MOOP
3800x = fantastic
Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse = fantastic, the open source linux drivers are better than the proprietary nvidia drivers. i was worried it would struggle with games (windows) @ 3440x1440 but no problems at all, granted ive only played witcher 3 and fallout 4, both on ultra, with this monitor, but i get steady framerates between 75-100

    Take two:
    I actually really love the budgie default plat-noir-compact and have been using that for the longest time like this:

    but I recently felt like mixing things up so I'm running with this now:

    Although i really like the plata noir theme more, i am enjoying the colour co-ordination i have going on now.

    jujey "Rise and shine, Mister Freeman - rise and... shine,"

      MOOP I'm owner of Ryzen 3600X and 5700XT. They work perfectly with Solus. Gaming is butter smooth at least titles with I play like Witcher series.

        Justin What happened with Gnome that forced you to switch to KDE/Qt? I am just asking out of curiosity.

            maveonair I asked that a feature be added (tray support) to a GNOME application. They closed the issue with tag Not GNOME.

            While it is a GNOME application most other desktops still have trays. Their reasoning is flawed and I am also sick of them removing features continuously without consideration of those using those features.

            They seem to only think within their own bubble of the GNOME ecosystem.

                Plus I've been following the Plasma news and it always gets me excited. You really don't see a lot of news about GNOME or anything exciting they're doing.

                Justin
                Pretty much my experience, they live in their own world. Which is fine, they're allowed to have their own vision for how the desktop should be.

                Problem is. Core feature exists, they remove it, users complain about feature being removed. Gnome says: that's what extensions are for. Which is a perfectly fine suggestion: IF their extensions system didn't suck ass. It has always been a buggy mess, every update breaks something and eventually this happens to an extension you use:

                I am sorry but I am going to take some distance with the development of this extension.

                It is motivated by several things.

                1. I have not used the extension myself recently. I use less and less extensions that use it. And among them, none of them breaks or looses functionality without the status icon.

                2. The Gnome project does not give a shit about it and made it public. They even don't point to this extension but to an outdated, unmaintained one. Besides, Ubuntu, after making a survey, also moves on with its own extension.

                3. Anyway, the API is dying. It will be dropped in the future with GTK updates. Documentation is sparse, so development requires considerable efforts for not much. As it is now, the API is also buggy and incomplete, so it is impossible to make a reliable extension or really enhance it. Of course, it will never be fixed.

                4. TopIcons-Plus then became a magnet for claims (and exigences) that would better be addressed to the Gnome project. People fail to understand that the extension depends on an API and is not capable / intended to fix Gnome-Shell device. It is extremely exhausting.

                5. The Gnome extension website is awful, as there is almost no maintainer there and validation takes sometimes weeks... Meanwhile, I get issues from disgrunted users...

                Source: https://github.com/phocean/TopIcons-plus/issues/91

                So to sum up, Push everything to an extension, tell users to use extensions, blame extension developers for things that are not their fault, kill the API required for the extensions to work.

                No, I'm not changing my workflow to fit you, I'll just use a DE that works the way I expect it to out of the box. Haven't looked back.

                    algent Haha I never noticed that. It's just a photo taken in a canyon at night. Maybe the photographer was aiming for the shape. 🤔