Haha, I wouldn’t expect anything less. But I don’t need to install the plugin…well…maybe I’ll just try it out for a few…danmit.

How about obsidian.md? It’s based on markdown, so edit mode has lots of keybindings, and there are all sorts of javascript plugins to add functionality.

In addition to rhe other advice, I’d add what helped me the most: install arch from scratch.

Use an older PC you have lying around, or just a VM. Use the installation guide on the arch wiki (or a video on feetube if you prefer to listen to a human explain stuff) and just learn as you go.

Indeed. Proton for the win yet again.

Blind trial and error, mostly. Making the game folder read-only was the real “duct-tape” part, it occued to me to do that after steam kept “updating” the game and breaking my solution.

This certainly isn’t of the same caliber as some of these other comments, but I found it to be fitting to the topic.

Last year I was having problems getting the game stellaris working on arch. (I use bazzite now, btw) My solution was the following:

1. download the game via steam.
2. switch it to use proton
3. switch it back to linux version
4. use the terminal to make the entire game folder read-only, so that steam couldn’t touch the game anymore and screw it up.
5. add the exicutable to PATH
6. start the game via terminal

If any one of those step was left out, it didn’t work. I’m no linux expert, so I didn’t have the skills to actuality find the real problem.

Outward is made to be played by two players. It’s a really beautiful survival rpg with difficult combat.

Well I for one hope they figure out an alternative income, like a premium subscription? Or perhaps look to get acquired by proton and get some integration going with those services? I’m no expert here, I just think that they have a lot of happy users, and there must be some way to figure this out financially.

Update: I turned off steam overlay, and set the in-game video setting from borderless full screen to just full screen, and that did it!

So much frustration, and such an easy fix. Ugh. But at least it’s working now. Thanks again.

I haven’t seen any hardware issues, but perhaps I’m just ignorant. I’m pretty busy with work and family generally, so I seldom dig into troubleshooting recently. I’m not even sure I’d know how to start with hardware diagnostics on an atomic distro (but that should be easy enough to find in the documentation).

I’ll try turning off steam overlay, thanks for the tip!

Thanks! I’m taking the advice of some other commenters about adding what I need without installing Gnome, which at the end of the day works apparently cause more problems that it solved.

Thank you for the detailed answer!

Based on all the answers I’ve recieved, I see that’s it’s probably best that I leave the DE alone. At the end of the day, I just need to make sure that I have the correct dependencies for the app in question. Installing the entirety of Gnome was really just my lazy fix idea.

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Thanks! Just what I needed. The idea to install an entire DE was my lazy fix idea, but now I’m learning more about how atomic distros work, and finally using the terminal in bazzite! It is such a convenient distro, but it also felt wierd to never open the terminal.

Thanks! This sounds like the best way to do things.

I really appreciate the help. I’m going to spend some time learning about this, and your suggestion is where I’ll start.

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I speak German and I can confirm, top-tier stuff.

Sorry my dude, you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That’s slowly changing though, as the enschittification of windows continues. They may not care to know about the details, but all of those points do fall under the “it just works” catagory. And they do care about that.