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  • Black screen on wake from suspend on game mode

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  • I've had the similar problems with bazzite in desktop mode coming back from sleep or screen off, first with Nvidia, then solved by switching to an AMD graphics card, but now it happens there too. I have two workarounds.

    1. Try Ctrl+Alt+F1and Ctrl+Alt+F3. You should be able to switch to console then back to desktop/login screen.
    2. In KDE Plasma, there's a way to map wake screen to a keyboard button. That worked for me until I reinstalled the OS and never bothered.

    I think this is a Plasma or SSDM issue but idk how to report it properly.

    Any ideas would be appreciated

  • If Oracle goes bankrupt in the future, what would you like to see as the destination for some of its products?

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  • For their databases:

    • Postgress
    • DuckDB

  • Mod managers for Linux?

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  • See this monster of a post from u/sp3ctr4l@dbzer0

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/18288432

     
        

To add in about game modding on Linux:

https://github.com/limo-app/limo

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.limo_app.limo

Limo is a universal mod manager that is linux native.

And I do mean universal. It’ll work with literally any game, you just have to take a bit of extra time to configure things for games that do not yet have a supported preset configuration out of the box… but at this point, that includes most games that are generally reliant on some kind of mod manager type program on Windows, to keep track of 10s or 100s of simultaneous mods.

It works very much along the same lines as something like Mod Organizer 2, though there are some differences, read the wiki.

It sets up a virtual file system that allows mods to be set up outside of the main game directory itself, and will override them such that the mods actually load, but they can be ‘undeployed’ to revert back to vanilla, you can set up different profiles of different mod configurations and deploy/undeploy what you like.

It can also manage load orders, supports formats such as fomod and similar for games like Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, you can set up tags and category groupings, and it also shows you conflicts between mods down to the specific files, showing you a chain of overwrites to the final file from the final loaded mod.

It doesn’t support things like LOOT, which purport to autogenerate correct load orders… but frankly, thats fine, because shit like that doesn’t even work properly in situations you’d use it in on Windows 90% of the time.

EDIT: Wow, apparently it does support LOOT now, it did not a few updates ago.

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I have successfully gotten FONV working using Limo to set up uh… there’s a variant of the Viva New Vegas mod setup guide aimed at Steam Deck users, but it tells you to set up Mod Organizer 2 on the Deck… which you can do, but its rather input laggy and there are other inconveniences…

Here it is, Mirelurked Viva New Vegas:

https://ashtonqlb.github.io/mirelurked-vnv/intro.html

I had to alter a few steps from this to get it working with Limo, but they were basically just… set up Limo instead of MO2, and you have to handle NVSE a bit differently, because it literally replaces/overrides the entire main game exe.

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I have also used Limo to mod Cyberpunk 2077, works with more in depth frameworks like CET, RedExt, etc, as well as using the Decky Framegen plugin to insert FSR 3.1 Upscaling and Framegen into CP77, which gives better quality and fps than the official FSR 2 and 3 implementations that come with the vanilla game and are vanilla supported on a Deck.

You basically just have to launch the vanilla game via the normal launcher first, check the ‘enable mods’ switch, fully load the game…

Then you can set up the Framegen mod, which adds a custom command in steam to the launch parameters… and then you can also setup the ‘skip intro’ mod, which is reliant on both the mod being present, as well as additional command line parameters…

There are a bunch of reddit posts complaining that the FrameGen mod doesn’t allow other additional launch arguments, but they are wrong.

All you have to do is append those additional launch args … at the end of the FrameGen mod’s launch arg. This just doesn’t seem to be explicitly documented anywhere, by anyone… I may have been the first person to figure this out?

Anyway, after that bit of silliness, setting up other mods for CP 77 using Limo is fairly straightforward.

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… I am doing all this on Bazzite on a Deck, but you could do it on… presumably any linux distro that supports flatpaks and proton (the translation layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux).

There will always be a few ‘weird’ mods that are just totally reliant on a whole bunch of Windows specific things to work, or just cannot be made to work without actually overwriting some core game files in the main, real directory itself…

And, some of these mods will require a windows component dependency, like vc_2017 or vc_2022, you set those up with something like ProtonTricks or SteamTinkerLaunch to modify the proton config per game, instead of trying to install the exe system wide as 99% of the windows oriented mods will tell you to do…

But so far, I have found either my own solutions for these cases, or someone else already has, or someone has just made basically a linux compatible equivalent for such a windows reliant mod.

… You can also just choose to run MO2 on Linux, it will work, its just… buggy, and overlycomplicated, imo, you’ve got to set up a custom wineprefix for the MO2 UI to not do dumbshit, give it thr dependencies it needs, and then you’ve got to do this for each different game you want to mod with MO2.

I found that Limo is sufficiently capable and much less hassle to use once you take the time to understand its differences from MO2.

  • How is DuckAI able to stores chat conversations?

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  • Powertoys: "Run" was my favorite.

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  • I completely forgot that I went to PopOS before Bazzite.

    I still like it but I was tinkering too much with it before I knew how to stay out of trouble.

  • Powertoys: "Run" was my favorite.

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  • Holy shit! It's real

    Windows - > Powertoys - > Winget - > Win Debloater - > Minimal Windows - > Bazite - > Debian

  • 1000 nits is insane

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  • Totally. It has had HDR support on KDE for about a year (?) but no games I've tried work.

  • 1000 nits is insane

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  • I couldn't get Nvida to work reliably with HDR. It would run, but I'd always get a crash after a bit.

    Im on Bazzite with a 3080ti GE Proton

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  • Microsoft is a collection of fiefdoms, each led by a Lord (Product Manager) who drive projects which have two possible motivations: 1) promotion 2) bonus. Quality is not a factor and hasn't been for decades. Cohesion? No. The lords sometimes fight amongst themselves. They serve the line go up. Everything is line go up. There is no bottom to the products. Line must go up

  • Which TV show do you watch again and again?

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  • Arrested Development Archer

  • Does anyone ever miss karma?

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  • I get where you're coming from. You could revisit the contributions you've made and the messages and replies you've received. The difference is that those ARE meaningful and hopefully in a good way. I think Reddit actively pushes the concept of karma because it's an great engagement metric and they love that.

    My opinion is that Reddit is captured and driven to push engagement for advertising revenue at the expense of meaningful interaction. Lemmy is a platform where that engagement metric is only intrinsic to the individual. People are here because they want to have meaningful conversations? Maybe I'm dreaming

  • Cloudflare Tunnel Alternatives

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  • Look into a VPS + pangolin or headscale Also, check out Crowdsec

  • VPN's recommendations?

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  • Would you be willing to share which one can be had for that cheap?

  • Allergen blood test?

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  • I got one as recommended by my doctor and the results changed my life. A lot of things came up, but a couple were "very high sensitivity". I just focused on those

  • If you're bad at tornado chasing you spend hours driving around in cloudy weather with nothing to show for it.

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  • driving around in cloudy weather with nothing to show for it

    Seattle wants to have a word with you

  • Me after installing Bazzite

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  • As a Bazzite fan, lmao. True

  • I have used Windows all my life, and I have some questions.

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  • Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?

    No. Thanks to Steam Deck, most popular windows games also work on Linux. See https://www.protondb.com/ for a complete list of 18,000 titles.. Someone already mentioned that kernel level anti-cheat is the big, obvious blocker.

    Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?

    ~Im guessing that most moders target Windows users therefore, don't think mods would be AS easy. Not saying modding wouldn't exist or work at all.~ Edit: see sp3ctr4l's reply to this comment. They know more than me

    If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?

    There are workarounds. Linux has some great alternative software to popular paid stuff. See LibreOffice or Krita.

    There are also more advanced options to run Windows apps under Linux, see Wine or Virtual Machines

    Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?

    Yes. Similar to the above answer/ similar to aforementioned Proton. For .NET specifically, there is a Linux runtime.

    How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a "Linux Update" program like what Windows has?

    This can depend a lot on what distribution you're running, but definitely, there are ones with easy buttons for whole-system updates.

    How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

    It's different and probably overall better than windows. Most distros are much better out of the box than windows.

    Open source is ususually a security advantage because (long story short) security mistakes can be caught by more people.

    I don't have a good answer for you on anti virus. I am very privacy and security conscious and I dont use one on linux. My personal opinion is that you don't need one and shouldn't need one if you're not downloading sketch stuff.

    Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

    Totally. GPU drivers are much, much better than they used to be.

    Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?

    Theoretically. You would have to try really hard, but for normal use, no. More likely, you could lose data or access to the system if you misconfigure stuff (just like with Windows)

    Distro recommendations. My personal opinions, don't flame me.

    • Bazzite. hard to mess up, gamer focused, super simple updates, and targeted support for gamer hardware. Feels like a cross between steam deck and windows. Less support for tinkering but if you never want to touch the terminal, this is my choice.
    • Pop!OS. Simplified Linux with great driver and steam support with easy updates. More tinkering support than Bazzite
    • Linux Mint. Easy to start on but more traditional back-end. Much more support (forum posts) than the previous two. A lot of what works on Debian or Ubuntu works the same on Mint, so you'll be able to do all kinds of fiddling

  • Horror

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  • Wasn't me

  • Horror

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  • In the street?