My journey to successfully game under Linux (and overcome Microsoft's Stranglehold)

[igor_kavinski]

Do let us know if switching leads to any wonkiness or loss of data or settings or whatever. Can you switch back to previous one or switch between multiple desktops easily whenever you want?

 

[Indus]

Interesting.. I couldn't find Hop through terminal after installing it through terminal.. it was hidden.. but I'm going to add one rather than replace

 

[Zepp]

Nevermind I found it..

Switching Desktop Environments / Edition 🚀 Ultramarine Wiki

Add/remove the DE/edition with Ultramarine Hop.

wiki.ultramarine-linux.org

sudo dnf install hop

interesting, I didn't even know about Hop, but I did have to search around more than I thought I would to find the right terminal commands to install GNOME. What ended up working for me was "sudo dnf install @gnome-desktop"

I'll have to try this hop out

I have cinnamon and GNOME alongside my default Budgie. aside from the extra terminals, text editors and file managers the only wonkiness I noticed is GNOME screen timeout doesnt work at all for some reason. Monitors will remain on indefinitely despite the power setting saying screen will lock after 15min.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Are Linux GUI applications desktop environment agnostic?

Is there a chance that an application may require a specific desktop environment to launch?

If an application doesn't launch, where does one go to see the reason for the failure? In Windows, usually Event Viewer says something.

 

[Indus]

Are Linux GUI applications desktop environment agnostic?

Is there a chance that an application may require a specific desktop environment to launch?

If an application doesn't launch, where does one go to see the reason for the failure? In Windows, usually Event Viewer says something.

Never encountered that myself but I've done very limited testing with that.

You can download a GNOME utility and use it in KDE like I did that with disks to fix my mounting problem..

So you can use KDE apps from GNOME too.

 

[Indus]

interesting, I didn't even know about Hop, but I did have to search around more than I thought I would to find the right terminal commands to install GNOME. What ended up working for me was "sudo dnf install @gnome-desktop"

I'll have to try this hop out

I have cinnamon and GNOME alongside my default Budgie. aside from the extra terminals, text editors and file managers the only wonkiness I noticed is GNOME screen timeout doesnt work at all for some reason. Monitors will remain on indefinitely despite the power setting saying screen will lock after 15min.

Hop seems broken.. it says downloading Gnome but nothing happens and it seems frozen.. even my network meter sees no activity.

 

[Zepp]

Are Linux GUI applications desktop environment agnostic?

Is there a chance that an application may require a specific desktop environment to launch?

If an application doesn't launch, where does one go to see the reason for the failure? In Windows, usually Event Viewer says something.

from my experience they are DE agnostic

yep there are logs similar to windows event viewer

 

[igor_kavinski]

yep there are logs similar to windows event viewer

Is there something centralized like the Event Viewer to view all these logs or does one need to know which folder to go look in and then maybe find a log analyzing tool for the particular type of log to parse it?

 

[manly]

Thanks to this forum, Linux gaming hits an all-time high on Steam of nearly 3%.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108913-july-steam-survey-rtx-5000-surge-new-top.html

 

[Zepp]

Is there something centralized like the Event Viewer to view all these logs or does one need to know which folder to go look in and then maybe find a log analyzing tool for the particular type of log to parse it?

IIRC it's in a particular folder and yep there are various tools/apps for analyzing logs I just dont have any experience using any.