There's also Zen browser that's Arc-like and based on Firefox instead of Chromium. Zen lets you sync tabs with Firefox elsewhere (including mobile Firefox), run the full uBlock Origin, and it is a fully open source browser.

https://zen-browser.app/

It's also available on Linux too (in addition to Windows and macOS), unlike Arc.

What's the multi window feature in Chrome? Is that like containers in Firefox?

Doesn't distrobox (and podman) come with SteamOS these days too?

You wouldn't be able to layer, but using distrobox-export from inside a distrobox container would let you export command line apps as well as graphical ones too. The graphical apps will even show up in your menu and can be pinned as well.

(Of course, if something is available on Flathub already as a Flatpak, installing the app via Discover is easier and better. While Flathub has a lot of apps, it doesn't have everything, so being able to pick and choose from any distribution using distrobox is nice for a very large selection of software.)

Oh, nice! Then there are two great FOSS keyboard under maintenance again! Thanks for mentioning that.

I totally agree. whoBIRD is amazing.

I did use BirdNet for quite some time before whoBIRD was available, but it's so great to be able to open up the app (whoBIRD) wherever and have it identify the birds we're hearing without having to wait for a network round trip. The somewhat recent feature of showing bird photos in whoBIRD is nice as well.

Running the app from time to time has had me notice birds in the area I would've otherwise missed.

Thanks to the app, I saw a long tailed tit for the first time and even managed to get a few photos! (They were mixed in with other bird song, but the app said they were singing in the area too. After a little searching, we found them.)

Photos:

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/677904448182940941

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/678023083037619560

It's definitely an app that would make someone install F-Droid on Android if they haven't already. (As it's only available on F-Droid and not Google Play.)

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.whobird/

For the video problem, it might be codecs; try using Proton-GE if it's in Steam or use Wine-GE if not. (IIRC, Steam will often convert the videos and give you the converted ones in the shader caching if necessary. But those outside of Steam, and sometimes a few still in Steam don't have that workaround.)

For the main issue you're having, try running those games in gamescope, which itself is a compositor with a bunch of neat tricks. In this case it'd make sure to not lose the focus of the game even if the gamescope window loses focus. It can also optionally force windowed or fullscreen modes, upscale (even with FSR1), and lock the framerate.

Changing settings in the game itself between fullscreen or borderless (borderless should usually help with the focus issues) may help too, if the game has that setting, but then you'll probably hit the borders issue due to FVWM. (I don't know if you'd get the fullscreen unredirection optimization in fvwm. That could be a reason to pick one or the other for you too.)

You're probably hitting a few edge cases by using FVWM versus a more modern environment like GNOME or KDE, but to be fair I've seen the focus issue happen before on a game on running through Heroic on GNOME with more than one monitor before. FWIW: I don't remember seeing the issue in games from Steam. (It probably depends on the game itself, however.)

GNOME has extensions that can bring these kinds of effects back:

• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4648/desktop-cube/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/

The easiest way to set these up is to use the "Extension Manager" app (available on Flathub) and search for "cube" and "burn" (and install each).

https://flathub.org/apps/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager

You can set up mount points on Linux, at least in GNOME, very easily. (It's even fully automatic for external disks.) I'd be surprised if it isn't as easy in KDE and other desktops too.

The problem here (at least from what it sounds like) isn't setting up mount points. The problem is fixing an incorrect fstab on the disk that's causing the system to hang on boot.

(This isn't a typical situation, which is why I also asked about how the partition was added to the system.)

Oh, sorry. I missed that detail. ☹️ Apologies.

Yeah, I agree that it's a bother to do it with every game. You're absolutely right.

This should be some global setting, especially as they even officially sell a dock.

Also: Inspector Gadget.

An international US, French, and Canadian production.

Penny (the "hacker" niece) and Brain (the intelligent dog) solve all of the cases that Inspector Gadget (cyborg cop) bumbles through, even though he's essentially RoboCop with gimmicks.

You can do this with the Flatpak version of Steam, but you have to give it access to the disks.

Flatseal is the easiest way to do this.

1. Open Flatseal
2. select Steam
3. scroll down to the "Filesystem" section
4. click on the + icon on the "Other files" area
5. either put in the full path, or use something like "/run/media" to give it access to all user-mounted storage devices (this value may vary depending on how the disk is mounted)

Restart Steam (if it was running). You should be able to access additional devices.

the driver’s for my brother laser printer

I have a Brother printer + scanner too (MFC-L2750DW). Many Brother printers (and a lot of non-Brother printers too) are supported by default in Fedora using a "driverless" method. It's part of "IPP Everywhere" (https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html), AirPrint (Apple), and Direct Print (Microsoft), and most printers support it these days, and Fedora supports all of these. (Other distros likely do too.)

At least in GNOME (on Silverblue here), if it doesn't already show up and work, you can click on "Add Printer..." and it should find and add it. KDE and other desktops will likely be different — although hopefully not much different.

Scanning with "Document Scanner", aka: "Simple-Scan", detects my networked Brother printer for scanning without having to do anything too. https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.SimpleScan

I hope this helps!

undervolting requires turning off secureboot or a patch

I haven't looked into undervolting much. I know some people have mentioned CoreCtrl; I haven't managed to figure it out yet.

If it requires turning off secureboot or a patch, that's a bummer and might be why I couldn't find the settings in CoreCtrl. I haven't seen this when looking it up a while back, however (but the Internet is big). CoreCtrl setup docs @ https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl/-/wikis/Setup don't mention either.

I do see that it requires setting a kernel flag, which on ostree-based distributions is:

rpm-ostree kargs --append=amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff

(And then reboot.)