juipeltje

Don’t know why you got downvoted. This is the sad reality, not just for gaming, but boycotts in general. They rarely work because the majority just doesn’t give a shit.

I don’t really have any hardware recommendations, since i just use a dedicated server built from spare parts, and stream it to an android tv with jellyfin, but i can say that when it comes to hdmi 2.1, as far as i’m aware it’s only an issue on amd. Intel and nvidia have their own workarounds, but for some reason amd is just… sitting there, not doing anything it seems. I bought a ugreen displayport to hdmi adapter for my tv and it seems to work just fine, so that could be a workaround.

If 90% of the 180 gig drive was filled up, that’s even more lol, definitely should be a way to clean that up but i’ve never used silverblue.

Edit: just realized you said that happened within a week. That’s really weird and i don’t think that’s supposed to happen. Over an extended amount of time without cleanup, sure, but not a week.

I don’t know how silverblue works, but i’m assuming they offer some way to clean up. You wouldn’t want to clean up everything at all times everytime you update, since that kinda defeats the point of an immutable system, but 90gb sounds excessive and definitely warrants some sort of cleanup. On NixOS there is a garbage collect feature where you can remove old generations. If you never run that eventually the drive runs out of space as well.

How often do you run things as sudo my guy. That might cause having to enter a password a bit more often, but i can’t imagine it being that bad that someone would rage quit using linux. Seems like a huge exageration to me.

Didn’t debian already offer a hurd image many years ago? I could be wrong but i thought i heard (or hurd hah) someone mention it in a video recently. I think it was on old guix video from dt (i decided to try and write a guix config so i was watching some guix content).

Yeah this really screwed me over when i bought a oled tv as a gaming monitor. I considered trying an adapter but i really don’t think i can do without vrr. I just hate seeing any form of tearing and stuttering.

I use a post-install script that sets up some system level stuff for me for my void linux install, everything else on top of that is declared through nix + home manager, but this is probably not what the average linux users’ setup looks like lol (also yes the install script and my nix configuration, dotfiles and everything sits in a git repo).

I don’t know what refreshrate you’re using, but from my understanding if you go above 4k60hz it doesn’t run in full rgb colorspace anymore, because the amd drivers only support up to hdmi 2.0, so even when the hardware supports it, hdmi 2.1 bandwidth can’t be used.

Yeah it turned out that lockdown mode was enabled. Disabling it fixed the issue. I guess i can’t really put the blame on windows this time lol

Yeah but not with all its features. Usually you have to sacrifice vrr, which is a dealbreaker for me.

For me it’s hdmi 2.1 on AMD. Starting to really hate my decision of buying a TV as a gaming display, purely because of how much windows sucks. Just booted it up to see if my samba server was working, only to find it has no internet connection whatsoever. Wifi also connects but no internet access, but i know for a fact it’s working because both on linux and my phone it’s working fine. Already tried a bunch of troubleshooting, including resetting the adapters competely. I’m starting to suspect the mullvad vpn app somehow fucked something up, because i’m not connected to their servers right now because i haven’t added more time to my account. Internet should work if i disable the vpn app though, so idk what’s wrong there.

This post made me realize that i guess i"m not that picky when it comes to controllers. I’ve mostly used playstation controllers all my life because i’ve been a console gamer since i was a kid, even now with a gaming pc i still have a ps5 as well. Playstation controllers have always been fine to me. Also have a switch pro controller for my switch which is fine as well. When i go back to ps4 or 3 controllers i do notice that the dualsense is the most comfortable in comparison, but after using an old dualshock for a while i can easily get used to it again.

Also, i might just be very lucky, but i’ve never experienced stickdrift on any of the controllers i’ve owned. The only wear and tear issues i’ve ever had was the rubber from the joysticks on my ds2 being completely degraded, which makes sense after all those years, and my ds4 had the button on the inside of the trigger break down. Ended up replacing that and it worked again. I should probably get some new rubber sticks from aliexpress for my ds2 as well. Would be nice to restore it since it’s the only legit ds2 i have, and it still worked fine from what i remember.

Yeah, i had the same issue when i decided to buy a LG OLED C5 as my monitor a few months ago. The silly thing is i had already heard about this being a problem before buying it but forgot about it. I ended up swapping my dualboot around and give windows the bigger SSD for all my games, since i really didn’t want to live without high refresh and vrr. I also didn’t want to return the tv because it was a better deal than any monitor at that size, plus it has more features. Pretty much had to give up linux gaming though ;(. I did a lot of research into adapters but all of them are finicky at best and still miss some features like vrr, so it is what it is.

Oh you’re right, i’m still getting used to it not being called maomaowm anymore lol

I think Mangowm and maybe even base dwl have a feature like this, where it shows you windows from other workspaces as well in an overview and you can switch between them, but not entirely sure because i personally don’t use it much aside from trying it once or twice.

I have no clue what any of this means

I guess i’m not commited enough lol. I didn’t want to pay out the ass for a similar sized monitor either, that would’ve still had less features as well. The tv was just way more versatile, aside from the dp thing, especially since i also still play on consoles. I saw you deleted your other comment, but no, there aren’t any good adapters that can actually provide all the features i want to use, including vrr, so i just can’t see that working. Maybe these issues will be resolved at some point in the future, and i can move most of my gaming back to linux, but for now it’s mostly going to be productivity, and i still daily drive it on my laptop since that thing can barely play games anyway.

I’m not saying i like windows, but i literally cannot do on linux what i want to do with my setup right now. Linux doesn’t work, windows does, so windows is the right tool at the moment, because it is the only tool, unless i go out of my way to get a different gpu, which i’m not going to do.

It was one from cable matters, but i didn’t try it myself, just read all the experiences online. They already make it clear themselves on the product page that vrr doesn’t work, which is a dealbreaker for me personally. Some people claim they got everything working including vrr after flashing a custom firmware, but they still have to replug the cable everytime after they boot before it works, and even after the firmware flash it still doesn’t work for everyone. i think this is the cable. They link it at the top of the thread.