Don’t think I haven’t tried that.

I also tried the debug menu, xkill using the window ID, … it’s immortal.

Tbf, thanks to X11 Linux isn’t safe from stuff like that.

When I use my VR glasses, Steam sometimes creates an uncloseable X window that isn’t attached to any process. I don’t think even killing XWayland gets rid of it.

Yeah and they actually added some usability in the form of that utility helping you debug what you’re doing. Pretty nice!

I haven’t found anything better than Whiskey. It reminds me of the finnicky Wine days before Proton, but so far the problems I encountered are purely cosmetic. Granted, I only tried pixely indie stuff.

I don’t, my personal machine runs Linux

It works OK. Steam itself is super sluggish under it.

Native Steam + Proton is just better.

Hey, nobody disputes that.

Doesn’t mean macOS has a comparable portfolio of games it runs. Proton just works better than crossover or Whiskey or whatever.

You can update the whole base image. Vanilla OS and SteamOS have an A/B partition that holds the currently-in-use image and can also hold a to-be-used image.

Updating works by adding the to-be-used image, setting a configuration option that tells the system to boot that one, and on the next boot it’ll check if the new one is bootable, then either boot it and mark it as working, or boot into the old one and display an error about how out wasn’t able to boot into the new one.

There’s smart things going on like maybe hard linking files that didn’t change between the two images and therefore saving space and copying time.

The result is that you never have a broken system, but you can still frequently update the base image.

I feel like that has been superseded by Nix these days. Arch is now boring stable tech.

You say that as if somebody was disputing that.

The distinction ceased to be meaningful the minute language servers got introduced.

Laptop tries to reboot for 5th update of the day

I can’t connect to the internet, Dave, I’m afraid I cannot allow you to start me up again

You try to ignore helpful tips from the guy next to you, pretending your headphones are still active.

You choke back tears as Windows had enough from your feeble attempts to boot and the power button stops doing anything.

Btw

No, but one for systemd

What was the problem? I can see that if you don’t get past one of the steps described in the wiki, then you’re blocked. But I think if one has some experience with shell, CLIs and TUIs, it should be possible to follow the steps until you have a bootable system.

Is it worth it to try that, maybe through multiple attempts? Idk.

Do you do that every two years?

Yes, and tar works the same, it just doesn’t handle zip files.

And even if we’re pedantic: bsdtar is Arch Linux’ executable name for a port of the tar command that is shipped by BSDs, so it’s also tar.

One example for it is … tar!

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tar.1.html

It’s insane that this isn’t consistent.

Any combination of -h, -? and --help exists between tools (from 0 to all 3 of them)

Why remember/include the algorithm? Tar can infer that. It’s just bsdtar xf filename.* for everything. (bsdtar handles .zip as well)