👌👍 you'll get so many dudes by telling them to toss their Nvidia card away and go buy this specific motherboard so your Bluetooth works 🤣👌👍

Valve released a proprietary device that bumped usage 2% and y'all still believe this shit. Amazing. Just constant self sabotage.

The only reason nix + gaming is as popular as it is, is because valve has made those drivers useable and packed it up as neatly as possible.

👌👍

I mean it is also legitimately comforting not to worry about how the company making the OS you paid money for is gonna screw you in the next round.

I'm still struggling to make Clip Studio Paint V1 run on it, I ended up having to boot into my windows drive and install it there to download my owned assets, but after changing over my computer to Linux it never BSOD crashes, all my steam games still run, and it starts up from shutdown in mere seconds which is about 1hr 40min faster than Windows 10 LTSC did.

I'm for sure never going back to Microsoft.

I could run my 3080 full time at full bore and it’ll cost me $40. That’s 24x7.

The average user is taking $10-$20 a year Delta.

RTX 3080 draws up to 350 watts max.

Energy cost varies wildly per location.

Looking at: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-electricity-by-country

• The average cost of electricity in the US is 0.18USD per kWh
• The average cost of electricity in the UK is 0.40USD per kWh

Sidenote 1: Even within the two countries above, there's going to be massive regional differences, but we're just looking at the averages

Sidenote 2: Other places may have cheaper electricity (e.g. Argentina at 0.08USD per kWh) but that's only half the story since the people there make a lot less money so it still takes up a significant cost for them.

Running the card at those costs 24x7 is:

• US: $10.58USD per week, $552.26USD per year
• UK: $23.52USD per week, $1,227.24USD per year

So a little bigger than:

The average user is taking $10-$20 a year Delta.

Going further, assuming an average 4 year card lifespan, that's:

• US: $2,209.04USD
• UK: $4,908.96USD

$40/year for 24/7 running? Really? Hmm... I've gotta educate myself on these numbers, I suppose... Also, I have a 3080, too, lol.

true S3 sleep

What is this? I've never heard of it before...

Sorry, I'm on Cinnamon, and yeah, I've made no changed to the notif system of which I'm aware. It was just a friend's lengthy WhatsApp Web message from my browser; I think it was like a code dump or something. The icon's configuration settings don't specify the position of the visible text, as far as I know; it seems to always be set to prioritize showing the bottom of the message and clipping off the start instead of vice versa (which seems so backwards, especially for an industry leader like Cinnamon...).

Which app is this? And is it the default desktop environment? You should be able to right click the notifications icon in your toolbar and configure it. Have you tried that?

With electricity prices going up, I've actually had people make that decision based on price.

When people talk about dual booting because they are unsure I always say. hey if you have your last machine and it works throw linux on that and you will be amazed how it runs better than your new windows.

I see. Thank you for the details shared!

I've never experienced Linux Mint, but a quick Google shows an option "Caps Lock acts as Return" in the desktop environment (DE) settings. Is that the main idea?

Regarding the custom script case. Is it possible a system-wide service executes after your boot/startup script, slightly later, remapping it again?

We may try investigating. For instance, in a new terminal on the very system start, via xev, to try capture the moment it changes:

xev;

Or manually:

#! /usr/bin/env bash

declare s='' s2='';

while :;
do
    s="$( xmodmap -pke | grep -E 'keycode\s+66'; )";
    
    if [[ "$s" != "$s2" ]];
    then
        printf -- ' [%s] Changed from "%s" to "%s".\n' "$( date -- '+%F_%H-%M-%S'; )" "$s2" "$s";

        s2="$s";
    fi

    sleep 1;
done

I would also try checking out logs:

journalctl --user -f | grep -E 'settings|keyboard|layout|xkb';

# Or: journalctl -f | grep ...

-- xev -event mapping;
++ xev;

I have almost no idea of what half of what you're saying is; I've heard of systemd, initd, and cron, but I don't know what exactly they are and I don't know what "shell configs" are.

I thought it was obvious that I'm running Linux Mint since I posted this in !linuxmint@programming.dev. I'm using Zena, 22.3 on kernel 7.0.0-14, which seems to be the latest one that Update Manager is showing me.

1. Create the file /home/user/another_folder/remap_caps_to_enter.sh containing the code above
2. Open Startup Applications and set it to bash the above path as a command
3. It initially works, but then after a few min, it reverts to native Caps Lock behavior. Manually rerunning the file again makes it work for the rest of the session until I shut down the PC.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're referring to...

I have a huge bowl of leftover mustard from a party that I've gotta gradually eat through, but you may certainly have all my nonexistent ketchup; ranch any day!

Relish your mustard, and ketchup to us!

Been using Nvidia on Linux for a long time and it mostly works just fine. On occasion a game doesn't work right, in which case I wait a while on that particular game until it does work.

Well, on older gear that software compatibility reporter Spyware thing can certainly chew up some CPU time.

Not really our 'problem'. We can get some adoption without meeting every closed source corner case. That adoption will bring better support as the market moves

Perfect is the enemy of better. Let's get the adoption story to be better. It doesn't need to be perfect.

Not your fault but is your problem

I say this all the time for so many different situations. :/

Yes, tagging is valid, and I got a notification. Thank you!

I am sorry, but it seems like we have yet to know the actual operating system (OS), distribution, actual paths for the scripts, and Init system (e.g., Systemd, Initd etc.). Did you use Cron, or modify shell configs? We do not know your unique local customized environment, and changes you've done, yet, which is required for more precise investigation.

Now where are the 5 nerds here to tell me it’s bug free but I just need to get rid of my Nvidia card 🙄

hi I am here. But you're barking up the wrong tree. Ask NVIDIA to fix their shit on Linux. It's unreasonable for open source devs to fix it when they don't even have access to the source code for NVIDIA drivers?

I don't think you understand how little, efficiency, is going to work.

I could run my 3080 full time at full bore and it'll cost me $40. That's 24x7.

The average user is taking $10-$20 a year Delta.

If you want people to actually switch, it needs to work. Now where are the 5 nerds here to tell me it's bug free but I just need to get rid of my Nvidia card 🙄