Absolutely.

Sidenote: I keep seeing “xitter” being used, is it safe to assume it’s pronounced “shitter”?

That’s the Jack Welch playbook!

Best part? George Kurtz (crowdstrike CEO) won’t be available for handling the fallout. He’s busy racing this weekend.

Car #04 in the entry list https://www.gt-world-challenge-america.com/event/95/virginia-international-raceway

I haven’t for months now, but it certainly ran well at release.

RTFM.

I think that’s an appropriate response…

Garuda. Gaming/perf focus, with lots of built-in niceties (like btrfs snapshots on upgrade, proton GE, etc)

It’s a simple trick in Vim:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7078429

For the lazy: :w !sudo tee > /dev/null %

It’s greek to me.

That’s great! I’m glad it was that easy.

gamescope sounds like exactly what you’re looking for.

You’ve hit all the great ones, most of which were already available.

Have you added the bypass paywall clean filter list to ublock? Here’s the url you can copy paste under “import” in the ublock addon settings: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt

FTFY: _mourn celebrate

A billion a year is something most people would trade for.

I mean, I’d be done after 1, but hey, that’s just me.

These are absolutely reasonable criticisms.

But Mozilla is better that the big G in this respect, and fastly is at least attempting to do something. So for that, I give them kudos. Especially on the heels of the Encrypted Hello announcement.

So, major caveat here: I’m a linux gamer and don’t have windows [subsystem for linux] available to test.

This actually works shockingly well for steam-steam gaming, but I’d call these steps proof-of-concept success versus “finished product”.

I’ll assume if you’re going this deep, you know how desktop mode works and you’re reasonably comfortable with the terminal. Otherwise, don’t follow random guides on the internet, and you understand that you could break things.

Obvious prerequisite: enable sudo by creating a password for the deck user

Enable installing packages via pacman: I borrowed from this guide, but didn’t follow it exactly.

# disable the deck's read-only mode
sudo steamos-readonly disable
# init the pacman keyring
sudo pacman-key --init
# populate the keyring with archlinux
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux

Install, start, and bind the usbip service on the steamdeck (steps from the “Server” portion of archwiki linked in my original comment above)

# install usbip
sudo pacman -S usbip
# enable/start the usbip daemon
sudo systemctl enable usbip.service
sudo systemctl start usbip.service
# enable the kernel module
sudo modprobe usbip-host
# list the available usb devices
usbip list --local
# bind the Valve usb device (check the output of the above for the right bus id, mine happens to be 3-3)
sudo usbip bind --busid=3-3

Install start and attach to the steamdeck (steps from the “Client” portion of archwiki listed above)

# install usbip
sudo pacman -Sy usbip
# enable the requisite kernel module
sudo modprobe vhci-hcd
# list the remote devices (use your steam desk's ip address, this assumes you're on the same network and have addressed any firewall/configuration issues)
usbip list --remote 192.168.88.207
# attach to it
sudo usbip attach --remote 192.168.88.207 --busid=3-3

Now you can be shocked when it works instantly. Go play a game!

The proprietary software seems like a user-friendly version of USB/IP

I’ve got some extra time today, so I’ll see if the free/built-in version is easy to get working.

My 14+ year old laser printer “just works” on the latest linux kernel. It has been several years since MacOS supported installing the last driver binary created for it.

Not at all. A mini split is a kind of heat pump, but refers to a specific kind of installation.

Most of these are “air source” heat pumps, but there are also ground source or geothermal pumps that exchange heat using a loop of liquid buried in the ground.

We’re installing a “whole house” air source heat pump to replace our 40yo inefficient gas furnaces and add cooling. This will utilize our existing duct work.

I think they’re saying that Nvidia hardware doesn’t benefit from being at the bleeding edge, so stable, LTS style distros will also work just fine.

As far as AMD vs Nvidia today, I can confidently say that you’ll have a far better time with an AMD GPU at the bleeding edge.

I just went through this decision. I landed on Garuda with Nobara a close second. I was coming from Manjaro which was almost completely stable for the last 3.5 yrs. I was only moving because I picked up a new SSD and wanted to see what else was out there.

I chose Garuda not because of the better gaming or perf, but for the preconfigured BTRFS with auto snapshots on upgrade and the presence of a distributed team reduces the “bus factor” problem that Nobara has for future updates and support.

I’ve been caught out a few times from upgrades on rolling distributions, so the simplified approach to rollbacks is greatly appreciated.

Now for the caveats:

You won’t get Wayland with Garuda and Nvidia by default (at least with their “stock” dr460gonized edition on KDE). And if you have more than one screen, I’d say that’s probably for the best right now (especially if they vary in resolution, refresh rate, or orientation).

I’ve found that there’s a few little polish things that leave me a bit wanting, but they’re by no means deal breakers: one of my USB hubs won’t reinitialize after waking from suspend (which worked just fine in Manjaro) and color codes (but not full escape sequences) are printed in terminal applications (eg man journalctl prints 1mDescription0m and the like). They’re both probably issues with the Garuda customizations, so I figure debugging them will help me understand things a bit better.

If you’re willing/able to hop between distro for a bit, I’d suggest trying at least a couple on for size and seeing how they fit you!