Don’t try to use it, it’s an old discontinued version of SteamOS based on Debian that was around long before the Steam Deck.

Bazzite will get you a similar experience to the current Steam OS with better desktop experience.

As you’ve been daily driving Linux for 7 years already, I don’t understand what issues you think you’ll have with Arch?

Worth trying Only Office and Libre Office side by side to see which one works better for your workflow.

They typically target transgender people or people with autism, And try to drive them to suicide. Because they think it’s funny.

They shared the manifesto of the Christchurch mosque shooter.

I’m not going into details about the people that have died. I’ll never forget refreshing my feed and the post about Near’s death appearing right in front of me.

Don’t feel conflicted. These are edgelords who want people to suffer for their amusement. But they’re organised and will carry out actions in real-life.

And I ask this because I’ve seen too much of their shit spread for years now; please don’t share links to their website. Know your enemy, but be smart about it.

Would 2010s kids know what Teddy Ruxpin is? My partner was born ‘91 and she didn’t even know what it was.

For anyone who is unaware of Kiwifarms…

“Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ˈkwɪki/ KWIH-kee), is a web forum that facilitates the harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing and real-life harassment.[3][4][5] Kiwi Farms has been tied to the deaths of three people who were victims of harassment and died by suicide.[6][7][8]”

I see you’re part of the retrodeck team too, great job to you all by the way. I actively started avoiding retroarch a few years ago, and also was an early adopter of ES-DE frontend for using standalone emulators.

I love the implementation here. I’m kind of bitter at retroarch project for personal reasons going back a way, but I use it here because your team has made it shine and would be a shame to miss out on what you’ve done. It’s excellent.

Yeah, the save states were there. The emulator sav were there. I normally don’t use states at all. But this was like they were fixed, they loaded a certain point and like saving wouldn’t override them. The save state function was missing completely, just gone.

I’m not new to this. Emulating since 1996, and using Retroarch since 2011 or something. I trawled through the github tracker and I couldn’t work it out.

After a couple days I gave up and removed both flatpak and my emulation and rom directory. Reinstalled, copied all my roms back across and started over. Everything is working. In game save is fine, doing save states as backup.

I’m completely stumped what that update did to it, obviously didn’t happen to anyone else.

Last time retrodeck updated, all the emulators stopped saving, and the option to ‘save state’ disappeared.

I had to reset the whole thing, and then play my daughters Pokémon game from the start, catching and leveling up all the same Pokemon until they were the right level at the third gym battle.

I’ve been dreading this day.

Do you need Timeshift on an opensuse system? I haven’t used Leap, but had a Tumbleweed install for years which has Snapper pre installed.

You can install btrfs-assistant to help you manage snapper. You could have it create backups of your /home, then you can rollback if you think you’ve messed up too much.

The firefox thing seems just firefox behaviour to me. Does it not do that in Windows? But you could use a firefox based browser that respects privacy more. Librewolf and zen browser you can install via Flathub or an appimage from their website. Librewolf at least will by default end and forget a session when you close the browser.

(FYI - best way to deal with appimages is to install Gearlever from flathub, then when you download an appimage you open gearlever and “install” the appimage. Gearlever is just for better integrating appimages into your system but also for keeping them updated).

My last Tumbleweed install I ran from 2019 to 2023. During this time flatpaks got a lot better and flathub got a lot more programs available. Now I use flatpaks as my first option for software, unless I think it’s something that will give me problems being containerised.

Opensuse 1-click… you’re right, those can be a pain. You often end up adding additional repos, and it’s never fun trying to clean up the problems that come with that after a while.

My suggestion is search for “opensuse ‘programs name’” and see if they maintain it in their repository first. (You can use Opensuse’s preinstalled Yast to search for it even to keep it simple). If no, look for it on flathub, remember to look to see when the flatpak was last built, in case it’s been unmaintained for a while. Failing that, check the developers page (usually GitHub or gitlab or similar) to see if they have recommended steps for install.

I didn’t think you made stuff up. I thought you were making an interesting point at first (why I asked for more detail), but then you rambled on vaguely and didn’t answer my question at all.

I’ll go look into ARM somewhere else.

I was asking about you, because you made the comparison.

What processor are you considering a typical x86_64, and also what is your use case?