my tech savvy friend has caved under my undying admiration of Linux

I have a 6900 xt GPU of which had random crashes for a month, I then decided to load a new BIOS on to the board and found that the chip was not reading at all. Dual BIOS so no issue. I did some soldering to remove the faulty chip then turned on my PC to find all applications that used electron to render were crapping out making several applications unusable.

With this I disassembled and reassembled the card several times over several days its also connected in a custom water cooling loop. Was a stressful week and found no issues with the card other than the now removed BIOS chip, I then decided to load up another linux Wayland os and found all electron applications worked perfectly. Back to my main os I uninstalled wayland, electron24 and a few other dependency's and reinstalled. Lo and behold the system was fine....

Love you linux but holy. Had be freaking out over repairing a fairly expensive card.

Is the onus on the consumer? As much as I hate to say it I am pretty judgemental when it comes to people paying for subscriptions.

While its wholly negative to have this mind set in the modern world is it such a bad thing.

Like if we were all in a Lemmy community swimming pool and 80% of lemmys where pissing in that pool would I be unjust to be mad, my thought pattern here is by people supporting the subscription model will impacts everyone and it goes further than just more subscription only content, it impacts hardware where a lot of iot device and gaming device are less about serving the enjoyable media/useful features and more offering a portal to subscription services which impacts usabilities like rooting, custom ROMs, emulation, general tinkering, now every modern console, shady iot device has some kind of encrypted lock or circumventing that lock will also attract negative attention from corpos. At what point will consumer PCs start running locked down software with a locked bootloader.

Should we as consumers stop buying game pass, Disney plus, vibrating massarg rings, mill kits, cable TV. As to not incentives corporations.

I hope I'm not doom saying just general frustration and concern for what the future will hold. And I'd like to see what the general concus is on the subject

Xwayland was borked. Reinstalled all graphics drivers and mesa, Xwayland has fixed the issue, now all CEF windows render normally.

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a few applications that use CEF to render applications have serious artifacting (main install of arch with sway), i dont believe this is a gpu issue as i installed arch with sway minimal config and the issue was resolved.

anyway i am hoping someone smarter than me could direct me on where to start with debugging this issue :)

system:

OS: Arch Linux

KERNEL: 6.7.3-arch1-2

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (radeonsi, navi21, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.57, 6.7.3-arch1-2)

GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 24.0.0-devel (git-95ad0c750c)

RAM: 32GB

GPU is on its way out but its only effecting xwayland applications, still able to play games though

So I know the easy answer is from steam/gog/epic or what ever else but I can't imagine all game repackers are doing this for financial or ethical reasons.

I do remembered one group in matrix telling me about a Russian site that uploads untouched games but can't remember the name.

Any links to trust worthy sources?

jc141 is a linux game repacking group that use .sh scripts to configure wine prefixes but also includes native releases allowing users to easily play games on linux.

the script is bash and must be run with dialog and from within the directory where jc141 games are stored.

make a .sh file called launcher.sh or whatever else. paste the bash script, save to the dir that has jc141 releases and launch in terminal. personally i set an alias in bashrc that links to the .sh script

mozila paste bin

When I say arch I mean the arch distro and all of its offspring.

Endeavouros

Arch-gui

~~Manjaro~~

Artix --maybe not though

My first enjoyable distro was manjaro, the manjaro element less so but using arch clicked for me. But even so if my first experience was using arch and archinstall then yes its not the easiest but its also not that difficult, arch is treated like a boss battle in darksouls.

So when a pre configured GUI arch is recommend I would like to see less scar mongering.

Using pixel 6a with calyx ROM and I play pokemon go, I'd like fitness tracking but ive not been able to get health connect to work.

Basically as title states.

In need of software that takes simple spoken words/sentence and runs a macro