myersguy

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Step 1: Get tested for sleep apnea. If you have it, snoring is the least of your worries. Don't skip this step.

Otherwise, sleep on your side, elevate your upper body (Amazon sells wedge pillows).

If you are certain you don't have apnea, you can also try a chin strap. Just be sure any chin strap you buy pulls your chin up, not back, as this will A: Obstruct breathing, and B: cause major jaw pain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

+1 on lower tier Intel CPU mini PC. I have a slew of different boxes by Beelink, Intel, and Asus. The N95 box I bought from Beelink (basically an N100) has been one of the most impressive for being so low power, and yet handling the wealth of services I've been running on it (with a lot of overhead yet).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The two are not even remotely in the same category of CPU. This is a comparison of apples to orchards.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I was mostly being tongue in cheek, but I think it might be possible to launch steam in big picture mode, rendered by Gamescope, from the TUI. No DE required.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It has for sure been there for at least a decade now. I think most people autopilot through OS installs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It says so on the installer page where you are asked to enter a root password.

FWIW: I'm not arguing for or against Debian as a beginner friendly distribution. Just mentioning that you don't have to set up sudo manually.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Don't install a GUI and you can just skip this step

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nonfree is usually something people are going to want to enable (Nvidia, Steam, Media codecs, etc)

You can install a nonfree image, but a person could argue that needing to know which image is needed is already more advanced than other distributions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

FYI: If you leave out root password on install, it instead sets your user up with sudo privileges.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

No, I mean it was debian based. When Steam Deck released, they moved to being an immutable arch based distribution instead.

It also isn't currently made available for install outside of the Steam Deck yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

SteamOS prior to steamdeck is an entirely different distribution FYI

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago

You son of a bitch, I'm in.

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EAC Seems broken on Arch? (lemmy.simpl.website)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I recently installed BattleBit Remastered on Steam (uses EAC). Upon trying to run the game, I only get as far as a screen telling me to ensure EAC is installed. I tried their "repair EAC" option in steam, and there was no change (a terminal opens, blinks, and closes again). I tried a system update to see if that would help, but no dice.

Now, when I try to launch Apex Legends (a game which I play all the time), I see EAC loading extremely slowly, then it goes away, but the game never launches (though Steam still shows the title as running).

Is anyone else having issues right now (with an up to date system)? Has anyone else experienced this before?

Edit: Decided to format my OS drive and move to Fedora. Using the same steam library, both games are now working. Clearly some package ended up misconfigured, but I have no idea what or why.

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