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TL:DR Emulators installed via Flatpak won't recognize steam inputs during remote play, However AppImages will work. So if you want to play PCSX2 via Steam Link from your main rig, install the AppImage version.

So this whole journey started when I wanted to play PS2 games from my PC on my Big Screen TV. Years ago I got a Steam Link, and outside of it forgetting my Bluetooth devices it's been quite reliable.

However when I switched over to Linux and installed my emulators via Flathub, I could start the emulator, but outside of mouse inputs, the emulator refused to recognize the inputs outside of those directly connected to the PC. I presume it's due to how Flatpaks work.

Reported the problem on the Steam Linux Beta github page, but that still left me without a solution. It's not like there exists a *.deb for every emulator, and if there existed one, it was out dated, so it was hit or miss if I could start a game with a controller.

However when I tried AppImages, it worked! I presume it's due to the fact that the AppImage runner is a locally installed package, which means it can hook into the systems inputs, like Steam Input. Thus far I've tested PCSX2, DuckStation and Retroarch, and everything appears to be working beautifully!

looking around online it seems possible but apparently not a good experience? i think the posts were a bit old so maybe something has changed since then

Edit: i don't want to hop distro, i just want to change the desktop manager.

the to be installed Mesa-32bit-24.0.9-1699.381.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'Mesa = 24.0.9', but this requirement cannot be provided the to be installed vlc-codecs-3.0.21-390.2.x86_64 requires 'vlc-noX = 3.0.21', but this requirement cannot be provided the to be installed vlc-codec-gstreamer-3.0.21-390.2.x86_64 requires 'vlc-noX = 3.0.21', but this requirement cannot be provided the to be installed phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.3.x86_64 requires 'vlc = 3.0.21', but this requirement cannot be provided the to be installed phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.3.x86_64 requires 'vlc = 3.0.21', but this requirement cannot be provided the installed Mesa-libGL1-24.0.8-377.1.x86_64 requires 'Mesa = 24.0.8', but this requirement cannot be provided the installed Mesa-32bit-24.0.8-1699.380.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'Mesa-dri-32bit = 24.0.8', but this requirement cannot be provided the to be installed vlc-codec-fluidsynth-3.0.21-1.1.x86_64 requires 'vlc-noX = 3.0.21', but this requirement cannot be provided

I got the same a few weeks ago, it's starting to get frustrating.

IIRC, I had to install VLC from a specific repo as the official one didn't have all the codecs, could that be the reason of the issue?

Edit: someone else having the issue on the OpenSUSE forums:

• Mesa: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/problem-with-updates-in-tumbleweed-again-mesa-libgl-devel-24-0-9-1699-381-pm-1-x86-64/175843
• VLC (in German) https://forums.opensuse.org/t/videolan-vlc-schon-jemand-mit-v3-0-21-per-repo-nicht-per-flatpak/175818/13

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/20674426

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.11

Release notes

The Wine development release 9.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• C++ exception handling on ARM platforms.
• More DPI Awareness support improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Pi-Hole and similar DNS adblockers just seem like a hassle. I can't tell my parents to buy a raspi, flash it, install and configure pi-hole, configure their routers or devices to point to the raspi, and do all of that from another city. Also personally, there's no time for that in my house.

Is there a program or systemd service I can run that pulls blocklists from somewhere (git, http, ...) and updates /etc/hosts? Before I go off and write a python script, systemd unit file, and shell script to install it on the linux systems of friends of family, does this exist?

Resolution comment: Tblock

Basically title

Came across this really cool retro gaming handheld project. Its open source and they’re sharing the BOM soon so anyone get can get it manufactured. Full info is on the github but the gist is, its a retro gaming handheld that runs a version of armbian (arm debian) and it can play up to ps2 and GameCube games.

I've seen a lot of different enterprise and personal use distros for servers, but what do you guys use?

I'm planning on using Debian but was wondering if there are any other good free options to consider.

Progress of rewriting the Firefox crash reporter in Rust.

Really interesting blog btw

First, let me be clear up front that I'm not promoting the idea that there should be one "universal" Linux distro. With all the various distros out there for consumers, there's lots of discussion about Arch, Debian, and Fedora (and their various descendant projects), but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE.

Why might somebody choose that one over the others? What features or vision distinguishes it from the others?

Edit: I love all the answers! Great stuff. Thanks to everyone!

To get an idea of this community, and to try the cool CryptPad Survey feature, I created a pretty big Linux usage survey!

The data is anonymized and the content encrypted on the server. I plan on publishing the results.

Have fun!

It works on hardened Firefox on a phone, but the experience is better on a PC.

live results

Notes

1. I am very sorry but the question "it is okay that my above message gets published" cannot reasonably be respected, as the text is just dumped into a single block
2. Lag caused some empty questions to appear, removed
3. A question about disk encryption and "why do you use other OS" got mixed up
4. i changed the wording of some questions or added more options, so there may be duplicate old answers or too little new ones. You can edit your submission and update your answers.