Janne Moren
Programmer and computational neuroscientist, now HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan.
Photography, bouldering, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are things I do.
Sweden, Osaka and Okinawa are places I particularly care about.
@ReakDuck @MJBrune
SteamOS is a spin off Arch aimed very specifically at the steam deck and nothing else. The desktop is nice but incomplete; try setting up a fully working japanese input method for example; or a full, modern gcc compiler chain.
In some future they may make a distro release aimed at a wider range of hardware. But until then it’s not a general purpose desktop OS and it’s doing them a disservice trying to pretend it is.
@solarisfire @Simplesyrup
Ah sorry, misunderstood.
@solarisfire @Simplesyrup
I see the screenshot from the Mastodon mobile web client.
Edit: of course I do. It’s the other way around that doesn’t seem to work.
@ReakDuck
Japanese input is doable without any system changes. Mostly adding language as well. Some software does need you to add language packs to system directories - that’s one example where an overlay fs is useful.
Mostly it’s good when you need to add specific packages (I ran into xmodmap not being available for instance). Or if you need something such as a custom keyboard layout (technically possible in your home though).
@notfromhere @greater_potater Gnome has the rotating cube desktop, burning windows and so on as extensions. Look up “rotating cube” and “burn my windows” in the extension page.
@Privatepower42 @thejevans @DoomBot5
They most likely do, and without any problems. They’re just not *officially* supported; you can’t ask for support if there’s an issue.
@Llewellyn
File system operations are often faster. This is in part due to Windows doing more; it has a more complex and more flexible permissions system.
Spawning threads and processes is also normally faster. Linux apps thinks nothing of spawning lots of processes with abandon, then have them opening and closing files all over the place. If you move it straight over to a Windows machine it will tend to run very badly as a result.
@hydroel @solarisfire
Ubuntu is an excellent introduction to Linux I think. Also used a lot by experienced users that no longer want to spend much time keeping their desktop running.
@flashgnash @Jumper775
Unless you specifically want to tinker with the system you probably want to stick with SteamOS.
@Fubarberry
Dome Keeper. A solid 30 hours of fun gameplay. Recommended.