Inui [comrade/them]

You can just launch them like normal and have Steam open in the background. Or launch them as non-Steam games from Steam if necessary. They generally detect your headset and controllers.

I dont know that you can play pirated VR games for a different platform that easily though, as in launching a Quest exclusive game with an Index or vice versa. I never tried.

Depending on if they actually want local music only on their phone and not on something like Navidrome, Seeker is a good soul seek client for mobile.

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That Firefox bug is Mozilla’s fault and happens to anyone on Wayland + Nvidia right now. It’s fixed in the nightly Firefox build. There’s no official flatpaks for the nightly, but you can install it in distrobox and export it.

I recommend hopping in their Discord for help with your game. The devs are always responding to folks in there.

For sure, just without the declarative part. I never heard of this today, so I’ll check it out too. I’ve stayed away from declarative stuff because I don’t have time to learn a whole programming language like with Nix, but its still interesting.

Arkane Linux. The argument for using a more stable base for an immutable system is that you can get all the updated libraries and things you need by running things as flatpaks or in distrobox.

But I’ve always wanted an immutable Arch because if something breaks, you just roll back without having to use Snapper or anything like that. Think maintenance free Arch where you can even autoupdate without much worry.

Rolling your own arch images is made easier too, so you can do all the customization you want, but as a base part of your system instead of packages installed after the fact.

That said, I still run Ublue variants on all my devices with Arch containers. But I hope this project sees steady momentum.

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Yes. They use the official Fedora atomic images as their base, then add things from there. Silverblue/Bluefim has GNOME and Kinoite/Aurora/Bazzite has KDE. Then they just have more stuff that Fedora can’t or won’t ship, such as built-in proprietary drivers for Nvidia GPUs without any extra repos or downloads, and the Xone driver for Xbox Wireless Controllers.

You could technically do all of this yourself, but it’d be a lot of work and be slower. For Ublue, a lot of things are on the image, as in baked into the OS as part of the iso and standard install. For things you layer yourself, the OS has keep track of what is stock and what isn’t, then act accordingly with each update. So the more things you personally layer versus installing through their preferred methods like Distrobox, Brew, or Flatpak, the longer the system takes to update. Layering some stuff like Steam is also not straightforward, so its beneficial to have a system that has most of the things you need. The phrase they like to use is crowdsourcing your OS. If everyone has mostly the same base OS, support is easier, bugs are fixed faster, etc.

They follow the main release schedule of Fedora but frequently contribute things upstream and take their own approach by integrating things from Nobara, ChimeraOS, and OpenSUSE’s Aeon/Kalpa. Folks from those groups collaborate back and forth.

Think of it like you have a base OS that is stock, like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. Then the different ublue offerings, Bluefin/Aurora/Bazzite/Ucore take those and add new things on top. If you rebase, anything you installed as a user isn’t touched. But all of the addons change to whatever the default is for that ublue variant.

So someone rebasing from Bluefin/Aurora to Bazzite will have Lutris and Steam (and other gaming specific software and system tweaks) automatically ‘layered’ as part of the default experience, since Bazzite is targeted primarily at gaming, and the other two for general desktop use.

You’re swapping out the default system image, just like when you update and the update is actually just replacing your entire OS with the new version (until the feature that let’s them only replace things that have changed gets finished).

Well that’s awesome news. I used it a little over a year ago, so I didn’t know they were working on it.

Okay, smuglord. It’s a massive inconvenience compared to doing literally nothing. And it heavily depends on what apps you use and how often they update.

Last I used it, Aurora store can’t do automatic updates without user attention. Is that still true? If so, it’s adding another massive inconvenience.

Personally I envision a future where most people don’t even need desktops at home and if they don’t need a dedicated laptop either will just dock their phone when they get home as their primary device and take it with them when they leave.

What part of how he’s been treated? Nobody is making fun of him for being neurodivergent and picking his toes in public. Its gross, but ultimately not harmful. People have problems with his inability to understand how his comments about sex with minors are not appropriate either. There’s a big gap between these two things and if you fall into it, you’re probably okay.

I posted my own comment, but every time Stallman comes up, this is what I refer people to: https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html

As you said, these are not his “early views”, but a continuing and shifting pattern. You can read his own blog posts and its all there.

He’s a creep and any org still employing him doesn’t care about women or children.

https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html

Very cool. I was looking for one of these the other day after just getting a new phone and nothing much came up. Looks like the refactor took a lot of time, so here’s hoping they can focus on adding more actions.

It seems like you didn’t read the link I posted because the point is to demonstrate that he clearly hasn’t changed his opinion in any meaningful way. Using neurodivergence as an excuse for disgusting behavior is also silly af. His presence is harmful because of what it signals to people who have to work with him. That his views and inappropriate behavior (especially toward women) will be tolerated. It isn’t just ‘bad takes’, its sexually harassing people and normalizing pedophilia. Its very strange you seem to be so against bigotry in other threads but have a soft spot for this particular sex pest.

So am I. Being neurodivergent doesn’t excuse making people feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your presence because of your comments about sex with children and inappropriate behavior toward women.

He was a large contributer to the open software movement. That’s fair. But there’s no need to idolize him or anyone else when there are plenty of other capable people who dont behave this way.

It literally links to his blog numerous times, but keep playing defense. It always makes the open source community look great to continue their associations with him.