Exactly.

They’re not spying on their own citizens, that would be illegal. They’re simply allowing other countries to spy on you (legal) and then they “share” data with each other.

The net result is every FVEY agency doing an end run around laws that exist to prevent government intelligence from spying on its own citizens.

Add in data brokers who buy all your data stolen by Facebook and Google and re-package it for sale and Big Brother can have all of the data that they would get from spying on you without being bothered by silly laws that prevent them from spying on you (they didn’t, the UK did).

It was a sick ostrich

I keep a Windows install in case there is a game that I want to play that works on Linux but I haven’t used it in months (mostly just to play VR)

Haha, yes. It was trying times.

But, if you’re reading this, you’re probably already more than qualified enough to use Linux for gaming. Obviously you’re going to have to learn things but it is very much worth it. Also, the desktop environments look much better imo.

For reference, to play Warcraft 1 multiplayer you joined a chatroom on Battle.net and the chat channel gave everyone a terminal MS-DOS command that you had to copy/paste into the terminal. If anybody had any network more complicated than computer -> modem then it would fail. If anyone failed to connect your game would crash. I was gaming like this at around 10 years old.

Obviously, comparing 2025 Linux to '90s Windows isn’t exactly fair… but gamers are not incapable of dealing with complexity.

Sure, don’t tell your 8 year old cousin to swap from Windows to Linux. But if you’re a smart high school student then you can learn. Like anything, it’ll take some getting used to and you’ll have to deal with frustrations but knowing how to use Linux and, probably more importantly, how to research and solve problems is well worth the effort.

Evil is a superstition word. Psychology more than explains his behavior. He’s a narcissist and probably has other mental health issues.

However, he has enough money that he is never forced to address these issues and surrounds himself with people who benefit from manipulating him by using these traits.

He’ll probably never even realize how dysfunctional he would be as a regular person that has to interact with society to survive.

The extreme left and extreme right spaces have a lot in common. Purity tests and instant bans for anyone not sharing the same groupthink is probably the biggest things.

By allowing our politicians a seat at the table you’re opening yourself up to more harm.

Isolate us, make the voting public feel the consequences of their actions. Respond to tariffs with tariffs on red states. Sanction administration official of the inevitable human rights abuses that are coming. Call out the lies of our Government openly and with evidence.

This isn’t going to change if there are never any consequences for the people who’re doing this as well as their supporters. Revoke the visas of our oligarchs, limit their travel, stop doing business with their companies. Create incentives for educated Americans to immigrate to healthier democracies and ban our social media companies before they finish poisoning your country as well.

Dude, the number of times I’ve resorted to a reinstall are innumerable. You know a bit more than you did yesterday and that isn’t nothing.

If you want to try a new project that’ll need tinkering with (but won’t break your existing install) look at gamescope.

Currently it’s the only way to get HDR and variable refresh rate to work. It’s what Valve made to get those features into the Steamdeck.

You just run it with

gamescope -- %command%

In your steam launch options. You’ll need to look up the options (otherwise it defaults to 720p@60hz). Ex:

gamescope -w 2160 -- %command%

For 4k. There’s a switch for HDR too but I don’t remember it without looking it up. You can use gamescope to enable FSR in any game, it can apply reshade shaders (so, things like anti aliasing in games that don’t have it natively).

Other than that, any issues you have with a particular game can usually be solved by looking at protondb.com

Keep using the GE-Proton builds of proton for best results.

Have fun 🤓

Yeah, you have Vulkan and Mesa and the GPU drivers are in the kernel. That’s the whole stack (along with Proton).

Before reinstalling completely, run a full system upgrade, I took this from system76s support page:

sudo apt update
# configure any packages partially setup 
sudo dpkg --configure -a 
# fix any missing package dependency 
sudo apt install -f 
# upgrade all packages and dependencies to newest in release 
sudo apt full-upgrade 
# make sure the `pop-desktop` meta package is installed 
sudo apt install pop-desktop

You’re also likely using some flatpak applications, so:

flatpak update

Then reboot.

They want you to reinstall because walking you through a fresh install is just more time efficient for their support staff than trying to troubleshoot system configuration problems (imagine the possible things a random user could change x.x).

I just noticed my reply from my phone didn’t go through x.x

This seems a lot like you’re missing some 32bit libraries. There isn’t a /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i386.json listed in the vulkan logs.

I have no idea how they’d be named in PopOS, but I’d look into vulkan first. You may have the vulkan-radeon 64bit drivers , but not the 32bit. Wine needs the 32bit libraries for the time being.

Check

dpkg -l | grep vulkan

(or post all of dkpg -l if it isn’t too long)

to see if you have the i386 version of the vulkan radeon drivers (for reference, in arch this is lib32-vulkan-radeon, possibly the same in PopOS)

If not install them (apt search vulkan and look for something with vulkan, radeon and i386 in the file name)

99664.262:00d4:00d8:err:xrandr:xrandr14_get_adapters Failed to get adapters

Hmmm, this gets some hits. It seems like it isn’t able to figure out which driver to use.

You can specify the driver that Vulkan should use by adding an environmental variable VK_ICD_FILENAME set the the json file for your card.

Try editing a game and changing the launch options to:

VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json %command%

I use it in this configuration.

It works well except, if you lose connection temporarily the cloudflared stops responding until some, long (60s or so) timeout period.

A minor annoyance, I usually just manuirestart the service… but I cannot find the setting that is causing this.

No errors, that’s good and also not useful :/

As an aside, this is likely not the problem, but a good tip in general, is to use protonup to install GE-Proton (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom). It is a community fork which essentially Proton Experimental + community fixes. The System76 article I linked above has the instructions (TL;DR, install protonup (terminal) or protonup-qt (GUI) and they’ll grab it for you and put it in the right directory, restart Steam and select the new version from the Compatibility menu either globally or per-game).

You essentially always want to be using the latest version of Proton unless something that was working breaks in a newer version.

So, next step, more logs:

You can enable proton logging by setting PROTON_LOG=1 as an environmental variable. You can do this per-game by right clicking a game -> Properties -> General and editing the launch options to say

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

Launch the game and let it crash or whatever. There will be a steam-$APPID.log in your home directory.

Stay with experimental for now.

Do other games show a similar behavior or is it limited to KSP?

BG3 should work fine (was just playing it on Linux about 30m ago, but Arch, btw, etc).

You can get some extra logging from steam, if you exit completely and the, in a terminal, run:

steam -d

It’ll start Steam but output a lot of info to the terminal. The bit we’re interested in isn’t the stuff that it generates while Steam is starting. We want the bit that happens when you press play on a game. It’ll output the information about the important bits (like the Vulkan device, driver versions, monitors, etc )

Make sure there’s no obvious account info in the logs (there shouldn’t be, but always check) and post that.

I’m off to bed but I’ll check in with you tomorrow

OP, I didn’t see if you’d confirmed that you’d enable Steam Play, see this article: https://support.system76.com/articles/linux-gaming

Kerbal Space Program has a Linux native client and a windows client. By default, Steam will try to install the Linux native client, which is using OpenGL and, apparently, doing software rendering.

You could try to troubleshoot why OpenGL is broken, you probably are missing an environmental variable or something to tell it to use a specific device and so it defaults to software. However, this is kind of a moot point. Development stopped on OpenGL in 2017 and so bugs and weirdness will continue to crop up and fixing it won’t resolve your core issue (Which may be that you’re just not using Proton).

If you’re going to game on this system then you should do what most people do and enable Steam Play and let Steam download the Windows version of KSP and run it through Proton (aka Steam’s version of WINE). Often the Windows versions of games are more supported than the Linux native versions and WINE/Proton do an excellent job of translating the underlying windows system calls into Linux-ese. Proton is the primary reason why gaming on Linux works, because it lets you just play the Windows version of games.

Your logs indicate that your graphics card is the default device for Vulkan and so it should just work as soon as you enable Steam Play. If you have any problems with other games (once you verify that you’re using your graphics card) you can look them up on Protondb (https://www.protondb.com/) and see if you need to make any setting changes. KSP looks to have a Gold rating and appears to work with Proton without any changes.

That’s the downside of having a group of millions of people, you can’t moderate it like a community of people.

In a community of someone is acting out you can talk to them and try to engage. If there are hundreds of thousands of people, you don’t have the time or energy and have to resort to brute force methods.

People always complain about the size of non-mainstream social media sites. They don’t seem to realize that social networks are far higher quality when they are small. They’re just not as economically valuable to the corporation that owns the servers.

If you’re old, and used the Internet when it was young, before smartphones brought everyone online and converted the Internet into a theme park, you’d remember the forum communities.

It used to be that, when you’d search for a topic online, you’d find a forum full of enthusiastic people that were passionate about a topic. It was such a great time, you could have a conversation with actual experts and receive good advice from human beings.

That’s all been replaced by subreddits full of millions of people spamming memes and bots pretending to be humans that REALLY LOVE a specific product (this sentence brought to you by NordBPN).

Because the Internet was smaller and was made up of select demographics.

Now, something that’s completely unacceptable to some of the population won’t even register with the majority.

Blame AI?

That’s not what the article says.

“While emerging and developing economies are set to drive the large majority of the growth in global electricity demand in the coming years, consumption is also expected to increase in many advanced economies after a period of relative stagnation,” said Keisuke Sadamori, the IEA’s director of energy markets and security.

More places in the world are becoming industrialized, that’s the largest driving factor, not AI

Me too nephew, me too