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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • Yep. I got a thinkpad a couple years ago that was enough of a deal that I forgave its nvidia GPU. I followed the documentation on how to connect a repo controlled by nvidia, and since then: a) the actual GPU appears to be used, but b) maximum brightness on the screen is significantly dimmer, and games run worse than they did when the GPU wasn’t actually used.

    And also I use KDE. I’m still on X11, though, so I didn’t complete the set.




  • Yeah. “I use OpenSUSE tumbleweed, but have reasons I’ve been thinking about switching. I consistently hear that mint is a good place to start, or maybe pop!os if you’re looking to run games”

    I don’t actually even say the first sentence unless the question was “what do you use?”

    Sometimes, if it’s clear they’re trying to revive very old hardware I might help them search for something built around being lightweight.

    I’m mostly happy with tumbleweed, except that I have the nvidia repo set up and am convinced that it’s causing issues. One of these days I’ll look into how to try the nouveau drivers and/or how to get from my current setup to dualbooting pop!os without disrupting things I need for work.

    Also, an update straight up broke emacs while i was in crunch time once, but I learned to be more careful about my update timing.