This is my result with the Chromium flatpak with ozone set to auto, AMD GPU.

Even though it says video decode is hardware accelerated, it doesn’t seem to be doing so according to Resources.

Are you using two separate devices? If so another option could be LocalSend, it allows you to send files over the same network.

I used it for sending a couple hundred GBs of files. Didn’t take too too long. Also avoids unnecessary writes to flash media.

To my understanding, the kernel should clean up any memory leaks an app has when you close it.

I’m not sure if it is related to Newsflash is the problem. Besides, I’ve been using the same version for months, but this has only recently become a problem. And the problem persists after Newsflash is closed.

No integrated GPU.

Resources reports the same memory usage as btop. free tells me only 6GB is being used for cache.

On a fresh boot, Resources and btop report less than 2GB RAM usage, obviously not including cached stuff. So for both tools to report 18GB with no apps open, it’s strange.

ps aux looks all normal, nothing in the background using more than 1% of RAM.

Using Fedora Silverblue 41 with btrfs.

No large files.

All normal

Better game performance in some scenarios when running a game natively under Wayland. It helps to minimize GPU downtime when it could instead be rendering.

I was using a 1660 Ti around 3 years ago and I don’t remember it being this stuttery, even on Wayland. If this is a problem on newer NVIDIA cards, then I think I might have to go AMD again despite the worse raytracing. I wanted to get an upgrade before upcoming tariffs affect graphics card prices.

They call Bazzite cloud native because they use a lot of technology often used in the cloud, but it’s still a locally run OS with no dependence on the internet apart from getting new updates.

Unlike traditional distros, it uses flatpak for apps, comes with podman (similar to docker) if you want to use containers, and has a more robust update mechanism.

Proton includes DXVK and vkd3d, which translates DirectX to Vulkan. There’s also Zink, which is not part of Proton, that translates Vulkan to OpenGL; some new graphics drivers just write a Vulkan driver and use Zink to handle the OpenGL stuff (like the ones written by the Asahi community to make Apple M series chips work on Linux).

However, there is a project I just found called ANGLE developed by Google that can translate from OpenGL to Vulkan. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know if this could be adapated to work on Minecraft, if it could work with Nvidium, and if it would even bring performance improvements.

Really the best thing to do would be for Minecraft Java Edition to natively adopt Vulkan on Windows and Linux. But that’s not going to happen since Minecraft is owned by Microsoft.

Some info teased about Sonny’s ban last year. People have been working to get his unbanned since. Hopefully this means that Sonny hasn’t done anything that bad to deserve the ban, though that would imply that there are issues inside of the Gnome Foundation (besides all the nonsense Lunduke spouts), which would be worrying.

The same is not true of projects with a monolithic entity at the center. If there’s a conflict in that central monolith it can spiral ever wider if it isn’t resolved, affecting more and more structures and people, and doing drastically more damage.

This is a lesson we’ve unfortunately had to learn the hard way when, out of the blue, Sonny was banned last year. I’m not going to talk about the ban here (it’s for Sonny to talk about if/when feels like it), but suffice to say that it would not have happened had we not done the STF project under the Foundation, and many community members including myself do not agree with the ban.

What followed was, for some of us, maybe the most stressful 6 months of our lives. Since last summer we’ve had to try and keep the STF project running without its main architect, while also trying to get the ban situation fixed, as well as dealing with a number of other issues caused by the ban. Thousands of volunteer hours were probably burned on this, and the issue is not even resolved yet. Who knows how many more will be burned before it’s over. I’m profoundly sad thinking about the bugs we could have fixed, the patches we could have reviewed, and the features we could have designed in those hours instead.

It can.

Pretty much the same options as Gnome Tweaks. But it lets you change some experimental options in Gnome, such as VRR and Xwayland scaling.

These apps have different niches. Refine and Gnome Tweaks aim to expose things that are not in Gnome Settings but users would commonly want to change. Meanwhile dconf editor exposes everything, most things are things that you wouldn’t want to change; it’s great for discovering new things though, I made great use of it when creating my script to configure gnome to my liking.

Yes. But as a GUI tool, it’s nice that it is available as a flatpak for atomic distro users and also includes experimental options for Gnome which are not shown in Gnome Tweaks.

Trying to use SteamTinkerLaunch to install Nexus Mods was a nightmare for me. It was so bad that I wiped my Linux install and installed Windows.

That Windows install didn’t last long, but ever since I’ve just done things manually. I’m going to keep doing that way until NexusMods.App is ready.

In the future, the easiest way will probably to be Nexus Mod’s new native app. But that’s still in alpha.

I’ve found it simplest to just manually copy the mods into my install folder and add all the .esp’s to my Plugins.txt.

To make the game start with SKSE on Steam, I would rename SkyrimSELauncher.exe to SkyrimSELauncher.exe.backup and rename skse64_loader.exe to SkyrimSELauncher.exe. But I rebought the game on GOG and use the Heroic Games, which let’s me change which exe to run so I don’t have to rename things.

Another thing to keep in mind when installing mods is that Linux uses case-sensitive filesystems. That means the folder skse is different from SKSE. Some mods use lowercase, other mods use uppercase. But Skyrim will only recognize one of these folders, so you would have to rename the folder before merging it into your skyrim install folder.

I’ll also say that I never did any major modding. I’ve used maybe at most 2 dozen quality of life mods.

ProtonVPN is on Flathub, I’ve had no issues with it.