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here are my lutris settings

let me know if you want me to look up something else.

and ~~my axe~~ deduping. all those dlls and wine prefixes that contain them occupy space only once.

did you try it with an external monitor? I guess keyboard and mouse shouldn't be a problem

what they said but don't go below T480; the performance jump is huge (quad vs dual-core) and the price difference is negligible while almost everything is interchangeable (screens, keyboards, cards, plastic parts, dock stations, etc.).

T480 should be attainable around the $/€ 200 mark nowadays as they're 5-6 gens behind and upgrading 'em to like 16 or 32 GB and 1TB NVMe or more is stupid cheap.

noticed the green dot as well and panicked - first few search results said that's an indicator someone's recording, either via mic or camera; checked the permissions log, no help there. haven't seen it after that.

just watched a video where the dev explains LG; this is for a Windows VM that allows GPU pass-through, or am I missing something? when you say "host" and "client", you're referring to two physical devices or how does that work in your case?

I have two physical machines (both running linux, Fedora 40 on the desktop and Debian 12 on the laptop) connected to the same monitor, keyboard and mouse and I need to alternate between them.

edit: aha, the LG site refers to KVM as kernel-virtual-machine, whereas I'm talking about KVM as in keyboard-video-mouse; completely different things, maybe I should amend the post's title.

Aside from the god-awful installer (which they’re replacing), and the ball ache of installing media codecs, it’s an amazing distro.

yeah, so I got AMD graphics and it was news to me that from now till the end of days, you're supposed to run dnf up thusly:

sudo dnf up -x mesa-va-drivers

that suffix prevents fedora's shitty mesa from interfering with your cool mesa from rpmfusion, even though you swapped shitty-mesa with cool-mesa, as instructed. apparently, they started forcing this shit recently, can't remember ever having to do this, from F35 on up to F39.

this feels like a new take on wrestling Ubuntu and its snap monstrosity, you ripped shit out and thought you were fine. not so, we want shit done to your computer, even though you're like against it but you don't really mean it, right? man, gtfo with that bullshit, go break a Gnome extension or something and leave this shit be!

that's mentioned NOWHERE - not in the rpmfusion howto's, not in askfedora/fedora magazine (but there are swaths of jerkoffs going "well that's a risk when using 3rd party shit"), nor any step-by-step articles I looked at, I accidentally found it buried in a 3rd level comment of some rando reddit discussion.

edit: the installer sucks big fat elephant dick.

I'm on 6.8.5. lscpu | grep -i cppc comes up empty, so I guess I need to enable it in BIOS setup or add some kernel switches.

did the upgrade! aside from a little scare* everything worked out beautifully! it sleeps and wakes without issues and the XMP1-3600 profile works. ran a bit of geekbench6, that used to crash on the old CPU - no such thing here; watching the clock speeds reach 4.4 GHz was surreal.

a bunch of new options in the setup, PBO, overclock, etc. I'll leave them be for now.

also, just checked, I don't have the amd-pstate driver active, I'm still on acpi-cpufreq. I'll tackle that one of these days if everything works fine.

• • on first power on, there was only the "American Megatrends" logo and no other text, it just stood there. after a quick ddg, found the solution in a reddit thread, you're supposed to press "Y" there and then commences a series of reboots (5-6 or so, didn't count). after that's done with, you're greeted with your normal POST screen. enter the setup, load "Optimized Defaults", activate XMP1, turn off extraneous devices (serial, SATA ports).

found a pretty reliable way to make it perform shitty - alt-tab out of the game, do something memory-hoggy, like firefox with plenty of tabs and alt-tab back. it's often (but not always) super shitty then.

I'm on F40 Plasma, didn't have that degradation on F39 Gnome when alt-tabbing; but then I had Gnome session crashes frequently, which never happen with Plasma 6.

thanks for taking the time to reply. can you expand on the issues I mentioned, did you have to change those BIOS settings and does suspend/resume work? what's your RAM speed?

currently Fedora 40, Plasma. upgraded in place from F35 onwards.