Manjaro Day 4

I've been really excited about using Arch Linux's Manjaro and things have been going well. No Man's Sky installed easier and runs better with Steam's tool set.

The challenge now that I'm trying to resolve is the mouse. My mouse is a Logitech G300s and it just feels...off. I can't place what exactly is happening but I find that its harder to actually click on small or exact locations. It feels like the mouse is over-sensitive which may be the case with the default interface loaded with Manjaro. I have not found another form of drivers or even logitech specific drivers for my corded mouse.

My hunt will continue into the xinput library and see if there's a way to treat the read bit rate and lower it so the mouse is not as sensitive.

First Night With Manjaro

I intended to try installing a Steam game sooner but was interrupted by a snake sneaking into our house. Fortunately for us a sticky trap caught before it could get to where it wanted to go. After some olive oil and patience, its unstuck, inside a plastic bin, where it will hang out until I release it far from our house tomorrow.

Tonight I wanted to test No Man's Sky on Steam in Manjaro. I had to enable the Steam Play feature in Steam before it would allow me to install the game. This is found under the Steam menu button at the top -> Settings -> Steam Play and "enabling Steam Play for all other titles." After a quick restart of steam, I was able to then install No Man's Sky.

The installation is proceeding like it would in a Windows environment, I'm typing this up as it downloads all the necessary files....Maybe I'll go check on the snake while I wait.

The installation went off without a single issue. I didn't even have to deal with those annoying additional dot.net installation requirements! The game loaded with the same speed as my Windows installation and runs just as well, if not a tad bit better frame rate.

Tonight It Starts

I played around with Arch Linux and I liked it enough that I'm going to go with Manjaro Linux. There's just a snappiness and crispness to Arch based distros that I really appreciate. There is solid NVidia driver support as well as straight forward ways to install Steam. I'm backing up my data now to prepare for full flat wipe and re-install.  I am installing the Gnome 21.1.4 release because I know Gnome the best.

Dear Windows,

It's been fun but, you're just not who you used to be though! We've both changed but I feel I've changed for the better and you're just, well, still the same with regards to lack of concern for user experience and security.

MeatRetreat and Distro Selection

Just spent the past four days with my buddies out in West Virginia. We all met at a cabin and essentially disconnected from cell service and the Internet in order to play video games and board games! The cabin was amazing and the event was awesome. 

What started out as a joke in our Discord server soon became reality. Because of the pandemic my friends and I found ourselves expanding our network of friends using Discord. Because of this I thought it would be fun to suggest maybe a retreat of some sort. This ended in laughs and fun ribbing but in the end it proved to be an awesome idea.

We played games like Dice Throne, Captain Sonar, Villagers, Magic the Gathering, Chess, Texas Hold'm. Everyone brought what they wanted to play and we gave tons of games a shot. 

However, that gave me little time for doing more research on distro selection. I did give it some thought on the way home and my course of action is going to be this:

My main PC will be Pop!_OS and my laptop that I hack around on (where this post is coming from) will be Arch Linux. I really feel that Arch is a good intermediary step to better understand the nuances with the linux environment. If the Steam Deck is really going to be all that it is sounding like it is, knowing the Arch structure and ecosystem will be important to taking full advantage of the hardware to do more than just playing Steam games!