In i3wm you can set a key bind to float a window above the tiling and it’ll do just that; You can even automate it with some custom for_window rules if desired.

Its hit and miss, likely you have to set up window rules to get a good experiemce.

I just started tinkering with this yesterday in Gnome on Pop! and it looked like there are options to exclude certain programs from tiling if that’s what you’re looking for.

I haven’t tried that exact set up myself but in hyprland the default tiling would have your Elden Ring on one half and your friends the other half. Then if you opened up discord it would split one of the halves in half again. If you wanted to have discord instead floating and over top of the stream you could do that, or send it to the next “desktop” over if you don’t need to see it. You can customize each of the tiles however you like, border or no border, you can move them around…

Weird. I’ve used 1000,2000,3000,4000 series without any issues ever.

I get that maybe it’s preconfigured which might make sense on dell pc’s that’d fit a few drives in empty sata slots, but it took me nearly two days to think of that solution.

I figured throw it out there in case someone else has issues with an install locating the main drive on a Dell.

Oh, it’s got other issues than that, but the crackling is the most unnerving.

Some of the audio from my Jellyfin media player (flatpak) just hasn’t been playing. So I check Helvum and sometimes it just doesn’t even patch it over. I got the deb of JMP installed and that seems to have made it behave, but the maintainer of JMP hasn’t made that easy with all sorts of weird patches and junk.

My only issue with pulse audio was that I had to open Pulse effects each time I restarted my computer because it wouldn’t auto load the settings.

I have an external DAC, so I don’t need to think about how good music the PC/Raspberry/… produces.

Just bash

No, that’s a coincidence. I wanted something that: started loud, was easy to recognise, I don’t mind hearing, and my neighbours don’t listen to. Wicked World it is.

Here’s the code by the way, with the echo translated:

lvxInternetCheck () {
	while [[ $(ping -c 5 8.8.8.8 | grep -o "100% packet loss") == "100% packet loss" ]]
		do echo "No internet at $(date +%R)." ; sleep 300
		done
	echo "Internet came back at $(date +%R)."
	cvlc /[redacted]/08\ -\ Wicked\ World.mp3 
	}

It’s dirty but it works. (My functions start with “lvx” to avoid the tiny chance that they might clash with system functions.)

Hey there, just using a single GPU in this system. If you have multiple adapters, you can try something like LookingGlass instead. In my case, I would need a single GPU that supports SRIOV, which is typically relegated to data centre products (I believe someone actually managed this with an Intel iGPU + and experimental sriov driver!).

I’m just passing my GPU through to a virtual machine; it takes precedence over the graphical session, leverages all connected displays and relevant peripherals, and gracefully resumes back into GDM / GNOME once the VM is powered off (can do this conventionally within W10).

I mostly followed this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWf5D092VY

key thing for AMD gfx is to set ROMBAR = 0 in virt config, this will allow you to actually get functioning display output once the VM is started up.

As for your buying choices, consumer AMD GPUs have issues with GPU reset (unlike Intel or Nvidia). I think your experience with nvidia graphics here will be better than mine here with amd.

Byt yeah, since you have multiple gfx adapters at your disposal, it should be possible to get started with LookingGlass (a VM in a movable, resizable window that is fully hw accelerated with shared memory). The Level1Techs forum for LG is very helpful, though I believe the creator of the video above also has a relevant guide for this.

KVM/QEMU via virt-manager. I would imagine that your use case would work if you pass the USB device or the entire usb host controller through to the VM, but I’m not sure. Please check the video linked in my other comment for more information on the single GPU setup

I dunno what you were using but I recommend virt-viewer.

The main thing for this one is that you’ll want to get a PCIe USB controller card and pass that through directly to the VM so that unplugs/replugs/device resets don’t connect the device to the host machine briefly while if determines if it should pass through.

Uhm I just symlink the files hahaha

Is there a better way? There are quite some issues where I need to copy instead of linking.