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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • KDE Plasma Wayland, I’m using it for gaming mainly and occasionally for VR.

    Pros:

    • supports DRM leasing mandatory for wired VR headsets
    • supports tearing (also in windowed apps but requires an additional setting) which reduces input latency in games
    • usually all the new fancy features, ex. HDR, appear quickly
    • decent support for fractional scaling (handy on laptops)

    Cons:

    • you might encounter bugs. While Plasma 6 has been a much better experience as opposed to older versions of it, there are still some bugs here and there appearing between the updates. As of this writing thought I can’t recall any bugs on my system.













  • At first I was tipping my toes in Ubuntu but kept coming back to Windows as I kept running into stability issues. Googling my issues very frequently kept sending me to the Arch wiki, and I thought “well if they have so much covered, why not use this distro instead”. That and 196 subreddit (rule) made me try Arch, and my experience was noticeably better. Barely any crashes and improving Proton compatibility made me use it more and more. I kept a windows install for VR and anti-cheat enabled games until late 2023.

    During my transition period (both in Linux and gender lol) between 2021 and now, I kept getting comments “why are you making your life harder with Linux, just use Windows where everything works”. Well, nowadays tables have turned and now I get to say “weird it works for me on Linux”. Except VR, it’s still a mixed experience.