I caved and got the beefier GPD Win 4 with 32GB of RAM so I can stop suffering from OOM errors killing applications several times a day. TT_TT

Mauve 👁💜

the harbinger of eternal sept

@mauve what os are you running on gpd win 4?

i tried holo iso for a day but have been using manjaro sway since and no complaints

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@tychi I did Chimera Os for a bit but got fed up with it being made for gaming rather than dev. Currently running a barebones EndevourOS with a niri-based wayland setup I've been slowly putting together. I'm loving it! It's really just VSCode / Element / Thunderbird that are eating an unreasonable amount of RAM compared to everything else on my system

Mauve 👁💜

@tychi I never use it for gaming BTW. Just development and the odd video watching.

the harbinger of eternal sept

@mauve i primarily use it for dev testing— i love that it has like every input in one unit

i don’t use it for gaming much, but it is the primary console in the house, typically docked and my wife uses it for stardew valley primarily

i do love how good steam support has become on the arch tree.

i also use it in conjunction with a video mixing board to be
both the camera monitor and fourth hdmi to do overlays/compositing for the live video mixes i dabble with

Mauve 👁💜

@tychi That last bit is super cool. Have you looked into customizing the keyboad bindigs for the gamepad? I found the defaults lacking and ended up fixing some bugs in this python script I found which lets you remap them.

GitHub - RangerMauve/gpdwin4-keymap: My keymap for the GPD Win 4 using the gpdconfig cli utility

My keymap for the GPD Win 4 using the gpdconfig cli utility - RangerMauve/gpdwin4-keymap

GitHub (github.com)

skryking

@mauve are you using it with AR/VR glasses with it?

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@skryking Kinda? When I'm out and about I usually use my Viture Pro XR as a head mounted display. It doesn't really do XR/AR sadly, it's pretty much just a monitor. One hell of a monitor though!

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I'm genuinely so excited to not have to worry about RAM all the time. It's like a weight lifted off my chest.