OSbtw

Is it a test instance with fake users or something?

A test instance yes! I think the users are real people posting test stuff t

especially flickering and performance

If my experience is any indicator, your GPU is fine :(. Any chance you’re using mixed display scalings? I’ve got an RTX 3050 eGPU for my Plasma/Wayland laptop, and for the most part it actually works fairly smoothly (albeit more slowly compared to windows), but if I try to run a game at a higher resolution than my monitor (used by Plasma for mixed scaling) I get constant flashing/frame shifting, but when I drop it down to the native 1080p it starts working again

As a side note, X and eGPUs do not play well together, but Wayland is literally plug and play after installing the drivers–I can even hot plug/unplug as long as nothing’s using the GPU!

I use AnySoft as well–it has a predictive word function that seems to work just as well as GBoard’s (albeit I haven’t used GBoard since 2017)

The interface is different (e.g. swype left on the entire keyboard for numbers), but give yourself a week or two to adjust–most things can also be fine-tuned from the settings app

Have you ever considered Father Ted?

I’ve love both Firefox and Okular (KDE’s evince), and both “technically” support PDF inking, but the experience is just subpar to what Edge offers now for notetaking and reviewing articles. Xournal++ is the gold standard and fully supports my Surface Pen, whereas Edge does not recognize pressure or the eraser. However, I work with a lot of embedded files (Logseq), and the fact that Xournal++ cannot bundle a PDF in a single file and instead needs a reference, plus the fact that PDF is a universal file format, makes Edge the most enticing option for now

I use Edge daily–trying to use mostly non-proprietary software, but when I need to annotate a PDF, Edge just works. It’s no drawboard PDF, but it’s free and runs on Linux!

The only solution would be, to create - yet again - a universal alternative to the AUR.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I believe typing !gaming@beehaw.org will redirect to the community without leaving your home instance!

Seems like Reddit goes in a cycle of being hated and bouncing back, I am baffled how they don’t see everything that’s going on right now! Perhaps it will work out for them, but I’ve left the platform for good

I’ve used the surface linux kernel on my SLS, worked great for me!

Related question: anyone have luck with GPU hotplug? I’ve got an eGPU that works perfectly with Windows, but I cannot for the life of me get it to run with Fedora or Ubuntu (xorg and/or wayland). That is the final think keeping me on Windows, which handles eGPU hotplug flawlessly

Thank goodness for edits: I’m running it on a Surface Laptop Studio! Pop! OS was amazing (once I got the proper kernel loaded), but held back by the need to restart every time I wanted to hook up my external monitors.

I had 7 years of saved posts in my old Reddit account, deleted it today. We’ll see if Lemmy grows, but always open to trying new things!