Oh that’s awesome. I’ve been gaming on NixOS for a while and I never knew about gamemode.

Works pretty well for me. I just have this config:

  # Sadly we can't easily install steam on a per-user basis, because installation
  # requires touching a lot of system libraries, etc.
  programs.steam = {
    enable = true;
    remotePlay.openFirewall = true; # Open ports in the firewall for Steam Remote Play
    dedicatedServer.openFirewall = true; # Open ports in the firewall for Source Dedicated Server
  };

I’m using Sway on an Nvidia RTX 4080 Super. It’s important to be on the latest driver. I’m still waiting for Sway to merge support for DRM explicit sync objects, but until then, gaming still works fine with the occasional artifacts from lack of synchronization with the kernel.

If by chance you need a specific Nvidia driver, you can configure that like so:

  hardware.graphics.enable = true;
  hardware.nvidia = {
    package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.stable;

    # More versions readily available for downgrading.
    # package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.mkDriver {
    #   version = "535.154.05";
    #   sha256_64bit = "sha256-fpUGXKprgt6SYRDxSCemGXLrEsIA6GOinp+0eGbqqJg=";
    #   sha256_aarch64 = "sha256-G0/GiObf/BZMkzzET8HQjdIcvCSqB1uhsinro2HLK9k=";
    #   openSha256 = "sha256-wvRdHguGLxS0mR06P5Qi++pDJBCF8pJ8hr4T8O6TJIo=";
    #   settingsSha256 = "sha256-9wqoDEWY4I7weWW05F4igj1Gj9wjHsREFMztfEmqm10=";
    #   persistencedSha256 = "sha256-d0Q3Lk80JqkS1B54Mahu2yY/WocOqFFbZVBh+ToGhaE=";
    # };
    # package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.mkDriver {
    #   version = "550.40.07";
    #   sha256_64bit = "sha256-KYk2xye37v7ZW7h+uNJM/u8fNf7KyGTZjiaU03dJpK0=";
    #   sha256_aarch64 = "sha256-AV7KgRXYaQGBFl7zuRcfnTGr8rS5n13nGUIe3mJTXb4=";
    #   openSha256 = "sha256-mRUTEWVsbjq+psVe+kAT6MjyZuLkG2yRDxCMvDJRL1I=";
    #   settingsSha256 = "sha256-c30AQa4g4a1EHmaEu1yc05oqY01y+IusbBuq+P6rMCs=";
    #   persistencedSha256 = "sha256-11tLSY8uUIl4X/roNnxf5yS2PQvHvoNjnd2CB67e870=";
    # };

    modesetting.enable = true;
    nvidiaSettings = true;
  };

  # Weird that "xserver" is here when we are using Wayland. But this is required
  # to install the NVIDIA driver.
  services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];

What the hell am I looking at.

I’ve been using NixOS for almost a year. The learning curve is aggressive and the learning resources are not exactly friendly to beginners. I’d even say the tooling is poorly designed or at least seemingly redundant at times. You sorta have to grind through it. It was painful for me too, but I feel like I mostly get what I’m doing now.

If you’re interested in diving deep, I suggest trying to write a Nix derivation for some software you use that isn’t already available on NixPkgs. That was a good learning experience for me.

+1 to the people saying to start off using flakes for everything.

It’s the Lagrangian of the standard model of particle physics

You act like non-flake nix has better documentation.

I agree that community structure should not change to handle duplicates. If anything, having a feature similar to hashtags or topics that can aggregate a stream of posts from multiple communities would be nice.

Yea it is ultimately on the admins, but Lemmy just needs to not make it hard to comply with GDPR. So it’s up to admins to raise issues when Lemmy is seen as an obstacle to compliance, and it’s up to devs to listen and implement compliance features.

Yup. It even extends to superuser.com.

I recently posted about an obvious bug in the Windows 10 DHCP client, showing with Wireshark captures that it is not resilient to hardware clock changes, i.e., you easily lose your IP address for hours.

Most of the responses either said, “you should not be dual booting Linux” or “there is no DHCP client that handles this case. You cannot expect Windows to handle it.”

So I replied with a link to a similar bug report for RHEL, which has been fixed.

It’s been a month since I posted this bug to the Windows Feedback Hub and there is no response. I doubt it will ever be fixed.