buggy)

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Similar to an official cinnamon feature that automatically reloads cinnamon if it's memory usage becomes too high

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I see someone else is also using waterfox

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Still don't understand the purpose of wayland besides cleaner code and easier updates for kernel level stuff.

    X11 has been fairly updated with all the features people wanted and needed anyway. Just because no one uses all of its niche and antiquated plugins and extra stuff, doesn't mean its inherently an outdated program.

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  • I've literally never need to do that.

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