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  • Since currently I’m only playing Satisfactory, and I have downloaded the shader’s, it should not come back the next day? Or is that wrong?

    I mean, it’s not the download which annoy me, its the time before I can start the game. It takes ages to download this 170MB from steam server’s. Normally 170MB is transferred really fast for other things, but the update takes 5 minutes and longer from steam server’s.


  • Yes. Arch Linux, but on a laptop. Nice combination. I thought the pre-caching is displayed as a separate dialog for Vulkan, which I can interrupt, if I want.

    But I have every day a message directly right nearby the play button which reads something about “Download Update…” and the play button is grayed out.



  • According to the linked wiki, try to go to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html.

    Check on your laptop with dmesg | grep -i chipset the codename of your graphic card. With this you can check which driver is the best on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA. There is a paragraph, explaining which driver is the best.

    If I understand it right, the nvidia package is the correct one for 1050. So you can use pacman -S nvidia with root privileges. All dependencies should be resolved automatically.

    I would recommend to reboot, in case there are changed kernel modules.

    2 things i have to note: Using Wayland is a total mess with nvidia. Specially on Arch Linux. I have screen flickering in GUI and games, the performance is so lala and tools like KeePass which needs access to the text in window titles did not work complete. On Manjaro, the flickering doesn’t exist, but the other symptoms do. Maybe im missing some packages on Arch.

    Second with Vulkan i have some tearing in games. I have not looked further in to that.

    On the other hand, games like Satisfactory or Elder Scrolls Online, have more FPS with the same settings as on Windows.

    Currently i test Arch and Manjaro in parallel on the same Laptop. But I tend to keep Manjaro and remove Arch. There are light pro’s and con’s, but overall, I’m more happy with Manjaro. But this has nothing to do with you’re issue.




  • Keep a minimum of 30GB free, for Windows update processes on the windows system partition. I don’t how much the windows installation counts in space, but add that to the 30gb free space. I would recommend to have a extra partition for the games on NTFS and move your steam, epic, ubisoft, whatever library to that partition.

    I have tried to use the same gaming partition between Linux and Windows, but failed every time. In the worst case this can alter your Windows privileges. At least I had this issue.

    Currently I’m using Windows only for 2 games: Space Engineers and Empyrion. The rest works with better performance on Linux. Satisfactory, Ark survival, Elder Scrolls Online have more FPS on Linux with the same settings. I have to use a nvidia 1050 Ti in my laptop. With a AMD GPU the situation is a lot better on Linux.

    I’m not a hardcore gamer, mostly im coding here and there. But sometimes gaming is a must have.










  • Yes, that’s my understanding of xdg. But I have no idea what this means for Ungoogled Chromium package. Base Chromium itself isn’t degoogled. It has most of the Google service’s active and enabled. Only a minor subset, like bookmark sync is disabled (but technically available). With Ungoogled Chromium, most (not all) Google dependencies are patched and inactive. At least this was the case as I last checked it. Since I prefer a mostly Google free environment, I would like to use Ungoogled Chromium for testing and a patched Firefox browser for standard web things.




  • That window titles can be easily changed is quite true, so all applications I know monitor such changes and abort the autotype on request when a change is made. But as already said, this is not a security feature, at least not a useful one.

    Monitoring the application itself makes no sense for a password manager. As you write yourself, it’s easy to customize the title. All applications make use of this. It is already changed when the tab in the browser changes, a new page is loaded or similar. The same is true for non-browser applications. Windows also allows read access to window titles.

    What the Wayland developers do is, in my opinion, gross mischief or ignorance regarding window titles. The password manager needs a simple way to assign a window to an entry, which should be the same for all applications. This should be the same for all DE’s, window managers and OS. The simplest is the window title. The status bar makes no sense and an API would have to be the same or at least similar across all DE’s, window managers and OS. Such a thing does not exist. To implement something like that only for KDE is too niche. This would have to be implemented and established, if already for the broad mass. So also for Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon and all the others. Not to forget, this must also work for Windows and MacOS in a similar way.



  • This is because Wayland doesn’t allow it to read window titles. Keepass and KeepassXC uses the window title to identify which entry to use. If you have no title, you can’t find the entry. That’s why it will not work with Wayland and never will work, until Wayland allows it to read window titles.

    XWayland, which is forced with your workaround, is not Wayland.

    That’s at least for me, the main reason not to switch to Wayland. I have no idea why Wayland doesn’t allow reading window titles. There is absolutely no security or performance benefit of this behavior. For me it’s either a bug or a design failure. Or simply bad behavior.



  • Media Monkey uses SQLite as database. I have used Media monkey to, before I switched to Linux. So I extracted the last played timestamp and play count with a simple SQL select and migrated this info to strawberry, which uses also SQLite. But be aware that both stores the date in an incompatible way. It’s not that easy to spot in Media monkey database.

    You can also use a Windows program like Media Monkey or Musicbee on Linux through Wine. So you don’t have to migrate your database. Syncing will work for both with Media Monkey and Musicbee.