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I chose - Manjaro for a few reasons:</p> - <ul> - <li>It's not Debian based (it's arch btw /s)</li> - <li>It's still on Systemd so I won't lose that familiarity</li> - <li>For gaming it comes with pretty up to date drivers and setup for - running Steam games</li> - <li>It has a KDE installation which is what I wanted to run</li> - </ul> - <h3>Why "not Debian"</h3> - <p>Debian is home for me. I have used it for years on both work machines, - servers, personal desktop. But it comes with its own quirks. Starters - I - am running base Debian, not a Debian based system, which generally means - some packages are out of date. To get around this I run Sid/Unstable. - This hasn't been a particular issue, but sometimes there are version - conflicts and other just nuisances and no real <i>easy</i> way to get - every package in the proper version configuration. This was a particular - pain-point with getting Steam (nonfree too which adds another layer of - configurations) Wine and a few other packages all set up. Plus - 32-bit!</p> - <h4>i3</h4> - <p>I have been using i3 as my window manager and without really any other - desktop environment programs. My login is the typical tty debian login. - But running i3 and then having windows appear, especially game windows - which can be tempermental, getting tiled to have to break it out again is - just a hassle. While I could've gone with another Debian base running - a proper desktop environment + window manager I figured that'd be - boring and I'd just be trying out the programs and not the Linux, - which is half the fun.</p> - <p>That being said. i3 <i>is</i> Linux for me. Being able to just move - between windows with a macro and every bit of it just being intutive - (after you've learned!) is a productivity booster. Which is why I - still use it on my work machine, and can't see myself ever switching - off.</p> - <h3>KDE</h3> - <p>I've used Gnome and XFCE as desktop environments before, and - they're fine, but I've always like the customability, - flexibility, and polished look of KDE.</p> - <h4>Setting up KDE for an i3 addict</h4> - <p>By default KDE isn't really too hard to "get used to" - since it feels like any other OS, especially a windows setup. But the - main thing I needed to change is the <code class= - 'inline'>meta+<key></code> commands.</p> - <ul> - <li>Remapping the Virtual Desktop changes</li> - <li>Remapping the KWin window focuses</li> - <li>Remapping the KWin move to desktop</li> - <li>Installing DMenu</li> - <li>Shrinking the "start bar" panel</li> - <li>Removing Pager</li> - <li>Changing Task Manger to Window List</li> - <li>Configuring Desktop Layout to "Desktop" (this removes the - icons)</li> - </ul>Doing this helped make me feel at home so far, and not have to - retrain my brain. - <h4>Some of the key remappings</h4> - <p>Setting up the KWin window keymapping was really what made me feel at - home. For the first few hours with it, I felt as limited in my - productivity as with Windows. KDE and Windows share by default a lot of - the same keymappings around window manipulation and virtual desktop - changes. <b>Switch to desktop N</b> setting this as <code class= - 'inline'>meta+<N></code> where N is the dekstop 1-10 (0). <b>Switch - to Window to the Left/Right/Up/Down</b> This was one I was nervous - wouldn't exist as a keybind. But What was <code class= - 'inline'>meta+alt+<dir></code> was mapped to without the alt. This - allowed for the very annoying lack of ability to just jump between - browser and terminal, or especially two separate terminals. <b>Quit - Window</b> with <code class='inline'>meta+shift+Q</code>, <b>Tile - Window</b> command to use the Shift key rather, especially as - <code class='inline'>meta+<dir></code> was overwritten by the focus - switching.</p> - <h3>Manjaro</h3> - <p>So I went with KDE Manjaro. Manjaro aims for the gaming desktop - experience. Arch is new for me, so I feel that would be something to - adjust to and learn.</p> - <h2>Gaming</h2> - <p>It has only been a day with it as I am writing. But I was able to get - a fair amount of the fighting games I wanted to play work.</p> - <h3>Proton + Steam</h3> - <p>So far my main focus has been running the fighting games I noodle - around on in Steam. To do this I launched Steam and installed the proton - and setup to run all games, regardless of compatibility. None of the - games I hoped to run had worked this way. I then opt'd into the beta - for Proton running the experimental builds, which should generally have - the more up-to-date tunings for games. With this setup I was able to get - Soulcalibur VI to work. Battle for the Grid and Dragon Ball FighterZ both - had launching issues. So I looked around and found <a href= - "https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/">Proton Ge - Custom</a> which is a custom fork of Proton that contains custom settings - and tweeks for various games. One of which is Battle For the Grid which - is how I found it. Using this I was able to play every game except Dragon - Ball FighterZ! A callout for Dead or Alive 6 which is performing - questionably. It can run and isn't actually too bad, but in windowed - or borderless it stutters and drops frames.</p> - <h4>Other issues</h4> - <p>Even on Windows there are issues with some games and your standard - configurations. Disabling Steam Overlay and adjusting the Steam Input - Setting on some games helped get some games working.</p> - <h3>Conclusion</h3> - <p>Gaming on Linux is still not great. Its MILES ahead of where it was - even a few years ago when I setup this PC. And I think it will take some - adjustment getting a feel for an i3less workflow.</p> - <h2>Update!</h2> - <h3>NTFS mounting</h3> - <p>Update! I got DOA and a few other games to run a bit smoother by - remounting my NTFS drives properly. I ended up using the following for my - /etc/fstab configuraiton for my NTFS drives: <code>UUID=<drive-id> - /mount/path ntfs - uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,async,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=000 0 - 0</code> I had noticed that both steam and mount.ntfs was running at - 20-40% CPU while not really doing anything. And then upwards of 80% - during gameplay.</p> - <h3>i3 Compatibility</h3> - <p>As I spend more time using the OS I made a few more adjustments:</p> - <ul> - <li>Removed everything except the Clock and System Tray.</li> - <li>I added KRunner to <code class='inline'>meta+space</code> to ease - running KDE specific programs that I can't be bothered to memorize - the name of</li> - <li>Back and forth on forcing "No border" on all windows. - Part of the reason I moved away from i3 was so that I had better - floating window management. And doing this would basically put me in an - equally hard to manage system for floating game windows. So until I - find a plugin that makes small taskbar/borders for the windows I'll - be sticking with the default.</li> - <li>On Manjaro at least: UNINSTALL mesa-demos! <code class= - 'inline'>sudo pacman -R lib32mesa-demos mesa-demos</code> This package - had the annoying "fire" demo which made dmenu opening firefox - a pain in the ass.</li> - </ul>The biggest difference was removing the Application Launcher from - the main panel. Having it there really felt like a crutch for running - programs. It is equal I would say to running apps as dmenu via - <code class='inline'>meta+d</code> vs just <code class= - 'inline'>meta</code> to launch the Application Launcher. However, the - bulky UI of it, even using just Window List, took away from the look/feel - I was going for. - </article> - <div id='footer'> - <i>Posted: Decemeber 17, 2020. 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