Almost all Steam Deck news also apply to any Linux desktop gaming PC. If you’re interested, check out Bazzite.

Steam integration: RetroDECK can now auto-add to Steam with preconfigured gridart and inputs.

Great news !

Maxima is on its way

Awesome, I hope EA gets added to Heroic !

He’s right. As I stated at the beginning of my comment, I was only speaking about Bazzite and Aurora, I wholeheartedly recommend you try them.

I will answer to your annoyances from my context: I use Bazzite on my gaming rig and Aurora on my work laptop.

1. I only use Flatpaks for GUI apps and Homebrew for CLI apps, things are stored in their respective folders.

2. My chosen distros are atomic / immutable, only user files can be changed, the system is shielded from breakage. You just can’t brick it unless you really want to.

3. Caps lock works the same as windows.

4. Desktop shortcuts rearranging, didn’t happen to me / haven’t noticed.

5. Firefox restoring session no matter what: I’ll try that and get back to you.

6. Bazzite & Aurora are very polished.

7. Flatpaks are the best, for CLI apps I use homebrew.

8. Bazzite / Aurora have automatically generated rollback images.

Honestly, if you want something that works for you and not the other way around, I suggest you use an Universal Blue distro.

Hey, @[email protected] love your posts, always on point!

Nice shoutout to Revolt!

It’s been a long time since I last saw some news about it. Any comments regarding security and privacy versus Matrix ? Also, last I saw it was a bit of a hassle to self-host, am I right to assume things improved in that area ?

This benchmark is against Thorium / Mercury. Which is already way faster than regular Firefox. The total aggregated speed is considerable. https://thorium.rocks/mercury_performance

looks way better, are there any plans for a grid view with thumbnails ?

Maybe the printer is disconnected ?

lol, what a shitshow. A product from the same company is distancing from the stench. Good on them, but it shows who did some things wrong.

Holy crap, I gotta try this.

I have experience doing exactly that with Bazzite, Aurora and Bluefin. Booting from a USB, it works perfectly out of the box. If you want to switch between any of these distros, with one command you can rebase (switch) to another distro without losing any data. Except when you switch between different desktop environments (Bluefin is GNOME based). This is how I use Linux on my work laptop, on a daily basis. I settled on Aurora on an M2 caddy.

To install it to a USB drive, you’ll need two USB drives, one to boot to the installer, the other one is the target for the installation.

If you are more security minded, there’s also https://secureblue.dev/ but I haven’t tried it to be able to recommend it though.

The home dir on all these distros has persistance enabled.

You know what just works ? Bazzite. It’s as easy to use as a PlayStation.

OCI CLI apps can also be obtained from brew

The build instructions for all flatpaks are in one repo, you could build it yourself and maintain your own registry if you wanted.

Loving this! Keep it coming!

It reminds me of old school mags! Yeah, I’m one of the old farts who was a teen when Abuse was released. 🤣

Thank you so much !

You’re just not the target user.

The whole OCI mindset is geared towards absolute noobs like me, and cloud native devs that develop inside containers on a daily basis.

Take me for example. I use Bazzite, it’s the first distro I couldn’t break. On top of that, flatpaks, appimages and brew are my only options for software. Since Bazzite is an atomic distro (think immutable ) I could also use Distrobox but I don’t want to deal with it.

Everything just works for me, I don’t care about anything. I broke so many distros before. Sure, I don’t control every nut and cranny but I don’t want to.

If you know how to not break your stuff then that’s great, but I don’t, and I don’t want to learn that. I just want to learn other things.

Kde’s Spectacle is awesome

No. Betterbird adds random features.

This is not only dumb, but also manages to ignore Gabe’s past declarations on the matter. It even ignores the fact they even released CounterStrike (of all things) on consoles.

Which one is the server, I couldn’t tell.