And a few hours later, 3.4.10 is out. This is already more OS churn than I want, for a game I that don't have. :p
rotopenguin
joined 2 years ago
The only system I have where X11 is still better is a Raspberry Pi. The whole Broadcom software stack there is horrible and should diaf anyway.
Your laptop is old enough that it's probably not worth teaching the old dog new tricks. I have an 8th gen L480 that Lenovo already doesn't want to sell a new battery for.
The desktop would definitely benefit from a windowing system that understands "multi-headed" beyond being one weirdly large framebuffer. Wayland is architectured to deal with multiple screens with multiple DPIs and different refresh times.
For gaming, Wine/Proton currently targets X (with magical Xwayland protocols to bypass the worst of it), but it's going to be Wayland-native before you know it. Valve has a lot riding on making Linux/Wayland gaming better, and they're going to keep on plowing development into that. Intel and AMD are 100% on the train, and even Nvidia is being less bad about it.
https://orowith2os.gitlab.io/posts/wayland-breaks-your-bad-software/
They removed S3 because Win 10 stopped using it. No OEM has ever read a spec such as ACPI. They only record the exact interaction with Windows, and make sure that the hardware works with that and to hell with anything else.
I had to disable Volume Management Device in bios (a relative of Rapid Storage Tech, I think) to get any amount of battery life on an 13th gen Asus Zenbook. Learned it from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211879.
Look at "cat /sys/kernel/debug/pmc_core/package_cstate_show" (need root to even peek into the debug dir). If you only have C1 and C2 and everything else is zero, then you're getting no S0ix joy. When things are working correctly, you should get some of the higher states, and a pile of C10 states when you close the laptop.
AHAHAHA that is a proper insane bug. One PCIe device shouldn't be able to slap others off of the "bus", "we're not on a bus all you did was mess up your own personal lanes mate".
Oh, this is the first time I've heard of that. I use plasma-discover as my handy "search all 3 app sources at once" browser.
Try adding "PCIE_ASPM=off" to the kernel boot commandline.
By the time you've dressed out an Rpi to be halfway usable, you've spent about as much as a decent NUC. And all you have to show for it is a slow-as-mud sd card, hardly any video acceleration, a USB stack that only crashes sometimes, a busy OOM killer, and no software.
Get an N95 based nuc. A Beelink with 8/256 runs about $150, and it just works. (Well, you might need pcie_aspm=off).
Do you have 3D accel enabled?
As a btrfs user myself…
Yeah that's a fair cop.
An intel 2TB (which is actually Solidgim) runs under $70. I sure hope it's reliable.
It is amazing how every time you think "surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer" it fires off another bonkers event.