AHHHH!

I cannot read the phrase “them bones” without that song playing in my head haha

For Skyrim I’ve had pretty good luck with just adding Vortex mod manager as a non steam game, running it with Proton and using mods that way

Personally I don’t think I’d use it on my main phone as of now. While it does work well and the granular options for sandboxing/security are awesome, I’d worry about compatibility with banking apps and other more locked down software that, from what I’ve heard, will refuse to run under GrapheneOS. Also, yeah you’d be missing out on some of the exclusive Pixel features that are part of Google’s stock ROM. But overall it works well and handles Play Store backend stuff pretty seamlessly while still keeping the security tight.

From what I understand camera quality and other features may be less performant than stock as well, though in the case of my Pixel 5a the camera experience wasn’t that great before anyways so it didn’t matter to me.

For now on my main phone I’m just gonna keep using stock and dipping into Android betas to mess with the new stuff coming to Pixel phones. Maybe once my desire to be part of that ecosystem is lessened I’d just go for Graphene on my Pixel 7.

I’ve had a Pixel 5a and currently have a Pixel 7. Have enjoyed them greatly. The 5a was a bit mediocre overall, camera performance wasn’t that great & it got a bit slow over time. That being said, the clean OS experience and integration was always nice and it was perfectly suitable for my needs at a good price.

Now that I’m using my Pixel 7 as a daily, the Pixel 5a is holding up pretty well with GrapheneOS as a backup phone / media player.

Pixel 7 has been really nice to me. Interface is smooth, camera is nice, everything just works essentially. And getting the latest Android pretty quickly is a nice feeling. My only gripe is that Google’s SoC is still a bit lacking and battery life isn’t the best, but I hear the current Android beta has some promising battery life improvements.

Overall I’ve been having a good time with them. Still kinda miss my Nexus 5x tho, that thing was sweet…

Yes, SteamOS does count as Linux. Android does not. The Android and iOS Steam app is just for social features / store, not for playing games so neither show up on the survey.

SteamOS Holo, which is what the Steam Deck uses, makes up 42% of the Linux systems in the survey results.

You said “100% ChatGPT” initially which gives off a different impression than “I just have a writers assistant”. People are gonna read that and assume it means you’re just asking ChatGPT about it and pasting what it said rather than conveying your own opinion.

And saying “I love how it pisses you off” bothers me. It makes it sound like you relish in the way that it’s annoying to people and have that as a reason for using it.

They are “going hard” the way I see it. Without Valve doing legwork behind the scenes and collaborating with anticheat developers we wouldn’t even have Apex Legends running on Linux like we’ve had for a year and a half. They’ve been talking about wanting to use Linux as a viable PC gaming platform to escape Microsofts lockdown of their platform since the days of Steam Machines when Windows 8 and the new store app were giving bad signs.

Either way Valve would be silly not to provide a compatible way to use Windows on the Deck. Even though the situation is much better these days, they know very well that a lot of enthusiast PC gamers would be dismissive of the Deck if Windows couldn’t work properly on it and that word of mouth would bring less confidence in the product.

Haha thats a fun idea. Might have to add that to my config

Well yeah it pisses them off because they’re here to read people talk about their experiences and give opinions, not for someone to paste ChatGPT output. If they wanted that they could’ve just used ChatGPT themselves.

It seems like you’re well aware people are annoyed by it but do it anyways. Why?

It’s vey pretty and clean but the default workflow just does not work for me. Having to dig up extensions for basic window management features which end up breaking with major updates is a pain. Also while gnome-tweaks is cool and all there are plenty of settings that should just be in the main settings app rather than being “tweaks” imo.

Overall I’d much prefer KDE Plasma, out of the box it has a lot of features and ways to configure it through the main settings app to fit my preferred way of doing things. While many see the plethora of options as a con, I’d rather have them there and implemented with the option to just disable what I don’t use rather than installing extensions to get what’s missing.

GNOME is great for people who enjoy doing things the GNOME way but if you need more than that it’s just a hassle to configure and maintain for me personally.

Depends on what you need. Personally, over the years I’ve been inclined to at least try a FOSS alternative when available and have found some really cool projects by doing that. It’s also cool to see those projects evolve over time and trade blows with the “official” apps they’re competing with.

However in some cases it just might not be practical to do so, especially if the alternative isn’t mature enough to rely on. I’d say at least take a look at the alternatives and give em a fair shot.

I will mention in the case of projects like WebCord you’re essentially getting a cut down version of Discord, with some extra features added in some cases. Basically custom clients like WebCord have to be based on the web version of Discord (essentially what you get when you open it in a browser) and because of that will be missing features like Krisp noise reduction and hardware encoding for video which can be dealbreakers for some people. Those features and some others are only available with the native Discord app which alternative clients cannot be built on top of. So there’s a hard limitation there as to how much these alternatives can accomplish.

There are others like Ripcord which are entirely custom clients, not just loading web Discord and modding it. But something like Ripcord will be missing a lot of features that even the web version of Discord has, so not really an option unless you just need basic voice and text chat stuff.

Honestly I’d recommend going to ~/.config/obs-studio and making a backup of your scenes then deleting the originals. Start up OBS and set things up again.

I’ve had similar issues when switching between KDE Plasma and sway, if I left the old scenes there OBS would break after switching enviornments. Once I deleted the scenes it would work fine.

I should also mention that for creating the pactl virtual sinks and sources, I just have a simple bash script that runs the pactl commands when I log in so that it happens automatically, that way I dont have to manually create them every time I boot up my computer.

For the second part, using separate audio tracks in OBS, I’ve had a good time just using pactl commands to create the virtual devices, route it in qpwgraph and then save that as a preset. When qpwgraph launches at startup it loads that routing how I left it.

For discord screensharing there’s alternatives like discord-screenaudio and webcord (which has a flag you can use to enable audio sharing). Both of those are able to send audio to the proper stream audio through discord so your friends don’t hear it through your mic, but they have to be based on the web version of discord so there’s no hardware encoding. If your plan is to stream games and stuff, fast motion will cause the stream to be very choppy for viewers. So in that case using the native discord app and routing audio through your mic source is kinda the only way to do it as of now, unfortunately.

Thanks for sharing these links, I’ve been getting into making shell scripts more and those look like a good spot to browse through for inspiration 🤙

Unless I’m misunderstanding, that’s all related to those KDE packages. I’d say if you’re a heavy user of Plasma or apps relying on those KDE packages you might as well enable it.

Up to your comfort level though, personally I don’t mind for stuff like that. On KDE’s community site they have this showing what telemetry is collected for Plasma.

I’m not here to debate you on how the great firewall compares to what other countries do, I wasn’t saying anything like that

The part I was pointing out is that it’s hypocritical, in my opinion, for a government (China) to act like there’s some injustice being done to them by countries like the USA putting sanctions on them when they are currently voluntarily cutting their population off from the world.

They’re saying they want to collaborate while at the same time preventing their own citizens from accessing many western websites and services.

Similar experience here with Arch. The only time I broke stuff was when trying out alternative kernels but even then all you’d have to do is use nvidia-dkms and it works fine with multiple kernels installed.

Maybe if this was a completely isolated situation it makes more sense but it seems hypocritical to say something like this while their government is actively bolstering the great firewall to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing stuff the rest of the world has access to

February 2022 they put out an update that enabled Proton support for EasyAntiCheat. Apex and Overwatch 2 both work.