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Either wireless adb, or sometimes a USB A to USB A cable with the power cut will work.

Wireless is easier.

Try either installing via adb using the “-g” argument to grant all permissions, or try granting permissions manually via adb.

I use it on my Android TV to reduce the brightness further during nighttime. I don’t change the color temperature, though.

The apps still have to be approved by Apple, and Apple still gets a cut. It’s not actual sideloading, and it’s all done through Apple-approved third party app stores.

You can’t just download an IPA file and install it.

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SteamOS is unique in that it’s an immutable OS (which means basically everything out of the /home folder is not modifiable by the user). This limits you to package management that works within the /home folder, which is basically just flatpak and AppImages by default. You can also use things like nix, but that’s a bit more complex.

Modifying the SteamOS system still is possible with utilities like rwfus, but that’s a bit more complex (OverlayFS is the keyword to look up if you’re curious).

With normal, mutable distros, you are able to modify the entire root of the filesystem, which means there are no restrictions on how you can modify your OS, and you can use regular package managers that do so for you.

Also FYI, flatpaks work on every distro, so anything that’s available on the SteamOS Discover store will also be available on every other distro. It uses flathub.org

Not sure about Reaper, but most Windows-only VSTs work fine on Linux using yabridge in my experience. Some DRM can have issues, though, and sometimes you need to install dependencies using winetricks.

Also, I noticed you mentioned using Ubuntu since Mullvad is supported. I have a feeling that you’re attempting to download software through websites instead of using your distro’s repo or by using flathub. Downloading software “the Windows way” by using websites isn’t recommended unless it is not available on repos. Mullvad works on every distro, for example, and is available on most repos.

The difference between “open source” and “free software” isn’t a definitional one, but a philosophical one.

Every distro is going to be good for gaming. Arch is going to be about equal to Fedora when it comes to gaming (both are good).

SteamOS is based on Arch, for instance.

You’re not really going to see a difference when it comes to compatibility or performance, and even if you did, that’s usually just a configuration issue (like setting a large enough VM heap size, which distros are starting to do by default anyway).

Is this an alternative to FSYNC and ESYNC?

Mainly Phoronix and Lemmy.

You can also use nixpkgs and AppImages on SteamOS.

If you give a million monkeys a piece of glass, one of them will eventually create a 3.2GHz Shakespeare.

Only supported in KDE, Sway, Hyprland, and gamescope as of right now. Also supported in X11.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate

Freesync works with Linux on AMD, but only over DisplayPort.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation

Not much will change.

TIL there’s an option to have Google sign an app. Seems a bit sketchy to me.

You live in the city of “Introducing?”

That’s pretty cool.

I tried it a few years ago and it kernel panics due to lack of RAM with the expansion card.

The one that I’m using. Focuses heavilly on retro tech.

sdf.org also hosts a multitude of other services, including a public SSH server.

Also doesn’t defederate with any servers and (from what I know) no servers defederated with it.