Update: I checked last night and I already had the plasma-integration package installed this whole time. I’m stumped.

Alright, thanks for that. I’ll take a closer look later today when I’m at the PC, but the plan today is to try out different minimal environments to see what I like. And this time I actually remembered to make a Timeshift snapshot ahead of time (my latest one was like a couple of weeks ago)

I’ve been hearing good things about it, makes me wanna try it.

This laptop does have a dedicated GPU and was quite decent for the time. It was my only gaming machine for quite some years. Now I want to keep it alive with Linux for other general uses or work. Said dedicated GPU has been the source of many issues even when it still was under issues. The setup of Intel i5 with integrated graphics + an AMD Radeon GPU is uh… shaky under most driver circumstances and applications never know which of the two to use (usually defaulting to the wrong one)

I’ve been running Wayland to “get used to” the newer technology, and I don’t think that in itself has much impact on performance… Even if I do turn off the effects on KDE, I still feel like it’s doing way way more than I need or want it to do, and it does have a very noticeable impact on the speed things happen. Slightly slower than Cinnamon was, although both are also still way faster than it’s last Windows install… lol

Right now the main “problem” I have is that KDE is handling a few things I want it to handle, and that there’s a lot of applications I installed alongside it that I’d have to remove to swap fully to another DE. Almost makes me think it’d be easier to do another clean Arch install, but that took me almost a week to fully set up. (as I’d start to find the things that I hadn’t yet configured or installed gradually)

Incredible. I have never even heard of a Kirigami, and here I only thought I had to worry about if applications were Qt (which version) or GTK (also which version) and running under Xorg or Wayland. What the hell is a Kirigami. Well, thanks for the heads up. Such are the joys of being a Linux user!

I did like the Openbox part of LXQt. Might re-install that.

It’s amazing that it’s still the best rally sim to this day. This game is old enough to drink in the States.

Why am I not surprised.

The fact that this is possible and they were real about not using Denuvo makes me actually want to buy it later. I thought it was going to be always online even on the story mode, but it is fully playable offline and only the multiplayer modes are online, as it should be.

Eh, it’s annoying but it wasn’t even a very good wad. If you want to play it, you can just download it off the internet and play it on another free sourceport.

Monster Hunter and Devil May Cry and Dragon Age: full of insipid, unnecessary microtransactions ranging from regular consumable items, to cosmetics that were usually just included with the game normally. God I love Capcom’s games but I hate them as a company.

Although I grew up with Playstation controllers in my hands, ever since I tried an XBox 360 controller I never went back. I’ve been using XBone controllers on my PC for years now, and I just love the ergonomics of them in my hand, the clicky D-pad, the rounded buttons. I’ve always hated the PS dpad, it hurts my thumb. Now, I probably won’t keep buying “original” XBox controllers, but anything with that shape and feels that comfortable in my hand, will be my choice.

I really want to get one of those.

Yes, yes it is. The term coined by the Ubishit CEO trying to cover his own ass by claiming that Skull and Bones took so much time and money to make, and was being sold for higher than $60 (while still being a pile of shit) by saying it was a “AAAA game” and the term stuck. I mean, it’s own very first use was to describe a terrible AAA game. It’s only natural.

oohh that is nice, I think I’ll swap my nano to that.

Or Quake! Even though I suck at arena shooters, any of them I’d want to hop in for.

I would ABSOLUTELY attend a local tournament for AC6. The netcode is absolute ASS but the gameplay is so crisp, if we could play it without lag or ghost hits it would be great.

It’s open, it’s free, and it’s fun! It’s got a ton of mods and custom games to make it whatever you want out of a voxel game. That’s everything I need.

Shoutouts to the Asuna game.

Well this one was incredibly easy to identify, even with mods.

We all need to be our own archivists in this day and age. The internet isn’t forever, it’s a constantly burning Library of Alexandria. I’m glad you found your lost media again.