I wouldn't trust gaming rgb keyboards. While they are probably working and long-lasting, they often use fake keyswitches or market mx browns to normies because they're used to that rubbish feel

Razer is really bad at this

If you press a rubberdome key down, at some point you feel a 'bump'. This is tactile feedback, you know the key has actuated and the letter appeared. On mechanical keys you can choose which feedback you prefer. Both audible and tactile feedback work for humans. Clicky keys do an audible click instead of or combined with being tactile. The legendary old IBM Model M13 keyboard manages to do both in a manner that you really don't miss any inputs. It's legendary, old, loud and heavy though. Linear means no feedback at all, useful for gaming because they are silent and you can smash the keys easily without any bump.

Linear are for me then. The most silent, soft and lightweight the better. ?

I wouldn't trust gaming rgb keyboards. While they are probably working and long-lasting, they often use fake keyswitches or market mx browns to normies because they're used to that rubbish feel

Rubbish feel... like what? And what thing is a "normie"?

I wouldn't trust gaming rgb keyboards. While they are probably working and long-lasting, they often use fake keyswitches or market mx browns to normies because they're used to that rubbish feel

Lol

There are certain people out there that buy 'gaming' keyboards or try to buy a quality keyboard but do not know anything about keyboards. They just want it to feel like 'they're used to feel'. Cherry MX Brown keyswitches are an emulation of normal, cheap rubberdomes. They're good quality but switching from rubberdome to a keyboard with MX Browns isn't worth it most of the time. A normie is a person that is average, like your mom or your dad and doesn't want to learn anything about a specific topic

Razer is really bad at this

Razer is a shit company in every regard. Not very related to the quality of gaming peripherals in general

yeah

I mean I could say all OSes suck because Microsoft makes terrible OSes ;)

their driver needs a login

wtf

fucking spyware

Razer Skynet

There are certain people out there that buy 'gaming' keyboards or try to buy a quality keyboard but do not know anything about keyboards. They just want it to feel like 'they're used to feel'. Cherry MX Brown keyswitches are an emulation of normal, cheap rubberdomes. They're good quality but switching from rubberdome to a keyboard with MX Browns isn't worth it most of the time. A normie is a person that is average, like your mom or your dad and doesn't want to learn anything about a specific topic

My mom used Linux and nothing else. When she was alive of course. I'm not aware of computers in the other world...

Anyway, if you want a soft silent linear keyswitch, look out for boards with the following cherry switches: Cherry MX Red, Cherry MX Silent Red, Cherry MX RGB Red, Cherry MX RGB Silent Red, Cherry MX Speed Silver and the RGB variant of it. They all should feel relatively similar with small differences because that's just how Cherry markets their stuff...

My mom used Linux and nothing else. When she was alive of course. I'm not aware of computers in the other world...

So your mom is not a normie. Nice.

Sadly mine is

even though she uses elementaryos because it's easier than windows, she doesn't know what an OS is

So your mom is not a normie. Nice.

People around me have two options: or they use Linux (so I help them) or they pay a random guy to fix their stuff (usually overpricing). Imagine the usual outcome... ?

Anyway, if you want a soft silent linear keyswitch, look out for boards with the following cherry switches: Cherry MX Red, Cherry MX Silent Red, Cherry MX RGB Red, Cherry MX RGB Silent Red, Cherry MX Speed Silver and the RGB variant of it. They all should feel relatively similar with small differences because that's just how Cherry markets their stuff...

Cherry Clear, please.

Yeah try these too but they are heavier.

They are great keyswitches though

even though she uses elementaryos because it's easier than windows, she doesn't know what an OS is

But that's awesome! I had classmates who used my computer for some random task like sending an email, or finishing a CV and then they said something like "Cool. How did you get Windows to look like that?" or "You do tweak your windows really".

Someone asked me if I'd use Windows 10 back when it got released. It was Kubuntu back then, horrible choice, KDE 4 wasn't really stable but it got the job done and I installed a nice flat theme back then.

I am still sticking with KDE, the LTS version of plasma 5 is actually stable and the newer ones never crashed for me either.

I use Gnome Shell and Plasma 5. I'm happy with both.

I am still sticking with KDE, the LTS version of plasma 5 is actually stable and the newer ones never crashed for me either.

LTS in fedora?

Parabola. I managed to build a computer that is modern and doesn't require blobs and it was easier than I thought.

Parabola. I managed to build a computer that is modern and doesn't require blobs and it was easier than I thought.

KDE Neon?

Parabola. I managed to build a computer that is modern and doesn't require blobs and it was easier than I thought.

Nice!

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz, ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming mainboard (Horrible board, will swap that out some day, too many UEFI issues), 16 GB of DDR4 ram from Crucial, CT240BX200SSD1 240 GB SSD, WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 1 TB HDD. I managed to remove intel management engine. It's one year old or so. Pretty decent for being a machine capable of running a fully libre operating system

KDE Neon?

KDE Neon is worth trying out! Newest KDE, easy installation and lots o' tools available for it

I'm using dev unstable with plasma 5.11 beta...

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz, ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming mainboard (Horrible board, will swap that out some day, too many UEFI issues), 16 GB of DDR4 ram from Crucial, CT240BX200SSD1 240 GB SSD, WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 1 TB HDD. I managed to remove intel management engine. It's one year old or so. Pretty decent for being a machine capable of running a fully libre operating system

Pretty neat one.

What do you havr for graphics? Intel HD?

Yeah. They're quite powerful though. If you only watch videos, surf the web, edit videos or do basic gaming (Xonotic, Warsow, Minetest) it's definitely powerful enough. Else you may wanna go with some AMD card supported by AMDGPU but beware, not all of them work without blobs.

Intel HD is great

I'd like to see more Iris built into i5s

Too bad they're going with AMD...

Intel is dropping their Intel graphics thing

wow... why?

I have AMD Athlon X4 860k @ 4.3GHz, ASUS A88XM motherboard, 16GB DDR3-1600 RAM, 128GB Kingston V300 SSD, 1TB WD Purple HDD, MSI GTX750Ti.

that GTX won't work. Best GTX that works with a fully libre system is the GTX660, everything newer will fall back to CPU acceleration, which "gets the job done" but it's a waste

Can't be picky, bought whatever I had money for.

Plus I can't get fully libre system without libreboot supported motherboard and without libre drivers for networking.

Also I use many proprietary apps I have to use.

Can't be picky there either.

run them in a VM

I run some of them in a VMWare. Because not a single other gives me satisfactory perfomance.

nowadays you can get acceleration in VMs without passing through your card

Intel has GVT, Nvidia has something similar, this means you can run 3D stuff at near native performance in a KVM without passing through the whole graphics card

Intel has GVT, Nvidia has something similar, this means you can run 3D stuff at near native performance in a KVM without passing through the whole graphics card

Sadly, doesn't work for me. Virtualbox can't give me perfomance I need in CAD/CAM/CAE.

Intel has GVT, Nvidia has something similar, this means you can run 3D stuff at near native performance in a KVM without passing through the whole graphics card

How to achive this? any refference?

How to achive this? any refference?

https://01.org/igvt-g Intel® Graphics Virtualization Technology –d (Intel® GVT –d): vDGA: virtual dedicated graphics acceleration (one VM to one physical GPU) Intel® Graphics Virtualization Technology –s (Intel® GVT -s): vSGA: virtual shared graphics acceleration (multiple VMs to one physical GPU) Intel® Graphics Virtualization Technology –g (Intel® GVT -g): vGPU: virtual graphics processing unit (multiple VMs to one physical GPU) https://github.com/01org/gvt-linux/wiki/GVTg_Setup_Guide#21-operating-system-requirements For Arch Linux: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2017/01/virtual-gpu-support-landing-upstream/

It's complicated as heck, just wait until all distris have it enabled by default

Sadly, doesn't work for me. Virtualbox can't give me perfomance I need in CAD/CAM/CAE.

Yeah VirtualBox won't allow you to do this. It's also not as fast as a KVM like QEMU

VMWare Workstation has a nice VGPU.

I might give it a look, if I won't forget, in a few months.

Won't that require iommu support?

PCI passthrough requires IOMMU support, exactly.

Not sure that my motherboard supports that thing.

Intel has GVT, Nvidia has something similar, this means you can run 3D stuff at near native performance in a KVM without passing through the whole graphics card

Does it?

AFAIK Nvidia blocks GPU passthrough

On the other hand, when do you really have to pass through PCI devices? Most of the time it's usb devices and you can pass them through easily

Nvidia fucking sucks :3

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AFAIK Nvidia blocks GPU passthrough

Works in Quadro

Hahahahahaha.

consumer cards won't get it

Of course it does.

So, it blocks GPU passthrough :)

It only blocks the shared passthrough

direct passthrough works

you can only mount that card in one VM

Yes, and then your Windows machine will BSOD.

Through a fault introduced at the driver level.

So you can't effectively use your Nvidia card on a VM.

I anyway have only one GPU in PC.

I used to have a 980

Sold it after I learned they block hypervisors.

Fuck Nvidia.

I'll wait for AMD Vega. Nvidia obviously doesn't want my money.

So you can't effectively use your Nvidia card on a VM.

<kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm>

this hides that it's running in a VM and it will work fine

How about Nvidia doesn't fuck up drivers intentionally?

And they patched it, BTW.

You have to do an additional step

IIRC, last time I checked, there were 3 things you need to do to completely hide the fact that it's a VM.

cat vs mouse, I'm not playing.

yeah nvidia can fuck off

#LinusWasRight

I used to love Nvidia, you know

But this is just...

No, he wasn't. He integrated blobs into the kernel and then complains about nvidia fucking with him

such a troll

I can't. No, like, not that I dont't want to. I literally CANNOT use Nvidia cards anymore.

No, he wasn't. He integrated blobs into the kernel and then complains about nvidia fucking with him

... ok?