Especially when you also use a aur helper like yay. Also I have to do is type yay and enter my password and then everything is updated

Any idea how long it will be until TW gets tlp 1.6

So how did you replace the mesa version. Every documentation I see seems to tell of the --allow-vendor-change option

Do you also use the mesa pacakge from packman repos. Will zypper automatically use the packman package of mesa when updating if you do the vendor change for mesa from official repos to packman. I am asking because when I tried TW, different versions of packages in mesa were somehow simultaneously installed after a dist-upgrade and mesa was broken

But don’t you need the mesa version with the codecs inbuilt for hardware decoding with a AMD card¿?

You seemed to have misunderstood. I am enquiring about the usage of packman repos in opensuse tumbleweed

Something like the 6600 or 6600xt(or 6650xt) could be the cheap alternative you are looking for as they cost around 200 dollars and give a decent performance bump for you.

A used 5600xt would be a much cheaper but somewhat sideways upgrade as it sells for around 100 dollars(according to Hardware Unboxed’s last gpu pricing video) and offers a small performance improvement of 5-10%.

Side note - in my view, the sideways upgrade to AMD from nvidia may not be the smartest use of money. AMD’s advantages over nvidia are real but unless you really do need a new GPU(because you are using the 1660 super for another rig or giving it to someone), the advantages are nowhere near large enough to justify buying a new GPU of around the same performance level. Of course this is just my viewpoint and you might see things differently

I thought more the logic behind this move was that people use a lot of web services these days so a lot of software on which is pre installed is redundant and hence a waste of resources.

I have edited the comment above. I had made an error while typing. Please check if that changes anything

Maybe you can try logging in before changing the file. Then quit steam, change the file and restart your steam system and then try to open steam. This was the exact process I followed and it worked.

Edit : the change to the .desktop file is not applied until you reboot your system.

The line you are changing is the right one. Change the PrefersNonDefaultGPU option from true to false

https://lemmy.one/post/151466. Refer to this for the location of the file. This is for the native .deb package

I asked about this to a system76 employee and what he told me was that nvidia with CUDA is still much better for several professional use cases and because of that, they still prefer using nvidia

I don’t know man. Mac OS also has no software to open a lot of file types out of the box but even people with little to computer knowledge are able to download the things they need from the app store. They can do the same in ubuntu as well

This is not a big issue. In the installer or first time boot welcome pop up, just add a page where some popular apps are shown and can be selected to be downloaded and installed.

Also what the fuck does the author mean when he says ubuntu is special¿? It is not that different from other distros and the ways that it is different does not make it better

And you definitely have to use DRI_PRIME=1 argument for every game to open them with dGPU.

In my case, I am on a amd+amd laptop and I don’t have to use the DRI_PRIME=1 argument to make the game use the dGPU. It just automatically uses the dGPU but I have seen others mention that they needed to use the argument.

This is an issue/bug with steam trying to open with the dGPU. In the steam.desktop file, change the PrefersDedicatedGPU (might not be exactly worded like this) parameter from true to false. Though after using this, you might have to use the DRI_PRIME=1 with your games to make them use the dGPU

Edit : credit for this goes to a kind gentleman who helped with the issue 2 months ago when the new steam UI dropped.

Must be the fact that I am non native English speaker confusing me into thinking they are criticisms. Could you elaborate what are those

Thank you. Forget to type that out when I was writing the comment.

Riddle me this - Some people’s argument against using telegram is that it is not as secure as WhatsApp(which on face value is true because WhatsApp is E2E encrypted while telegram is not E2E encrypted). Other people claim that only hackers and terrorists use telegram and that is why they don’t use telegram. My question is why are people like hackers and terrorists using telegram in the first place if it has worse security while having no upsides for these kinds of individuals.

The way I see it, gnome is friendly enough to use that new users who don’t care about its flexibility will continue using it without issues while people who are bothered by the lack of flexibility are knowledgeable enough to change their DE or install a spin of the distro with their favourite DE