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  • umbrella@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    3 days ago

    if you are on linux AMD is the better choice, period.

    don’t get me wrong nvidia will work relatively well, ive ran it before on linux and its actually improving. but it isnt worth the pricetag to have tons of small issues everywhere.


  • i was about to send a screenshot, but i can’t reproduce it now. it freezes and stops responding to some or all input, and all the dock+appmenu icons are gone. its one of these or all symptoms, and i can usually reproduce it when coming back from sleep. logs say ‘broken pipe, error reading events from display’ i can update if it happens again.

    I’m using the same generic ps2 driver for the touchpad. its an old alps glidepoint, i can get it to work perfectly with all features on windows 7 with the proper drivers, needless to say thats a bit unworkable.

    on linux it works initially with multitouch scroll and everything, then gradually starts to behave like a wet touchscreen. ive tried different kernel versions, livebooted a couple different distros and tried a few very old solutions i found floating around, like using the synaptics driver for some reason. found it for cheap and replaced the hardware. nothing seems to do the trick.

    edit: it did the thing, its usually functional enough for screenshots:












  • umbrella@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlReassessing Wayland
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    10 days ago

    yeah, i had a couple of pain points on wayland a while back, even on amd. one single pesky piece of software still gives me grief sometimes but i think its mostly just that: software developers catching up at this point.

    i notice general desktop responsiveness is better, cpu use is noticeably lower but it otherwise makes you forget it even exists, which is the point i wanted it to be in before i jumped ship.