I genuinely do not remember how it acts with one or few devices, but I wouldn’t be shocked to hear the magic extends past replacing raid arrangements or other multi-HDD setups.
Literally have never had that issue and I sadly consume new electronics on a regular basis. It may be worth seeing what specificially you have, as I’ve never had issues at least getting stereo working.
I’m positive the maintainers would love to know about what hasn’t been plug and play at least for the basics.
The disclaimer is I haven’t tried too many of the shiny new distros to compare to, but compared to RHEL and Manjaro (ugh), Ubuntu, Mint, and a few other ‘traditional’ choices, MX has been crazy easy to setup and use.
The one thing that hasn’t “just worked” is a USB4 dock that kinda’ works like extra PCIe lanes (it’s just how that style of dock works), which of course the OS is going to freak out if a few PCIe devices suddenly disappear when unplugged. It’s not exactly a hot-swappable protocol!
I’d like to know how to get it working flawlessly, but everything else has been great.
I was having all sorts of IO issues because a few shitty HDD cables, and the worst of the observed behavior was some hiccups and freezes sometimes. Hundreds of IO errors, and it was barely sometimes maybe having a pause…
After switching a bunch of cables around and re-scrubbing a few times, I’ve now had zero IO errors for months, and zero OS issues.
I’d hate to think how nasty things would’ve gotten and would still be if those hundreds and hundreds of IO errors were stacking up this whole time.
Yes, it does. Not only for servers, but every single application that wasn’t written for X11 specifically continues to just work. Which is the vast majority.
Totally +1 for MX. I’ve tried a few distros over the years, and sure plenty of woes ‘could’ be the recent growing pains into Wayland, etc … but thus far, MX has been so fucking easy it’s almost concerning.
The only thing I’d slightly gripe about so far is the highly limited options at install time. No multiple partition setup or nearly any alternative choices … but that can also be viewed as a positive.
From the standpoint of, “I just want this shit to work”, it’s been excellent.
I was also looking at cinnamon, but I wanted a KDE Plasma option. Then I ran into MX and figured why not try? A couple of very simple and fast installs later, and two different laptops are now running it.
The extreme ease at installing nvidia drivers was just icing on the cake for how easy the rest went.
Unless the programs in question rely on conflicting core dependencies that actually have to have hooks into the system, like KWallet and other credential managers, and other similarly “system” level tools, you’ll be totally fine. Worst case while avoiding those, you might have to install some hefty frameworks (eg: KDE’s dependencies are >1gb), but that’s about it.
If they need to integrate with specific core utilities, it can get weird. Though as long as you check for conflicting stuff before actually installing, you’ll be fine.
While humans cannot see 144hz explicitly, persistence of vision does not work like a monitor. Your vision DOES see differences. You can still notice how ‘smooth’ motion is at higher frame rates, etc.
That said, framerate isn’t the only stat that improves visual quality. Even wholly outside of color reproduction, having a monitor that supports blanking between frames (frame1, black, frame2, black, etc) can make even the same FPS ‘feel’ smoother and reduce ghosting and other effects from the panel.
Also, there is a BIG advantage of fast panels for variable refresh rates. Even if your game can never run past 60fps, a panel that can push updates very fast generally has a far greater ability to hit the rendered framerate, ‘feels’ more responsive at the same framerate, and often has a greater range of FPS they can support. Basically… there are many good reasons FreeSync has multiple tiers.
So basically… good job falling for ignorant dogma!
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11·8 months ago
skavau is a clown