I never would've considered myself excited considering the variety of perfectly serviceable controllers I already own, but the fact that the Steam Controller won't work for any game not launched from Steam itself dampens any enthusiasm I might've had for it.

Steam is too limited as an external game launcher and I frequently enjoy the added functions of the others that I run. Until recently that was Lutris. These days it's Heroic Games Launcher. A controller that won't work with those is worth significantly less to me.

#steam #steamcontroller #lutris #heroicgameslauncher

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@CachyOS/116194640337409195

Looking forward to checking out the new installer changes.

Some standouts in the changelog to me:
1. "chwd: Decreased the initramfs size massively for NVIDIA dGPU configurations"
This is very good because the large initramfs sizes were becoming an issue for some Nvidia users' boot partitions if they used bootable snapshots.

2. "cachyos-settings: Added support to automatically set the wireless regulatory domain based on timezone"
Long overdue installation feature. Had many forum support requests for slow wifi speeds based on this.

3. "cachyos-settings: cachyos-bugreport.sh now redacts IP, username, hostname, and MAC address"
The bug report script is a huge help for helping people with their issues and this should help in getting more people to utilize it.

#CachyOS #Nvidia #linux #openSource

I won't be sticking around for this. Time to start looking for alternative channels for getting updates to some projects I follow.

Will suck losing contact with some of the people that grin and bear it, but that's the choice we make.

A lot of what I use Discord for could just as easily be done here on the fediverse, so this could end up being a good thing. I suppose I'm not all that optimistic about that happening though.

@arstechnica https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116042368443566122

I really liked Doom 3 when I was younger. Of course, I couldn't play it for extended periods of time because it fried my scaredy cat nerves, but I liked it nonetheless.

Jump scare survival horror was still fresh to me, and my first PC games were Doom and Hexen. So I guess the combination just worked for me.

It runs perfectly on my CachyOS desktop, but I'm starting to feel dumb for making note of that because I haven't encountered any games yet that don't. Incredibly weird timeline.

#Doom3 #Doom #idsoftware #LinuxGaming #CachyOS #pcgaming #videogames

It's been a week now since CachyOS released their latest install media, and in that time I've seen a bit of misinformation going on within the reporting for it.

I've been seeing stuff along the lines of "The latest distro to dump X11", which isn't true. All that's been changed on that front is the install media's live environment has been switched over to Wayland. Once you exit and boot into the newly installed system, the effects of that change are over.

And that's not how it works anyway. The display server, whether Wayland or X11, is determined by the desktop environment not the distribution. It's a common mistake people make because, typically, only a single desktop environment is supported so it's easy to conflate the requirements of one with the other.

This is clearly not the case with CachyOS, which provides the option to install 18 different DEs or window managers. Most are Wayland centric, but X11 entries, like Cinnamon and Xfce, still exist for the time being(some are in the process of converting to Wayland).

Not that this kind of reporting is all that surprising. The Wayland/X11 discussion is one that has long been mined for controversy clicks. Mentioning that some entity is dropping X11 is bound to earn a few extra dollars in ad revenue thanks to the hard-work of polarized tech evangelists.

#CachyOS #Wayland #x11 #Linux #OpenSource

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@CachyOS/115951326453385449

Really important update for #cachyOS here. The installer has felt like it's been lagging behind the distro's changes for a couple releases now.

Improvements to the bootloader selection process, including setting Limine as the default, is an enormous improvement to the onboarding process for new users. systemd-boot is basic and bare and that's great, but I think an advanced user is more able to identify what they DON'T need in a bootloader which made it a bad default.

Cleaning up the default package installations for #gnome and #niri is a big help. They were both outdated and messy, especially Niri. Another win for newer users here, since the default state of their environment is a lot less likely to be tinkered with.

I really like completely adopting #noctaliashell for CachyOS's Niri installations. I've been experimenting with it and have found it to be well conceived and often a more polished experience than even what the biggest desktop environments offer.

I'd like the option to auto-install Noctalia for CachyOS #hyprland as well. I imagine that it's on the table but probably requires a maintainer.

Will likely be refreshing my #CachyOS #Hyprland install again soon because I'm a sucker for tabula rasa and I'd like to start fresh when I switch to #noctaliashell.

One thing I'd also like to change is finally ditching SDDM. Still looking at all of the options, but nothing is really jumping off the page at me yet. Would love some suggestions for good display managers that pair well with wayland compositors.

What in the world is up with this lopsided dead zone at the top of the app drawer in the latest #android update? And since I never use it, I'd include the search box in that zone.

If I want to reclaim this wasted space is my only choice a third party launcher? #grapheneos #pixel9a #aosp