Perdun perdakovich

How to record or stream SteamOS 3.X in `gamescope` (Gaming Mode)

Here is another method that uses Flatpak and obs-vkcapture, which don't meet my personal needs but are very likely to be useful for you. In the comments there there is also an obs-gstreamer method.

Here is another method for recording that has its own GUI for Gaming Mode built with Decky Loader.

Force SteamOS to behave very much like Arch Linux

Key phrase: very much like, not identical. Always treat this as more unstable than Manjaro and only expect support with it in my comments section here.

Set a password (if you haven't already) and disable read-only rootfs (yes this means after updating SteamOS [not Steam Client] this will all be deleted and you will have to do all this again if you want

Performance Mods

A list of performance-enhancing mods for 1.8.9 and below.

Any suggestions/complaints?
Join our discord or use the gist comments.

Mods marked as "Dangerous" might be unstable, and cause some unexpected behaviour.

Forge 1.8.9

About

I faced bandwidth issues between a WG Peer and a WG server. Download bandwidth when downloading from WG Server to WG peer was reduced significantly and upload bandwidth was practically non existent.
I found a few reddit posts that said that we need to choose the right MTU. So I wrote a script to find an optimal MTU.
Ideally I would have liked to have run all possible MTU configurations for both WG Server and WG Peer but for simplicity I choose to fix the WG Server to the original 1420 MTU and tried all MTUs from 1280 to 1500 for the WG Peer.

Testing

On WG server, I started an iperf3 server
On WG peer, I wrote a script that does the following:
- wg-quick down wg0
Edit MTU in the /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf file

CarbonGhost's OptiFine alternatives

This is my personal list of OptiFine replacements. Although other lists exist, this list aims to be an simple feature replacement list that aims not to overwhelm you.

This list was written with 1.18 and 1.17 in mind, but many mods should still be available for 1.16 and 1.15. The critiques of OptiFine aren't relevant to a specific version of the game.

CarbonGhost's OptiFine alternatives

Guide: Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac (MacBook Pro M1, etc) with HVF acceleration (Hypervisor.framework)

This guide was adapted from https://gist.github.com/niw/e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278#running-ubuntu-server-for-arm64

Running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64

Install Xcode from App Store or install Command Line Tools on your Mac running on Apple Silicon.

Improve Fonts

Newest

Make your Arch fonts beautiful easily! This is what I do when I install Arch Linux to improve the fonts.

You may consider the following settings to improve your fonts for system-wide usage without installing a patched font library packages (eg. Infinality):

Install some fonts, for example:
sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation noto-fonts

Nix vs Guix

These are notes to the stream: https://youtu.be/S9V-pcTrdL8

Some notes

We are not aware of a lot of GNU software available to us.
Seems that Guix more hacker-friendly/explorable.

General comparsion

Description

Nix

Guix

Comment

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

As 2024 is winding down:

Steps to fix "error file '/boot/vmlinux-x.x-x86_64' not found (Manjaro)

Great help: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/boot-error-vmlinuz-5-6/2896/3

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/boot-error-vmlinuz-5-6/2896/2

Create Live Stick with Manjaro

Download: https://manjaro.org/downloads/official/gnome/
Create bootstick: https://manjaro.org/support/firststeps/#making-a-live-system

Change UEFI Settings on your broken system: Boot > Secure Boot > Other OS (You can also disable UEFI, but make sure to re-enable it after you are done here!!)
Boot broken system with the live-system

	# Manual opt parsing example
	#
	# Features:
	# - supports short and long flags (ie: -v\|--verbose)
	# - supports short and long key/value options (ie: -f <file> \| --filename <file>)
	# - supports short and long key/value options with equals assignment (ie: -f=<file> \| --filename=<file>)
	# - does NOT support short option chaining (ie: -vh)
	# - everything after -- is positional even if it looks like an option (ie: -f)
	# - once we hit an arg that isn't an option flag, everything after that is considered positional
	function optparsing_demo() {