A few years ago I got 5 of my millennial friends to move from FB Messenger to Telegram and it took some peer pressure from me and essentially one hangout where we were all together, and moved in one go. Telegram is not perfect but overall it's much better than being on FB messenger.

I think it's worth noting that Tumbleweed also has the Mesa/codecs situation, where if you want the codecs you have to enable the Packman repo and install mesa from there, and when there's an update for mesa you have to wait for the update on Packman repo, otherwise you get some conflicts when trying to update. Though packman usually updates quick enough so it's usually not an issue but it can be a bit weird the first time you see it.

Aside from that yeah, Tumbleweed is great. Though i'm currently running Fedora Kinoite and overall I've been happy with it, but I would probably go back to Tumbleweed if something were to happen.

On KDE there's System Monitor, which you can customize to show graphs for CPU usage and temp, among other things, and GPU usage and temp too.

For in-game monitoring there's Mangohud, also very customizable on what you can show in the overlay

One option is what I currently use, a docker image of Qbittorrent with support for OpenVPN: https://hub.docker.com/r/markusmcnugen/qbittorrentvpn

If you can get OpenVPN config files from CyberGhost then it should be straightforward to set up.

Quite intuitive. I like it. And I was easily able to find quite a few of the communities I like to follow. Cool stuff all around :)

They're going closed source and windows only when there's already an official client from Apple coming to Windows? That's strange, and unfortunate.

Yes. I run VS Code in an Ubuntu distrobox, with the electron wayland flags. Works real nice. KDE Wayland btw.

I use Fedora Kinoite and I do a mix of Distrobox + layered packages for normal use. For development porpuses I prefer a Distrobox container with its own Home directory and it works nice.

Regarding your bluetooth issues on your 8bitdo, I had an issue with my 8bitdo pro 2 where on linux there was a higher input delay vs Windows. I then updated the controller firmware and that fixed it. Works great on linux now.

Maybe try updating the controller's firmware, if you haven't yet anyway.

Regarding dual booting, I do dual boot, sometimes I like using windows, others i like using linux. It's nice to have the flexibility. Ideally i would like to switch to linux one day, but there are still a few small issues, at least on KDE wayland.

I had the unlimited plan for a few months but downgraded only to the mail plan, that way I can try different providers for VPN, Drive, and password manager.

For password manager I've had Bitwarden for years now and it works great for me. VPN currently with AirVPN because of easy port forwarding, and drive with Nextcloud self hosted because I can, and also works fine for me.

Here's some info on it: https://userbase.kde.org/KWin_Rules

From the overview:

KWin allows the end-user to define rules to alter an application's window attributes.

For example, when an application is started, it can be forced to always run on Virtual Desktop 2. Or a defect in an application can be worked-around to force the window above others.

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Top song 2 years in a row now, and top artist for 3 years now :)

I use Kinoite currently and at first I had some trouble finding out how to do certain things in rpm-ostree, when a lot of guides just mention how to do things with DNF. For example I wanted the mesa freeworld drivers, and a few other packages to get codecs working, and had some troubles but managed to figure it out.

With that, my system is essentially set up how I like it, I also have automatic updates for rpm-ostree, and since it only reflects on the next reboot it doesn't affect the current session. That's neat.

I also removed the rpm-ostree backend from Plasma Discover because it was showing as if there was an update but then Discover wouldn't display what the update was. Now I only have Discover for Flatpak apps, works great.

For gaming, Steam as a flatpak I think is the way to go on Kinoite. You avoid some issues you have have when updating the system. It happened to me once at least and so I switched to flatpak version. It works great honestly. And then Lutris from Flathub also seems to work fine, in my case at least.

Nvidia drivers shouldn't be an issue, you have to do some commands on the Terminal, but they're available in the RPM Fusion wiki if I recall correctly.

What I like the most is having the peace of mind of being able to boot to a previous working state if an update causes an issue, and it works out of the box. I could accomplish the same with OpenSUSE but I like Fedora more.

For the best Nvidia Optimus experience IMO go with an arch based distro, something like Endeavor OS, and install and configure Optimus Manager. It has a Hybrid Mode which makes it work much like it does on Windows, were you just launch a game and it uses the dedicated GPU. I like it better that way vs having to be switching modes manually.

Here's a guide for it: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/nvidia/optimus-manager-for-nvidia/2021/03/

I think in terms of hardware it's worth it if you value the convenience. Stuff like the Apple Watch, Airpods, iPad, Apple TV, is good hardware and they work well together.

On the software side you can use cross platform software wherever possible to not rely as much on Apple's services, in case you wanted to switch, then it would be too difficult

My two main reasons that I prefer KDE of GNOME are:

• I grew up with Windows so I'm used to its layout and with KDE I can achieve something very similar rather easily.
• VRR on Wayland is built into KDE, and works as expected.

I mainly use my PC for gaming and for me VRR is a must, so it's nice that it's built into KDE Wayland already.

Whoa, thanks for sharing this. It looks great!

I have both the 8bitdo SNES Pro+ and the Pro 2, love both, and I know at least for the SNES Pro+ there's a clip kinda thing that attaches to the controller so it can hold a phone.

https://www.8bitdo.com/pro2/

I faced this as well on KDE and got around it by creating a window rule to match it by window title and force a .desktop name to the vs code window, so it shows the correct icon on the taskbar. I wonder if there is a similar functionality on Gnome?

I'm pretty sure it's wayland because on KDE wayland, with 200% scaling, when the cursor is over an xwayland window, it looks blurry. This doesn't happen on wayland windows. Also for some reason electron and chromium based apps run at 60 fps on wayland, while xwayland apps run at 144 fps as it should, and my VS Code in the Distrobox with the wayland flags also runs at 60 fps. Weird KDE stuff.