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I've been using Rider and WebStorm for at least 5 years and love them to death, but half a year ago I moved away from Windows to CachyOS with the Niri tiling compositor. Running JetBrains IDEs on Linux has its quirks, but I got it running mostly smooth by using native Wayland + Vulkan rendering. Navigating panels, scrolling, etc. works like a breeze, but the main pain point I have is actually writing code.

While typing there can be a significant delay between pressing a key and the character appearing on screen. Sometimes the characters show up immediately but the caret lags behind the letters being written, and sometimes it swallows letters entirely.

All in all, writing text feels really disconnected and unpleasant, to the point where I've started dreading actually writing code and instead resorting to AI agents and copy-pasting just to avoid it. I've tried disabling solution-wide analysis, turning off various code completions and suggestions, nothing seems to do the trick.

I fired up VS Code just to confirm I'm not expecting too much, and in VS Code it genuinely works as you'd expect.

Has anyone experienced similar issues? Or if anyone from the JetBrains team could help, I'd really appreciate it, it's driving me nuts and I'm on the verge of switching to VS Code permanently.

Hi everyone!

I've been running CachyOS for about 6 months now and I'm loving it overall, but I've been dealing with some pretty bad system responsiveness issues whenever I build heavy Rust or C++ projects. We're talking cursor stuttering, 2+ second delays before typed characters appear on screen, basically the whole system grinding to a halt under load.

For context, I'm on a Dell XPS 17 9730 with an Intel i7-13700H and 32GB RAM. Worth noting that I never experienced this on Ubuntu, which is what made me start digging into what CachyOS was doing differently.

That rabbit hole eventually led me to sched-ext schedulers. After some experimenting I landed on trying scx_lavd and scx_bpfland, both of which made a noticeable difference in keeping the system usable during heavy builds.

My question is whether anyone has experience with other schedulers worth trying for this specific use case, heavy compilation while keeping the desktop responsive, or whether scx_lavd and scx_bpfland are generally considered the best options for this? Currently running scx_lavd with the performance profile since I'm almost always plugged in.

Thanks!

I am looking to buy Keyball39, I was wondering which finger is supposed to hit those buttons under Z, X and C? I think it's too tucked in for thumbs but I guess it's also too tucked for the fingers responsible for those columns? Does anyone have this keyboard or some other with similar setup to tell me how "easy" is to hit those keys?

https://preview.redd.it/je84f6p39x2h1.png?width=1140&format=png&auto=webp&s=89ea1432afe3c8c0f4865b9da4a6a363ede5bdc5

I currently use a Sofle keyboard and I love that thing, as a web dev I can navigate my code editor almost entirely with the keyboard but as I am also frequently switching to the browser I have to use the mouse often.

I am looking at split keebs with a trackball like Keyball61. I never used a trackball and I am wondering is that thing precise enough for browser navigation and day to day pointer usage? Ofc for precise work like photoshop or gaming I would use a mouse but I was wondering if trackball is good enough to substantially decrease the need to move my hand off the keyboard.

Also what about trackpads, something like Toucan?

Any feedback is appreciated.