I have almost none of those issues. CachyOS on two desktops. One is AMD CPU/Nvidia GPU, the other is Intel CPU/AMD GPU. Both KDE. I only use Steam native so far. 8bitdo Pro 2 controllers /w USB Wi-Fi 2.4Ghz dongles.

Occasionally a game hangs, but only about often as I had it happen on Windows.

The main problem I’m having is broken video playback on Store pages with their updated wide media player. Turns hardware acceleration on/off doesn’t fix it.

From what I understand which isn’t much: Faugus gave me the impression it’s using that Debian based Steam runtime and makes it sound like Lutris, Bottles, etc don’t even if you’re using Proton. Does it matter? You tell me.

In practice I’ve not noticed any difference when I tested it out on a couple games to experiment. I don’t use Faugus because Gamescope doesn’t work yet according (last read a couple months ago) to their github page. If the old projects are dying then whatever. I’ll use Faugus Launcher when it’s actually ready.

I liked the GUI so far anyways so I won’t be upset if I have to switch.

etc/fstab is my hint.

Basically I had to make a folder in mnt and then add this upcoming line manually. Fun fact! It doesn’t like spaces, thus 040POOL. Idk why but an underscore didn’t work either. I didn’t know this at first and wanted to slam my face into my keyboard by the time I got it working.

Confirm it works with terminal command:

sudo mount -a

Then reboot and see if it automounted:

mount | grep nas

“nas” is whatever you called the mnt subdirectory you created.

This is a very fucking stupid process vs right clicking a folder on my NAS in Windows and mapping a network drive so it gets a storage device letter. However, it’s fun to rant about.

As a noob there were four things that sucked worse than Windows so far:

Properly mounting a NAS so file pickers in programs don’t shit themselves or refuse to see it. There’s no GUI feature even in KDE for this task. Should not be like this modern day. Mounting anything properly is annoying here.

Whatever the fuck KDE Wallet is doing prompting me for a password to mount a secondary SSD every login despite trying to make it not do that with guides. On going.

Learning about .pacnew files in etc, but meld thankfully takes the edge off dealing with diff.

Getting gud with all the gaming tools and compatibility tools to the point I’m proficient enough to mod most games again.

Not bad, all things considered. You’re right that it’s harder OS overall to learn. Still, I’d say I broke stuff on Linux about as often as I did bending Windows 9x and XP to my will growing up. Managed to make SDDM not start automatically by mistake dealing with .pacnew my first time.

To do: go through restoring one of CachyOS’s system recovery snapshots even tho nothing is broken currently so I actually know how if/when I really need to.

😅 it felt like someone would likely ask!

Not every project works out and he seems to behave like they weren’t so fair enough. He did put out three shitty card games on Steam and that NIER mobile gacha game, so it’s not like he’s incapable of making stinkers too.

wtf are you talking about?

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/30738/Voice_of_Cards_Trilogy/

Well they got me at least for a Steam Controller.

I was worried they downgraded the VR controllers but the webpage says “Capacitive finger tracking” so idk I guess they just found a way to get rid of the brittle plastic rings from Knuckles?

Should’ve announced a new flagship VR game along side this IMO.

Damn and here I was thinking the Dorito Pope had integrity.

Blessed be, Do The Dew.

This might end up in front of a judge again.

EA saying that line for years about stuff they buy and ran into the ground makes this pretty amusing.

If the 70’s idea is more grounded with the apathetic humor mixed in like 2 then I’m mildly interested.

He’s referring to the first game though which really is a just okay when it came out budget GTA clone.

Windows is not fully compliant with the NTFS specs

What the fuck? Insane trivia to learn about now.

Thanks for the follow-ups, very useful. The only feature of my displays I’ve not looked into yet is getting VRR working now.

Edit: I wishlist Dorfromantik too :p

Thank you, good to have Wabbajack access on Linux.

I made extensive use of reWASD for a few games in the past. I’ll miss that program occasionally haha. AntiMicroX is probably the best sort of alternative yeah?

IMO, the best and quickest way to determine what I actually want to use and to learn rapidly is by using everything I can find and then tossing the redundants.

Faugus is just a GUI front end of umu launcher which is only CLI.

I pirate games and also own a lot of old games on disc so I can’t only use Heroic/Steam.

Extremely useful comment thank you!

try fucking figuring out which steam workshop mod is which

You can’t make me!

Thanks for the PINCE link!

One idea but it’s paid software and the compatibility list doesn’t give me a lot of confidence: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/?name=adobe%3BcurPos%3D100

Instead I think you’d be using QEMU/KVM still and then Virt Manager for a macOS VM. Longer process, have not attempted myself. Same issue with needing GPU acceleration: Need to set up a GPU Passthrough. Similar problem sans dual booting being viable.

high-jacking your post

I don’t care, this thread is to vacuum up scattered knowledge pretty much. There’s no complete guide to any of this anywhere that I know of so I’m already learning of a bunch of new programs to use here to make my life easier.

Nice, I was just reading about using Optiscaler 's fakenvapi for spoofing DLSS support to inject FSR4 for Expedition 33 on my Radeon card. Extremely useful.