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Comment #30754324
Smooth mouse input, especially when using high-DPI mice, is something that's been fixed in GNOME 42 due to release soon. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1915…
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Comment #30753716
Quit calling it anti user. Am I not a user, or I do not count as much as other Linux users because I like GNOME? There is absolutely nothing wrong in a DE wanting to go their own w…
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Comment #30753664
I'm on 4K at 2x scaling.
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Comment #30753027
Weird, I'm not seeing it, not even with a GPU heavy game being rendered in a window.
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Comment #30752602
> The Linux Desktop deserves better than GNOME Speak for yourself. I want the macOS lite experience on Linux, not the Windows lite one, thank you very much. GNOME at least tries to…
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Comment #30752588
I haven't got a single Wayland seg fault since I moved back to Linux in October 2021. Not one.
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Comment #30752578
> go ahead and play a 4k clip on Wayland enabled Firefox then move the mouse pointer, it stutters like crazy. Either your DE or your Firefox aren't actually using Wayland because f…
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Comment #30752569
Manjaro isn't known for its stability. The Linux desktop would have a better reputation if people first tried the big name distros instead of small derivatives.
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Comment #30752546
Fedora 36 releasing next month will ship with Wayland enabled by default for NVIDIA as well.
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Comment #30752528
Forget Ubuntu and their old software, Fedora GNOME is where its at, finally a forward facing distro for workstations and professionals. I highly recommend giving it a shot. Fedora …
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Comment #30751951
I play the latest games on my high-end GPU I sold a kidney for, watch 4K movies, use a Sony DS4 gamepad via Bluetooth, with two 4K monitors at 200% scaling and an external USB audi…
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Comment #30751923
> It has some user application UX issues (like Google Chrome mouse scrolls slowly) Try the "Chromium Wheel Scroll Smoother" extension. It's a hack, but I've managed to make scrolli…
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Comment #30751910
The "good" releases are good relatively to the crap ones they've succeeded, not on their own. As if they wanted to pay for QA only every other release.
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Comment #30747990
> is there any comparable long-term stable distribution format for Linux games Only Steam provides such a runtime, but outside of Steam you're out of luck.
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Comment #30747933
They make more off you if you have a regular licence and they can sell your data. You wanting to pay extra not to be spied upon is irrelevant, you have no choice in the matter. Ver…
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Comment #30747775
I'm pretty sure Windows got their priorities straight: telemetry, advertisement are the priority and they're executing their strategy very well. Your priority as a user are differe…
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Comment #30747230
I'd argue that Proton is better than native Linux support in the long term, hear me out. Linux userspace API has no promise of long term compatibility, and in fact there's a lot of…
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Comment #30742546
> i tried Kubuntu, pop_os and mint These are all Ubuntu derivatives. I agree on the sentiment that there's a lot of push for obscure distributions, but it's worth trying the major …
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Comment #30735079
In fact, death is an intended game mechanic of Soulsborne games. The highs of overcoming a challenging foe is much greater if victory isn't handed to you on a platter. And the game…
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Comment #30732236
I disagree. There is bound to be more than a non-tech person that notices that Google has gone downhill, and is confused because it _feels_ like they were getting better results 10…
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Comment #30729131
Source? But it's definitely possible nowadays when RAM is cheap and modern Google makes the Internet feel incredibly smaller than it was 20 years ago. At the time you would get ton…
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Comment #30729043
> Google could double its usefulness overnight just by bringing this back. It is now evident Google is not in the business of making its search any better.
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Comment #30727831
Fair enough, I stand corrected. Still, I wanted to point out that it's a company, not a government agency. Publicly traded or private doesn't change my point.
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Comment #30727780
Never said it was. It's a private company as opposed to a government funded agency.