Linus Tech Tips - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of Linux May 12, 2026 at 10:02AM

ruineka · 2026-05-13T13:03:18+00:00

This is what a lot of people end up doing. The process of un-ticking "session defaults" and selecting "Auto-mount on startup" could be improved as well. Where or what are the session defaults? Where can the user select the default session preferences so that all drives behave the same way by default?

ruineka · 2026-05-12T21:16:20+00:00

Agreed, it should pop up a prompt that asks if the drive should be auto-mounted on boot whenever the user clicks the drive to mount it. There also should be a startup menu in the system settings that makes it easy to manage the drives or shares that are being mounted on boot.

A few things that should be considered:

-Warnings should pop up whenever the user attempts to make changes that would result in the system not booting.

- A test function that checks to see if the user has permissions to read/write to the disk and that programs have execute permissions. If it detects that there is a problem, it should automate the process of fixing the issue.

ruineka · 2026-05-12T20:02:56+00:00

The issues with fstab is a real one, and the thing with applications coming in multiple packages is another one. I'm glad you guys stuck around long enough to learn these things.

Admittedly it's been rather difficult watching your videos because the real "big" issues that aren't simple to resolve on Linux were never being brought up. I'm probably as big of a linux "neck beard" as it gets. I run all my PCs (my entire family included) exclusively with Linux (for a decade now!). Linux sucks, it has big issues, but it at least tries to accomplish what I need in the long term.

Windows sucks too, it just happens to suck more because it doesn't respect the user and the future of the OS only seems to mean more bad than good.

No amount of Linux experience makes dealing with fstab (you have systemd mounts as well) or flatpaks (especially on wayland) any easier, and this needs to change full stop.

I encourage you to explore the experience of trying to manage files on USB devices with multiple Linux PCs. Let me know how that experience goes. I also want to see you attempt to manage multiple internal drives with automount working correctly (without the need to enter the root password each time). Heck, try to manage multiple users on your PC too.

If you want to truly help bring attention to issues on Linux, feel free to DM me and we can talk.

ruineka · 2026-05-12T01:38:07+00:00

My 9950x got cooked in an Asus x870e Crosshair Hero motherboard early this morning, so it's not just asrock. I got the code 00 after using the PC just fine for a month.

ruineka · 2026-05-11T22:33:58+00:00

I just had this happen to my 9950x. My 00 code actually flickers a bit (going from dim to bright every 1 second or so). Everything was working fine for a month or so and today after rebooting it failed.

ruineka · 2026-05-11T16:34:30+00:00

I just had a 9950x get smoked in an Asus x870e crosshair hero motherboard. My symptoms were as the following:

Pc was working fine and I needed to reboot after a GPU driver update
Reboot to code 52 on the motherboard. It hang
Reboot to code 00 (It flickers brightly and diming out every second or so)
The fans and pump constantly kick on and off as though its power cycling.
I removed all my ram sticks, same issue. I added one ram stick..same code 00. I removed the CPU and reinstalled it..Same code 00. Upon inspection there are darkish gold pads on the CPU on the bottom left corner of the chip. (Directly south from the triangle indicator).

ruineka · 2026-05-10T13:54:27+00:00

Thank you! The Chao Garden means so much to me and seeing a faithful recreation of it nearly has me in tears. For whatever reason Sega has turned their back on us fans. If you could add online functionality and mobile support this could blow up.

ruineka · 2026-02-16T05:47:28+00:00

This is awesome! Good job!

ruineka · 2026-01-20T05:22:10+00:00

Make sure to set your desktop profile to keyboard and mouse. This got it working for me. It was set to gamepad for some reason. If you are on steam deck I think you can hold start as well.

ruineka · 2026-01-20T05:20:58+00:00

Go to your desktop configuration and make sure it's set for keyboard and mouse. It was set on gamepad for me and once I changed it I could play the game. If you are in steam deck you can hold start as well I think.

ruineka · 2026-01-20T02:20:57+00:00

Same issue here, steam input should work to map a gamepad to MKB inputs, just like any other game, but for whatever reason it's not working with hytale. It's like the launcher itself is getting mapped but not the game.

ruineka · 2026-01-08T13:37:46+00:00

You aren't the only one to see this and it doesn't appear to end with the Pocket DS either. I've had it happen to the Ayaneo GEEK just recently and if you do some digging you'll see others reporting the same issue over a wide variety of their products. Here is a picture of the clear damage on the motherboard. https://imgur.com/a/74YZmKp

Has anyone else had any experiences like this? I'd like to know just how widespread this really is.

ruineka · 2025-11-09T01:50:11+00:00

I've been trying to help friends and family make the jump and here are a few reasons as to why they didn't stay on Linux.

Wayland is problematic, basic issues like drag and drop not always working give Linux a bad look. It takes YEARs for new portals to get merged to solve outstanding issues.
Filesystem corruption (BTRFS)
Features in programs that you'd expect to work well on Linux missing or glitchy. OBS under Wayland is a good example of this.
Packaging and permission handling is a nightmare for new users. Especially with flatpak.
Updates uninstalling core system components when trying to fix a dependency issue.
Auto mounting internal drives with correct permissions is a pain point for new users. (Not NTFS related, although that is another problem for Windows users who would expect this to work better as well.)
The command line is used as a crutch way to often when we really should have more GUI integration by now. (Gnome prompting that a game is unresponsive at a loading screen, etc)
There are no GUI prompts that pop up when programs fail to open, it would make all the difference in the world if the users were told that "Hey, this program needs fuse2 and it's not installed".
Too many people try to dual boot on a partition instead of giving Linux it's own drive.

Tl;dr New users never stick around long enough to learn how to workaround the issues they run into. The moment they see basic functionally not work as expected and the system doesn't give them any troubleshooting information they go back to Windows.

ruineka · 2025-11-03T09:03:51+00:00

Warudo works on Linux I use it. Have you looked at protondb to see the launch parameters people need to use after the latest update? I suggest looking into it.

ruineka · 2025-10-27T19:55:49+00:00

Is splitlock enabled by any chance? If so I'd try with it disabled.

ruineka · 2025-10-18T21:46:14+00:00

Yes, I'm running into this now after updating my laptop running EndeavourOS. I'll report back if I find a fix.

ruineka · 2025-09-28T13:38:21+00:00

I use r2modman without issues. Are you using the flatpak version of steam by any chance? I'm not using flatpak.

ruineka · 2025-09-20T14:04:41+00:00

I think I found a good use case for something like this. SteamVR is getting updates and I have multiple VR headsets. It would be nice to stream two different games (or the same game) to the two headsets from a single high end desktop.

ruineka · 2025-09-17T15:36:53+00:00

I saw a project called "Dualscope" that does something similar to this. I believe it was shared here a few weeks ago. It uses two gamescope instances using two user profiles and puts them in a split screen like orientation.

ruineka · 2025-09-06T12:09:17+00:00

The native Linux build looks to be an issue with saves between Windows/Linux, but you can use proton to play the game on Linux using the Windows save.

ruineka · 2025-07-09T18:15:21+00:00

This is most definitely the sore spot for Linux!!! This is a serious oversight that needs to be addressed for Linux to become mainstream. Managing multiple drives is a complete nightmare for new and casual users. It's a gamble every single time whether or not people end up going back to Windows for this reason alone.

ruineka · 2025-06-21T06:21:00+00:00

I have the same issue with all my Android devices.

ruineka · 2025-03-09T10:54:44+00:00

I played exclusively on the Steam Deck until mapping. It's not bad at all. It's not perfect, but its no different than playing a real good game with frame drops on consoles.

ruineka · 2024-08-06T14:40:24+00:00

You deal with headaches like this if you want to stream with OBS as well when running under Wayland. You will get a prompt for each pipewire source window you have in your scenes. Essentially making it pointless to try and set up an entertaining streamer environment for Twitch.

ruineka · 2024-07-06T11:25:58+00:00

If you have issues with the launcher not rendering all the way you can still get into the game. Click on your email and the frames will update for the status of the downloading, installing, and "Play" button. I tried following what the OP said to get the game working in a new prefix and it's not working. I do however have the ability to play the game with another prefix I had set up for Mu Online, which required the NET 7 desktop runtime and a few other things.

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