Yay!
Phone is Android, PC is now Linux Mint, for gaming I use a Steam deck, and my NAS is now TrueNAS.
🙋🏼♂️ new to Linux gaming.
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Debian, stable as usual.
debian is bestian
Huh. The Year of the Linux Handheld.
The Year of the Linux Handheld on the Desktop
“There’s dozens of us! Dozens!”
I love to see it.
Each time I see posts like this, I hope to see adobe announce they are making linux versions of their software. Whether you like it or not, a lot of people do not switch because of adobe.
Can’t you run it through Proton or Wine tricks at this point?
Nope, it will install but then say dlls are missing even though they are there.
More like 2.nice%
God I wish someone would port AHK to linux. I literally depend on it to make software accessible.
I wonder if it works on WINE i never tried it
AutoKey might be what you are looking for
It works for the most basic scripts but unfortunately its features pale in comparison
Fair point
Same here, for some reason my covid hobby was learning a new keyboard layout and while I now prefer using Dvorak, my attempts at remapping key bindings like cut/copy/paste on linux has has been unreliable at best, and then switching between Dvorak and QWERTY for games that don’t support layout-agnostic controls usually doesn’t even register (at least on the steam deck it doesn’t seem to)
have you tried keyd? I only use it for a few very simple remaps, but it’s got tons of nooks and crannies to lose yourself in.
Woah, I have not! I will definitely be checking that out. Thank you!
you’re welcome and/or I’m so sorry.
I finally made the switch recently. Been dual booting for a while. I use arch on my laptop for fun and Linux Mint Debian Edition on my desktop for stability.
I hope you enjoy your time here in Linux land.
Thanks. I’ve been running Linux servers for over 5 years and a few Linux laptops for 2-3 years. I just never moved my gaming PC over. I was like the third wave of Steam Deck owners. That proved to me that gaming on Linux is possible now. I just give up on any game that has kernel level anti-cheat for now. But, the amount of cheaters pulled me from most of those games a while ago…
I am one of the 0.05% on Debian. I feel special.
Same
I wonder where my Steam on Fedora 42 KDE lands
This is great news. Gives me hope that one day, I’ll be able to play all of my games on Linux.
Now I wish we could permanently move from Android for all Android devices to something like lineage.
There are phone vendors like murena (not a manufacturer i think) who have some privacy OS preinstalled so you dont have a rooted phone that gets blocked for “privacy concerns”
If you are unsure if the apps you need work you can install waydroid on linux
I’ve not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.
A lot of gamers want better performance, so a performance oriented distro with gaming quality of life features fills that gap. And ultimately there are a lot of YouTube channels promoting it and it kind of turned into a cool distro to use. This might explain the phenomenon.
Is Nobara still a thing? That was the gaming distro a couple years back, last I checked.
I’ve been using it for a while now, and it’s genuinely so good. Before this I was using EndeavourOS which was also a great distro, but I realized that I was basically putting in work to do things CachyOS does out of the box, so I switched and it’s been great.
What kind of out of the box things?
Well, I started using their repos for their x86-64-v3 optimized packages and builds of popular packages from the AUR. Later I started using their kernel because it pulls in upcoming features and is compiled with optimizations like ThinLTO and AutoFDO and has a more advanced scheduler. I also like how Cachyos comes with things like zram pre-enabled and scripts for things like zink and NGX. It’s basically just a ton of small things like that, some that I don’t even know about yet, that makes CachyOS really nice and easy to use.
A big one IMO is it defaults to building aur packages for the native CPU, which base arch and endeavorOS do not. There isn’t really any benefit to not doing so, as aur packages are going to be installed locally anyway.
Also fish is the default shell and I love fish
they offer some optimisations to the kernel and the packages that are supposed to yield a tiny bit better performance.
an incredibly small thing that rubs me the wrong way more than it probably should about their setup is that they set Plasma animation speeds to much higher values than the stock Plasma desktop uses. sure, it could be just a part of their customisation tweaks the same way using
fishas the default shell is, but it feels like a cheap trick to reel in the “I installed it on my desktop and it’s soooo much snappier” review kind of people. like, if your work is as good as you claim, you shouldn’t need to artificially make the improvements seem bigger than they really are.I’m not familiar with it, but I think that that could be a reasonable UI tweak. I disable virtually all animation in software where possible because I want it to be as responsive as possible and don’t care about the animation. Simply reducing the time in animation is a middle ground—one still gets animations, but cuts out some of the time.
I set plasma animations to instant every arch install anyway so personally I don’t care 😎 thanks for asking
If it feels snappier, it is snappier.
It’s like saying it’s cheating to use instanced rendering to display millions of asteroids when it’s not even real draw calls
it’s like making the car audio play wind whooshing noises when accelerating to make it feel faster.
If the goal is to make it feel faster, yeah.
I started using linux full time about a year ago. I started with Arch, but moved to Cachy really quickly when I discovered it. All of the advantages of Arch, but repos optimised for modern hardware, and a whole heap of useful pre-configured tools, like Wine/Proton, fish, snapper etc. Arch is a bare bones, pick and configure your own setup rolling release distro. Cachy is a pre-optimised, rolling release distro with lots of useful stuff right out of the box.
I use the cachyos kernel on an otherwise plain arch setup. I don’t game much, but I tried it out and just stuck with it.
It has a dedicated steam deck ISO, is the most well put together preset up arch distro there is for gamers. Period, there are no real good faith arguments here. It’s like if someone took an endevour install and spent over 50 hours doing nothing but making every possiable part of it as easy as possible for gamers to just play games.
Its what Bazzite is functionally a knock off of. Anyone whos using Bazzite is litterally using an objectively worse option then cachy is their first and only goal is gaming. Which is bazzites entire gimmick basically.
I agreed with everything in your first paragraph but your second one just seems like needless ‘holier than though’ drivel. Bazzite has it’s own unique pros, and both are great options for gamers.* However, when it comes to having a OEM-like experience on a Legion Go under Linux, Bazzite, Nobara or Chimera are a better fit. That’s my usecase and why I chose Bazzite, I wanted a Steam Deck experience with a better screen and more powerful chip. It was also well before SteamOS had any support for other devices.
Yeah, that’s not Bazzite’s “only gimmick”
How’s Cachy for NVIDIA support?
I just installed cachyOS last weekend after getting an RTX 5070 Ti and chose the open driver during the installation and everything is working perfectly, including resume from sleep
Excellent, although any distro that packages the latest driver version these days is going to be, NVIDIA has improved their linux driver integration a lot fairly recently. (no esoteric kernel cmdline args, and KMS/SimpleDRM support, woot!)
