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  • Björn@swg-empire.detoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldintel hd2500
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    24 hours ago

    Minecraft is always great. Or the free Luanti.

    No idea how powerful that card is but everything up to Quake 3 should work. Maybe more. Unreal Tournament 99 and 2004 are free now and can be found on https://oldunreal.com/.

    You don’t need Steam but it makes buying and installing games very easy. But you can also buy games on https://gog.com/ and install them with Heroic. It’s more or less as easy as with Steam.

    Or you can just look through your distributions software repository. It should have plenty of free games.

    In the end it really depends on what you’re looking for. “Games” is a vast field.








  • Managed Nextcloud is definitely easier than hosting it your own. I bet they also have the hardware to guarantee good performance. With any luck Hetzner also offers AI features like face recognition and automated tagging.

    But don’t go in there expecting a fully fledged Google Photos alternative. Even when Memories is much better than Nextcloud’s own Photos, it lacks many essential features like easy filtering of your collection. You basically have to sort your photos yourself.

    Unless Hetzner offer something on top of Nextcloud file sync is done via Webdav, not sftp or rsync. But basically every OS has Webdav clients.

    Calendar and Contacts are also synced via DAV. CalDAV and CardDAV. Works well for me on Android with DAVx⁵.







  • If I recall correctly the script that goes to desktop mode explicitly starts plasma. Though I think they want to change that behaviour in SteamOS 3.8 or 3.9 to be more generic.

    The trouble is that on every update all the changes you did to system files would be removed.

    So you’d have to install Niri to your home directory and change the scripts that launch it with every update. Nothing impossible just a little bit annoying.


  • I haven’t tried that exactly, but I put OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on mine. I think installing a mainline distribution is the first step you have to overcome to run a different desktop environment on the Deck.

    The biggest hurdle will be that you will need custom drivers or maybe even a custom kernel. Because not all necessary drivers have been upstreamed yet. This is especially necessary on the OLED version, as far as I know.

    If you go that route https://gitlab.com/evlaV will be your best friend to find everything you need. And Bazzite probably as well. Maybe you can even run Niri/Noctalia on Bazzite. That would probably be the easiest. Or maybe CachyOS has a Steam Deck build.