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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Why is it a lie if people don’t want to switch, because their games are not there yet? Maybe someone plays a lot League of Legends, or Fortnite, or Valorant, or Destiny 2 or whatever [insert your game here]. They don’t know what awaits them in Linux and think its a similar operating system without the bullshit of Microsoft. Lot of people would happily switch, if they have the courage to install it themselves (with burning iso or boot disks). If the games are the most important thing, then its hard to argue to switch, if their games are not working in Linux. Because doing so would mean leaving friends behind too.

    Its not a lie. My brother is in a similar situation. He purchased a Steam Deck in a situation where he was thinking about getting a laptop. First it was nice, but then more and more he could not play the games he wanted to, besides a few software compatibility issues like Discord. Now the next PC he purchased (I build it for him) has Windows. Windows bugs him, but its a necessary evil. He will switch, if his games are working in Linux and if he can be confident that future games he want to play will work on Linux as well.







  • Discovering tools is not what the question and solution presented here was. But for that question, I recommend downloading a book about Linux as a reference or something like that. Or a basic tutorial series to read and remember basics about Linux.

    You can also just list the ls /usr/bin directory to see what programs are there.

    There is actually a command to search the man pages for terms, to list the commands: apropos

    $ apropos -s 1 search
    apropos (1)          - search the manual page names and descriptions
    find (1)             - search for files in a directory hierarchy
    flatpak-search (1)   - Search for applications and runtimes
    gamemodelist (1)     - search for processes running with gamemode
    rg (1)               - recursively search the current directory for lines matching a pattern
    zipgrep (1)          - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matching a pattern
    

    Note: I cut some parts out in the output to make it shorter. The option -s 1 means, it will list man pages from section 1 only.












    • Breath of Fire 2 (SNES): I don’t know how I managed to finish this game. It’s too drawn out, didn’t have an interesting story to follow with meaningless and annoying stuff to do and the random battles was too often.
    • Killer Instinct (SNES): I played this game seriously, learning the combos and fighting competitive with a friend. But nowadays it just does not feel good to play.
    • Toshinden (PSX): Similar to Killer Instinct, I played this game seriously with a competitive friend. Playing it today, I just can’t do it.