I’m usually using nvidia-beta
drivers from AUR because they’re newer, so I just added the hook as an insurance policy.
The DKMS drivers are probably the safer option because they’ll handle rebuilding the kernel modules. Even though (like EddyBot said) the kernel and nvidia packages are supposed to get updated together, sometimes you can spam pacman -Syu
at the wrong time and only one package is updated and things go wonky…
Nvidia Arch user here, are you just forgetting to rebuild your kernel modules after a kernel or nvidia driver update?
You can just add a pacman hook that triggers mkinitcpio -P
after the linux or nvidia packages are updated. I’ve never had a no-GUI situation from a stray update… maybe one or two that were my own doing when trying to set up UKI’s though.
Glorious Eggroll is also behind a database called ULWGL that will get all the game launchers that use his proton (heroic, lutris, bottles…) to use the same game specific patches because at the moment they maintain them independently for the most part. The project seems to be taking off pretty quickly because it’s already formed an organization around it and recentered itself to even be Proton-GE independent if needed.
Pretty sure paru
without flags defaults to that, so you don’t even need the “-Syu” portion! 👍
I tried both Lidarr and Beets before, but their automation tended to pick matches with a “eh, close enough” attitude, so I just decided I’d do it properly myself.
I tag metadata on everything with MusicBrainz Picard, and then store it in a /{Album Artist}/{Album}/{Track}
hierarchy.
I've only ever had to deal with this issue when it comes to installing a demo of something. Generally Steam already knows if there is only a Windows build of a game or not and acts accordingly. If this is the thing that causes a bad impression of gaming on Linux, then you've probably already overlooked (or been blind to) other annoying situations.
Go into Steam Settings > Compatibility, and turn on "Enable Steam Play for all other titles", Steam will then ask to restart. Install your game (which should now not complain because it's getting the Windows version for proton) then go change the setting back.
Edit: Added the correct settings section and proper option name, because I was originally winging it, writing this comment on mobile.
PCPartPicker can filter for card length (in millimeters as opposed to inches, but still) and that should help with narrowing down your choices. Most GPUs have some variant that’s shorter in length, but they might just charge a bit of a premium for it.