Yeah, linux-servers without the tools installed in your PC are a hassle. That’s why I learned to work with vim, as that’s in nearly every distro’s repo.
I recommended atuin as I was using it before, but currently I am using ohmyzsh with the fzf plugin for zsh. This has a very atuin-like interface and handling, but as a plugin for zsh itself.
I also grew up with the first gameboy, nes and n64. But nowadays, especially for something like helldivers 2, the bare minimum for me is a constant 60fps.
I was wondering because I tried to play Outward split screen on my friend’s TV and, even turning resolution and graphics way down, the Deck barely got to 40 FPS.
You play Helldivers 2 on the deck? What’s the performance like? I imagine, especially at higher level dificulties, the Deck must be struggling.
Degrees of Seperation - 2D puzzler with wonderful scenes and visuals
Heavenly Bodies - 2D puzzler about astronauts and 0 gravity environments
Unrailed - isometric 3D. A train starts driving and you need to gather resources and build tracks etc.
Wobbly Life - 3D fun game, no real objective, just many quests and activities throughout the world
Saved! Thank you so much.
I’ve used Linux full-time since late 2020 and I never knew about ctrl+y and ctrl+u.
I’d also like to contribute some knowledge.
aliases
You can put these into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc or whatever shell you use.
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### ls aliases
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# ls = colors
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
# ll = ls + human readable file sizes
alias ll='ls -lh --color=auto'
# lla = ll + show hidden files and folders
alias lla='ls -lah --color=auto'
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### other aliases
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# set color for different commands
alias diff='diff --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ip='ip --color=auto'
# my favourite way of navigating to a far-off folder
# this scans my home folder and presents me with a list of
# fuzzy-searchable folders
# you need fzf and fd installed for this alias to work
alias cdd='cd "$(sudo fd -t d . ${HOME} | fzf)"'
recommendations
ncdu - a shell-based tool to analyze disk usage, think GNOME’s baobab or KDE’s filelight but in the terminal
zellij - tmux but easy and with nice colors
atuin - shell history but good, fuzzy-searchable. If you still have the basic shell history (when pressing ctrl+r), I cannot recommend this enough.
ranger - a terminal file-browser (does everything I need and way more)
Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but why not update via stamdeck UI? You can change the “stable” branch in your steamos update settings page to “beta” or “preview”.
Yes it is. Though after using arch for a few years, I miss the abundance of packages.
If a package wasn’t in the official arch repos, it was probably in the AUR. If you use arch, you don’t need other package managers like homebrew on linux.
The first one I saw was Debian 3.1 (Sarge). I was in school and our objective this time was installing debian + getting a working Xorg session. Never heard of Linux before, didn’t get a working Xorg session, but wow man, there’s something other than Windows and MacOS. I couldn’t have imagined.
The first one I actually used on a desktop (laptop for school, in that case) was Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).
I’ve tried oh so many different linux distributions over the years, I probably forgot most of them. Maybe some don’t even exist anymore. My goal was always Arch Linux, having seen it on a schoolmates laptop. I really fell for the “here’s a pretty minimum base, do whatever” thing.
In the end, I exclusively used Arch from 2020 until this year. Actually using Arch and reading the ArchWiki were probably what taught me most of what I know about linux in general and how things work.
I’ve been searching for a less DIY-solution which is still up-to-date (especially with kernels and mesa) and I landed on Fedora Workstation, which is what I’m currently using on my work latpop and desktop at home. I do miss some things from Arch, but Fedora has been pretty good to me and I, for the meantime, intend to stay here.
Yeah, I do daily VM-backups which include all of the data on syncthing. No matter what you have, you always gotta have a good backup-strategy.
I use syncthing for some of my “can-never-lose-these” files. syncthing synchronizes files between different devices. This is not an online-file-hosting thing like Google Drive or OneDrive. These files are physically present on all synchronized devices.
My server is the “main” (you can make everyone equal) syncthing every other syncthing connects to. With an established connection, files will be synchronized on participating devices. AFAIK, syncthing is compatible with Windows, Android and Linux.
This way, my important files are on my server, my smartphone, my PC and my laptop and every single one of these devices must simultaniously explode for me to lose my data. Also, it’s on docker hub
pi-hole is another great one. Local adblocker for the whole network, just set it as your DNS server or let the DHCP server propagate this DNS server to your clients. This too is on docker hub
You’re welcome, I’m glad to spread the old-school pre-internet local couch coop fun :)
My personal favourites are
MageQuit
This is the most addicting of all the played games. I bought this with a “fun little magic-based pvp-only game for now and then” mindest. I thought “super smash brothers but magic”. I started playing it with my friend on his TV “just for an hour” and suddenly, it was dark outside and time to go home.
The next meeting we planned on playing MageQuit for a round or two and then move on to one of the other, yet unplayed, games. The moving on part never happened, MageQuit was just too much fun.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
This is the game for the whole family. You (up to 4 players) are in a spaceship. The spaceship has different buttons and levers in different places to control different things like acceleration, changing direction, aiming / firing weapon, directing partial shield or countermeasure etc. and you need to rescue your bunny-friends.
They are scattered around the levels, sometimes hidden, sometimes locked up, sometimes guarded etc and you need to work together with your teammates to direct the spaceship. You get quite a few different weapons and shields / countermeasures, which can also be combined, you upgrades for the ship, can buy different ships etc.
It looks and sounds adorable, but if you don’t work together, it’s way harder then it looks. This is a game with a campaign and story.
Regular Human Basketball
Think basketball, but stupid and fun. The regular humans are actually motionless robots which need to be moved by using switches and levers inside it, which is what your job is. You even have a jet-boost at some parts of your regular-human body. We laughed our asses off.
It is similar to Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in the sense that, you need to work together to control a bigger machine. This is just a pvp only game, no story or campaign.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Race each other to the finish of an obstacle course. After each round, everyone picks a new obstacle to place and expands the course. Seldomly have I ever seen such bullshittery as my friends and me created in this game and then had to go through.
I always search steam sales for local multiplayer games. I have not tested all of these yet, so I’m going to categorize them here.
Games I already played with someone (e.g. “tested”)
Games for future play sessions (not yet tested)
Have fun :)
Yes, TUIs definitely help reduce possible stress and fear of complexity for new users.
Thanks for the git link, didn’t know that, just starred it :)