Nier’s chaos language

M26. I feel old as shit and it’s only gonna get worse. A lot of it is your attitude and environment, something i’m struggling with rn. You can still be young in your 60ies if you have wonderful people surrounding you.

Why are you me. Thats so fucked that I’m not the only one feeling like this. No one should feel like this. Yet here we are. The only thing keeping me going is seeing new games or anime that make me excited enough to wait for them to come out. If that ever stops ho boy am I fucked. But everything in between fucking suuuucks. Hope you find a way out of this hole. Maybe share it with the rest of the class once you’re out.

• EndeavourOS is arch based with less hassle. Its more than good enough for most people. don’t get trapped by minimal install bs and other non-consequential opinionative approaches to software.
• Select btrfs as your file system and use timeshift. If you fuck up or if your updates fuck something up. There are other ways of doing rollbacks and this is just what I became familiar with. I’ve used it two times in the past year, its worth it.
• Bookmark the archwiki, 99% of the time the answer to the questions of ‘how to’ and ‘can i’ are in there
• There are multiple DE’s. Pick what works best for you before you toss that bootable USB installer. You of course can switch later down the line, but experimenting now will save you config troubleshooting later, just stick to what feels/looks best. Look around on the web to see what appeals to your workflow. There are others like Cosmic and Wayland that are not included in the arch gui installer, in which case, follow the install procedures for the DE you want and remove the old ones to avoid config overlap.
• Have Fun. If you are not, do something that is.

Where to, if you don’t mind

I only started the free trial recently, 100 or so hours in. I’m somewhere before the ultima weapon fight. It’s currently on pause because other games took over my life.

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aw, alright then.

What about protontricks

So a bit of google later, it looks like I need to install gst-libav but a sudo pacman -S gst-libav fails because Read-only file system

Raytracing performance. Though once I get my fill of cyberpunk that will fade.

The ease of being able to bork stuff when installing packages. I’ve borked my ability to run games through proton in some way. Between installing native and runtime Steam, and installing Waydroid and its kernel extensions I’ve made games not work where they are just fine on my Steam Deck. Now I gotta reinstall which kind of sucks and I don’t have time for it.

Another tip off. During large downloads nothing else except the process doing the downloading works. I don’t get it. Technically the network works but only for that one app. It’s like something locks for some reason?

Yeah, there is a good chunk to make it feel about the same

Looks promising, I’ll check it out!

netmon logs - https://pastebin.com/wKZrV04Y demsg - https://pastebin.com/3rAPcAve

So I pretty much can narrow it down to Steam. If I download stuff and let it go zoom with uncapped rate, it crashes. I pause the download for a bit and it eventually recovers. Wild.

Yep, got into wayland and there it was! Thanks bunches.

The sentiment here seems to be to let Manjaro be and distro hop. I don’t have any distro preference outside of a rolling release and a good out of box experience. My understanding is that with a rolling release, I get the most up-to-date I can be without fuffing about with kernel updates manually.

Ty for the tips! Makes sense that a lot of those Radeon settings are default. I did mainly have a slight underclock on the GPU and a minor auto bump on the CPU after tweaking the curve optimizer to -15.

I’ll do more digging with the network thing when I’m at my PC and update as I go.

How do I set display scaling below 100%? That was the instinct but there is only a slider and it doesn’t go below 100%, some googling got me some xrand commands for making a 1440p profile but that ends up with an out-of-range message on the monitor.

With the gamescope util, the %command% would be the path to the game exe/bin that’s usually there?

I did end up finding things like snapping from Powertoys which was my biggest thing now looking for shortcuts for them. Think the other is finding a run menu, I’ve heard there are some just need to find one.

For Wayland vs X, I’m not sure what this version is running but I’m hoping I don’t have to think about that much. The main usage is just games which I got working in an hour tinkering and occasional vscode/ium and Arduino IDE. Still need to tinker with making xprog work or finding an alternative that works with that USB programmer.

Speaking of games, is it possible for Steam to consolidate its sandboxes? I imagine having so many redundant copies of mfc140 and other DLLs would be eating at the space? There also seem to be some effects missing, namely, Bloom. It seems to have issues rendering in comparison to Windows, is this a case of missing DLLs or just the proton layer not translating them yet?

Thank you so much for your time and info, I’m quite excited about making this all work!

I’ve had a good experience with it the couple of times I used it in the past. I tried Rhino before eventually settling on manjaro as I quite like rolling updates, makes it simple for my monkey brain.