What WM/DE are you using?

(i have no idea if I can help you but this is probably a helpful question for someone who can)

KDE Plasma with Kwin

PC gamers got pissy at console gamers

This is also stupid because before the tail end of the 2000s, the types of games you'd buy a PC for were different than consoles. Not to say there were no platformers on PC, but you were going with console if that was your biggest interest.

Thank you!

I have been here on Lemmy since Reddit killed Apollo (3rd party API fiasco), and for Linux I have been using it mainly for gaming since 2024 I believe?

I moved over to Linux when I saw how good the Steam Deck was running emulators and thought "Why the hell not try it out on my desktop?".

I started with openSUSE, but learned last year near Christmas that maybe it was a little too bleeding edge for a newbie like me who just wants to game as their only real use case for the gaming desktop.

I'm on Fedora now almost a year in, and am enjoying it more that it isn't as bleeding edge as SUSE, but still more updated than Debian for my more modern games that I like to try out.

How about you? If that's okay to ask? I realize a comment section on a meme page may not be the ideal place, but conversations are always welcome. :-]

K'yarnak li llll kadishtu, ngnah ah'lw'nafh Iiahe azathoth?

at least with llm one can always get some help. not necessarily good help and maybe even be misdirected by ones own misconceptions that the llm could reinforce. But with little things like what some obscure thing that is obvious to experienced users is, or how to do something not too complicated.

But i wouldnt rely on it to troubleshoot arcane problems, did that myself and later it turned out the problem was somewhere completely different i thought and it "suggested". I think it proposed at some point the problem could be where it actually was but i was convinced it couldnt be that and i thought i had ruled it out myself earlier. Then i noticed much later that i missed something when i tested things to rule out that particular source of problem.
I guess one could still use it to get information on how to gather information yourself, that might be relevant to someone who actually knows something. And it could do some analyzing on logs and other system information files to find patterns human couldnt find without a lot of expertise.

Long shot, but Steam games, including Proton games, will typically have the Steam overlay up. I don't know how they implement the overlay, but if it's via some kind of floating transparent window, maybe it could interact oddly with focus in Kwin. Maybe try toggling the Steam overlay off, see if that does it?

More and more people in hooded robes with star-symbols on their foreheads are saying it.

Here, have your downvoted. We both know you wanted it.

Even that was not known to me at that point. most of my knowledge was years old at this point, and i do not want to say that what i knew at that point was even remotely actual.

Fair enough, I was thinking of bison, not true buffalo. That's on me.

It gives people place to start with, and since you're in that comminity you would very likely heard some recommendation. There were a time Google will recommend people PopOS where they're undergoing changes that makes the OS so buggy to use and not user friendly at all, as a human person that participated or heard discussion about it, you will most likely tell new comer to steer clear from it. Google won't do that.

"Just google this" is definitely the worst way to treat people who just want an easy recommendation in a sea of choices.

That was mainly a joke, but i see it's hard to tell from that tone, my bad.

wait you did? aww writing bootdisks was my favorite part of the 286 era.

I had the same thought myself when I first read it. :-)

have you considered this weird breed of mice which has wings and really sharp teeth

you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

Ahhh that brings me back to 2005 and my first time installing gentoo

It's a good question, and it has a definitive answer: Distrobox.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Distrobox/

You can also run applications from within the container. I have a Debian based container (but you can use whatever you prefer, I just happened to find a guide for getting jetbrains IDEs working well with a Debian one) with the Jetbrains suite installed and all of the development tools I need.

Since getting comfortable using distrobox, I prefer to use it for dev environments even when I'm not using an atomic distro. It doesn't add any additional friction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM5bfLf3RPg

Same here! I started with Lycorisback in 2003, I'm very experienced with many different distros. The universal blue distros (Aurora, Bazzite) are my preference these days. You get the benefits of the atomic host and they aren't actually restrictive at all once you get comfortable using containers for software that you can't easily install with flatpak or brew.

Didn't KDE just start accepting vibecode?

Try running the applications inside Gamescope. It uses a separate toplevel window that shouldn't be affected by whatever Proton is doing.

You could also try either enabling or disabling Wayland in Proton: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Wayland

It could also be a quirk of whatever Proton version you're using. Try GE-Proton, Proton-EM, or an older version.

I miss the freebsd handbook

Is this all proton applications or have you only been playing one or a few games lately?

No worries! It's not just you suffering from that kind of thing. Always happy to chat if you need it

you throw the holy hand grenade on it, obviously...

This is pretty accurate; there are quite a number of furries in FOSS.

can we just appreciate

Played lots of Tik-Tac-Toe. Ai played nearly perfect games everytime.

Did you know that 20% of mammal species are bats?

Linux Mint with sway.

I use the dendritic approach for my NixOS configuration. put everything in individual modules. then I go back and further cut up those modules to be even more specific. It's gotten so bad I even have modules for almost every individual WM/DE to just turn them on and off within the flake. They're just so fun to build. it's addictive. I need help.

The big smol

Even Debian is a lot harder to use than Mint if you want things like the login page recognising your external monitor and realising that it should be your primary monitor before logging in, especially if a KVM means that it wasn't attached when you first booted. Or wanting that setup to persist after an nvidia driver update. There's just so much stuff that a user-focused distro can make easy that most distros don't make easy!

Cachy btw

yep, you got to love all the, Arch BTW or Linux Mint FYI.

Install Gentoo, it's easy and updates are simple

stop slop btw

looks like they've already found one mouse!

It's happened with Skyrim, Starcraft I, Omnibus, and Big Walk.

Just tell them it's a very basic AI chat and so you need to be precise in instruction

Oh I've been self-hosting since 2009, switched to Linux in 2011, finally ditched Windows as a daily driver last year when I picked up a Legion Go and got it loaded up with steam OS.

I've distro-hopped quite a lot between then and now, but funny enough I ended up landing where I started when recommending a newbie friendly distro: mint with kde plasma. That's my desktop daily driver now. I've tried bleeding edge in many different flavors and always end up finding I can start from a stable baseline and customize the kernel and modules as needed. Now I've got all my favorite emulators and recompiled games working flawlessly, and I've started working on a decomp of my own for an old Windows 98 game. I've already successfully ported it and fixed a few runtime bugs, trying to get it fully stable before I start remastering it in godot.

Server-side, I tend to stick with either Debian or Rocky and build on top of those.

I think you overestimate skills of the average computer user. Most of them don’t even know how to install operating system, even that Windows which came with their own computer. That’s why you shouldn’t recommend them any distro which is easy for average Linux user. They need something very simple and easy for the start up.

I'm in the openbsd mailing list and they still do that, it's fantastic

Alas, that was not the answer

Damn. It didn't work.

Buffalo = GNU

How was Linux back in 2011? I first tried Linux in about 2012 or so with Manjaro (LOL) and then moved over to ElementaryOS as the laptop I was trying Linux on was old and thought it would run better. It still borked eventually as did Manjaro, but that was probably more to do with me definitely not understanding anything I was doing!

I think Mint will be my next distro if anything goes wrong with Fedora, which again, would probably be due to my newb skills with Linux more than the software itself. If I wanted to game on Mint, and play games such as the new Witcher 3 remaster or say the upcoming Fable game, how would I make sure it is capable of playing those games with the kernel and modules you mentioned? Just for future reference!

I'm intrigued by the Win98 game! What game is it? I think it is VERY cool that you are decomping and then remastering on the Godot engine. :-]

I've been wanting to do this, even as a testbed. I just want computers to do cool shit, and am getting tired of being a Linux sysadmin in my free time. How large of a model do you have assigned to this?

I'm glad I often see people recommending Linux Mint for newcomers. Maybe I didn't understand the OP.