Lots of genuinely useful things and tangible improvements to look forward to on this list. What a contrast with Windows announcements these days, which are full of features that are either trivial or user-hostile.
Oh yeah, just adding a toolbar here, some ads in the start menu there. Sprinkling of user tracking and cloud account for local login. 🤣
Awesome Can’t wait to have all the pieces in place for explicit sync. It will require the Nvidia 555 driver, right?
Correct
Been on 555 for a few days now, really stable under Wayland! Infos for Arch: https://gist.github.com/tgxn/6bcf093c879b95bb275794416c42afea
Are there guides for this in Fedora and Debian?
Nah, unfortunately I don’t know how easy it is to run these packages on Debian/Fedora 😔 I only use Debian on my headless VMs, not for desktop environments.
Were you having any kernel panics before this beta?
I was having this issue https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/series-550-freezes-laptop/284772/163 I disabled the GPU for the time being and was hoping the new driver would fix.
Hmm, I was on 550 before upgrading, I was using x11 before upgrading to 555. Hadn’t noticed any issues but vsync has definitely improves with 555.
I was experiencing with both X11 and Wayland. I’ll give 555 a test. Thanks!
Hmmm I am on EndeavourOS and was just gonna wait a little longer, but now I am tempted to just push into the 555 beta. I mean, that’s what btrfs snapshots are for amirite?
Nice. Does anyone else have laggy animations when shutting down their pc from the start menu? Or when messing with the toggles in the taskbar (like calendar)? Just all around laggy animations. Doesn’t bother me that much but curious if it’s a known issue
Is your cache folder on a hdd?
No everything is on an nvme ssd
I also see delayed response in displaying shutdown options.
Me too. Noticeable Delay around 6s.
Nice changes!
Whole lot of great improvements but the one that got me excited was “Support for syncing the color of your keyboard’s RGB backlight with Plasma’s accent color” hopefully it works with my keyboard. Since I moved to Linux I haven’t been able to change the color from the default rainbow.
Have you tried using openrgb?
Thanks I just tried it out and it worked. I can finally use my rgb.
No problem!
I’m already beta testing it. A solid improvement. Fixes a lot of long standing issues and makes quite a few existing features easier to use.
