“Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs.”
I use Arch through EndeavourOS. It takes a bit of setup but it’ll do what you need. It can get complicated and it easily breaks, but that’s what you get when you go cutting edge with Arch.
Alternatively you can look at pre-configured gaming distros like Nobara which I believe is based on Fedora, which is a very well supported distro in general. Nobara’s stated goal is to be a streamlined distro for point-and-click users that includes 3rd party drivers off the rip.
If you’re using a LTS release then you should be aware that many of the programs in the repository will only get bug-fixes and security updates until the next LTS is out. You can get around this by using the Flatpak versions of those programs instead of the distribution’s versions.
If you’re using a LTS release then you should be aware that many of the programs in the repository will only get bug-fixes and security updates until the next LTS is out.
Nonsense. Long-term support (LTS) generally lasts until either a predetermined date or until multiple subsequent releases are out. I don’t know of any that stop when the next LTS release arrives, but if such a distro exists, it is atypical.
I don’t mean that the security updates will stop, I mean that you’ll only get security updates. If you want to get feature-updates between LTS releases you’ll need the Flatpak versions.
That’s cool! Do you know about any similar solution for KDE Plasma/Kwin by any chance? Also, would it be theoretically possible to save the process to some kind of swapfile on disk so it doesn’t take up space in RAM?
Afaik saving to swap isn’t possible as it’s something managed by the kernel, although you can try tweaking cgroups. Nyrna also mentions that this isn’t currently possible.
No, it uses hyprctl to get the pid of the current active window. Which compositor are you using? It might be possible to get the pid in a different way.
Haha, yes! Ctrl+Z sends a TSPT signal to a terminal process, while this script sends a STOP signal to every process in a game’s process tree. Both get resumed with a SIGCONT so they’re kinda similar.
On a similar note, has anyone tried the Audeze Maxwell on Linux? It has both 2.4ghz and I believe BT LC3 audio support, which Pipewire is starting to support too (although most people won’t have a BT adapter that supports it).
I tried running it with steamtinkerlaunch wich does open fenix.exe but it seems to crash as it immediately exits when i choose to run only custom command. The log of stl is of no help either
<span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - setRunProtonFromUseProton - Updating RUNPROTON for USEPROTON 'proton-unknown-999' from '/home/xxx/.steam/root/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- /home/xxx/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/proton' to '/home/xxx/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/proton'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - setRunProtonFromUseProton - Set RUNPROTON to '/home/xxx/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/proton'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - extProtonRun - Continuing with RUNPROTON='/home/xxx/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/proton'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - extProtonRun - No external program args here it seems
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - extProtonRun - Starting '/home/xxx/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/1250410/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/FenixSim A320/Fenix.exe' forked into the background
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - restoreOrgVars - Restoring previously cleared Variables
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - launchCustomProg - Changing pwd into previous directory
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - checkCustomLaunch - ONLY_CUSTOMCMD is set to 1 means only custom program '/home/xxx/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/1250410/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/FenixSim A320/Fenix.exe' is supposed to start - exiting here
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - checkCustomLaunch - ## CUSTOMCMD STOPPED after '1' seconds playtime
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - closeSTL - closing STL
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - updateConfigEntry - Emptying 'CUSTOMCMD' for '/home/xxx/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/default_template.conf'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - updateConfigEntry - Option 'CUSTOMCMD' is updated with the new value 'echo' in config 'default_template.conf'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - closeSTL - Creating '/dev/shm/steamtinkerlaunch/steamtinkerlaunch-closing.tmp'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - checkPlayTime - The game was not started via 'steamtinkerlaunch' but directly from Steam - skipping Crash Requester
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - closeSTL - Game 'Microsoft Flight Simulator (1250410)' exited - cleaning up custom processes if necessary
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:07 CEST 2023 INFO - closeTrayIcon - Closing TrayIcon '169695'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So 8. Okt 18:26:08 CEST 2023 INFO - closeSTL - Removing '/dev/shm/steamtinkerlaunch/steamtinkerlaunch-closing.tmp'
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The compositor has to support tearing too I believe (I’m not sure all of the main 3 do, and e.g. wlroots only very recently got most/all of the pieces and I’m not sure sway supports controlling it) and will probably be where the option is exposed. And this is specifically about XWayland, where the support is even more recent. So I wouldn’t necessarily expect it to work yet, but maybe Plasma is ahead of things here.
Iirc the dev who largely pushed this tearing proposal implemented it first on KDE. First as a proof of concept and for a while it’s been merged upstream.
It is a huge database for all games available on steam. So far, no one has made any reviews, but if you get it working, please write there how (you can include --start-options, drivers, distro etc.). Even if it is not working, write that and what you tried already. This way other people can spend more time on trying to get it working without doing the same steps all over again.
Also, it might be worth checking out in a few days when more people have added their workarounds and comments. Usually, this takes 1-2 weeks.
Hey, so the game is installed and I just played through some of the demo. And I posted on ProtonDB but it seems the post will take some time before it appears there. Cheers!
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