Ah yes, well that is sort of what I've discovered too, but at some point I gave up. I've never gotten the proprietary AMD drivers to work. Either they are not supported, or there are install errors.

I actually messed up my system pretty bad trying to install the latest AMD drivers to get ray tracing. The install didn't work, so I hacked some files to proceed, and it bricked my system.

So I had to boot up in a Live USB, chroot into my system (which is a PITA cause I have full disk encryption and physical hardware key authentication) and then manually remove the failed AMD driver.

But I got it working. I would consider it a learning experience. I guess if you're not used to it, it can seem like a huge deal, but I kind of figured out how things work, so I make sure to be careful and not break the system.

It happens, that kind of comes with using Linux. I mean, Windows is not free from issues either, but it definitely gets first class support from big companies. With Linux you are on your own.

packrat sleep/suspend/hibernation is rather infamous. I don't think I've ever had a system that hibernation and sleep actually worked properly on. Even this system has problems sometimes freezing in the middle of just shutting down.

Pixophir As an example of not a problem, but a little complication, when I got my new PC last November I had to install the unstable branch of Debian to get rudimentary vulkan ray tracing support with the open source driver (mesa/radv) for the graphics card. Otherwise I would have had to revert to the AMD drivers (amdgpu or amdgpu pro). The latter would have been a manual installation, which means I break the updates from the repositories. I try to avoid such things, as one day there may be incompatibilities between kernel and driver.

Right, the specific reason why I'm using KDE Plasma-wayland session is that it's basically the only combo that actually supports adaptive sync over HDMI. Haven't checked if other wayland implementations by now support it too, but afaik x11 likely won't ever. Could be wrong tho. And waiting for that adaptive sync support was the reason I stuck to win7 for as long as I did.

        Megalomaniak It's been so long I forgot those functions are supposed to exist in computers. It freaks me out when i use another computer and it doesn't boot into tty1 for me to login and type "startx". From my very sheltered Arch safe space and modern midline computers, it really seems like it functions how normal computers should with no problems. Even Lubuntu freaked me out with all the pretty colors it was throwing at me when I installed it on the sacrificial lamb.

          No problem with suspend for me on Ubuntu. One time I had my computer on for almost a full year of uptime without shutdown or rebooting.

          I know with laptops it can be weird sometimes. On desktop it seems okay.

          @packrat : I have no problems with suspend, except it uses too much energy :-/. Haven't used hibernation in a long time, afaik the swap partition must be big enough to hold the computer's memory, but I don't know what happens with the vram on the graphics card ...

          Someone did a test and found shutting off your computer every night versus putting it on suspend doesn't actually save power. Maybe like 1W, which is negligible.

          This is because the boot up sequence of a the computer uses a certain burst of energy, while suspend/resume uses a very small constant amount (just enough energy to keep the RAM alive basically).

          I guess this would be true for desktops or laptops connected to power. If you have a portable system, maybe the math would be different, I don't know (for example, optimizing for battery life versus energy cost savings).

            My computer is working right now and I don't want to mess it up. It's not quite old enough to get rid of. The OS just isn't that important to me. Either way, I'll be doing the same activities. Surfing the web. Taking care of my finances. Playing around with Godot. If I get another one, I'll make sure it either has linux installed or there won't be a problem installing it. The trouble is, I play fewer and fewer games and I only write low poly games so a new computer gets less and less important. I'm pretty sure what I have runs Godot 4. I think I've run a few demos. It was pretty slow, but it ran it all right.

            I have a really bad problem where I don't like buying nice things. I love how durable older boxier stuff feels, and I love the mechanical sounds they make. I love spending $7 on something some old dude spent $300 on 10 or 20 years ago, and getting by with garbage is so much more fun.
            The only thing I really get with not compromising for something old is the guts inside your main workstation/studiostation/whateverstation. Having blender and godot open as the scanner scans AND I don't have to close everything for Krita as it's hogging 20GHz of CPU and 5GB of RAM is pretty cool. The old thinkpad would have crashed just running Krita like that.
            I do really miss that metal roll cage.

            cybereality I don't do it for saving power, turning on the computer in the morning makes me feel good. Typing startx and watching my screen turn red, beige and orange makes me want to do things that day. That and chocolate milk that I have the balls to call "coffee". It's like a starbucks frappe but only 2% of the sugar content. And warm. Very warm. I don't handle caffeine well.

              She made it to the top!!! Realistic rooftop scene created in Godot Engine 4.0.

              Still trying to figure out if I want to make this parkour game, so just playing with some assets I found.

              Concept was a modern day Eastern Europe kinda ghetto rooftops. Thoughts?

                Looks nice. If realism was your goal you made it. Ambient occlusion could be tweaked, looking at her feet. But I am really nitpicking :-) Many games aren't that good.

                Yeah, I tried to add more AO, it's there but I couldn't set it too high for the feet or it darkened the level too much.

                The issue is that most of the lighting comes from the sky, not the directional light. And the ambient bounce is blowing out the shadow.

                But getting the shadow darker made the rest of the picture look unrealistic. I could have probably tweaked it more, but it looked good enough to share.

                cybereality The outfit makes me think eastern europe, and the scene makes me feel tense like taking a bus ride through old china town in Portland.
                I don't know a thing about realism, but it makes me feel things, and I like it when art makes me feel things.

                  Watched a few shows today. One was this Sherlock Holmes movie where he was able to tell a person he just met that he had just made a trip to some place, the reason being he had some mud on his shoe that was distinctive to that place. Kind of hilarious when you think about it. The other was this anime where it was after an apocalypse and they were using technology they found here and there, but were driving around in huge cities that had like tank treads underneath but it looked like they were running on steam power. No it wasn't anime, that would have been better, it was actually live actors.

                    cybereality Concept was a modern day Eastern Europe kinda ghetto rooftops.

                    I used to do free-running like that in abandoned 90's early 2000's industrial environments and while we were lucky not to get hurt I'd have to advise against it now that I'm older and smarter. But maybe it would work as a game, yeah. To be fair most of the dilapidated soviet era industrial environments are cleaned up and gone now. At least in the Baltics.

                        fire7side For a moment I got excited and thought you were talking about Psych. I've seen every episode of that show maybe three times now. That and ghost whisperer, which my mom banned me from watching 3 years after i started watching it telling me it would give me nightmares. I watched it anyway and got a nightmare about getting a nightmare from watching the show.
                        The only things those shows really did was give me a taste for spooks and a dark sense of humor. That and jealousy of James Roday's face and hair back when it was 2006. Before now, where he looks frighteningly like my youth pastor when I was a teenager.

                          Megalomaniak I stick to the wetlands at night where there's no one to complain but the homeless dudes who're also trying to avoid cops. The savannah's so wet and cold at night it gets incredibly misty. You can't see through mist that thick so as far as anybody's concerned, I'm probably just a buck. Or a coyote.

                            Megalomaniak I used to do free-running like that in abandoned 90's early 2000's industrial environments and while we were lucky not to get hurt I'd have to advise against it now that I'm older and smarter.

                            Yeah, I was big into skateboarding in the 90's / early 2000's. I guess it's kind of related, well more to tricking, but I think it's the same kinds of people. I would do all kinds of crazy jumps down stairs and super dangerous stuff, not sure how I didn't die or get disabled honestly. I guess when you are young you can fall down and get hit and nothing happens. I'm to the point where I can get hurt stepping to cross the street now, not so much fun.

                              Darn.I feel so tired, yet I can't get any sleep. In the next 6 minutes, it's going to be 1 o'clock in the morning where I live.