How is Debian beginner friendly? Quite far from it imho

That depends on the graphics driver and API:

• On NVIDIA it works pretty much seamlessly, though there might be some caveats with vkd3d games. It (nvapi) is now enabled by default in Proton/Wine I think? (someone please correct me if not true)
• On AMD it works with both radv and amdvlk drivers, though radv is still a little slower than amdvlk/the Windows driver.

Like together? Probably not

You might like Arch, especially now that it has installer, I wouldn’t consider it hard to setup and use. Also you’re not even new to Linux so youll handle it easily

I saw that right after donating, right after restarting my laptop after long time and seing the notification. I saw the chart and was like “dang, there was more poeple like me, also xmass time or smh” xD

I hope ANV gets better over time

No idea why you consider KDE buggy. Maybe the distro you’ve used ships old version or the build is low quality, maybe it’s the matter of using Wayland vs X11 and outdated NVIDIA drivers? For me, the current Plasma 6.2 is rock solid on multiple machines.

Other than that, for try this https://github.com/diodon-dev/diodon Or this https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ

Part of such apps do work already if they use libusb, which is for instance Playstation controller updater.

Steam home console now makes more sense than ever given that the current console generation is sort of ass. A box with gigantic library of games from day 1, supporting all modern TV features, new titles all the time guaranteed, flexibility, not being locked down to just one ecosystem… And if it’s comparable to PS5/Xbox it can get a lot of traction, just like Steam Deck.

What do you mean

Initial version of a Bluetooth driver

Will Wine apps be able to interact with Bluetooth? That could be useful for stuff liks ODB2 scanners

It’s not that hard after all, but requires some attention span at least initially

I created an issue in tracker for Steam Linux client: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11518 Found some logs in Steam directory:

[2024-11-26 23:30:25] Client version: 1731433018
[2024-11-26 23:30:25] Init: enable connect workaround: 0
[2024-11-26 23:30:25] Init: create NetworkManager client: success
[2024-11-26 23:31:15] Device[0xd32c0739] state: Unknown/Connected -> Deactivating/Disconnecting - reason: user-requested
[2024-11-26 23:31:15] Device[0xd32c0739] state: Deactivating/Disconnecting -> Disconnected/Disconnected - reason: user-requested
[2024-11-26 23:31:15] Device[0xd32c0739] state: Disconnected/Disconnected -> Unavailable/NotPresent - reason: carrier-changed
[2024-11-26 23:31:19] Device[0xd32c0739] state: Unavailable/NotPresent -> Disconnected/Disconnected - reason: carrier-changed
[2024-11-26 23:31:22] Connect: interface: enp8s0
[2024-11-26 23:31:22] SetIPv6Config: IPv6 libnm workaround: 1
[2024-11-26 23:31:22] Connection invalid: ipv6.method: property is invalid

Interesting…

What games though

Try to explain your problems to him/her, the most simplistic way so that they can understand it.

I’m 31 and I only really started playing games around 4 years ago, apart from playing on bootleg NES consoles or C64 as a kid.

It is worth it if you have fun doing it, and you probably will!

If you don’t know where to start, you probably still haven’t figure out what genres you’d be into.

You might like Steam Deck, an affordable console-like handheld PC, because:

• It offers a wide variety of games from all generations, so if you want to experiment with different genres you can always find something for yourself - you can purchase a game on Steam store and if it’s not for you, just return it below 2h of gameplay
• Very user friendly, easy to navigate for non-techies, despite being PC, for the most part it just works, great entry for folks with no prior experience with PC gaming
• It’s a handheld! Take it with you anywhere easily, play in bed, on couch, toilet, whatever. If you’re used to playing on a phone, this might be appealing
• you can still dock it as a regular PC and have mouse+keyboard+external screen if you want to try gaming this way
• if you want to tinker to explore even further, you can emulate older consoles, play with 3rd party launchers, use it for other things than gaming, even replace the software completely - it is all possible

Other choices are perfectly valid like Nintendo Switch, Xbox or PS5, but they’re within their respective closed ecosystems. With Xbox and PS5 you’re also stuck with TV. Consoles have limited backwards compatibility, so for example Switch only supports games for Switch, PS5 supports games for PS5 and PS4, and it’s a bit better with Xbox iirc.

If you want Nintendo Switch (if games like Mario or Zelda are appealing to you), maybe wait a little bit as they’re cooking new generation for release soon-ish, and the current one is old and miserable in terms of performance.

O thanks! I needed glxgears equivalent for Wayland at some point

Is it the little guy on the left and his buddy on the right, or the other way around?

If there anything related to amdgpu in output of sudo dmesg?

I’ve got the same gpu and never seen this

Maybe it’s playing a video in the background while on the menu? Then it could be a problem with codecs. Have you tried GE-Proton by any chance? It has media-foundation codecs builtin

My bet is it tries to default to mode that your display doesn’t like, probably because of some wrong info in monitor’s EDID downloaded from the connector, but that’s just my guess.

Before booting, use key e on grub menu, locate line where there is initrd to pass boot parameters. You can force modes using video= parameter, and you can also replace/modify your EDID. Refer to section # Forcing modes and EDID on this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_mode_setting

These changes can also be achieved permanently by editing /etc/default/grub and regenerating its configuration, in case you use grub.

Easiest would be to have separate extra monitor temporarily or another computer to connect over SSH, but if those low “safe” graphics modes work, that can probably do also.