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Nice changes when switching to Linux and a smallish problem (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by lost_faith@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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So, I changed my daily driver to linux several months ago and my gf a few weeks ago. I noticed 2 strange but good things after the change. For my system I have a onboard sound card (stereo) and am using 3 of the 5 speakers for my decade or so old Creative labs 5.1 speakers. Under win 10 most of my sound came from the left and centre speakers with base cannon doing its thing, under linux using the generic drivers included during install all 3 desktop speakers put out the appropriate sound. YAY!

My gf is using my old hand me down prebuilt. Under win 10 the fans on that thing would be kicking on and off constantly, I could hear the fans over the running water doing dishes. Now? 99% of the time is straight silence unless she is playing ESO.

Only issue left on her machine is having it be able to play ESO and be able to watch a yt vid at the same time. Right now it is ESO and nothing else, when she tries the whole system lags until she can move the mouse painfully slowly to the browsers X. forget which intel cpu is in there(it's about 8-10 yrs old iirc), GTX 1060 ~~6~~ 3gb, and 16gb ram, Kubuntu 24.04, KDE. Are we asking too much of the system, did I misconfigure something? She was able to do this on windows

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah probably hardware accelration on the browser. could also be the DE/WM you're using on it.

What desktop environment and/or window manager is she using on the laptop?

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

We are both running Kubuntu 24.04 with kde desktop. Oh, she can run minecraft and watch yt no problem. ESO is through lutris

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah try turning off the hardware accelration on the browser...which browser btw?

if the hardware accelration doesn't work check the Lutris forums and/or discord to see if anyone has come across the issue. Have you tried running ESO via steam at all? potentially could also check it via protondb.com if you try to run it via steam.

Generally though there should be scripts with Lutris to install it correctly. But i'd still check with the Lutris forum/discord (they're really nice and helpful dudes) if the browser thing doesn't work.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

it is Firefox(snap), she only has her account with the official site, not the steam version, I did find that wonderful script for ESO in lutris. I was just suggested gamescope to look at as well

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't run snaps. Download the .appimage/tarball of firefox and/or chrome .deb file, and try with that. The snap packages have weird restrictions that could create problems with other apps. Another thing to try is try another DE that allows more than 1 hw accelerated app at a time, the fastest to install and without conflicting with your kde, is xfce (use X11).

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I am finding I like snaps less and less, tho I do like the sandbox aspect (her grandson will be using this system from time to time so I feel some sand boxing would be appropriate). will I need to manually update her ff if its an appimage? The only appimage I am using right now is WLX overlay and other than "everything is there" I don't recall if it will update itself.

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, it won't update itself. This is just to try if the problem improves.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Ahh, thank you. Will try that as well