Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024

Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by simoncion on Saturday June 01, 2024 @11:47AM (#40546699)

1) Nvidia's just bad on Linux because Nvidia doesn't give a shit about open source support, or about doing things the way the open source folks do. And while the Nouveau driver is an amazing technical feat, it's also amazing any time it actually works, given that it's totally reverse-engineered with effectively zero help from Nvidia.

2) If I were using a batteries-included distro,

  Section "Device"
    Identifier "AMD"
    Driver "amdgpu"
    Option "TearFree" "on"
    Option "VariableRefresh" "on"
  EndSection

would have been dumped into '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d' for me. But because I'm using Gentoo, I had to do it myself. Not a big burden.

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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by exe34 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @01:07PM (#40547393)

absolutely love the Linux culture of "don't screw it up: true":

> Option "TearFree" "on"

reminds me of a pdf viewer at some point had an option to "respect permission" or something, you could turn it off and ignore the limits on the pdf that the author set.

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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by simoncion on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:53PM (#40569928)

> reminds me of a pdf viewer at some point had an option to "respect permission" or something

Oh yeah, I always say "Don't respect" on PDF readers that have that setting. It's a very nice setting.

In regards to "TearFree" not being on by default, I expect that there's a good reason for it... maybe it adds some amount of latency (whether on hardware I don't have, or so little latency that I don't notice it), or maybe it just flat-out doesn't work right on some hardware that I happen to not have.

Regardless, deciding whether or not to set those settings is the job of one's distro.

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