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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • So far i’ve actually been pretty impressed. I got it up and running pretty seamlessly. Displays are still a bit weird. One of my displays seems to not want to come on at boot, but just turning it on from standby mode once its booted and it works fine. Was able to install a few games via lutris and steam with no issues. Everything is running pretty good so far, but its literally been installed for a couple hours only. So it will be interesting to see how at least the next few days go.







  • Had the hibernate issues on my work laptop so I have run into those before. I made sure to disable it. It’s a custom built Watercooled rig so I have a Corsair 1200 watt power supply in it. Heat has never been an issue. It’s getting a bit old but it’s been pretty rock solid. This machine was only ever a gaming machine. It ran steam and that’s about it. It was even powered off most of the day. Only ever turned it on when I was playing something. So the wear on it hasn’t been too intense. I have only really used the proprietary Nvidia drivers so I’m not sure what the alternatives are (nobara I think has some custom ones but had lots of performance issues with nobara). My monitors are different sizes/resolutions/refresh rates. One is 5120x1440 120hz and the others are just generic 1920x1080 60hz When it would happen, It would boot to a screen that wasn’t the default. At least one screen would be black. So I would log in and try to get it to recognize whatever monitor or monitors were missing. Sometimes it would work. Sometimes a reboot would fix it. Sometimes the system would hang or take several minutes to boot. It’s been a couple weeks since I got frustrated and tried to use it so I can’t remember what was making the boot hang. When all I use it for is to play games and I get random monitor disconnects it quickly becomes useless when something doesn’t work right on every boot. I really don’t know what changes tho. When it’s first installed everything works. It lets me set up everything. All I really do is updates and then start setting up steam. Install some games through lutris and then will shut down. Sometimes I’ll get a day or two of working fine out of it, then monitor issues start popping up. And I haven’t really used Linux for entertainment before so I switch back to windows for a while and everything works. But. Windoze. So every once in a while I try Linux again and am not really sure how to deal with it as a gaming device. Read it would be better if I was running an AMD video card but just not in the budget for a rebuild right now, but I am due for one.