lutris works just as flawlessly nowadays using proton with minimal config.
lutris works just as flawlessly nowadays using proton with minimal config.
also goes for arch. its fun, it helps you learn, ive used it before but if you are a newbie you will break stuff. things will break too, depending on your setup. use it if you are ok with that.
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:
ok it worked! thanks a lot! can’t believe it was that easy. Gnome spazzes out a little bit after wake sometimes, is that something i can work around?
do you happen to know a thing or two about diagnosing trackpad issues? or at least the right direction? 😂
what kind of driver could the keyboard be using? lsmod shows nothing beyond the HID driver, but thats being used by the external mouse which works normally after sleep.
lshw shows it going by /dev/input/event6 or something like it?
deleted by creator
yes do it.
depending on what you get for a wifi card, you might want to virtualize some flavor of linux like openwrt to run the wifi.
bsd (opnsense, pfsense) is notoriously bad for wifi support.
the biggest challenge here is selecting the right wifi hardware imo.
i dont think that would be actually meaningful in any way unless its something that can have actual consequences for them. theyve shown they themselves think their own words are meaningless.
the best time to switch to linux is a few years ago.
the second best time is now.
i will test that out later today, thanks!
how do i do 1? having timeout to suspend and lid close to suspend would be great. and id like to see some example scripts!
i had pretty much given up on standby with this one.
yes, i’m on ubuntu, using all the default drivers.
and i would guess its finnicky because its an old laptop.
is it a matter of scripting rmmod and modprobe to run on suspend/wake?
how do you deal with kb+trackpad not working after wake?
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.
its already working for me, and was for a long time.
i was more curious about the technical side of it
most debian based distros are good…
about 3 fiddy
SUDO