Be it for economic reasons, be it for any other reason this is really good news! Kudos to Greece and to all Greek people. My country, Italy, is still below 1% as of June 2023 according to statcounter so there’s still a lot of work to do! Seeing Linux as an option to bring back to life second hand or old hardware, preventing wastes and promoting circular economy is an idea I really like.
You don’t have to redownload all your games. I just switched to the flatpak this past month, here’s what I did:
Leave steam installed natively, install the flatpak alongside it, using flatpak steam, open the root of the library folder (should be steamapps), then find the corresponding folder from the native install and recursively hardlink all the files from the native install’s steamapps folder to the flatpak’s steamapps folder. Quit steam and reopen and all your games should be detected.
It’ll need to “update” basically all of them for at least a second to verify the files and it might need to re-process Vulkan shaders, but that’s it.
how do I hardlink files? I’ve been using linux for a few years but I’ve never really used links before for files. This seems to be the best strategy because everything else hasn’t worked so far
cp is the copy paste CLI tool. -l flag tells it to make a hard link instead of a second copy of the data itself on the disk. The -r flag tells it to recurse, so “do this copy operation on everything in every folder under the top level directory I hand you to copy”
Thanks for this! I ended up fixing the local steam install (ended up being a network manager problem with steam) but I’ll keep this in mind because I’ll probably want to switch to the flatpak version in the future anyway
Nvidia GPU I’m assuming? Make sure nvidia (or nvidia-dkms), nvidia-utils and lib32-nvidia-utils have the same version and are up to date. This issue is listed in the Arch Wiki see if it’s helpful for you.
Did you check if you have any conflicting libraries?
You can also try replacing the steam folder with the one on your laptop. If that doesn’t work it’s a problem with the OS on your PC. If you can’t trace it back you might want to reinstall the distro. Just back up your files
Apparently it was a problem with their network manager library, installing lib32-libnm ended up fixing it for me. (I’m assuming my laptop already had that installed as a dependency for something else or as part of the default KDE install)
Oh. Can you launch games using the commandline? I don’t know how this works but I was having same issue with Nvidia and I launched a game with command line and it started working. It probably was a coincidence but it’s worth trying I guess.
It’s not uncommon. The main use is running the powerful GPU only in games and such, while using the other one the rest of the time, to reduce power consumption, heat and noise.
I play on Linux from time to time. (With my desktop which has AMD hardware and with the steam deck)
Desktop performance in Linux is like 80-90% of windows performance on AAA games that are DX12 based. So if the hardware is overkill for the game I play it on Linux. If the hardware is not enough (for 1440p 144 FPS my limit) I play it on windows.
Not 100%, but I’m not a BIOS/GRUB expert. When I restart my computer my options are currently either do nothing and let it automatically boot to Win10, or go to BIOS and manually select Linux. Manually selecting Linux takes me to the GRUB screen, which doesn’t appear at all when the computer boots to Win10. Does that information help?
I give you 3 options and you google them and choose the one which suits you the best. 1. Change the boot order in your bios (Mint drive first) 2. Install package ‘os-prober’ and then update-grub (Win10 will appear in Grub) 3. Install rEFInd to replace Grub and choose everytime which OS you want to boot (set timeout by yourself). Warning: theming the rEFInd is known to be addictive.
Setting a BIOS/UEFI password might help (But doesn’t always). If that does not work on your computer, you could try replacing the windows bootloader with grub as the default bootloader in a weird windows menu. (I don’t remember exactly how I did it. You should search for something like that on the internet.)
Windows doesn’t change your boot order AFAIK, are you sure you’re not just selecting the temporary boot order in the BIOS? Make sure you’re changing the boot order and then saving the changes.
I don’t think I am, there shouldn’t be any temp ones. There are two options in bios, Windows bootloader and Linux Mint (listed as ubuntu). Win10 is on the top of the stack. I rearrange them to put linux on top, but when I hit save and exit it tells me no changes have been made. The Asus manual was not helpful, so it’s possible I’m missing something, just can’t figure out what.
The sources.list contains a list of the sources that can be used for the installation and update of software packages. If you installed your Debian Linux distribution from a CD/DVD at some point, or maybe just by default if there is a CD/DVD player in your PC, an entry will have been added to the sources.list file corresponding to the mount point of the installation CD/DVD. Usually you can deactivate this entry after the initial installation, as I suppose that you further installs and updates will be from network sources. The full path to the location of the file is /etc/apt/sources.list. You can edit the file in a text editor, but as a newbie it is probably easier and safer to do that via your graphical update/package manager. Have fun discovering Linux.
Tax really is a good word for it. When you basically have a monopoly on or just act as gatekeeper to something and there is no market and no real competition the fee and profits you are making is basically taxation.
OSs kinda also act like natural monopolies because of software compatibility. People tend to gravitate towards the option that has most software support for ease of use. Windows should either be taken over by taken over by international bodies to be handled as global commons (of which I seen never happening) or it should be replaced with a open OS like Linux. Same could be said with social media, because it’s equally retarded to have the agoras used by the public as a profiteering tool for capitalists who abuse their power and leech from their monopoly, when the user base is the only thing that gives a platform any value.
Add digital identification and payment to that list. As society is going cash-less we’ve got to depend on privately owned proprietary software to do shopping, banking, taxes, to use public transport, and to access healthcare. There are a few different companies providing digital IDs here, but none of them have a client that runs on Linux. Their mobile apps require either an iPhone or Android with Google Play Services.
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