faster than steam

We are setting a very low bar here… There is no person (I hope) who uses steam because the program itself is good… And the other publishers’ launchers being crap doesn’t make it good

I thought lunduke was against codes of conduit because of some distorted idea of freedom of speech. Where is my freedom to name Jahvè in vain?

I wouldn’t “ban Windows at school” as a whole but I would:

• ban schools from installing windows in school computers
  • teachers and students can still use it on their own computers, if they want
• ban teachers from requiring windows-only software
  • regardless of what you use at school, teachers would often require MS office or Adobe for homework, which would force students to use windows at home

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That’s why I referred to it as “plain”: it’s just the reader. And it is mostly made to replace the original reader software on eBook devices, but you can also use it on desktop if you want.

The question is if you are looking for just a reader, or a library manager. But you can also mix the two, so use calibre fo manage the library and have it use koreader to open books

There’s calibre, and then there’s everything else. Also take a look koreader. You can also use koreader from calibre

I know, Farage winning against Binface has been a shock for me as well

I have no idea what this data is, but I have the gut feeling that we are fucked

Well, try lxqt+labwc. You’ll need to set it up, but if you are already willing to tinker with xorg in that machine it won’t throw you off too much. You’ll be pleased with the result

no one cares if it’s the protocol or the implementation. it just works worse than x11 on modest hardware

Actually, people that are not hell bent on using x11 do care… That is because the protocol is inherently more efficient than x11, and the compositor matters.

So if you try to run kwin or mutter, there’s no doubt they are going to be more demanding than a plain xorg server (but not more than xorg+KDE or xorg+gnome). But if you try to use a compositor made for low hardware like labwc, it’s gonna run laps around xorg. And you can even use labwc on lxqt, so you get your familiar desktop environment but with a modern Wayland compositor.

Just try it. Dig up an old intel atom netbook and see if you prefer using xorg or labwc

You don’t. That’s why it must be reputable sources

Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted you. DM is fine. I have never used Lemmy’s DM, I expect it to be bad. I have put a matrix address on my Lemmy profile. It’s probably better than Lemmy’s DM

I see, I’m not sure I can help you with that. I don’t really engage with many communities outside of Lemmy. I just lurk in various other places.

Anyway, it looks to me like you are looking for an online bubble where to efficiently isolate yourself, this can’t be good for you. I would suggest meeting with real people instead. Are you still a student? Maybe in university? Then you are probably surrounded by people your age with common interests to you, waiting for you to speak to them. Make friends, it will be fun.

That being said, I do share some of your social anxiety, so this is definitely a “do as I say, not as I do” kind of situation.

Interesting, I didn’t know you could do that through the portal directly.

I was only familiar with uinput because I have used it before to use a wiimote as a mouse, and for that you’d actually want to emulate a mouse.

Btw, I just remembered.

You said that “if you could go to the store, buy a disc with the game, like in the good old days” you would prefer that over piracy.

I do encourage you to buy games on GoG (Good Old Games), download the installer, and burn it on a blue ray disk for you to keep.

For steam I already told in the previous comment, cs.rin.ru. You need an account to access the clean files threads.

For gog unfortunately not anymore. Check the r/piracy megathread, see if you find something

I forgot about the gog part. Yeah, you can also use those. There used to be a website that uploaded clean gog installers, but now all the download links are behind those sketchy filesharing services. Though, if you manage to get one, the binary should be signed by the developer. On windows I know you can check the signature by right-clicking on the file, on Linux I don’t remember because I haven’t needed it in a long time.

For the VM you need qemu/kvm. I suggest to use virt-manager which is just a graphical interface for qemu.

First of all, don’t expose yourself to danger. Get your pirated games from reputable sources.

Most games only need a Steam emulator like Goldberg’s to run without license, and you can get clean steam files from cs.rin.ru. You don’t need VMs for this, it’s literally the original game.

If you need an actual crack, you can also look up on cs.rin.ru and try to gauge the reputation of the uploader. You can also check fitgirl or dodirepacks, they are both highly reliable. These are unlikely to have malware, but it’s not impossible.

If you want to use a vm because you still don’t trust the pirated game in question (reasonable), then there is no shortcut. Use the arch wiki to learn how to setup a VM with GPU passthrough, even if you don’t use arch it’s always a good place to get started.

The proper way to programmatically move a cursor on Linux is using uinput.

Anything you were doing that worked in xorg and not in wayland was more akin to a weird remnant from the 80s than to an actual solution.

However, there will likely be full featured applications that already do whatever you were trying to do.