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Install DOSBox Staging for a more enhanced DOS gaming experience: yay -S dosbox-staging General MIDI/Soundfonts The integrated FluidSynth MIDI sequencer has issues with some soundfont files, resulting in minor to major music playback issues in games. Timidity...

The popular game distribution platform and library management client from Valve. NOTE: activate the multilib repository in /etc/pacman.conf to install Steam/Proton. pacman -S steam Where are my game saves for Proton-enabled games? Games that are running via S...

Install Wine to play (almost) any Windows game on Linux. For a compatibility list refer to ProtonDB. Install Wine from the repositories: pacman -S wine wine-gecko wine-mono winetricks DXVK DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 which al...

Discord is a proprietary, cross-platform, all-in-one voice and text chat application. Install Discord from the repositories: pacman -S discord

Apostrophe is a simple and distraction-free Markdown editor with a minimalistic interface, live preview and export capabilities into many different formats. Install Apostrophe from the AUR: yay -S apostrophe yay -S --asdeps texlive-latexextra mathjax # for PD...

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is a set of guidelines that define the directory structure of a Linux operating system. This standard specifies the names and locations of directories, files, and other file system objects that are essential for the prop...

During initrd generation mkinitcpio might output the following messages: ==> Starting build: '6.2.8-arch1-1' -> Running build hook: [base] -> Running build hook: [systemd] -> Running build hook: [sd-plymouth] -> Running build hook: [keyboard] ==> WARNI...

After a firmware upgrade the firmware settings might get reset to their default values, including bootloater entries and custom secure boot keys. Restore secure boot keys First, you should restore any custom secure boot keys that might have been lost. If you a...

By default, the Steam Deck's deck user has no password set. In order to do some customization tasks that require system administrator access, a password needs to be set using the passwd command. Follow the below steps to remove the password in case you forgot....

The simplest, most basic partitioning scheme in any Linux operating system consists of 3 partitions: Type File System Description EFI System Partition vfat Stores boot loaders and bootable OS images in .efi format Root File System ext4, btrfs, XFS, or...

ATTENTION: The Arch Linux installation medium does not support Secure Boot. You will have to disable it to start the installation. Point your system's current boot device to the USB flash drive plugged into one of the USB ports on your computer. This usually i...

WARNING: Only do this in a trustworthy network environment, e.g. at home, to prevent the possibility of tampering from outside sources! The system will not notify you if someone else logs into the installation environment alongside yourself! If you want to ins...

Linux supports a number of different file systems with different sets of features and intended use-cases. Ext4: The All-rounder Ext4 is the latest iteration of the "Extended file system" and the default on most Linux distributions. It supports journaling, whic...

LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also provides secure management of multiple user passwords. LUKS stores al...

If you have more than one hard disk that you need to encrypt (e.g. SSD as main disk, HDD as data disk) there are a few things to keep in mind to ensure continued smooth operation without any loss of convenience. The layout is as follows: Type File System De...

Under Wayland GNOME apps get their anti-aliasing settings from XDG Portals. To make fonts look nice in GNOME apps on Wayland and a non-GTK desktop (e.g. KDE Plasma) you need the appropriate portal installed: pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Then, restart the ...

Widescreen hack Edit SC3U.exe with a hex editor and search for the following byte sequence: 8b 4c 24 04 8b 44 24 08 53 Overwrite the first four bytes with: c2 08 00 90 Next search for the byte sequence: 8b 4c 24 04 8b 54 24 08 81 f9 Overwrite the first four...

Install from the DVD. Navigate to the location the DVD was mounted at and run: sudo sh ./linux-installer.sh Follow the installation steps. After installation completes do not run the game immediately after install. Patch first! Patch to latest version The pat...

Rename photos based on EXIF metadata exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.%%e' '-filename<EXIF:DateTimeOriginal' '-FileCreateDate<EXIF:DateTimeOriginal' -ExtractEmbedded . Apple MOV videos exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.%%e' '-filename<MediaCreateDate' '-FileCreate...