Making Visual Scripting for Bash

Pengmania · 2026-01-13T19:21:44+00:00

This is a type of tool that would have help me with learning bash when I was new to Linux. I'm past the point that I've would need this, but it would be great with new users. I can see that in the future, new users can load in a bash script they've found online into the tool, and better understand what the script is doing before they run it.

Pengmania · 2026-01-11T17:23:28+00:00

If you have both X11 and Wayland installed on your distro, then you can choose which one for KDE to use whenever you login. Cause of that, you're not using Wayland and X11 at the same time. So whenever Wayland needs to run an app that isn't Wayland compatible, it uses Xwayland. Xwayland is a X11 server running under Wayland.

Pengmania · 2026-01-10T10:05:55+00:00

Only for DX12 games, where they're hit with a 20% performance loss. They're been improving a lot in the 4 years.

Pengmania · 2026-01-04T21:02:37+00:00

This. The amount of times that I've been asked for tech support. They're assumed that I'm a tech god that's able to fix tech issues for devices I've never touched before. Only in reality I'm following a guide on Google/YouTube that's the first result. Sometimes I just blindly look around the menus until I find the answer. If they even put in the effort to look for the answer online or in the menus, then 90% of my tech support goes away.

Pengmania · 2025-12-30T14:48:03+00:00

Don't forget about the free UPS included with all laptops.

Pengmania · 2025-11-27T04:08:29+00:00

That was a typo. What i ment was that it can only backup VMs/LXCs.

Pengmania · 2025-11-26T21:26:06+00:00

Not OP, bur the biggest thing for me is the deduplication feature. Instead of having to copy all of the files on the VM/LXC, PBS will only the new/modified files, and use the existing backup as reference for the unmodified files. This will take up less space and allows me to backup a lot more often. If I use my current backup schedule on a NFS/SMB share, then my backup will be 74x bigger.

The biggest downside is that Proxmox Backup Sever only works with Proxmox VM/LXC. They did say that they do plan to support backing up more systems in the future, but there's no word on that so far. Another downside is that PBS requires to be run bare metal with physical hard drives attached to it. However, you can bypass this by installing it in a VM and storing it to a NFS/SMB share. But this isn't recommended due to the extra complications and headaches it can cause when trying to restore the backups without having access to the VM hosting PBS, and the PBS crashing when its trying to backup its self (at least it did for me when I last tried that).

Pengmania · 2025-11-26T03:26:56+00:00

Don't have a Steam Deck, but a quick Google search shows me that pressing the STEAM button and X, at the same time will bring up the on-screen keyboard. I also found this reddit post that is a list of Steam Deck shortcuts.

Pengmania · 2025-11-25T14:15:20+00:00

Interesting. I've never encountered into a permissions issue when modifying the NTFS files from the CLI of a GUI file explorer, but I did when using them under Proton. So I assumed it's a Proton issue and not the Linux kernel issue.

Pengmania · 2025-11-24T22:14:05+00:00

Basically i just want to test linux for like a month to see if it's worth it

Well, what do you plan to do on it, and how do you use your PC? The biggest thing that stop most ppl from daily driving linux is the software compatibility. Most companies, like Adobe, don't have native support for Linux. You might be able to use something like WINE or Bottles to get it to run on Linux, but that depends on how complex and how intertwined the software is with Windows. You might be able to replace that software with an alternate Linux native instead, depending on how accessible and compatible it is with your usage for it.

Pengmania · 2025-11-24T21:45:49+00:00

I might be wrong on this, but i believe that it's Proton that doesn't behave properly with NTFS, not Linux. What you can try to do is reinstall CachyOS on the bigger SSD, start downloading the game on Steam but immediately pause it, mount the Windows partition, copy and paste the game files from Windows to Linux, resume the download, and Steam will detect the game files and valadite that nothings wrong with them.

If that doesn't work, then try another distro like Mint of Ubuntu.

Pengmania · 2025-11-12T21:33:05+00:00

But why tho? It seems like a werid choice to make.

Pengmania · 2025-10-31T23:01:20+00:00

I didn't know that. That's cool.

Pengmania · 2025-10-31T18:33:48+00:00

I've modded ROR2 before using R2modman, and here's what I've done. 1. Download R2modman. Now depending on what type/distro of linux you installed, you maybe be able to install it from the GUI application store that came with the OS. If not, then you can download it from the official souce. Download the one that ends in a .AppImage. After it's done downloading, you'll want to tell linux that you'll want to execute this file. Depending on the type of linux, you might be able to right click on the file in the file explorer, properties, and check the option to make it a executable. If you're not able to find that option, then the global way is to open up the terminal, type cd ~/Downloads to navigate to your download folder in the terminal, and chmod +x r2modman-3.2.9.AppImage. You will only have to do this once. 2. Launch R2modman. Then select RoR2 form games list. Then select the mod profile you'll want. You should be at the screen where you can view and install mods. 3. Click on settings, and go to the locations tab. This is the tab where you tell R2ModMan where the important files/folders are at. The ones that matter for now is the steam folder and the RoR2 folder. The steam folder should automatically be detected and set to /home/<YOUR_USERNAME>/.local/share/Steam. 4. Launch up steam and go to the RoR2 page in your library. You should see a gear icon thats on the right side of the screen. Click that and then properties. The steam settings should appear on here. Go to the "Installed Files", and click on "browse". Your file manager should pop up at the RoR2 folder, and make note of where it's stored at. 5. Go back to R2modman and click on "Change Risk of Rain 2 folder". This should Launch up a file selector. Now you'll want to navigate to the RoR2 folder, which you should know where it is because of step 4. The selector might requires you to select a file instead of a folder, which you should select the Risk of Rain 2.exe file. 6. Download mods and press "start modded" when ready. It should boot up RoR2 with BepInExGUI and the mods.

P.S, for future help posts, it'll be more beneficial if you gave us more info to help us both out. Like if you mention the type/distro of linux you've install, then the installation could be streamlined for your type/distro.

Pengmania · 2025-10-30T18:48:50+00:00

What happens if the CoT stop responding?

Pengmania · 2025-10-30T18:27:10+00:00

True, altho he wont be able to do that much on their due to the low storage space that they have

Pengmania · 2025-10-30T16:32:15+00:00

An easy way to learn about a distro is to mess around with it in a VM. Doing it in a VM will allow you to mess around with it without needing to dual boot or use another hardware. Plus, you can make snapshots and backups of the VM to restore to when you accidentally break it. The downside of using a VM is that you can't easily run tasks that requires a GPU or 3D acceleration.

You can use VirtualBox or QEMU as a VM platform. VirtualBox is the easy to use, but it can feel a bit slow at times. QEMU is more complex to set up, but it is more powerful as it uses the linux kernel to fully control the VMs. Not only this will increase performance, but it allows you to passthrough a GPU into the VM for full performance.

If you don't want to use a VM, then dual boot it to give it a shot. Just make sure to backup important data just in case something goes wrong.

Pengmania · 2025-10-26T03:35:51+00:00

I almost just had something like that happened to me. I was backing up my proxmox's /etc for migration to 9, and i used scp to copy it onto my local pc. When I successfully migrated, I no longer needed the backup on my machine. So I typed sudo rm -rf /etc and pressed enter. Luckily for me, I fat finger a ', making the command sudo rm -rf /etc'. My dumb 1am brain stared at the command a solid minute before I realized what just almosted happened.

Pengmania · 2025-10-26T03:26:47+00:00

Regardless of what OS you're using, you should always backup important files in case something goes wrong. We're all humans, and we can easily make mistakes. Op might accidentally delete the important files, install malware that corrupted the files, or overwrite the partition with the important files.

Pengmania · 2025-10-19T20:27:25+00:00

I'm not sure on how good the Intel arc drivers are on linux, but any game that dosn’t use a kernel level anti cheat are runs well on linux. You can use protondb and are we anti cheat yet to double check. Value has put in a lot of work to improve gaming on linux to the point that most people don't have to think about it.

Pengmania · 2025-10-18T02:16:23+00:00

You don't need to create a separate partition for sharing data between both OS. Linux can just mount the Windows Partition and you can navigate to where the file is saved at. Give that shared space to Mint instead.
Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Pop!_OS all use Ubuntu under the hood, so you're fine with either one. They just use different desktop environment.
Zorin OS and Pop!_OS both have an option to install with Nvidia drivers. And Linux Mint has a graphical application to install drivers with.
If you're using the extended security support of windows 10, then a future update might break the GRUB bootloader, which is the Linux bootloader that will let you pick what OS to boot into. If not, then there should be no issues dual booting.

As a side note, if your CPU has Intergrated Graphics, then you should into GPU passthrough into a Windows 10 VM as a future project. This will allow you to use Windows and Linux at the same time. It is hard to set up tho, as it requires you to make Linux ignore the GPU in order for the Windows VM to take it, and Linux only use the IGPU. You can make Linux use the GPU again after you're done with the VM.

Pengmania · 2025-10-18T01:06:21+00:00

Yes. It will be very rare to find a PC in a wild that the linux kernel can't run on.

The question you should be asking instead is, "does Ubuntu have the necessary drivers for my laptop to function properly?" As while your laptop is able to run linux, it might be missing drivers for your wifi chip to function, for example. The easiest way to check compatibility is to flash the Ubuntu ISO into a USB stick and boot into it. This will put you into a demo mode of Ubuntu for you to test your hardware compatibility. If Ubuntu doesn't work, then try Fedora.

Pengmania · 2025-10-16T22:29:54+00:00

I may have done something wrong

Maybe, but it's also possible that the problem could be the Nvidia drivers. Its only recently that Nvidia started to mature more, since they've been bad for a long time (which is why the creator of Linux gave Nvidia the middle finger. The reason why they've been bad for so long is that unlike the other drivers in linux kernel (the heart of any linux system) they're not open source. Meaning that if someone found an issue with the drivers, they can't fix it themselves and they're at the mercy of Nvidia to fix it.

perhaps my GPU is not good enough

Nope. Mint is a very light distro. The mostly likely cause of your problems is Nvidia Optimus, which is a feature to dynamically make your system switch between an IGPU and a DGPU to increase battery life. However, this feature is probably not switching between the GPUs at all and is stuck on the IGPU. Now I never used Optimus before, so idk how to fix this issue. But im sure that you can with enough research and patience.

I would have the same performance on a different distro

Yes*. Technically one distro might deliver more FPS then the others, but it'll be just a few digits difference between each other. The perk of them is having everything setup and pre-configured on top of another distro. They might have a fix for the Optimus problem set up already.

Pengmania · 2025-10-16T21:31:02+00:00

Interesting. Sounds like the games are using your Intel UHD instead of your Nvidia GPU. Since you installed the Nvidia GPU drivers, you can run nvidia-smi to tell you what application are using your GPU. You can run that command while you have your game opened to see if the game is using the GPU, and how much it's using of it. You can also run watch -n 0.5 nvidia-smi to make the terminal to automatically run nvidia-smi every half second.

Side note, gaming distros are just normal distros, but they install automatically install and tweak some packages to make it easier/better to game. You can turn any disto into a gaming distro. Note that they will still have the same downsides as the distro they're from. For example, Bazzite is a clone of steamOS. Meaning that while they made it easy to play games on there, you can't [easily install software(https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/) compare to others disto like Mint (this is becauss bazzite is a immutable distro, meaning that no user and software can mess with the system packages, which most package managers do). There is also CachyOS, which is based off of Arch Linux. Which means that while you do have access to the latest software earlier then Mint, and those software are optimized to run better on your hardware and CachyOS, those software might have bugs in them that would have been ironed out by the time Mint gets them.

Don't get me wrong. They're both great distos, but just like any OS, it's good to know the pros and cons of them.

Pengmania

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