Akzel

excuse you I have _how many_ posts

am officially a Friend of GNOME as of a couple days ago, something I should have done sooner but never remembered to before just want to say again how much I love using it. seeing GNOME 3 in action 9-10 years ago is what spurred me to try Linux to begin with, _because_ it looked so unique and very not Windowsy. and as of GNOME 40 and the subsequent Fedora release (4+ years ago), it has remained my daily driver it's not for everybody, but it's by far my favorite desktop to use #GNOME #Linux

my most recent video was edited on my Framework 13, in DaVinci Resolve (via davincibox). and the editing experience blew my desktop out of the water, despite the desktop having a dedicated GPU the reason being very simple: OpenCL drivers intel-compute-runtime vs the mess on the AMD side: ROCm, their official option, is very hit-or-miss. rusticl...mostly works, but heavier FX (and especially Fusion..) can be very crashy so tl;dr: Resolve on Linux seems *much* better w/ Intel graphics than AMD

now that I've had my Framework 13 for a couple days, I have to say that trackpad gestures in GNOME are every bit as nice to use as I imagined they'd be I did of course make use of them back with my Pinebook Pro, but the PBP's trackpad doesn't hold up against the Framework 13's at all. the latter's is definitely the nicest trackpad I've used on a laptop (the bar _is_ pretty low as far as what I've actually used myself, but, still) #GNOME #Linux #FrameworkLaptop #Framework13

as much as I love Fedora as an OS, their release cycle, and all the stuff going into making Fedora Atomic, the whole Fedora Flatpaks vs Flathub situation is really shitty i've given my take on it some time ago, but: distros should focus on making the OS itself the best it can be. they don't need to repackage the whole world (obviously not _every_ Fedora packager & contributor is the same, but my above phrasing is for the sake of brevity)

i've been doing some benchmarks ahead of my Framework 13 arriving, and tbh the results in Geekbench here are about what I expected. maybe some slight surprise at the Ryzen 1400 beating the 1700 in single core performance, but I guess it is clocked slightly higher Steam Deck meanwhile beating the 1400 all around, and beating both in single core by a lot. idk why Geekbench thinks it has an Intel Pentium though

continuing the Steam Deck thoughts, i don't think i talked about performance yet so far, i can get comparable, or even -higher- fps in CPU bound games than on my desktop (Ryzen 7 1700, RX 6600 XT). FFXIV and Elden Ring being the main two i play where this is the case, plus some emulated games and then, of course, the 90Hz screen lets me enjoy very smooth gameplay in less intensive games can't praise the Deck enough, really #SteamDeck

before I switched to Linux, I had almost exclusively used Windows (very briefly used a Mac in the mid 2000s) starting with Windows 98 and you know what got me to try Linux for the first time, 8-9 years ago? I saw a video of someone using GNOME 3. and it looked really cool. *because* it was so different from Windows I had my distro- & DE-hopping days for a long while, but I landed back on GNOME a couple years ago, with GNOME 40. and it's still really cool #GNOME #Linux

tbh the tab overview is still one of my favorite things about GNOME Web (and other GNOME apps that have it but I use it most often in Web) #GNOME #GNOMEWeb #LibAdwaita