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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Very Interesting and pretty setup, although I never understood why people like to waste precious vertical space by having bars on the bottom and top of the screen 🤔

Also I didn't know KDE has global menu applet, makes me wonder if I can setup it to look like Ubuntu looked back in the old days (does it still have global menus anyway, or just use GNOME control thingies?)

[-] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Vertical bars are great but they are terrible for displaying text, either the bar has to be huge or the bar's width readjusts or text and icons get easily misaligned when displaying dynamic stuff. Personally my horizontal bar is now 70% occupied and I have a keybind that toggles its hidden state.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got a Framework, and the 16:10 aspect ratio allows for the two bars without messing up most applications as they're mostly geared toward 16:9. Full screen games go over both bars. It's nice.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

App panel automatically hide itself when a window on top of it, I think kde global menu only work with qt apps (atleast on Wayland for now I think it also work with GTK on X11)

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 months ago

Side bar is the way.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I also prefer having a single side bar on the screen, but I recently found out that on small screens (like on a laptop) the side bar doesn't allow a lot of applications to be visible, so in this scenario I'd rather have it on the bottom.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

What is kwin_wayland_wr? Also do you really have 6 GiB RAM installed? If not you may be able to reclaim some of it via UEFI if the RAM is assigned to iGPU.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

I have 8gb and I assigned 2gb to igpu because I already have 8gb of zram, I'm not sure what difference it would make tho

[-] jrgd@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

As I found out recently myself, you should almost always set the minimum amount of reserved memory for the iGPU on modern hardware. The reserved memory is just that— reserved. The kernel still dynamically allocates memory for GPU usage as needed on iGPUs.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Really?, so I should set vram to 256mb and everything should still work fine?

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, iGPU can use system RAM

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Neat. What's your bar setup?

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Menu bar? It's just normal KDE applications menu bar

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The top bar I mean. That's KDE's built-in bar? Just styled?

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Yes it's just KDE's built-in bar, no style or mod I think it's called "Application menu panel"

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Wow, okay. Looks pretty sleek out of the box in that case. Thanks!

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

An apt post title, lovely use of color!

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks you :D

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You're very welcome! ☺️

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Linux is pretty green at least

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well I can argue with that because Linux systems usually consume more energy than identical systems with other operating systems though they are probably less green due to having a lot of cloud and ad related tech built in.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Linux systems usually consume more energy than identical systems with other operating systems

Is this true?

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, at least on battery powered PCs. Other kinds of machines may be more efficient on Linux but I guess these are mostly cases when there are no big and well developed proprietary solutions for them.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I imagine it varies wildly by distro, hardware, use-case, etc.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I don't have any information that proves it. I think in this list only hardware matters.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Surely use-case is important? Someone running a server that's on 24/7 vs. someone running it on a laptop or desktop that they shut down every day.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I was talking about comparing the efficiency between operating systems. That requires the use case to be the same. Comparing different use cases is unfair.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

That's not ture atleast on my system, I played modded Minecraft for 4 hours on performance mode and I still have 15% to spare, I also watch BCS for an season and it's only drain 60% on power saving mode

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Did you check the consumption on other operating systems?

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I used win10 1 years and I don't remember exactly what the power consumption is like but I think it probably worse because of win10 use more on CPU and RAM for anti-malware and telemetry

[-] featured@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Extremely dependent on a number of factors, mostly hardware and configuration. I had a Thinkpad T480 and on a stock fedora install it definitely died faster than W10, but after setting up TLP and Powertop I squeezed ~2 more hours of use out of it than Windows could manage. Ditto for my framework 13, I get all day battery life on NixOS but when I’ve tested windows on it I lose a few hours immediately

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 months ago

less, git, etc should default to color mode on.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I'm new to Linux and I don't know any of these, can you explain a bit more?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 2 months ago

Sure. git is a command used for programming, much more likely in the future you will use less, which allows you to view/scroll through/paginate text files.

To be honest, the intro of manual pages are really good at explaining commands: man less

[-] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Nice hostname

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Haha thanks, took me awhile to come up with that name

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