• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Cinnamons compositor doesn’t turn off for games (it’s supposed to but has been bugged for years) which costs you fps.

    Playing Alan Wake 2 at launch was only possible with the latest Mesa drivers compiled from the AUR due to some graphics features that it required.

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      5 months ago

      It doesn’t just cost FPS. It straight up breaks some games that run fine on other distros.

      Does it still have that feature that kills and restarts cinnamon when memory leaks start getting to be too much? I honestly had to laugh at that when that was introduced.

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        5 months ago

        No clue. Haven’t used it in years. I was done when I went looking for a fix for the compositor thing and found a years-old open bug report.

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      5 months ago

      I assume compiling Mesa is rather difficult to set up? For reference I’ve not bothered to try and compile Lutris or Wine.

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        5 months ago

        With AUR it’s as easy as installing any other package, actually.

        You just install the git version from AUR.