I’ve been using Linux for 10y and never distro-hopped to solve a problem. Overall I’ve only used 3 distros as daily drivers. IMO you should look into making things work with a distro you like instead of looking for the perfect off the shelf distro.
To build off of the above poster, some things sometimes take some tweaking to make work. When you distro hop you’re really just hopping to a different set of defaults and maybe a few relevant library differences. Learning what to do and how to do it can be daunting but when you get it its brilliant and then you have some idea what you need to do the next time you encounter a similar issue
I second EndeavourOS. Nothing beats the arch wiki and arch user repository, and combining that with the easy and sane install of EndeavourOS makes it an almost perfect distro.
Is that why there were so many darn anarchists there?
And yeah books to prisoners programs are both a means of direct action and of spreading anti carceral propaganda to those most effected. Not all programs are anarchist, but the one I helped with had a zine library that included a lot of stuff by former prisoners about the harm, ineffectiveness, and racist origins of the American prison system. Which was good because at least that was something they always had enough of unlike English-Spanish dictionaries. Seriously if you ever have any lying around donate it to a books for prisoners program. A lot of prisoners want to learn to communicate with those they’re locked in a cage with. And for anyone with more liberal sensibilities it’s also a form of self improvement that helps on the outside.
but wouldnt lower numbers mean no one needed to fix & revamp a working OS?
higher numbers mean more fuckups than needed to be fixed until it was so broken there was no longer a way to code you way out, had to start right from the start!
It really depends on what versioning means for the project. If we are talking about semantic versioning then a lower number only means there haven’t been many breaking changes over time. Or that a lot of broken stuff has been kept that way because it would break compatibility.
VMs are a way, but Live USB sticks are better because you will see how it actually runs on your bare metal machine, and if there see any hardware quirks, without comitting to an install
Try to open the game manually. IIRC protontricks can be used to open the executable with the correct proton instance. Would probably be my go-to first ste4 to start tinkering
There seems to be something wrong trying to install it. I get message saying:
<span style="color:#323232;">32-bit Nvidia driver (nvidia-driver-libs:i386) required
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ This computer appears to be using the Nvidia binary graphics driver (the
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ nvidia-driver package).
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ Steam is a 32-bit program, so running it on this computer requires the
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ 32-bit versions of the Nvidia libraries, even if all the games you will
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ run via Steam are 64-bit. Please install the nvidia-driver-libs:i386
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ package.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ For full functionality (including Vulkan), also install the libraries
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ listed as Recommends in the nvidia-driver-libs:i386 package.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ If you are using a legacy version of the Nvidia driver such as
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver, please install the corresponding 32-bit
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │ legacy package, for example nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver-libs:i386.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> │
</span>
You press play and it goes off after a while, you have problems with vulkan, you have an old PC.
I had this exact issue before, try tuning an older version of proton, as newer versions require more recent vulkan versions, which your PC most likely doesn’t support.
steam auto updates to the latest proton version usually, that’s probably why.
I did get the “Processing vulcan shaders” pop-up sometimes when I opened the game (back when it was still working) So I should not be using the Proton experimental? It worked just fine untill now. That’s what’s so strange about it. I do have an old PC but my GPU is brand new though.
I’m trying to re-install steam right now but it’s been uninstalling it for about an hour and doesn’t seem to be progressing anywhere…
1 - Proton experimental is a moving target and is rapidly evolving.
2 - What exactly is your GPU, and maybe tell us your pc specs (even if it’s just through the info tab in the settings menu) (also put it in your post for others)
3 - that sometimes happens to me when using gnome-software (which Ubuntu uses? or something really similar?), I usually just surrender and use the terminal, not like I install more than 1 thing in a normal month anyway.
4 - if the issue is with proton, then other games wouldn’t work. (try running a very light, single player game to test proton, many F2P games under 20 mbs exist on Steam)
Have you tried updating and rebooting your system? I have had this happen a few times and almost always that is what fixes it for me (more so the rebooting but it is generally good to have your system up to date). Other times it is typically something missing on your host system (like properly installed drivers), though if the game was running before then this is less likely to be the issue and a reboot is typically enough - so start with that.
For first time plug-n-play distros, I either go with Linux Mint or Fedora, for me they have the best results for just working.
And make sure when installing them, you always check to use proprietary drivers and codecs if it’s an option, that will save you a bunch of trouble down the line.
It took Microsoft 98 attempts the first time! Then it took them an entire Millennium. Then 2000 attempts after that. And then after 12 more attempts, they’ve decided they need to change the keyboard… I’d say #14 ain’t too bad.
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