Neat. I recently decided to move my oldest laptop from Ubuntu Server, which I eventually installed KDE on to do some things, straight into NixOS. I thought, "hey, if I only needed my KDE environment sometimes, I can just switch config." A weird thing happened in that my system is way faster now for some reason.

I don't know what was going on with my Ubuntu setup, but even when it was just a TTY, the stutter can be pretty bad. There's likely some other issues with the hardware - RAM stick, SATA SSD, the fan, or the chip's thermal paste (possibility combination of all of them AND aging factor). But KDE wasn't the issue, it's hella lightweight actually.

Regardless, it's good to have a laptop with a decent KDE session. I'm going to be moving my ROG Ally from Bazzite to hopefully (in order of preference) NixOS, SteamOS, or CachyOS as well - depending on if I couldn't figure out the previous ones - all using KDE of course.

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Nice! Would be quite useful for Trails in the Sky FC.

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Neat. I don't vibe with this line as much as I did with the Dusk Trilogy, but I know a lot of people enjoyed it. More support is better.

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Can we just get to the point and have Nintendo try to patent the concept of video games, money, and having a soul? All these playing around the obvious desire to cosplay as Satan playing video game is taking too long when obviously the end game is to own the rights to your soul.

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Oh, that's a pretty major ROG Ally fix. I'm planning to try it this Sunday - if I have the time to go my friend's place with good wifi. I'd need to make sure everything is backed up first, because the installer is unfortunately just a blind "deletes everything" one. So I'd need to install SteamOS, then re-install Windows (which isn't my preferred order), and then install Clover or rEFInd.

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Still praying for better virgl support for Windows 10 (and 11) so that we can at least play lighter games on a QEMU/KVM setup. Or perhaps a good, near-universal GPU passthrough setup for single and multi-GPU setups (like that's ever gonna happen).

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Bazaar has some good ideas, but my opinion on it was soured by how Bazzite pushed it to their stable track while removing Discover (which took me a while to figure out how to properly re-add to my image builder) by default.

It'll probably get better, but the bad first impression just make me go back to what works for me.

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They do need it. It's been stuck in rewrite limbo for, what, more than a year now? It is still my favorite Wine runner (unless there's suddenly been a new Qt/electron ones that integrates better with KDE?) and we do still get updates and fixes. But they have big ambitions after their current state, and I think they need that funding.

I just hope they architect it in a way that is more conducive to KDE and non-Flatpak platform. There were a LOT of unnecessary conflicts that I feel happened because they are very deep in libadwaita ecosystem, mainly with AUR (I recall one was because they used a pre-release libadwaita once, and nowadays because of the sandbox? I don't keep up with it anymore).

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I'm pretty sure it already worked on day one, as I went to an in-person gathering for the event and saw someone running it on Steam Deck (but it might have been Ally X). I myself play it on Bazzite, though only a week later, as I spent around a week rerolling on phone (you can't reroll on PC).

Regardless, the game is REALLY fun. You don't really get it just doing the tutorial. You start a career... And then everything clicks. The game is deceptively simple. At the heart, it's an athlete sports management game. You get to raise the girls' stats through training, acquire skills that works well with their races, while balancing between racing, training, resting, and recreation (plus healing, if you messed up). Then... You watch them race. And boy does it work - it's really tense as you hope she wins, and while I was initially meh on the idol aspect, as soon as I got invested in the girls I am on-board with seeing them at the center of the stage.

In any case, this game has been consuming ALL of my algorithm (and friends IRL and online). Even my Instagram recommendation feed is all Uma even though I barely play it. After Blue Archive being pretty rough, I was afraid this would have issues, but Cygames remains pretty good with the first ShadowVerse, ShadowVerse Worlds Beyond, and now this.

Still, it does mean I am once again a Cygames slave, with me playing nothing but SVWB (just got Master) and Uma for the past month.

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This is great! Like it or not, gacha games is a major blocker for a lot of people running Linux.

I hope that Mihoyo eventually follows with the rest of their catalogue as well - though for them they only have Honkai Impact 3rd on Steam.

My personal wishlist would he Heaven Burns Red though, was a big fan of Key visual novels and I'd love to see how they eventually did Angel Beats continuation there.

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