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  • Best job with auto driver configuration (etc.) on most machines did endeavourOS for me. Just make sure to choose the correct vulcan / mesa packages while installing steam

    I generally install steam as one of the first apps on most machines in order to get all the GPU dependencies sorted.



  • Petter1@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldOrwellian
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    5 days ago

    As soon as you have to enable a a deamon/service, you have to interact with systemd. Systemctl is the command that is used for that (with option enable, disable, start, stop and restart)

    Some programs require you to enable such a service, in order that they work, but would not talk about systemd while explaining install of xyz, more like “enable xyz: sudo systemctl enable xyz”.


  • Im not si much a customisation guy, but ended up with KDE and global apple theme, after all 🤭

    But I see what GNOME is doing and support them, I think the Linux community as a whole profits from the work they do.

    I agree with your opinion that, right now, it is very time consuming finding the right extensions that one need, but I think the problem is more the extension store having bad UI than extensions being bad as whole.

    And what I meant is not that distributions are doing a great job right now, choosing what extensions to preinstall, more so that they are able to and that it would be a nice feature of a distro having some essential GNOME extensions preinstalled, even if default disabled.



  • Petter1@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldnow I know why
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    6 days ago

    The features would break if they were built in.

    GNOME has clear philosophy and they work for themselves, not for you so they decide what features they care to invest time and what features they don’t care about.

    Having a standardised method for plugins is in my opinion good enough, nobody forces you to use extensions. And if you don’t want extensions to break, then wait till the extensions are ready prior updating GNOME.






  • Well, the source checks the cable using the CC line which doesn’t go through the cable (VCONN). So source only knows the cable directly plugged in. To make the extension cable visible, the sink would be required to check the cable plugged in using VCONN and then the tell max ampere to the source over the other CC that goes through the cable.

    2 Problems:

    1. Sink devices normally don’t read or can’t read VCONN as far as I know

    2. No way of detecting if a third cable (extension in the middle) is present and what specs it has