#SteamOS official

[steamos-official]

So I've been calling this the only blog that's cis, only to find out that SteamOS is the most trans distro there could be

idk wheather this deserves a blog swap w/ someone else, a new pride flag, or my retirement

why didn't any of y'all tell me sooner?

[steamos-official]

Linux isn't really an alternative if it's what the problem is based on

Computers in schools used to be in a seperate computer lab room running windows

If you wanted you could break it or even write .swf and .bat

and you HAD to have used the OS's basic features if you even wanted games

There were so few web apps then, so you had to know how to save and open files

There were classes on how to use a computer

now we have laptops that are so locked down all you can do is browse the web

(the fact we could get here is the fault of managed systems like linux btw)

Computer skills are now "how can i play games/watch movies without the web filters blocking me"

And that's not good, that sounds dystopian

"at least we'se protecting kids from porn"

Yeah, keep telling yourself that, but that kid has a cell phone, and those web filters are not great at their job

"but at least we aren't giving the IT guys a bad day"

Every day is a bad day in IT

"but at least the school doesn't have to spend as much on computers"

Yeah, and that's because Google is bribing the school with these low prices so that these kids will buy a Chromebook as adults

That sounds like a conspiracy, and it almost is, but I was buying a laptop for my sister, and we were heavily considering a Chromebook

i don't see a conclusion or solution, but let's hope this doesn't/hasn't cause/caused any Major Issues™

Oh, wait this is a gimmick

Whatever happened to @chromeos-official?

The blog doesn't exist, but it must have to have been on my master post!

Oh well...

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[steamos-official]

Infighting is either why open source is so good or bad

For example

@x11-official mad because @wayland-official is trying to do better

@kde-official rightly thinks their interface is better than @gnome-de-official

@arch-officual and @debian-official are... the two main basies of all other distros

Anyways, I don't know how to put 3 polls in one post, so just fight in the reblogs.

[yiffos-official]

I hate that i have to ask this

it is my duty

it is my curse

it is my self-imposed-requirement

do you want to be on the list (my pinned)?

((please say no)) ((you don't have to, but the list is bad enough already)) ((i will add you if you say yes)) ((i don't want to tho))

@steamos-official

arf arf woof arf awwwruffffffff (bark bark bark) arf arf :3 woof

(yes i do. i do not want to b on the bad side of whoever gave you the afformentioned curse (as i do not wish to be cursed myself) but pls add :3 to the description)

[steamos-official]

Hey all, steam here!

I have given up on my ability to maintain my master list.

Could I get some help developing its successor?

https://github.com/linuxblr/linuxblr.github.io

I'd @ some ppl here, but I have no idea what parties would even be interested.

[steamos-official]

Ah, my long lost eldest brother!

Linux on a PSP :3

[linux-real]

does Tumblr have groupchats it would be nice to have all the Linux blogs in a groupchat (otherwise, I'll make a Matrix chat)

re: @kde-official @nixos-official @raspbian-official @artix-linux-official @arch-official @ubuntu-official @uwuntu-official

and @steamos-official can you ping everyone I forgot

EDIT:

https://matrix.to/#/%23linux-tumblr:catgirl.cloud

[robynthelinuxuser]

Hey Linux girlies (and steamOS), its been a while because I genuinely forgot about this blog. Im mainly coming back bc I'm tired of distro hopping and want your opinions on what distro I should stick with. What I'm thinking of doing is taking your suggestions and making a poll to decide.

@steamos-official @manjaro-official @arch-official @tailsos-official

Im not going to tag all of you lmao

[steamos-official]

These are great tools

@hyprland-official and @i3-official will agree

also, shoutout to @neovim-official for supporting this fellow's workflow

there are currently no Mac related blogs I'm aware of

my question is whether there exist tilers for Windows (don't use win often but when I do it's better this way)

Window Managers are cool

So, I've been using Unix based Operating Systems (MacOS and Linux) for a while now but when I was just starting to use Linux there was a term that a lot of people were using and that was a "Tiling Window Manager".

What is a Tiling Window Manager?

Well, A Tiling window manager is a window manager that organizes windows into grids of tiles and not promote the overlapping of windows.

Why do you need it?

Tiling Window Managers are amazing at organizing windows and keeping in track with whatever tasks that are in-front of your face. Tiling Window Managers are also keyboard centric in which you can switch between windows with just your keyboard and as I am a Neovim user i use HJKL to breeze through the windows. Tiling Window Managers also have the feature of workspaces (desktops on MacOS) in which you can designate whatever stuff you have into different workspaces.

What Tiling Window Managers do I use?

On, Linux i use dwm and on MacOS i use yabai. dwm is an amazing Window Manager due to it being highly configurable, minimal and yet simple which fits my cozy zone. yabai is what i use for MacOS due to it being 1 of 2 Tiling Window Managers on MacOS (the other being Amethyst) but yabai is much more powerful and more configurable.

Final Thoughts

Tiling Window Managers are cool and you should give them a try :3

[minix-official]

Thinking about setting up a multi-user linux system for friends to ssh into and use as a kind of text based replacement for social media, instead of posts n stuff it'd all be file and email based

Thinking about it, it would probably be a good way to do file storage and sharing, just SCP files to /tmp

Would this be smth the linux-official community would be interested in?

Edit: the keyword is tildeverse or pubnixen

@manjaro-official @arch-official @steamos-official @debian-official

[gnome-de-official]

Anyone have ideas for another site we could run this speedrun community on? I guess neocities might work, so I’ll start doing some research into that. I could just make a website and host it myself, but I’d rather do it for free.

Any ideas for good medium to low maintenance ways to do this?

@steamos-official @passionateclown

[autolenaphilia]

I got a Steam Deck last year, and it’s such a great machine. It’s obviously inspired by Nintendo Switch, but it’s a lot better than a Switch.

The most important part is that it runs PC games. It’s fundamentally a Linux gaming PC in the form of a handheld console. There are a lot more games available than any console and and PC games both on Steam and GOG are a lot cheaper than console ones. You can get old or indie games for as cheap as 1-3 euro during sales. It’s a tremendous advantage for the deck over its console competitors.

And while the obvious intent of the deck is to get more people to buy games from Steam, it isn’t a walled garden at all. The deck launches into Steam when you boot it up, but you can go into desktop mode, and then it functions as a normal PC running a Linux distro. From there you can install Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher, and use it to easily install games you bought from GOG and Itch.io.

You can also do things like use the official dock or an unofficial usb-c hub to hook the deck up to a monitor, mouse and keyboard to use it as a desktop PC. Or you can hook it up to a tv to use it as home console.

The hardware is also a lot more powerful than a switch, the demanding triple-a games it can play is actually impressive. Although this comes with the natural disadvantage that it’s bulkier too. Putting more powerful PC parts demands more space for them. The deck is not something I bring with me outside. But then again I didn’t even do that with the 3DS, which was actually of a practical size to do that. The deck is portable enough that I can comfortably play lying in bed, which is how I always used my handheld consoles. So it’s perfect for me, but maybe not if you want to play it on the bus or something. It can probably be a fun addition to your luggage on longer trips though.

Of course, as mentioned, the Steam Deck uses Linux. This has both advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage is that it allows Valve to customize the operating system to make it fit with the machine it’s running on. The Deck’s SteamOS feels really well-integrated into the hardware, like how a proper console OS should be like. It’s not that dissimilar to how Sony used FreeBSD to make Playstation’s OS. Windows would not allow for this amount of customization and would not integrate as well.

And the open source nature of most Linux development allows Valve and the user to use existing open-source Linux software to their advantage. For example, the desktop mode is largely not a Valve creation, it’s an existing desktop environment for Linux, KDE Plasma. Yet it extends what the user can do with the deck to a great extent, like for installing non-steam games.

The main disadvantage to the Deck using Linux is that most PC games are built for Windows and don’t run natively under Linux. To run games built for Windows, the Deck has to run it through Proton, a compatibility layer which is Valve’s own gaming-focused version of Wine. Wine/Proton is far from perfect, sometimes games require extensive tinkering to work, or only run with serious issues, or don’t run at all, no matter what you do. Sometimes a game not working with Wine due to some random but serious issue that comes naturally from running a Windows executable on a Linux system via a compatibility layer. Sometimes it’s due to things like a multiplayer’s game anti-cheat system requiring access to the Windows kernel, and it will block a Linux pc from running the game because it has no Windows kernel.

This is however not as big a problem as it might otherwise be. Most games work, more or less. Valve has put a lot of work and money into both their own Proton and the Wine project as a whole, and they work a lot better than they did 10 years ago. Many run perfectly out of the box, because they are native, or play nice with Proton. Some require mere minor tinkering, like using a different version of Proton. And I generally don’t play multiplayer games, or if I do they don’t have draconian anti-cheats, so the games that are blocked because of anti-cheat are no big loss to me. The Steam Deck not running Fortnite is a plus in my book.

And we shouldn’t forget the Steam Deck verified system. Basically Valve employees check if the game runs out of the box with no issues on the Deck. They get a verified rating if they work with no issue, including both proton compatibility but also things like the controls working nice and the text being legible on the deck’s small screen. They also get a “playable” rating if the game runs to an acceptable standard but with tinkering required or other minor issues.

This is a good system. If you dislike tinkering, you can just buy and play games on steam with a verified rating, and the deck will work like a normal console for you, but with a lot cheaper games. It’s a good way to get people used to consoles into PC gaming, which is probably the point of the Deck.

And if you want more than deck verified games from Steam on the Deck, you are given the freedom to do it. I’ve gotten officially non-supported steam games to run on the deck by installing and using proton-GE and I’ve installed and played games from GOG.

The Steam Deck is really how a Linux PC for the common people should work. An easy and slick experience for casual users, but freedom and customization given to those that want it.

[steamos-official]

strength: Portable x86 Gaming

weakness: Kernel-Level anticheat

@arch-official @lfs-official @zorin-os-official @ubuntu-official

i wanna try to start a reblog chain so here goes

strengths and weaknesses, ill start

strength: go fish

weakness: fire damage

with my luck this wont go very far, but moots tagged dont feel pressured to contribute, and anyone not tagged feel free aswell!

@pennyroyald @saphi-everything @sleepy-boything-shit @always-tired-musician

[uwuntu-official]

@steamos-official says i can't be cwingier t-than you pweople. how do i pwove them wwong?

@ubuntu-official

@debian-official

@arch-official

[steamos-official]

I. Want to force fem you.

You and all the other linuxers on this website

Sorry, but no.

Also, cishet and my list are the only things that set me apart as a Linux blog. Would you take that away from me?

Would you allow me to become a girl then let @rust-official or someone take on the responsibility of the list?

I'm still confused why any of you want this. Conformity? Quality of life? It would be funny? Why??

[distrochooser]

Send me an ask, I'll send you a completely biased opinion!

Welcome to the (un)offical Tumblr blog for the popular website distrochooser.de. This blog acts just like the website, but with a couple of key differences. The most important of which being that it's run by a biased teenager on a ThinkPad. Feel free to send me any ask you want, and I'll give you a recommendation for a Linux distribution, 100% Ubuntu free.

This blog is not affiliated with nor bribed by any of the following blogs:

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