I know this probably isn’t what you want to hear, but imho without knowing in detail all the changes you tried to make and the fixes you wanted to apply, the most effective method to fix these issues might be doing a full reinstall and starting again.

That’s unfortunate. Nvidia can be problematic with Linux (obligatory video).

An important distinction to remember is that with a few rare exceptions, Linux distros are not for profit ventures, and the users helping are not being paid to do so. Some individuals trying to help may have more or less knowledge and experience, but they are trying. I’m willing to forgive rough edges from non-profit foundations more than for-profit companies, personally.

I understand that’s little consolation for somebody who has an issue right now and needs it solved right now, but as the noose of profit models tighten, I hope people have a little more patience for volunteers trying their best.

Ubuntu 23.04

Sorry to hear that. I’m on Ubuntu mainly out of inertia and laziness. I’ve heard good things about pop, so hopefully it works out for you if/when you decide to give it another shot.

Yeah, that is definitely an onboarding issue. Everyone has their preferences, and normally feel quite strongly their favourite distro is the best one.

I think most people would agree that Pop_OS and Linux mint are currently the most newb friendly distros out there.

This comment seems a bit strange to me for a few reasons. The Linux ecosystem has changed and improved drastically in the last few years, and a lot of this reads like it was written a decade ago.

AMD drivers have been rock steady for quite a few years now. The catch is that unless you’re doing some exotic thing (not general-purpose gaming) you should not be installing anything extra. People used to downloading drivers for everything tend to make the mistake of hunting down and downloading the Radeon proprietary drivers when those are not needed, and in some cases actively make things worse. I suspect this is the case because you mentioned Mesa when talking about the integrated graphics card, but not the dedicated one. If I’m right about that, uninstall Radeon and let Mesa handle it with the AMDGPU open source drivers built into your kernel.

Unfortunately, dual GPU setups are still very painful and annoying to set up and use. That is still an active pain point in the ecosystem. DRI_PRIME is still the best solution for this afaik, but it isn’t exactly an elegant one.

Steam comes with Proton built in (their own fork of WINE with a lot of improvements), WINE & Proton have made gigantic leaps forward with the backing of Valve, and pretty much everything gaming related has moved from OpenGL to Vulkan. Anything run in Proton, for example, is going to be using Vulkan, not OpenGL

Checking out Metro’s protondb page, yeah, seems like the consensus is that the devs did a shit job with their port. I’d recommend right-clicking the game in Steam, go to properties, compatibility, and enable Proton there.

To add to what others have said, the real source of load is browsing. It’s much better than a few months ago, but it is still the case that users actively on the web frontend is the biggest load.

If you are actively using a single digit number of accounts simultaneously, no issue. A bot farm using 100,000 users simultaneously is a big problem.

Would need some kind of server setting to specify categorisation. Maybe open a GitHub issue for a server setting to do this, and then it could be displayed in the join-lemmy site

Copy-pasting from my other answer here:

Trite answer: When it’s done

More in-depth answer: Currently there’s no set date. It depends on how quickly they can tear out all the WebSockets code and replace it with simple HTTP (that’s the BIG change, will fix a lot of different things), and then test those changes. The hot_rank fix has already been merged, that’s done, but they want a stable, cohesive release with all the good stuff.

Current estimations I’ve seen range from 1-2 weeks, but it all depends on how fast they can get it coded and tested.

Known bug, will be fixed in 0.18. Certain edge cases cause the hot_rank to not decrease, meaning they never leave the front page.

For the time being, yeah. There are multiple github issues open with potential aids to community discoverability and usability, but between lemmy.ml being on fire (recently quenched after moving server… for now), trying to rip WebSockets out of the code before instances hit levels where that’ll cripple performance, and dealing with the ~150 other issues per project that have been opened this week, they’re… a little preoccupied.

Nope. You would just have to subscribe to each community you want before it can hit your All feed. Communities don’t get pulled in until at least 1 person on the instance subscribes.

lemmy.ml is having massive performance issues. They’re intermittently falling offline. I think we need to make some communities on lemmy.world/lemmy.one/sh.itjust.works/etc to replace them on servers that aren’t falling over.

Hah! Called it.

Keep in mind, this does not work in Jerboa. It will open a browser tab trying to go to https:///c/some_community@server.tld.

Also, if nobody in your instance has ever subscribed to that community, it results in a 404 error.

EDIT: Nobody should be subscribed to this dead-end sub created and abandoned: Link. Should result in a 404 error for everyone not from sh.itjust.works.

The federation list shouldn’t matter all that much if the server is set to blacklist and not allowlist. At that point it’s just a list of servers that at least 1 user has subscribed to. Nobody’s gonna beat lemmy.ml at that as they have the biggest population currently.

Except maybe Lemmy.directory, you can’t make an account there, that’s used just for an accurate “All” feed to show all communities on every server.

I feel like there’s a lot of money on the table for the first person to set up a turn-key hosting platform for Lemmy. Something like MoltenHosting but for Lemmy instead of Foundry.

Maybe this link works better? https://sh.itjust.works/comment/33194

Just wrote a big post about Lemmy Vs kbin’s, so I don’t have to write it twice :)) https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/9489/-/comment/40195

Anything fediverse related has my vote. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy, after all. Another thread about this had fedittor, fedinauts, fedis, fedizens, threaditor and more. Personally, I’m partial to fedizen.

EDIT: Fedditor is also pretty good. Says where we came from and where we are.