It has been running very smoothly for the most part. I have not encountered any "update woes" as I have in the past with Fedora. So far so good. Able to play Starstable and Diablo 3 very nicely. And many Steam titles work as well with Photon turned on.
I still want to poke around and try other things. I will give it a short rest though. Can't constantly reconfigure my system. :) But I do keep all documents, music, video, pictures and some other items on shared drives which I simply mount the way I want them whenever I spin up a new distro.
Anyway, just a quick update.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Sunday, February 16, 2020
KDE adventure
Ages ago, back between 2005 and 2011, I had switched from Macs to an All-in-one IBM pc. What I ended up installing on it was PC-BSD because the networking that came with it out of the box worked very well with my company's firewall/network security.
It came with a KDE interface. I used it for a year until I switched back to a mac and purchased a product that I was able to log into work with... But while I have not been a KDE fan in recent times, mostly GTK/Gnome, I did have fond memories of that year.
A week or so ago I began hunting around for a good KDE distro. The caveat was that I did want to be able to install WINE and PLAYONLINUX so I could play a couple of my favorite games. I tried Neon, KaOS, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu and Fedora.
KaOS is, without a doubt, the best looking KDE distro (of course that is subjective). But it was limiting when it came to getting gaming software set up. OpenSUSE was OK but the actual installation did not end well for me. Neon is the KDE kitchen sink and worked alright, but I did run into one or two struggles with Ubuntu software. Kubuntu was loaded to the hilt, and it worked well, but I felt there were some KDE performance issues. Finally I installed the KDE spin of Fedora 31. I always have a love/not-love-so-much relationship with Fedora as I always end up breaking something in some update. But so far it has been very nice. KDE performs very well, and Fedora performs well in general.
There is also a KDE version of Solus that I might try...
Anyway, just an update of my computing adventures.
It came with a KDE interface. I used it for a year until I switched back to a mac and purchased a product that I was able to log into work with... But while I have not been a KDE fan in recent times, mostly GTK/Gnome, I did have fond memories of that year.
A week or so ago I began hunting around for a good KDE distro. The caveat was that I did want to be able to install WINE and PLAYONLINUX so I could play a couple of my favorite games. I tried Neon, KaOS, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu and Fedora.
KaOS is, without a doubt, the best looking KDE distro (of course that is subjective). But it was limiting when it came to getting gaming software set up. OpenSUSE was OK but the actual installation did not end well for me. Neon is the KDE kitchen sink and worked alright, but I did run into one or two struggles with Ubuntu software. Kubuntu was loaded to the hilt, and it worked well, but I felt there were some KDE performance issues. Finally I installed the KDE spin of Fedora 31. I always have a love/not-love-so-much relationship with Fedora as I always end up breaking something in some update. But so far it has been very nice. KDE performs very well, and Fedora performs well in general.
There is also a KDE version of Solus that I might try...
Anyway, just an update of my computing adventures.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
The difference between an everyday use monitor and a gaming monitor...
So I went 1440p awhile back. I purchased an inexpensive Samsung monitor that supposedly had 5ms gtg. Sounded pretty good to me.
When I hopped into one of my staple games, I immediately noticed the "skippiness" of the game play. Hiccups, stutters, etc. I assumed it was the fact that I was playing 1440p not 1080p that was causing the issue, that my graphics card just could not handle it.
WOW.
I had been thinking about it for awhile but everywhere I read said that my previous (and my very new) graphics card can handle 1440p flawlessly if not effortlessly.
Last week I pulled the trigger on a new 1440p monitor, an HP 27xq, which was rated as a decent gaming monitor. 1ms gtg, freesync, etc.
Got it today, plugged it in and even though I have not yet figured out how to get it to > 60 refresh rate, when I play my "staple" game mentioned at the beginning of this post, it was FLAWLESSLY SMOOTH!! I have been torturing myself for over a year for no good reason.
Listen, if you are thinking of buying a 1440p monitor, please do not skimp. Go for a gaming monitor if you game. It was literally night and day.
Now I just need to find a happy medium with its settings. The blacks are black but the whites are nigh on blinding me. Even so, small price to play for getting back the fun in gaming with no stuttering and skipping.
That is all.
When I hopped into one of my staple games, I immediately noticed the "skippiness" of the game play. Hiccups, stutters, etc. I assumed it was the fact that I was playing 1440p not 1080p that was causing the issue, that my graphics card just could not handle it.
WOW.
I had been thinking about it for awhile but everywhere I read said that my previous (and my very new) graphics card can handle 1440p flawlessly if not effortlessly.
Last week I pulled the trigger on a new 1440p monitor, an HP 27xq, which was rated as a decent gaming monitor. 1ms gtg, freesync, etc.
Got it today, plugged it in and even though I have not yet figured out how to get it to > 60 refresh rate, when I play my "staple" game mentioned at the beginning of this post, it was FLAWLESSLY SMOOTH!! I have been torturing myself for over a year for no good reason.
Listen, if you are thinking of buying a 1440p monitor, please do not skimp. Go for a gaming monitor if you game. It was literally night and day.
Now I just need to find a happy medium with its settings. The blacks are black but the whites are nigh on blinding me. Even so, small price to play for getting back the fun in gaming with no stuttering and skipping.
That is all.
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