Since you have mentioned that you have an RX 9070–which is a relatively new card, you should stay away from LTS distros like Ubuntu LTS and OpenSUSE Leap. Those have older kernels and Mesa which will noticeably impact your graphics experience.

For GUI-based app installation: pretty much all desktop environments have an app for it (e.g. Discover on KDE Plasma). Use can use them install software packaged by your distro, or other sources such as flatpak/Flathub. As mentioned by others, there are some independent storefronts such as Bazaar as well.

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So called “Mining Rigs” are powerful computers. People are lending their computational resources to a blockchain in exchange for some cryptocurrency.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we had a crypto-boom where a lot of people were hoarding gaming graphics cards (which were cheaper than dedicated cryptocurrency mining hardware) for increased earnings.

This led to a lot of people (particularly gamers) hating cryptocurrencies and miners, not unlike the RAM crisis going on right now due to the “AI” bubble.

Also, mining rigs draw a lot of power to operate, which comes out as heat. The temperature of Hell talked about in the post might refer to this, or simply sinful (from the perspective of gamers) nature of mining.

Devil May Cry 5.

I tried to start it a year ago, but decided to play the rest of the series first. Combined with Silksong being released, I have just managed to start playing DMC5 again.

For the most part, yeah

Funny, I just saw the video of Mental Outlaw talking about TuxMate. How do you think your project compares to this?

Not that I am doubting you, but I’d really like to see a source for this. I would like to learn more about it.

Unpausable and unskippable cutscenes

Glad to hear that!

A bit of Arch Wiki and Podman’s own documentation.

I usually set :Z at the end of volume mounts and it fixes the permission issues. Now that I think about it, all my Quadlets are using this option.

I played it a few years ago, so I don’t remember if it had an in-game percentage counter.

Without spoiling much: the game has multiple very distinct endings and depending on your playstyle may require multiple playthroughs.

I can say that it is one the best RPGs I have ever played. Nearly every single choice you make has a very noticeable impact on the world.

I have been using Linux for a few years now I have never seen someone say “arch btw” unironically. I swear, memers do more damage to its perception.

The unfortunate thing is that OEMs don’t really have an incentive to ship Linux-powered systems.

Have you ever noticed how vendors who ship computers with Linux often do so at the same or greater cost than Windows? I believe I have heard somewhere that Microsoft subsidizes OEMs for shipping with Windows, which is scummy but Linux can’t really compete with this.

This, was a busy year. Silksong very much carried my Steam Deck usage.

Yeah, I have been using it like that for a while. It is just a single environment variable.

I believe Steam Deck officially supports only Micro SD cards. I used one for about six months and had no issues.

I really loved Nier games. Hope he makes something similarly weird someday.

I got a very recent Thinkpad and it apparently has official support for Ubuntu and Fedora. I went with Fedora KDE.

1. Linux is intentionally made to be modular and using the terminal is pretty much the only standard way to do things across many distributions.

I highly suggest you stop avoiding it because it will most likely be faster and easier to do something (i.e. system-level changes) with it than not.

2. If you want a hard-to-fuck-up distro, I think Atomic (at least that’s what Fedora calls them) distros are the best.

Similar to smartphones or MacOS, entire OS is a singular image that is also updated all at once. Core parts of the filesystem is also read-only, meaning it is pretty much impossible to mess things up if you don’t mean to do so deliberately.

The best in this regard are from uBlue project: Bazzite (most popular), Bluefin, Aurora, etc. While Bazzite is intended for gaming (things like Steam are pre-installed), the other are for general use. Bluefin uses GNOME desktop, while Aurora has KDE Plasma desktop environment. Look up their visuals and choose whichever one you like. I prefer Aurora because KDE Plasma is often much more familiar to Windows users.

3. uBlue distros don’t require a password for system updates (they happen automatically in the background) and so do installing/updating programs.

First, you should learn about Wine prefixes. Arch Wiki has a good write-up about it.

After the game is installed, you need to edit that setup.exe you added as a non-Steam game and point it to the game’s actual executable.

Steam’s Wine prefixes are usually located in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata. This directory should have some text config files that you can read to find out what ID Steam has assigned to it.

Also, you might have more luck with Bottles (available through flatpak) which is more suited for such tasks.