Doesn’t seem like a bad idea but Steam Deck + Xreal Air is what I would (and did) choose over something like that. That way I have the option of using the glasses but they’re not strictly necessary.
Also the 8840HS makes the same mistake as other handhelds with almost zero regard to battery life.
I don’t use flatpak but I didn’t have to configure Lutris or Steam in any way for that.
If you look around goverlay you’ll find that there are two ENVs that you can set up in X/wayland service to have MangoHud automatically in every context it can render in.
So first try running with MANGOHUD=1 env exported. If that doesn’t help, try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MangoHud.
If I understand correctly, flatpack run in some kind of container, so it’s possible that you might need to set the env or the command, so it happens inside the container
I tried to play Vermintide 2 on Linux after Windows kept giving me issues, but I couldn’t get the Easy Anti-Cheat to stop freaking out about me playing on Linux.
I never found a fix for it, has that changed or is it just luck?
For spot checks I just run sensors or watch sensors. sar -m TEMP | grep amdgpu when I want to see history (needs the sysstat cronjob configured to collect sensors data).
I agree with your review. I’ve been using Linux since Slack in the mid 90’s and I switched over most of my machines to Elementary. An Alienware with 3090, Airbus laptop with 1080, and a Lenovo with an AMD 550.
Except for NVidia proprietary drivers:
Fastest OS install. I want to play games, not wait for an OS to install and give me 50 pedantic options to step through.
Boots very fast, shuts down just as fast.
Fast Sleep and wake up every time on desktop and laptop. WiFi works, video normal
Clean, stable, consistent GUI that doesn’t do weird things
Bluetooth and audio worked great with no fuss.
As you mentioned, Flatseal is a must. However, I use AppImages as much as possible. I get the security benefit of flatpaks, but all this sandboxing and containerizing creates too many problems with apps that need to communicate with one another, and accessing my files was a serious PITA because of permission issues that needed to be corrected. There are no permission issues with AppImage, but security benefits aren’t there either. However, both work wonderfully with Elementary.
Use AppImageLauncher to automatically create your Application menu items
Heroic Games Launcher was written by wonderful humans!
Cyberpunk won’t work, need to dualboot to Windows. But many windows games work well.
Now, about NVidia: The proprietary driver takes all the horrible fiddling Linux has a reputation for, but reality, is that NVidia drivers are closed source and AMD works with the community. OOTB experience with AMD is flawless.
3090 came up and everything was green, a problem with the Nouveau driver.
1080 everything looked ok
Ran the install, installed the kernel headers, the dev/build packages, mucked around a bit and it works great. However, every time there is a new kernel, the new linux headers and Nvidia module aren’t automatically installed and compiled so it boots to the command line. I know how to manually install them and get back and running, but I haven’t figured out what the problem is yet. Never ran into this on Ubuntu, Fedora or RHEL before.
Kernel & Wayland versions matter. Elementary ships older versions than SteamOS and Nobara. I don’t know how far behind if at all is EOS in relation to Debian 12.
Every GUI tool just uses the data from lm_sensors, so you’ll need to install that and have it identify the installed hardware sensors in your computer. After that, you can choose from a variety of GUI front ends; here is the Arch Wiki page with a list of common and popular GUI tools for this purpose.
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