tiling window manager moment

Assuming 1:1 aspect ratio is for the physical screen, the resolution most likely won’t be a square because of the rectangular shape of pixels. So you’ll need to calculate the resolution of visible part of the screen first. After you have found your resolution, you’ll probably need to add that resolution config under /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d/.

For distros, not desktop environments. You can choose DEs for distros though. But there it is: https://distrosea.com/

Didn’t know the injection part. It’s the same for humans then? So basically death by drugs. That makes sense.

Thanks for the reply!

Why do they use the word “euthanise”? Do those belugas want to die because they’re too old and sick?

Edit: Forgive my sarcastic nature but asking a genuine question here, since English is not my first language.

Yup, it can be edited. This is not Reddit. :)

No problem! :)

Nvidia. It’s always Nvidia.

While some distros let you choose short passwords, most of them don’t nowadays. However, you can still change your user’s password despite to this. Just open terminal, type sudo passwd username, type your desired password and enter. This way you can even use one character passwords, you really shouldn’t though.

I was able to rescue GRUB from memory 10 years ago.

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah, I saw some people recommended USB adapters. Luckily I got it working with blacklisting (still testing for possible issues though), without that it indeed had ridiculous speeds.

Thanks, that’s good to know. Even though I currently fixed the problem, I’ll keep this in mind.

Thanks!

Well, the problem is no distro ever came with this driver pre-installed, at least the ones I have tried, including Ubuntu. I’m used to trade-offs too but this machine will be for someone else so it should work without problems. Later I have found about blacklisting and luckily that worked, and seems to be working fine so far. Since it’s driver related, distro choice won’t matter here. Unless I could have found a one that comes with that driver.

I wanted PinePhone to work decently so I could daily drive it but when I got it it was already far behind from my old phone hardware-wise. PostmarketOS had run roughly. It was kinda usable but I couldn’t manage to use Signal on it (it was a desktop app that time). GPS wasn’t working either. 2 most important things for me. Battery life was also abysmal.

This was years ago though, PostmarketOS is probably much much better now. I sold that PinePhone so I don’t know its current state. I wouldn’t expect more from what I tried.

If I’m gonna get a Linux phone now, I want to see a good Android app emulation. At least until we get real alternatives. I still need a couple apps from Aurora Store. F-Droid apps have a better chance to be ported to Linux from Google Play ones anyway.

Just so let you know, if someone operates an ISP their staff is tech-savvy. Even if they are not, they still know what you download. They have logs and they are bound by law if some government agency wants your data. They will provide it.

Too wild. :)

Sadly nope. Also the game probably can run on Intel HD Graphics anyways, it’s quite old.

Tried steam-native but sadly didn’t fix the issue. Apparently it does indeed fix some problems for some games. Maybe I can use LD_PRELOAD to pull some system files before running the game via a launch option but no idea where to start or if it would work at all. I could also try flatpak Steam but whenever I tried that I had worse experiences.

No problem! :)

Actually PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 was one of the first things I have tried. Sadly it still gives the same error.

Currently I’m using GE-Proton10-15. These are the logs:

[2025-09-27 21:32:12] Game process added : AppID 214590 "PROTON_LOG=1 /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=214590 -- '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/mb/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-15'/proton waitforexitandrun  '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Fairy Bloom Freesia/FairyBloomFreesia.exe'", ProcID 1223438, IP 0.0.0.0:0
[2025-09-27 21:32:12] Loaded Config for Local Override Path for App ID 214590, Controller 4: /home/mb/.local/share/Steam//controller_base/empty.vdf
[2025-09-27 21:32:12] GameAction [AppID 214590, ActionID 26] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with ""
[2025-09-27 21:32:12] GameAction [AppID 214590, ActionID 26] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
[2025-09-27 21:32:14] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223557
[2025-09-27 21:32:14] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223553
[2025-09-27 21:32:14] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223440
[2025-09-27 21:32:16] Game process updated : AppID 214590 "PROTON_LOG=1 /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=214590 -- '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/mb/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-15'/proton waitforexitandrun  '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Fairy Bloom Freesia/FairyBloomFreesia.exe'", ProcID 1223554, IP 0.0.0.0:0
[2025-09-27 21:32:16] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223565
[2025-09-27 21:32:16] Loaded Config for Local Override Path for App ID 214590, Controller 4: /home/mb/.local/share/Steam//controller_base/empty.vdf
[2025-09-27 21:32:18] Game process updated : AppID 214590 "PROTON_LOG=1 /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=214590 -- '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/mb/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-15'/proton waitforexitandrun  '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Fairy Bloom Freesia/FairyBloomFreesia.exe'", ProcID 1223649, IP 0.0.0.0:0
[2025-09-27 21:32:19] Loaded Config for Local Override Path for App ID 413080, Controller 4: /home/mb/.local/share/Steam//controller_base/empty.vdf
[2025-09-27 21:32:20] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223607
[2025-09-27 21:32:20] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223567
[2025-09-27 21:32:20] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223554
[2025-09-27 21:32:20] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223552
[2025-09-27 21:32:20] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223439
[2025-09-27 21:32:21] Game process removed: AppID 214590 "PROTON_LOG=1 /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/mb/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=214590 -- '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/mb/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-15'/proton waitforexitandrun  '/mnt/SSD480G/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Fairy Bloom Freesia/FairyBloomFreesia.exe'", ProcID 1223649 
[2025-09-27 21:32:21] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223649
[2025-09-27 21:32:21] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223631
[2025-09-27 21:32:21] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223584
[2025-09-27 21:32:21] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223579
[2025-09-27 21:32:21] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 1223570

No problem! Yeah, I saw that too. Though it’s from 2013 and before even Windows 10 but since it happened on Windows at one point says it might not be all related to translation layers.

Game uses DirectX 9 since it has a d3d dll in the game files. But I have no idea how can I check what Proton uses.

Lutris (and so Umu launcher) runs the game just fine if I use GE-Proton. However there is no Steam connection there. If I select to run it via Steam runtime inside Lutris, I still get the same error. (I think that option just runs the game via Steam and nothing more?).

If there are auto-enabled flags like PROTON_USE_DXVK=1, I might try to disable them. Though there are many of these.