Haptics feel like enough, because proper rumble motors take a lot of space, spend more battery, and actually shake the whole device which is not desirable in a handheld device

I’d tell you… if I had it!

HDR

int unused_variable = 0;

Dude wtf is your problem don’t just leave things lying about there don’t you know how to code I mean what the- I don’t go to your house and leave shit on the floor and just—

int _unused_variable = 0;

Ok. We cool.

Does it use systemd-boot by default?

Customization doesn’t break as often, and you opt out of features already built in, rather than installing third party extensions that might bug out with every update.

You feel like you can change KDE to your workflow, rather than feel the DE force you into a specific way of working.

Please pick a rolling distro with KDE Plasma. I would recommend Endeavour OS.

A rolling distro is the most similar thing to keeping a Windows installation in terms of updates if you don’t change the big version. You get constant updates, sure, but it’s also really more compatible because software is not frozen until the next OS release.

In contrast, a standard release distro is more akin to macOS. You install the OS, but every X (6? 9? 12?) months, you must upgrade to the next big thing. This presents 2 problems IMHO: you have to wait that long for updates you might need, and the upgrade might break a lot of things.

And KDE is a Desktop Environment. This is the look and feel of the desktop. In my experience, I tried Gnome, Cinnamon, and XFCE, thinking they might be more aligned with the FOSS philosophy. Then I tried KDE because I bought a Steam Deck, and I immediatly loved it and haven’t looked back. It’s that good.

Started using Kona Ike dice it’s what came by default with KDE. Tried kitty, alacritty, foot (I think that was the name, on Wayland) and iterm2 on Mac… and came back to konsole in KDE and terminal.app in Mac.

Truth is I just need a simple terminal. Kitty and Alacritty and other terminals continuously had me in that’s-not-the-right-way, configuring terminal colors through ssh, or tmux compatability (kitty even says that you shouldn’t use tmux, and screen splitting should be done at the terminal, not in the server).

At the end of the day, I use whatever is installed where I work. So far, all “default” terminals seem to be enough.

Great article! Deserves its own post

I really wish the devs copied the controller scheme from the PlayStation version into the steam version.

TIL, thanks!

Game mode uses gamescope, not Wayland.

We’re still waiting for wine and gamescope to be fully wayland compatible.