Op didn’t install anything on their system yet.

It sounds like maybe the usb drive is a bit crappy.

I’ve had trouble with cheap ones crapping out partway through being used, but be fine once you re-write the files to them. Twice now, yours worked, but then stopped working suddenly for seemingly no reason.

The drive might also be getting too hot. That happens with the Kingston DataTraveler drives I have. If I try to read or write continuously for too long, they shut down for thermal protection, and I have to let them sit for a bit before they work again.

Did you try re-doing that?

The EFI partition is something that exists on the storage device being booted, so if something is wrong with that, then the problem is something on the USB.

Since windows still works, the EFI partition on your computer must be fine.

You can also give Ventoy a go. It replaces the need for Balena Etcher/Rufus.

After you install Ventoy on the usb, it will continue to work like a normal usb drive. Now you just put the .iso file you want on the usb. Or multiple at a time, even. And you can continue using it as a usb drive without removing Ventoy or the isos. It wont care if there are other files on it.

When you go to boot from it, Ventoy will show you a menu of the isos on the usb, and let you pick one to boot. Makes it really easy to try a bunch of different distros if you want.

And it works with windows isos, too.

Did you install anything yet?

It sound like you set up the installer usb, tried it, then went into windows to free up disk space, and now the usb no longer boots?

If I got that right, tell us more about the usb drive you used, and the software you used to make it bootable.

It was probably said as a joke at some point, and just became normal.

The same way I’ve started using irradiate. It’s technically accurate, but normally a word used in much more concerning context.

Hence, funny :D

I’ve also used “nuke” but recently “irradiate” has been funnier.

Couldn’t you just use any wireless mouse? It’s not like the deck is limited to only controllers.

Or is the idea that you want the left controller for movement, rather than using the left controls on the deck or a full controller?

That said, I’m sceptical that the joycon mouse experience is any good on surfaces other than a table. Or even then, considering the ergonomics of the thing when used as a mouse.

Even if the sensor in it is a good one, it’s going to be bluetooth, and bluetooth mice have always had painfully noticeable latency in my experience.

Yes.

Just do yay timeshift, then install all three packages that show up.

Timeshift itself is one, autosnap is a second, and the third is a systemd timer that handles the scheduled snaps (monthly, weekly, etc).

Oh, for sure. If you wait a month, the bigger update can be a lot more trouble.

But look at it like this. If a rolling distro has a problem once a week, which is fixed within 24 hours, updating daily guarantees you will run into it.

While updating weekly means your chance is only one in seven. Since because by the time you update, the fix is more likely to already be in the repos, so you’ll be jumping over the problematic update.

The functionality is conceptually identical, yes.

And timeshift is by default set up such that only / is rolled back while /home is kept as-is.

So same as atomic distros, rolling back doesn’t mean going back in time in terms of personal files or settings.

So I’m really only missing out on the updates for something like Bazzite being potentially more reliable.

I’ve been on endeavour+plasma over a year now.

I share your desire for a system that always, 100%, every time, is there and ready to be used.

At the same time, I really like arch and the convenience of the AUR.

Hence, I boot-strap reliability onto my system through btrfs snapshots.

The setup is extremely simple, (provided your install is grub+btrfs) just install timeshift + the auto-snap systemd services. Configure it, and forget it.

Next time something breaks, instead of spending time on troubleshooting, you timeshift back to a known good point and then just get on with using your system.

With the auto-snap package installed every update also creates a restore point to go back to before it.

In addition to that, I started updating my system less frequency. The logic being that the more often you update a rolling release install, the more likely you are to catch it at a time when something is wrong, before it is fixed. Still regularly, but instead of every other day, I now have an update notification that goes off once a week.

The result has been zero time spent troubleshooting my system. If it worked yesterday, it’ll work today. If it worked last week, but doesn’t today, I’m a reboot away from a known good snapshot.

Wayland has been fine on nvidia for a while now. Even G-Sync works.

You can delete uploaded media since v.19 iirc.

There’s a media tab in your profile on supported clients where you can see and remove uploaded media files.

You don’t need Bazzite to use the “steamdeck-like” interface. Any distro with steam will let you run Steam in “pig picture mode” which will let you control steam with a controller.

That said, Bazzite will work fine, but you’ll likely want to run it in desktop mode, rather than game mode. RPCS3 is just nicer to use this way, as it’s not really meant to be navigated using a controller. Once you have your games set up, of course, you can play them with a controller.

As for running PS3 games, that should work fine. Your performance will likely vary from game to game, but a Ryzen 5 is “pretty good” for PS3 emulation.

Again. I know.

That’s why I’m hoping steam would make their own thing that’ll just always be there for linux users.

I want this on my desktop, and not just in big picture mode. I already know it can be done on the deck.

I wish I could have protondb badges inside the desktop steam client.

Would be nice if this worked with linux in general.

!ballisticng@sopuli.xyz

Communities cannot be fully “deleted”.

They can only be “deleted” in the sense that they disappear for everyone.

You, as a mod, can still see and restore the community. To get rid of it from your list, you’d have to be unassigned as a mod. I don’t think that’s possible if you’re the only mod in a community.

Stalk active users and see where they post.