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    1. You’ve got Black and White working? I’ve smashed my head against that one before but never got it going.
    2. The issue is that the copy protections check for a physical disk (with various methods) sometimes “Windows” ISO tools work better (CDEmu CloneDrive…) you would need to run them in the same wine prefix. But the easier way might be to find a nocd “patch” for your application ;)


  • MHH interesting. I honestly haven’t really given kde a fair shot since KDE4 maybe I need to force myself to use Plasma 6. Gnome has really gotten on my nerves lately. But I also know that on Plasma I will mostly recreate my gnome experience (Super key, hot corner …) since these are so ingrained in me from over a decade of using gnome.



  • Well for my laptop which I use 3-5 days a week (for a few hours at a time) I do it only when I’m at home so it doesn’t get in the way when I need my machine. But I also reboot my laptop every use since with framework suspend just won’t work properly (I’ll look into it soon™).

    My desktop I try to update every time I use it but with barely any time and my gaming now happening on my steam deck that’s less and less. Also with the archzfs module I gotta wait for the right timing between module and kernel versions so these days I often miss a few updates.






  • somenonewho@feddit.detolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldthx, duck duck joey
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    6 months ago

    As a Linux nerd and Privacy/Open source advocate it’s tough to admit. But I can’t use DuckDuckGo. I work as a Linux Sysadmin and Google is the only search engine reliably returning good results (especially on more obscure topics). With DuckDuckGo I’ve often noticed that it will simply “drop” words from you search terms (i.e. if you search “yellow computer chair” it might just show you any kind of yellow chair or something like that) which makes it unusable for precise searches.





  • Funny I had to Google ci" to remember what it does even though I use that sometimes.

    I’ve committed to learning vim years ago and in most situations im faster in vim than in nano etc. (especially because of muscle memory) I still feel like I’m not properly using vim to it’s full extend (like whenever I remember using registers it feels like magick and I’m sure there’s more like that)


  • It’s funny because when you described your problem I also knew immediately what the issue was since I remember turning that setting on for my gaming PC back when steam play was new (been gaming on Linux exclusively since 2016).

    But for the life of me I can not remember turning on that setting on my steam deck. I must have since it works with all games but I really can’t remember switching it on.


  • Gotta agree with Ozymandias aliases are the way to go.

    I’ve set up a few different aliases “search” which is just pacman -Ss “install” (pacman -Sy) “update” (pacman -Syyu) “remove” (pacman -Rns) and finally as to your question about unneeded dependencies I’ve got “clean” which first does an orphan check/clean (pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns -) and afterwards also cleans the package cache (pacman -Sc) Also the aliases are automatically prefixed with sudo (if it is installed).

    This way I simply run update and afterwards clean and my system is up to date and cleaned of orphans.

    I’ve created these aliases back when I was still using 3Distros (Arch,Debian/*buntu, Fedora) so my alias definition comes after a little script that determines the correct package manager and, depending on that, sets the aliases. But that’s of course only necessary if you use different distros and want your aliases to be portable.

    Tl;dr: Set up aliases for things you wanna do often. Check the wiki for reference if you only want to do something every so often.





  • No do is not the “none superuser” version of sudo.

    As the comment above stated it’s part of loops. But since loop syntax are built in to bash they are actually seperate built-in commands. Because it’s an available builtin autocompletion offers it to you.

    The do command here is just a special command that expects a certain set of parameters and a done at the end this is why you get an error trying to run do alone because it’s not adhering to the syntax properly.