you should be able to just move the prefix into the folder managed by bottles or heroic, or add the existing folder location to either of those. All of them just present visuals on top of wine/proton. Might also have to manually download and set the wine/proton version from whichever apps built in management.

I don’t find gnome intuitive but I do with kde. Many people are the opposite. I like to think of it as left vs right handedness but with more learning curve to train yourself in both.

You can probably also rebase to the other if you change your mind if the distro maintainers haven’t stated not to do that or anything but you would probably have to some annoying stuff with the configs that would be left in your user directories, especially if there are any shared dependencies with differences in configuration.

Oh for the ram rgb try

rpm-ostree kargs --append-if-missing=“acpi_enforce_resources=lax”

then reboot. if its a live usb you have to add it to the boot kernel arguments at the grub screen

so they didn’t want to disclose ban reasons and such?

The HDR is fairly recent too. Before you had to jump through like 8x the hoops and also had to use gamescope which is another thing that could both improve and worsen the window situation. If you ever encounter a game where none of the other stuff works gamescope can force a monitor and separately force render and display resolutions for up or downscaling, but tabbing out or using other software like browsing to guides or modloaders have been kinda janky in some games.

hdr works fairly easy now. Not sure about default proton but ge and probably some of the other variants like cachy have it mostly built in. I just use ge-latest for everything via proton plus until a game doesn’t work with it before tryig others.

game settings go to launch options and put in:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

monitor settings make sure hdr is enabled.

I only do dual monitor now but whenever a game can’t be on the right screen or does weird sizing shit:

alt+enter/f11 and drag to correct monitor, or

windowed, move to other screen, borderless/fullscreen, or

borderless, taskbar right click and select move then drag to other screen, or

select other monitor from ingame settings

If none of those work it could also be a native linux build which while nice to have tends not to be consistent across games, and forcing proton will redownload as the windows version which I’ve found will have different screen behaviours compared to native in a lot of games.

Freesync should be in monitor settings if its detected by the system. I’ve only confirmed it a few times working with ge proton as I don’t have many games that both have it and that I remembered to check for it. Usually I do the deck thing even on my desktop and find a config that can hold 90/60/45/30 and set the refresh equal or double manually.

damn we moving forward and backward in time at the same time

is di lear descthopp thof bem dei linox !!

I just use heroic for everything now. seemingly umu is just built in and I can get hdr working without too much fuckery if any depending on how much I remember of setting up the previous game that has that feature

I absolutely would have preferred to use my existing rechargeable AA collection. I have them in a tray next to a charger on my desk, the charger shows the condition of the battery and swaps are fast, no need for disassembly and risking breaking plastic clips on the shell like happens every time I have opened a ps4 controller to replace not the battery but the charging board.

I didn’t realize that was an issue. I used to use f13-f24 on my qmk keyboard for that but that was before wayland and I’ve been using a generic cheap trash kb after somehow losing the other one.

where would I be without Lunux?

I got an 8bitdo pro 3 for now after the birds destroyed my old one but I’m really just waiting for steam controller 2. I got used to having the trackpad grids and extra buttons to map every single input, but the deck just isnt powerful enough for some of the games I want more expensive visuals on.

does it break mods or not work with mods for the windows version?

ok but even if it didn’t who can stop anyone from installing steamos or if not supported by valve directly, more likely bazzite which already runs on basically anything with a cpu and something approximately similar to a somewhat modern gpu

I’m not big on the sharp looking corners but everthing else feels “now we’re talking”-y. eGPU support sounds really cool for making a docking station, down facing usb is appealing for that too. More than two underside buttons would be nice and a headset jack (as opposed to just headphones) would be nice though

If my deck can’t handle a game('s lack of optimization) I move to desktop. Or if it’s a visual artsy game I play on desktop. The most egregious fsr glorpination in recent memory was water in horizon forbidden west. When I first saw the beaches I thought it looked like utter shit but when I switched to actual rendering it was suddenly one of the best video game beaches ever.

But yeah basically everything that moves looks like shit, and anything bigger than a steam deck display makes it easier to tell something is fucked. I’ll check out fsr 4 but I don’t have high expectations.

is it a different situation than the lcd model? there are patches for ram increase and different display that can be applied to the lcd model but you have to disable auto update and manually install patched updates though I’m pretty sure there haven’t been any recent ones

mostly cases like “experimental/preliminary support for xyz but only if you compile from source or use unofficial repos”, video codecs in that janky era, assorted functionality now taken for granted, etc. Nothing really needs bleeding edge any more hence why I don’t use arch on my desktop any more and my server computers are mostly debian.

Yeah back then I was in elementary school. I chased single percent performance gains from bleeding edge because I couldn’t just buy better hardware. If you wanted the latest versions of anything ubuntu couldn’t do it without iffy unofficial repos and dependency hell. I did it anyway and it sucked.

If you compiled the kernel but forgot to rebuild the graphics modules you had to live cd in, because a 64mb usb stick was like 300 bucks back then and booting off usb wasn’t really a thing yet. Then next would be some janky terminal instructions off someones blog printed at the library because phones weren’t even moto razr and arch wiki didnt exist yet, then pray it worked and that there was enough time left in the day to do whatever stupid homework needed the computer.

I never liked the nvidia installer and it’s control panel that seemingly needed root then somehow fucked up the monitor config while not even applying the driver config, but it was all I knew as I never had a radeon until after the amd acquisition of ati. I also have no idea if the driver was always in kernel or if that was more recent but being able to compile a kernel with some silly buzzword feature that probably only situationally added 2fps to maybe one or two games and not risk graphics related boot failure was a game changer to my broke ass in the early days of working.

Anyway that was peak ubuntu era as I remember it. I mainly used ubuntu with spots of opensuse and some others here and there until whenever the r9 280 came out and then primarily used arch until the the early immutable distros showed up. Now even my dad and grandparents are on bazzite and my mom on aurora and its literally the best thing ever because they actually don’t fuck it up anymore and I don’t spend every waking hour on call for tech support.