Had a CyberMaxx VR headset back in the days. It had a whopping resolution of 505x230 per eye at a combined 60 Hz (so each eye only got 30 Hz). Headtracking worked with 3 degrees of freedom. The included mouse driver for DOS made the head tracking available for every DOS game even if it didn’t have support. It came with Tekwar and a Flight Unlimited demo I never could get to run.

Some games worked with stereoscopic 3D. That was about the only really awesome thing about the headset. But the 30 Hz displays made sure that you could only play for a short while anyways. Descent was nausea inducing on its own. But in VR it was a guaranteed pukefest.

Thinking about playing with the headset was always much better than actually doing it. I’d pull it out every few years and then put it back into storage. Last I heard it died at my brother’s.

Thanks, sounds good. I need the running system, so I’d first set up BTRFS on one disc, test it and then add the other disc.

I wonder how long it will take until all the mods shown are available.

I will be decrypting from a small busybox inside the initrd. I suspect that it will decrypt both drives if the passphrase is the same. At least that’s how it works on the desktop.

Why not ZFS’s own encryption?

Though I would rather go with BTRFS since I don’t have any experience with ZFS.

SDDM seems to be severely underdeveloped. It doesn’t seem to get nearly as much love as the rest of KDE. You might consider switching to GDM or another display manager that does what you want. You can be happy that your HDMI monitor is not mirrored smaller on your ultrawide.

I’d rather set up a VPN for yourselves. Many routers can act as a VPN. Maybe you and your friends should check your routers if they are capable of doing that. Could be the easiest option.

That’s not my experience. Bought a new Brother MFC the other day. Hooked it up to the Wifi. All Linux machines in the house can automatically print and scan without any additional setup needed.

The community is probably still bitter from the way Owncloud went corporate which prompted the Nextcloud fork in the first place.

And now Nextcloud is plagued with the technical debt slowing it down.

Correct. But I find that often these scripts are over engineered and opinionated. So I’d start with just the dependencies and go from there.

Debian is not great for gaming. At least not if you have somewhat current hardware. Other distributions have much more up to date drivers and software.

And in my experience getting a game to run in a virtual machine is much harder than on bare metal.

That said, to answer your questions, you can find Lutris’ install scripts on lutris.net. ie https://lutris.net/games/outer-wilds/. You can select to view the scripts. For dependencies you’re looking for the task with the name winetricks.

- task:
    app: arial vcrun2019 d3dcompiler_43 d3dcompiler_47 d3dx9 win7
    arch: win64
    description: Installing dependencies
    name: winetricks
    prefix: $GAMEDIR

There after app you find all the dependencies it installs.

You can also search for the games on https://protondb.com it will show you reports by users on how a game runs and what configuration changes they had to make to get a game running. It’s Steam-centric so you will only get games that are on Steam and on Steam most stuff is automated so you won’t always see the dependencies needed as Steam has already installed them. https://www.protondb.com/app/753640?device=any

They’re great. Just avoid the reboot. Its developers didn’t even play the old ones.

The Cradle level in Thief 3 will forever and always be the scariest experience I’ve ever had in any video game, including horror games. It elevated an otherwise mediocre game to be a worthy entry besides the first two games.

That is absolutely not a slow laptop. If it takes a long time to boot there must be something wrong. I have a similar system that takes about ten seconds to boot.

Anyways, like others said, LVM with LUKS is the simplest. It uses your hardware to quickly decrypt the drive on boot. While it is running access to your data is protected by your login manager or lock screen.

Stay away from the Thinkpad T580 with the Geforce MX150. It’s horribly throttled and can’t even run Quake 3 properly although it should actually be capable of running Doom 2016.

Might be the same with the T480.

That’s more or less what a virtual machine does. And I bet cheating programs do as well.

At it’s simplest you just start the programs with Wine. So when you have Wine installed you can just select to run an exe file with Wine. By itself it will install them to a hidden folder where a mock-Windows-folderstructure is created and add entries to your start-menu equivalent.

Most people use helper apps that add a separate mock-Windows environment for every program. Makes it easier to manage them, especially if one program needs different settings from another to work.

Bottles is such a helper for general programs. Heroic is mostly for GOG and Epic games. Lutris generally for games. And Steam uses it’s own Wine version Proton automatically for verified games and you can trivially configure it to automatically use it for every Windows game.

Look at https://protondb.com for games and https://appdb.winehq.org/ for general programs.

And in reality they’re all just in the 2.6 branch. I still remember the transition from 2.4.

I wonder how that will play together with Distros like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed where you basically do a whole OS upgrade and are not supposed to do “just” updates.

I hope we can easily supply our own script to run.

Fli4l should. Back when it was new it was meant to fit on a floppy and run on 3’86 machines. It’s for running a home router.