Why not just use a VM?

and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou.

This is correct, but as an addendum, for a lot of very old games (that don’t fall into that previous category), it’s usually easier to get them working under Linux than it is under Windows. Go figure.

I’m running Manjaro and I was having this exact problem for several weeks, up until about two weeks ago when a new update fixed everything. I would just not worth about it until your next major OS update.

To our valued Linux users:

Fuck you.

Sincerely,

The LightBurn Software Team

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You can’t steal something you already own. Just download an unencrypted copy. There is nothing morally questionable about that.

Been dealing with this for years. It doesn’t get better.

I have no clue how the original Mad Max made it out of Australia, let alone spawn a minor cinematic universe…

Why would it increase your energy bill?

Thanks for letting me know! I really wanted to look at the UI when I realized what I was looking at, at the park, but I didn’t want to bother the employee. I appreciate that I got to see it in that video now

That is definitely your Windows bias haunting you. Package managers are the way to get software on your Linux distro. Going straight to the source has it’s place, but for 95% of use cases, you should be using your package manager.

One of the beautiful things about Linux is it’s versatility. Many people want to use their hardware for things other than gaming. For instance, I saw a Steam Deck at Disneyland being used to operate “autonomous” robots in Star Wars Land.

For me, I have been doing the vast majority of my gaming on my Steam Deck ever since I got it, however, recently, I was wanting to do some programming work while I was out and about, and was running into a lot of road blocks trying to do it on my Steam Deck. They can be overcome, but I found myself thinking about how much easier it would be to do my work on it, if it had a different distribution installed.

The Steam Deck is a consumer appliance, and as such has reasonable safeguards in place to protect users from themselves. Some users want to go beyond what’s available out of the box, and I imagine that freedom is what motivates most people to put other operating systems on their device.

No problem.

I actually just learned this lesson recently (in the last week). I have a NAS that I use for my PCs, and it also stores my media collection for Plex, it was natively sitting on the same network as my PCs, as that’s where I was most concerned about network speed. I was having it cross VLANs for the Plex stuff, and it was only when I got a Ubiquiti switch that I noticed that traffic was hitting the router when crossing the VLANs but not when the two subnets were the same.

I’m happy that my hard knock lesson can help someone avoid that same mistake.

I do worry that if I do get them I might hammer my router since the traffic streams will have to be routed between VLANs.

The key here is to not route traffic across VLANs. Choose one VLAN to host all your network video content (IP cameras and NVR). This way, since all traffic is on the same subnet, all the network traversal can happen on the switch (even layer 2 switches) and not need to ever touch the router.

Also, if you suspect there will be a decent amount of network traffic that needs to cross VLANs, it’s usually best to add an additional network interface that’s connected to the correct subnet. That way traffic can avoid the router.