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These are the occasions I wish death penalty was a thing, especially for those cases where the idiots have been caught in the act - there are better things to do with my tax money than making sure they have a place to live in and some nice good meals to go with it.

I do understand how you feel about that and I do kinda feel the same, BUT ... you always have to assure that every last person has rights and gets acceptable treatment, even the ones who seemingly have no soul. Because if there's ever a category of people without rights, any government would have an easy way to get rid of eveyone critizing them.

Well the plan worked too well, and I now have no discernible drives

Never used Bazzite, but to me that sounds like one of the following possibilities

• the drives have been automounted and you do not know where
• Bazzite uses LVM to create a "pool of storage" to be used instead of using drives seperately

Disks have been automounted

You can check if this is the case by opening a terminal and typing in lsblk. This command lists all drives and the folder they have been mounted to.

Sample output from my pc:

❯ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
zram0       251:0    0     8G  0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1     259:0    0 931,5G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   600M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0     1G  0 part /boot
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 929,9G  0 part /home
                                      /
nvme1n1     259:4    0 465,8G  0 disk

As you can see, this means I have 1 zram disk as swap space, 1 M.2 NVME disk (nvme0n1) with 931GB (1TB) split into 3 partitions (mounted on /boot/efi, /boot, /home and /) and one unused M.2 NVME disk (nvme1n1) with 465GB (500GB).

As @[email protected] in his answer said, Bazzite might mount drives somewhere in /var/mnt.

Bazzite uses LVM

LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is used to create a "storage pool" out of multiple disks, even if they have different sizes etc. If Bazzite used LVM to "fuse" your disks, you will not be able to use them seperately.

You can check if LVM was used by opening a terminal and executing the following commands:

sudo pvdisplay
sudo lvdisplay

These commands show the physical volumes (pvdisplay) known to LVM and the logical volumes (lvdisplay) managed by LVM. If there's no output it means that Bazzite did not use LVM.

is it possible to skip (only) that somehow and auto log in?

Using Fedora Workstation 42 with GNOME 48 I can enable autologin in the system settings app. You should be able to find it under system -> users

Back when I was using Arch Linux and still did a lot of desktop-experimenting, I tried linux-zen out of curiosity.

I did not do any benchmarks, as I wanted to know if I can notice anything. I did not feel any difference. Maybe it was because I did not play the most pc-stressing games, maybe there was no difference because my hardware was relatively new, maybe it was because most of my games were more GPU-limited then CPU-limited, I do not know. All I can say is, there was no difference for me to notice in my gaming sessions, so I switched back to the default kernel.

Currently using Fedora Workstation 42 and linux 6.14.5, still happy with default kernel.

Also, Terminal User Interfaces are a nice middle ground between learning terminal commands and having a GUI.

Yes, TUIs definitely help reduce possible stress and fear of complexity for new users.

Thanks for the git link, didn't know that, just starred it :)

Yeah, linux-servers without the tools installed in your PC are a hassle. That's why I learned to work with vim, as that's in nearly every distro's repo.

I recommended atuin as I was using it before, but currently I am using ohmyzsh with the fzf plugin for zsh. This has a very atuin-like interface and handling, but as a plugin for zsh itself.

I also grew up with the first gameboy, nes and n64. But nowadays, especially for something like helldivers 2, the bare minimum for me is a constant 60fps.

I was wondering because I tried to play Outward split screen on my friend's TV and, even turning resolution and graphics way down, the Deck barely got to 40 FPS.

You play Helldivers 2 on the deck? What's the performance like? I imagine, especially at higher level dificulties, the Deck must be struggling.

Degrees of Seperation - 2D puzzler with wonderful scenes and visuals

Heavenly Bodies - 2D puzzler about astronauts and 0 gravity environments

Unrailed - isometric 3D. A train starts driving and you need to gather resources and build tracks etc.

Wobbly Life - 3D fun game, no real objective, just many quests and activities throughout the world

Yes, a backup in a different location is necessary either way, I should have worded that better.

I still prefer selfhosting, if feasible. Having data sovereignty has it's benefits.

Saved! Thank you so much.

I've used Linux full-time since late 2020 and I never knew about ctrl+y and ctrl+u.

I'd also like to contribute some knowledge.

aliases

You can put these into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc or whatever shell you use.

###
### ls aliases
###
# ls = colors
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

# ll = ls + human readable file sizes
alias ll='ls -lh --color=auto'

# lla = ll + show hidden files and folders
alias lla='ls -lah --color=auto'

###
### other aliases
###
# set color for different commands
alias diff='diff --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ip='ip --color=auto'

# my favourite way of navigating to a far-off folder
# this scans my home folder and presents me with a list of
#    fuzzy-searchable folders
#    you need fzf and fd installed for this alias to work
alias cdd='cd "$(sudo fd -t d . ${HOME} | fzf)"'

recommendations

ncdu - a shell-based tool to analyze disk usage, think GNOME's baobab or KDE's filelight but in the terminal

zellij - tmux but easy and with nice colors

atuin - shell history but good, fuzzy-searchable. If you still have the basic shell history (when pressing ctrl+r), I cannot recommend this enough.

ranger - a terminal file-browser (does everything I need and way more)

If you're thinking about cloud hosting, read up about how google accidentally deleted the whole of australias pension funds account and maybe think twice about if you can afford to lose everything you have in the cloud.

Of course, stuff like that doesn't happen everyday or to everyone. But will knowing that you've just been fucked by random chance help you when it happens?

If you can, do selfhosting. If you can't, at least have backups somewhere other than the cloud, because the cloud is nothing more than someone else's computer. And if it's someone else's computer, the weakest link in the chain of security is always a human, who may or may not be an idiot or who may have a bad day.

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but why not update via stamdeck UI? You can change the "stable" branch in your steamos update settings page to "beta" or "preview".

• stable - recommended
• beta - test for new steam updates
• preview - test for steam updates + OS updates