Wow! This sounds super handy! Thanks for sharing!

That’s odd 🤔

Just for the protocol: besides installing it you also launched xdg-desktop-portal, right?

/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal -r & /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

Also you need both, xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-[your choice].

Welcome to Sway club! 😜 This sounds like you haven’t installed an xdg desktop portal (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal) I personally installed the gnome ones. However you can pick any of these. They provide stuff like file pickers, etc. Regarding the links there was a command to set the default app for different mime types using xdg-open. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find it.

Pre-11 windows was at least less buggier than Mac OS. But I agree: It’s a big pain too! Linux just works better for me.

I don’t use Bazzite. But if you have any pro arguments for Brew, feel free to share them. Change my mind.

I feel you. Once I was forced to code on a mac too. It made me insane ☠️

I don’t know about windows to go. But rufus? Isn’t it just writing images to usb drives? Sounds like you’re looking for the dd command. You can write images with

dd if=/path/to/my/image of=/dev/[insert device here] status=progress

May be a sign to install Linux 😏 brew sucks anyways

My internet provider offers up to 4 sim cards per account. They cost once 10€, without a monthly fee. However they have only 300mb of high speed traffic. But this should be just fine for a tracker, no? Just have a look in your customer portal. Maybe you’ll find something there too

I’m from germany. I watch a lot of YouTube. Also I work as software developer, so I need to read many english manuals. Wich don’t means, that my english is great. But it could also be worse.

I don’t know if i3 can do this too, but in sway you can also move windows using the mouse. Just hit mod+the left mouse button and drag it around. However I usually just go with the Keyboard. Mod+shift+arrow is just faster.

Not directly a ready to use software. But maybe you could use a combination of dnsmasq and cronjobs.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dnsmasq https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cron

You could load two different configs based on time. One to forward everything except xyz to localhost and one to forward everything.

Awww 💜

Oh, one more thing regarding the ssh wizardry (lol!): It’s not that complicated. You can pass your command as last parameter. For example if you want to launch Dorfromantik (which you should btw), you could do it like this:

ssh me@mymachine "steam steam://rungameid/1455840"

That’s the whole magic. Like this it won’t start an interactive shell, but run the command and closes the connection once the command finishes.

A man, a word. This is my gamescope-session.sh

#!/bin/sh

export DXVK_HDR=1
/usr/bin/gamescope --hdr-enabled -e -- /usr/bin/steam-native -tenfoot

I’ve created a /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gamescope-session.desktop for it, so I can launch it from login screen (or auto start it in my case)

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Steam Big Picture Mode
Comment=Start Steam in Big Picture Mode
Exec=/home/chaser/bin/gamescope-session.sh
Type=Application

In theory this should run all games, that support hdr in hdr. At least Cyberpunk does.

If I remember correctly I had to give gamescope a flag to enable hdr at all. However there was an env too, to tell the windows games through proton, that the machine supports hdr. I’ll check my scripts later for you

To be honest I like this behavior. I haven’t enabled the hot word, so this is a really convenient way to launch the assistant. (It doesn’t has to be the google assistant btw)

+1 for Lutris! It’s not only good for games, but also for regular Windows software like FL Studio. Another “tool” I use a lot is ssh. I use Gamescope on my PC with Steam Big Picture mode. Gamescope gains a few more fps, than a regular de. Also HDR works just fine with it. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope However. Sometimes I need an desktop environment. So I created a Home Assistant automation, that allows me to switch to desktop. Now I have 2 buttons on my smartwatch. One to boot the PC and turn on the tv, avr, etc. The other for the desktop mode. I also have some nfc cards for my favorite games. Same thing here: When scanned they trigger a ha automation, which starts the games over ssh 😎

Any chance there is a repo for it? 🤩

I know, it sounds odd, but: Arch! Once my best friend wanted to try linux. So he asked me, which distro to use. I gave him an honest answer: “I use Arch. But for beginners I would recommend Mint.” He don’t gave a shit and installed Arch anyways 😅 - with success! That’s when I noticed, that the Arch Wiki is actually SO GOOD, that even a newbie can install Arch without any help. It’s just a bit more time expensive, compared to distros with an installer. However, there are some huge benefits, that made me switch to Arch:

• I used Ubuntu on my daily driver before. However “stable” packages means in this case “antique”. A 3 years old version of Sway isn’t more stable than the newest release version.
• I never survived a dist-upgrade. That’s why i prefer a roling release linux today.
• Your system is slim, because you only install what you really need. Also you know your system this way.
• Especially for gaming it’s good to have the newest kernel + drivers.

However, you should also notice the down sides. Sometimes an update breaks something. It doesn’t happens often, but it happens. A few years ago the bluetooth stack was broken, so i wasn’t able to use my headset during a meeting. However they released a fix like a few hours later, so I just needed to update. But still: That’s something to consider too.