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But it was the X protocol that needed to be replaced.

I just got the Discord update, meh, seems ok to me, maybe even a bit more convenient. They obviously think it’s an improvement.

I haven’t booted Windows since February and at this point I’m afraid to.

With regards to Arch based distros: Do you still need to read Arch news to spot potentially breaking updates and know how to diff pacsave/pacnew, etc. or have Garuda found a way to manage these things?

I guess mileage might differ. I installed Tumbleweed and then the Nvidia drivers following the wiki instructions. Everything is going great. Running a 3060 with Wayland+Plasma on a 360Hz screen and gaming through Steam. I love Tumbleweed.

An alternative if just for benchmarking is EndeavourOS, you can choose proprietary Nvidia drivers as a boot option in the installer and then I believe it’ll be installed with them without further ado. Downside is if you use it long term you have to read Arch News before updates to spot breaking/incompatible changes and be knowledagable of things like pacnew/pacsave files, etc.

Even Nvidia have embraced RISC-V, the general purpose controller embedded on their GPU’s is RISC-V.

Yeah I’m a grey-beard, my first experience was Slackware in the nineties. I’ve been using Linux since but usually on servers and in VMs only. Recently I’ve been able to go 100% thanks to Proton. I really enjoy the progress made with tech such as systemd, wayland, btrfs, proton and flatpak. Though a lot of grey-beards are very resentful of these I feel they represent real positive progress. There’s also support for kb backlight and other features of my laptop.

I’m also really enjoying PRIME rendering on my laptop, using Intel and Nvidia at the same time for different things. It works beautifully/seamlessly and even more so that I can just type “yay” and get a new Nvidia driver or a matching driver if there’s a kernel update without having to do any babysitting manually.

I do everything on Linux now, Office work, Rustdev and I play games like BG3/Guildwars2 simply by launching them from Steam.

The only pain is that I have to configure each application manually to use Wayland, that’s a bother.

Well that’s a massive difference you’re experiencing. For me Native and Steam work the same.

I’m lucky that I don’t need long battery life, I’m always plugged in for gaming, so I have set the Nvidia GPU in Dedicated mode. I suspect not having both (optimus or prime) have eliminated a lot of issues, it works well with Wayland and Plasma and games like BG3 and Guildwars2 under Proton+Xwayland.

Actually it’s not too bad on the battery when not gaming, despite always running NVidia.

Same as my laptop screen/keyboard - I use a dab of Dawn (or whatever brand I currently use) and a moist very soft sponge and dry with an old teatowel.

I should try to buy some edibles, I refuse smoking anything, finding it nasty, but am curious to try cannabis.

A friend gave me a couple of “green” cookies once which I put in a away for the next day but then they were gone. My wife told me my mother in law had eaten them for breakfast not knowing what is was. They seemed to work really well, she almost smiled at me once that day.

Björk have made some that are absolutely spectacular, she has a way of making you feel what she feels with her voice and the visual impressions, she pulls you into her world. She’s one of those artists that are completely unique and deeply talented.

Himmelbjerget (Sky Mountain) in Denmark, it’s an entire 147m

Well, I’ve also climbed some baby mountains in Western Canada, like Grouse Mountain (just a short hiking trail) and the Columbia Ice Field (basically drove up there) but how can the compete to Himmelbjerget ‽

Yes, Bonjour is a magic word. La politesse/etiquette and respect for all people is very important in France. Here in NA when we enter a store the staff greets the customer and bows and scrapes for us, in France when entering a store the customer politely acknowledges and greets the staff with Bonjour - and not just in stores. And then there’s the other small phrases that goes a long way, like merci, pardon, s’il vous plait, au revoir, use monsieur/madame/mademoiselle, as in Excusez-moi, madame, etc.

Dress a little bit nicely when exploring helps, don’t walk while eating, etc.

When foreigners complain that the French are rude or snobbish it is often a misinterpretation; not adhering to simple etiquette, can be offensive or insulting and they will react to that demonstratively or “in kind”, more or less subtly…

I rather like La Politesse and being respectful to everyone.

I have a version of The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that’s genuine leather bonded with gold leaf page edges and builtin bookmark. It’s on display on a special shelf. Everyone who visits thinks it’s a bible, and in a way it is as it does have a lot of good advice about life, the universe and everything.

GuildWars 2, small scale stuff on the borderlands with my WvW guild.

When Covid came to town I started learning French to do something constructive. I started with 1 hour+ Duolingo a day, then after a year I added comic books (Tintin/Asterix/Spirou/Natacha/etc.). Now I am reading the Maigret novels.

I finished the Duolingo course after ~3 years but they added more content so now I do ~15min a day just for fun, while most of my learning is through reading interesting novels, like Maigret.

I also took the ANUx’s Astrophysics XSeries Program on EdX, it’s spectacular and I learned so much from it. So I keep better up with new discoveries and understand what’s going on.

Yeah, homemade is best. It takes a bit of practice though because there’s so many things one can use. A good burger doesn’t have too much stuff and not too little and it needs balanced flavours and textures.

and there is a very useful Dyson refurbished factory store on EBay, at least here in Canada. I bought a stick vac there 12 years ago, only had to replace battery and air filter since.

Yeah, I had a friend throwing away his Dyson stick vac because it was “pulsating” on and off, well, a quick look in the manual (there’s also an online troubleshooter) told me that pulsating like that is a signal to the user meaning there is a blockage, it took 30 sec to fix that.