I’ve been on debian stable for quite a while, it hasn’t been an issue yet.

If it’s something that needs to stay updated I use flatpaks which are usually available nowadays.

Yeah my steam input configs are crazy

I have a whole system for desktop navigation which I’ve grown to really like

I’ve recently taken to using touchpad touch as a button chord modifier and it is soo nice.

Yeah, that’s really the most straightforward solution unfortunately.

In case you’re not already familiar look into sunshine/moonlight for quick access to the windows machine

If you need to use abusive windows software while retaining some privacy you really have 2 options:

1. Have a separate PC with windows and your games installed. Isolate your activities so all your normal work and personal stuff is on linux, and then you switch input on your display, or use sunshine/moonlight to access windows when you want to.

2. Use linux and do all your gaming etc. in a windows VM. This is what I do but it is not easy to set up, if you’re interested in this idea keep it in mind and come back to it later.

If you’re using VM hostile software though which it sounds like you are, #2 becomes even more complicated so I say bite the bullet and do #1.

Dualboot is pretty ass and breaks all the time. I strongly suspect that was part of your issue

I am baffled to read you had to troubleshoot your linux installation every day, what kind of distro were you using?

Sorry you didn’t have a good time.

If you know what you’re doing yes (not guaranteed to work in all games), but you’re always at constant threat of being potentially banned.

The info is hard to find but I assure you tons of people play anticheat games in VMs all the time. I personally avoid those games so I don’t know the specifics of all the tricks they do to hide the VM.

Being it’s a VM I could see some people just restoring from a template if they get banned and not really caring. No way to be hardware banned afaik.

This VM detection and VM anti detection is a reguarly evolving arms race, and some games invest a LOT more effort into staying on top of it than others.

ya the desktop gui is pretty ram hungry as well. It’s not perfect but weighing the pros and cons of all available options I have come to like and appreciate simplex quite a bit. The client has also gotten a lot better recently.

The main downside on android for me is the battery drain but I think that is a consequence of me not using google push notifications

Simplex is an option, you can host your own servers and it has crossplatform GUI + CLI

I think it’s pretty cool, and it’s pretty easy to set up (there are a lot of options you may wanna look at though)

https://simplex.chat/

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

Interesting, thank you for letting me know about that.

I wish KDE Connect was able to integrate this feature but I’m sure if it was easy it would already have been done

EDIT: Got GrayJay Fcast set up, pretty cool! Thanks.

As far as the HDMI cord I use that all the time and young people ask “is that aircast?” lol

Alright thank you very much for the info.

Proxmox is really cool you should check it out when you get a chance regardless

I was able to keep the system online and follow pastermill’s advice to get it working again!

Already rebooted sucessfully.

Just rebooted and it worked flawlessly!!

You are fucking awesome thank you again. Really made my weekend.

Ok thanks again for all the help.

1. I used aptitude to reinstall the kernel, L, g, g

2. Ran Grub-install /dev/nvme1n1

3. Ran update-grub

4. I installed grub-emu to test and am greeted with this error

https://dump.li/image/get/16c4f87164d630a5.png

Brand new to this tool so apologies if I’m interpreting it wrong.

Still waiting on data to backup but I’m scared to reboot now. Any thoughts?

The boot drive has LUKS FDE if that could be what’s confusing it

Can you link me to the commands to reinstall the kernel? Thank you for very much your help[

I don’t, It’s so dumb I almost don’t want to admit it over tor lol

I deleted it the other day because I was playing with someone multiplayer in my vfio GPU passthrough VM (elden ring seamless coop) and got frustraed with timeshift filling up my drive every day mid session and causing me to stop the game and ctrl alt f7 root, delete the files, ctrl alt F2, killall plasmashell, kstart plasmashell, resume the VM, and then call them again on steam

I will be more diligent with backups in the future.

Ok very happy to hear that, thank you.

Ok thank you. I will sleep on it while data copies. I don’t like my odds but I may learn something in the process.

Yes indeed.

I made the mistake of putting my timeshift backup on the same disk as the data and kept having it fill my drive to 0bt and crash plasma. Of course I do something this idiotic the one time it’s disabled

Thanks for this!