What got me disappointed is that I heard so much about KDE customization and that it wasn’t buggy anymore.

I thought I’d be able to reproduce the vanilla Gnome workflow where you easily switch between workspaces. This with the advantage of things being customizable.

But it’s just too buggy and complicated for me…

I’m also trying to enjoy KDE as everyone is praising it and Gnome lacks a tiny bit of customization.

But I really prefer Gnome and feel really different than everyone on Lemmy.

So yeah a DE is more important than the distro to me.

Apparently a lot of games don’t have DRMs on Steam. The only thing missing is a badge indicating this.

So at least you own these…

Yeah the two last games are really great and I enjoyed them so much on Steam Deck.

Well there is something kind of exciting about running Linux on Apple or Surface hardware once it gets really cheap and isn’t supported anymore.

Of course, if you buy it new, it’s different.

For me, it’s either I get Linux friendly new stuff or dirt cheap Apple/Surface hardware in second/third hand…

Well for me it’s good news for when these devices won’t be supported by Apple anymore and they’ll become really cheap.

Although the fact that most of the parts aren’t replaceable is also a problem in that case…

Having one launcher isn’t a problem for me. Steam’s OS’s launcher even allows me to launch GOG games through Heroic without even really launching Heroic.

Where it starts being a problem is when individual games need their own launcher…

I see the launcher as the system menu in a console…

Well they are based in my city and they’ve been around for 30 years.

They use their datacenters to heat buildings and seem to have good ethos.

I’ve been using kdrive for 5 years and I can only complain about the lack of Flatpak (Appimage for Linux) and the fact that they don’t have an alternative to something like Google Photos.

Of course I can’t guarantee they’ll stay like this, but they’re really not a startup

Infomaniak is even cheaper with kdrive https://www.infomaniak.com/fr/ksuite/kdrive/tarifs

Thanks!

It worked perfectly out of the box with Fedora on a MacBook Pro 2012.

But I guess every MacBook generation has its little problems with Linux.

Mine is with the wifi going away once a year…

I think you just have to make the jump and install a distro on your computer while accepting that it’s not because you don’t like the first distro that all of them are the same.

Once the first step is done and your old OS isn’t around anymore, you’ll be forced to find something suited to your needs.

Do you plan on installing Linux on your Mac? If it’s Intel based it’s easy, but if it’s an M model your choices are more restricted…

So what? How much bigger is it than the other one?

If it allows me to not change too many things on the Deck to install, I’m okay with wasting some space compared to other solutions.

Also it can emulate not just one console.

RetroDeck has the advantage of being a Flatpak and not needing Deckyloader plugin if you’re using a Steam Deck.

I’ve had a great experience with it👍

When working properly, my Go 1 is perfect and I don’t need more power. So I wouldn’t want to get rid of it and would prefer solving the problem.

But, if one day it dies, I would try to find something more Linux friendly, even if using Microsoft or Apple devices to do something they were not designed for is also quite nice😅

I’ve never heard of btop but I can look at it👍

But wouldn’t it be weird for it to be temperature related when the computer was just started and unplugging/plugging the external screen solve the issue? This would make think it’s display related no?

Yeah I guess you’re right, my last chance of solving the problem could be by creating a spreadsheet with as much data as possible on every occurrence…

I don’t think it would be a thrilling investigation though😅

What are IO and Iotop?

Apparently the BIOS is up to date even if my knowledge about these is quite limited…

About something dying in the computer, it would be surprising as it has been like this for the last 4 years and only happens maybe once a month after starting…

I guess I should have said it before, but it happens when starting the computer, sometimes a week after an update, so I don’t think it’s heat related. Especially because it sometimes solves itself after unplugging/plugging the external monitor through USB-C.

I don’t know anything about the specific computer you’re talking about, but usually the issues are with ARM.