KDE

I Regret Nothing

by

My first day out and about with my new Steam Deck was a success! I tested a bit of Sonic Mania, Team Racing, and Stray. All of them ran as if they were natively ported! The battery life so far seems to be holding up. One of my friends joined me for lunch today and they thought it was a Nintendo Switch! 😀 I’ve also been checking out the included desktop mode. It’s a super light version of KDE. Steam OS seems nice so far, but I’m kinda disappointed by the lack of items in their repository. Usually I could just install smb or KDE Connect for networking between other systems on a local network, but they don’t provide those on their repo… I would think Valve would want to put that option in for LAN gaming and network access.

It’s not that big of a deal though… I can always fork it in from another repo! 😛 I did that all the time under other distros when I couldn’t find something.

My Linux Surface Pro Arrived!

by

My Surface Pro 6 arrived today! It only took me a couple hours but I have a KDE Plasma spin of Manjaro running on it, with the custom surface kernel even! I did run into a couple of peripheral issues, as the touch screen doesn’t work until you install the surface kernel provided here. Fortunately I still have my old gaming keyboard, and I used my Steam Controller as a mouse. 😛 After getting the custom kernel installed I focused on installing my usual programs and tweaked the overall aesthetics. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for years, and it’s nice to have finally achieved it painlessly.

My next goal will be to take my Kindle HD8 and see if can sideload a different OS on it. I’ve read that it can be done, but if you’re not careful you can do some serious damage to the system. Having a better tablet makes me less fearful of nuking it, that and the HD8 was only a dollar. 😛

Open Nerd Thread

by

I found out that my Logitech F710 gamepad works under Linux with no additional drivers if I leave it in direct input mode. 😀 I tested a couple games with it and it recognizes that a controller is present.

The rest of my evening consisted of customizing KDE to my liking… Yeah I’m a nerd. I have a nice blue setup right now though. Downloaded a ton of schemes, themes and other stuff to make it look cool.

I think I’ll give Windows some love tomorrow though. Been a few days since I’ve been under there. 😛