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Ideas for features and enhancements.

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That’s Great. I will try to Brainstorm to find new ideas.

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I was wondering, for non techie minded users as myself, during the install, could the installation determine that my laptop has two way to run graphics, the AMD integrated graphics(what I’m on now), or the discrete graphics card (NVIDIA) installed. When I installed Kubuntu from a clean, fresh install, it used the AMD integrated graphics. Hopefully this may make Linux a little better for us non tech savvy types. I am using the laptop and the NVIDIA card is just sitting in my laptop unused. Wow, I hope I’m not ruffling any feathers.

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I have setup my old 2013 (Win8) laptop with (Kubuntu) that have a integrated IntelHD4000 and a Radeon 8750 gpu. With these two gpu engines i setup a loadbalancing to play lotro, “The Lord of The Rings Online” as smooth as possible with FSR.

My startup commandline tells the game to use DRI_PRIME(Radeon)=1 to run with dxvk to handle FSR and graphics and leave the interface, hid’s to be handled by Intel HD4000 and cpu/ram.

This gives a gamesetup FSR800x600—>>1366x768 which gives good quality on the graphics elemente during gameplay and room to handled exceptionaly stablility and help keep below thermal throttling heat levels this way.

Off course i have had to scale down on drawing distance and model details to keep fps up and temp low, to have room to raise the quality on material, texture details and set texture filtering to anisotropics level 4.

This is possible to calculate and adjust by running the telemetrics into text files and do a analysis of the combo’s of setup to maximize flow of gameplay movement, visible objects and nice scenery without buying an expensive uptodate gaming rig.

This is my .bashrc stup to run the telemetrics:

— EDISONS WORKSHOP (Logging TOOLS) —

1. GPU (CSV-filE for Excel/Calc)

alias log-gpu=‘sudo intel_gpu_top -o gpu_logg.csv’

2. Disk Speed (MB/s read/write)

alias log-disk-fart=‘iostat -m -t 1 > disk_fart.txt’

3. Disc parasites (What’s using the disc?)

alias log-disk-syndere=‘sudo iotop -bot > disk_syndere.txt’

-. Network (Traffic and packet loss)

#alias log-nett=‘sar -n DEV 1 > nett_logg.txt’

4. Mem and Swap (Running out of RAM?)

alias log-minne=‘pidstat -r 1 > minne_logg.txt’

5. CPU-load (Is the kernel working to hard?)

alias log-cpu=‘pidstat -u 1 > cpu_logg.txt’

6. Temperature (Fan and heat)

alias log-temp=‘while sleep 1; do echo “=== $(date +%H:%M:%S) ===”; sensors; done > temp_logg.txt’

7. Total Systemview (Quick look)

alias log-system=‘vmstat -t 1 > system_total.txt’

8. Clear memory (Clear RAM for old clutter)

alias rens-minne=‘sudo sh -c “sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches” && echo “:broom: Minnet er vasket og ryddet!”’