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Modding a steam installed game is horrible. on Windows: point to the exe & done. Linux:
- Find compatibility and tool to run your modding programs
- Find your fucking install folder. (No steam a hidden folder is not where I want my stuff installed)
- Deal with symlinks in your install path
- Fuck you, you didn’t use the exact same compatibility setting when you ran your tool Vs. When you installed the game. Try again.
Don’t even talk about running cheat engine.
Asides from that Linux is … Fine.
Have you tried using Limo?
Thanks for sharing this! This was new to me but makes modding Steam games so much easier.
A little more difficult for GOG games but not much; definitely much better than the manual approach.
I’d definitely agree here. In general, stuff where multiple processes need to talk to each other but are in separate containers is frustrating. So modding tools stumble a bit. Also, things that require login via a browser, which then redirects back to the application (for example, Unity opens a login page then goes back) - when it’s running through Proton or in a container, it’ll open in the browser on the host system, which then can’t get back to it.
That may just be a me being stupid issue, but it’s annoying.
Still keep using it because it’s great, and no ads or crap is lovely.
Sometimes steam tinker launch works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes bottles works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes lutris works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes extracting the mods directly into the game folder works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes a game has a bespoke github project with a script that you can run, and sometimes that script hasn’t been updated in years but it still works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Protontricks makes it much easier to tell which steam folder is which game, but its still annoying
I can’t think of anything I miss. Windows is so primitive compared to Linux.
I agree. Tried to think about anything that I miss from Windows, but no. Well, maybe Windows XP in a whole :) Before SP3 of course (when Microsoft started to add telemetry in Windows).
I wonder how hard it might be to build something like AHK for Linux.
I’m a big fan of AHK myself, and my small scripts would be a real gap when I finally manage to kick Windows out.
Basically all linux distros have a keyboard shortcut menu where you can add scripts and programs that do whatever you need. I have only used AHK once long ago, so i dont remember all that it does, but isnt that just all it is basically. The thing that makes AHK easy for people is all the publicly available scripts people made and published, not the application itself.
Among my primary uses is completely remapping the keyboard layout, from scan codes to international Colemak (like Dvorak but different).
That means my script captures every alpha keystroke and sends something else instead.
AHK is marvelous to run on otherwise locked-down corporate computers.
While I’m at it, my AHK also tracks typing stats, just for fun.
If you have a keyboard that can run the QMK firmware, you can remap keys and run macros in the keyboard.
I use a variety of laptops with their built-in keyboards, and sometimes with a variety of plain usb keyboards.
It’s easy to run an AHK script on each machine, just for me. It’s not feasible to carry a special keyboard around.
QMK keyboards are not special. And you can buy one in any size, layout and portability.
As someone familiar with Colemak & Dvorak, I’m surprised you are not familiar with custom mechanical keyboards. Check out r/mk on leddot.
The Wayland story for such tools was pretty bad for a while, but AFAIK the necessary protocols are now in place, so it should be possible to build this now (though probably not with all features due to security).
But I’d love something like AHK with a saner scripting language, maybe Lua or JS (through QuickJS)!
I like inkscape but snapping is terrible. In corel I just drag whatever I need with my mouse and it just snaps to where I need it to be. I always thought this is fairly simple and standard but when I tried snapping in Inkscape, it always tries to snap to something on the other half of the document.
I need to constantly change snapping options to make it work whereas in corel I enabled all the options, set and forget thing, it just does what I want every time, as if it’s reading my mind, without the need to toggle snapping options every time.
For autohotkey-Like stuff on Wayland I’ve been very happy with
Honestly the UAC (the admin password/permission popup) and the way it handles software crashing (I believe by taking a screenshot of the current session, then moving to a safe session and asking what you wanted to do)was pretty nice. I don’t think most distros have matched the security of windows UAC prompts but then again it’s not as necessary on Linux either.
I miss Clipjump. It’s built on top of AHK and it makes managing clipboard so much easier.
Klipper is nice but not as convenient.
Yes omg I forgot about this but I do miss it frequently
No.
Inkscape? Maybe.
Gimp is not a drawing software, so it makes sense it doesn’t have a dedicated “draw complex geometric figures” tool by default. It does have a shape selection tool. Anyways, it all depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Krita is for painting, gimp is for image manipulation, inkskape is for vector graphics. Paint.net is a weirdo that does everything but doesn’t do any of those things well enough.
Wild concept here. Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay. Or use gwenview which is designed exactly for that.
Gwenview is a new one on me. Thanks for the tip! Downloading it now.
Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay.
There are lots of use cases for exactly that, like certain graphics tasks my partner does for her employer (flyers, t-shirt designs). with an existing raster image as background in Inkscape. For what I do, that workflow would be serious overkill.
Agreed for those reasons and so many more, still have yet to find a suitable alternative.
At this point I just use Krita because I’m somewhat familiar with it/Photoshop-like layouts, but it’s like taking using powertools on microelectronics.
Not really. I’ve for several years removed any ties to windows and have been running linux for some time now!
I still have to boot into windows for Autocad and laser cutting software. Please lightburn bring back Linux support!
Dunno if Autocad is a major dependency for your job, I use freeCAD instead and it works. Of course there will be differences and you’d have to relearn how to do things.
I wish it were that easy. I’m probably north of 10x faster designing in Solidworks compared to freecad, ignoring drawings. Obviously that will chance in time and practice, but right now I can’t really do something that people expect to be billed ~50 hours of design and it takes 250, that ends things pretty quickly. There also isn’t a lot of down time on the job to tinker and learn, so that’s done on my free time. And I’m in the position to choose what we use to design, not everyone is.
Give Rayforge a try.
Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90’s to XP, to Vista/7.
Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that’s Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it’s one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.
Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.
WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it’s kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it’s a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation…)
I’m tempted to say “copilot” just for the ragebait
WinKey+period to enter emoji and other Unicode characters. I’ve got some workarounds, but they are all just slightly kludgy, especially with the Wayland clipboard.
What desktop environment are you using? That shortcut is already available in KDE Plasma 5/6.
you just made me happy on fedora, thanks! 😀
TIL! Sweet! If I can use emojis on my desktop, I have less reason to wreck my thumbs on my phone! :D
(But hey classic emoticons are 4eva! Lol)
There are some decent ones out there. That Windows shortcut always sucked ass compared to their character map, and that wasn’t great either.
I have bindings on
super + periodandsuper + commafor an emoji flatpak. Usually at least one of them works. This is the flatpak I use. I still have to pressctrl + vafterwards, so the experience isn’t perfect.spoiler
Like… Fredesktop clipboards or is there some Wayland feature causing trouble. B/c my understanding was wms define clipboard functionality generally using freedesktop spec as the base so curious how Wayland is causing trouble.
if you’re using fcitx to manage input methods, you can enable the unicode module, which lets you bind a shortcut to input unicode characters using a search box. it’s quite handy, though most people don’t use fcitx as it’s not needed for simple appending input methods, like the US QWERTY keyboard
AutoHotkey
Full Software support and functionality from device vendors.
The flying toasters in the After Dark screensavers
Wait I’m pretty sure there’s Linux screensavers for those and a bunch of others?
I do miss some of the classic Win95 screensavers though. :D
Yep, you’re right!
the sunJokes aside, most of what I’d use in a baremetal installation, I can also do in a VM. The few things that don’t work revolve lack of proper hardware acceleration for XP/Vista games, of which I have some.
Middle click to free scroll
chromium-browser --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscrollWorks on anything Chromium, including Electron shitware like Discord
That’s in Firefox at least, but you have to turn it on in the settings.
