Dark mode back in the day (XP/Vista era). I wanted to theme everything and have cool UI/visual features in a non-shady download-this-third-party-totally-safe-theme-engine-wink-wink way.

I’ll be honest, I did not expect to ever hear another person mention Foobar2000 ever again. And now to learn they have an android app!!! Hmm, may have to use that for a bit just for nostalgia sake.

I also use Vimeo for videos I can’t send directly to people or host my self. For example if I post a FreeCAD howto I put it there so I can link to it from comments and stuff and I know everyone will be able to play it. While it’s not open source, It’s really pretty great as an alternative platform with all the youtube like features and more (you can change your video title if you make a mistake for example).

I have a whole Linux machine with a bunch of displays, 16 cores, tons of memory, powerful GPU, and an internet connection. And I still have a TI-84Plus sitting on my desk which I use for all my calculator needs… It’s just easier.

Gamescope makes the experience a lot better with steam at least for me in swaywm. I experimented with running each game in gamescope using launch options but with gamescope’s mediocre support of the steam overlay some multiplayer invite stuff doesn’t work correctly. Running steam in bigpicture within gamescope pretty much solves all these issues and seems to improve performance too.

Cura is open source and has linux builds on their github https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/releases. Prusaslicer and basically all it’s forks also have Linux builds. I personally use FreeCAD for modelling but it’s not very popular amongst people who use Fusion360.

Rolling releases

Yep, this phrase is now broken for me. It’s all just turds rolling down hills from here on out. Thanks for that

What display manager do you use? There’s a very very short list of ones that support wayland sessions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Display_managers . And some of those don’t display themselves using wayland, they can only launch sessions.

Probably? Honestly I just read the sections of the docs that were relevant to what I needed and clicked buttons until things worked. Tutorials are dangerous because the moment they are published they are out of date, unless the author goes back and updates it regularly which is pretty rare, or impossible if it’s something like a youtube video.

Anyway it’s a GUI application with lots of tool tips and all that, it’s not difficult to use.

Bottles (https://usebottles.com/) is what you’re looking for, sandboxing is one of it’s primary features. It can use lutris prefixes too if you need them.

EDIT: It’s only sandboxed if you use the flatpak, just FYI.

So, there’s not a lot of information here, but on the off chance that your environment is exactly the same as mine (Desktop with on-board bluetooth controller) make sure your included “WiFi antenna” that came with the motherboard is plugged in. It’s also the bluetooth antenna and devices won’t connect if it’s not attached.

Otherwise, please provide more information, like hardware config, logs, installed packages, running services, etc.

A team is paid to make sure it’s accessible while blind, deaf, limited motion (and maybe that accessibility focus trickles down to benefit the average user too)

So, choosing to ignore all the factually inaccurate and low effort “it didn’t read my mind” claims in this post, this one really bothers me. Unified DEs like KDE Plasma and Gnome could absolutely do better here even without paid devs, and I wish they did.

I recently switched to sway and I use xeyes to “look” for applications that are not running natively. The eyes only look at applications running in xwayland when you mouse over them since they can only track the cursor there.

I use the unigine benchmarks sometimes. unigine-heaven and unigine-superposition (which btw is just cool to watch in my opinion). They provide linux packages here https://benchmark.unigine.com/ , check your distributions repos too though, some include these too though it’s rare. They are not open source, but games usually aren’t either.

The phoronix one that someone else posted also looks cool, I’ll have to try that one out next time I need something like this.

Because I don’t like things to be behind other things. And I feel like moving windows around is a waste of effort and time, and also requires using the mouse where I wouldn’t normally have to. Tiling windows and using workspaces to organize my work/play/attention works very well for me and helps keep my focus where I want it.

Also sway in particular, but other tiling window managers too, have better output management than standard DEs. If I’m on output 3 workspace 12 and I want to do something new, any new window I open stays on output 3 workspace 12. I have a lot of displays and not being surprised about where windows open is extremely helpful.

Start experimenting and break stuff. Set up some good backups and snapshots, learn how to use those well so you aren’t completely screwed when something is unrecoverable, and then go to town on all the experimental software you read about but haven’t tried. Breaking stuff will quickly make you proficient at the command line, and help you to understand how things work underneath your GUI.

And have fun!

xkb layout options are set in the sway configuration file in the input section: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/sway#Keymap

keepass (not xc) has a plugin for autotype. I have not tried it yet.

keepassxc seems reluctant to use this method and instead would prefer to push the work upstream https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/2281 .

Unfortunately keepassxc has backed themselves into a corner where the upstream fix referenced in that issue is closed, and they are unwilling to implement a workaround themselves. So it looks like it won’t be supported any time soon.

EDIT: Seems as though there may be a way to do this with xdg-desktop-portal in the near future. But the sentiment about cutting out the middleman only to need more middlemen seems to be accurate for that direction.

except unfortunately sway doesn’t actually support VRR the way it’s suppose to be used. Currently VRR is active until you make a window full screen, once a window is full screen VRR doesn’t work anymore. So pretty much exactly backwards from how it’s suppose to work.

Hyprland does VRR right but it has several other issues that make sway the better choice for now, just with VRR disabled.