Ancestors

Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 22:41

decided not to work this weekend so I'm installing a gaming fedora-based distro on an old computer I had lying around

it has an AMD GPU so things are going actually well so far

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 22:44

however I haven't looked at anything non-macOS for a couple months so it feels really weird to look at KDE

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 22:46

okay I lied a little — my USB wifi adapter has a driver.. somewhere on GitHub that I can compile from source? luckily I have an ethernet cable too

I got the mouse to pair with bluetooth on the live CD but it won't work on the actual system, and the keyboard just stopped accepting letter input (it worked a second ago — system updates are happening though)

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 22:51

GRUB has "nobara" kernel variants and "fsync" kernel variants? not sure which one I'm meant to use, oh well.

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 22:57

Oh my god, okay, an MX Master 2S mice plugged in via USB doesn't work, but other bluetooth it does.

TIL how to use bluetoothctl in the terminal to pair with devices! https://www.baeldung.com/linux/bluetooth-via-terminal

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Toot

Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:03

Hurray! I got Solaar to work https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar — so I can use the Logitech Unifying Receiver instead of doing bluetooth (it's gonna be lower latency for gaming! wired would be best but... doesn't work)

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Descendants

Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:08

I see the drivers are as high quality as ever

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:12

yes. YES! I haven't seen that font in forever.

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:13

okay well I got the wifi working but I get 62Mbps with it and 940Mbps with a wired connection so.... yeah I'll just share the one cable with my work mac x)

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:19

Why do I have a game named "Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble" in my Steam library

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:34

First game I actually tried to launch was Bloons TD 6 from the Epic Games Stores with the Heroic Games Launcher? It found a Proton version from Steam and installed all the prereqs - game worked flawlessly!

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:40

Horizon Chase Turbo works flawlessly under Proton Experimental too :) (via Heroic Games Launcher). Copying/pasting an image to/from the clipboard takes several seconds though, still. Ahhhh, Linux.

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-01 at 23:49

Every game I've tried to launch so far has worked: Cookie Clicker, Democracy 2, Dicey Dungeons, Mini Metro, Surgeon Simulator. Proton got really good y'all.

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-02 at 00:27

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's build crashes immediately on launch (despite Steam Runtime), but running the Windows version via Proton is of course working flawlessly

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Written by Graham Sutherland / Polynomial on 2025-02-01 at 23:24

@fasterthanlime I have it too, it came in a Humble Bundle.

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Written by Kat Marchán 🐈 on 2025-02-01 at 23:53

@fasterthanlime I’ve been playing exclusively on my Steam deck for over 2 years now, and I’ve only had a couple of games that I haven’t been able to play at all

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Written by Kat Marchán 🐈 on 2025-02-01 at 23:54

@fasterthanlime like I can even play stuff like Diablo IV and FFXIV.

The ones that don’t work AT ALL tend to be the ones that use extremely invasive DRM

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-02-02 at 01:33

@zkat @fasterthanlime Anything that requires the EA client to run as well is hit and miss when EA makes updates, but that's really more of a "how does this towering inferno of software malpractice even work at all, EA?!" problem.

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Written by Kat Marchán 🐈 on 2025-02-02 at 02:09

@jmc @fasterthanlime I mean to be fair it barely works on native windows half the time

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-02-02 at 02:10

@zkat @fasterthanlime Yeah this is what I'm saying haha. It's so baaaad

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Written by vestige on 2025-02-01 at 23:53

@fasterthanlime Proton/Wine are so good, especially if developers release demos/betas that the devs can use to ensure compatibility. For example, when BG3 came out, I played through it up until Act 3, where it became unplayable at the same region as it did for Windows users.

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Written by groxx on 2025-02-02 at 00:20

@fasterthanlime usually my fix for "Linux native steam game isn't working" is "reinstall in proton".

And it almost always works. Sometimes performance is better too.

(You can force this by uninstalling, changing compatibility to proton, then installing. It won't let you switch away from native while it's installed)

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Written by Steffo on 2025-02-02 at 00:46

@fasterthanlime

oh that's probably intentional if you have the repentance dlc

nicalis has decided to not provide a linux build for it

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426300/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Repentance/

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Written by fasterthanlime 🌌 on 2025-02-02 at 07:53

@steffo ah yep that would do it

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Written by aoanla on 2025-02-01 at 23:41

@fasterthanlime because it's actually a good game (as a subversion of things like the Malory Towers books and other 'plucky girls in a private school solve mysteries' books)

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Written by Jack, Digital Expat on 2025-02-01 at 23:50

@fasterthanlime The better question is "Why doesn't Jack have a game in her Steam library called 'Dangerous HS Girls in Trouble'"?

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Written by Carl Muckenhoupt on 2025-02-02 at 04:44

@fasterthanlime I can't say for sure why you have it but I do recommend you give it a look beyond the title. It's actually really good, and I don't know any other game quite like it. It's a minigame-oriented RPG with a classic board game aesthetic, about teenage girls in the 1920s investigating the secrets and skullduggery underlying their school and the surrounding town.

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Written by argv minus one on 2025-02-02 at 00:41

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Wi-Fi being slow is pretty much a law of physics.

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Written by kc :blobcatheart: on 2025-02-01 at 23:12

@fasterthanlime isn't this just the average C project one has to compile themselves?

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Written by Rylie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊ on 2025-02-01 at 23:23

@fasterthanlime ah yes, faster Wi-Fi drivers. (Wi-Fi 6?) Apparently they are working on in-tree ones, or were a year ago. Not sure if they're ready yet but they're called like rtw88 iirc

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Written by Ελλεν Εμιλία Άννα ζσχέηλε on 2025-02-01 at 23:09

@fasterthanlime > wired would be best but... doesn't work

kinda dystopic.

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