For VR, if you have a Quest headset and good WiFi, you can try ALVR with SteamVR, it works just fine for me while playing BeatSaber but depending on games your milage might vary.

Container is just a term for a set of isolation solutions bundled together.

Like file system isolation (chroot), network isolation, process isolation, device isolation…

One of them is ofc chroot, yes container use exactly the same chroot functionality.

So to answer your question, no, you don’t need full isolated container. You can use only chroot.

You just need to pass all required devices ( and match the driver version running in kernel with your files in container and (avoid) more than one app having full unrestricted access to GPU as that would result in issues (but dont know the details so can’t help you with that)).

You can use wayland in container but the easy way probably would require to give whole GPU to the container (but my knowlwdge is limited)

What I do know that this project is doing that: https://games-on-whales.github.io/

That also came up in search results that could help: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/359244

You can go to /var/log/apt/ and read the history.log as it will contain every single package that you did install/remove.

Based on that you can just restore it to working state by manually undoing the changes (removing installed, installing removed)

Looks like the installer and grub is confused about the hard drive order different in instaler and different while booting, both those drives could also have the same partition/drive ID making it confused, that could happen if you cloned/copied the drive in the past

I would say as a easy and safe solution

1. unplug all other drives that you don’t want install linux
2. Install Linux (best by formatting whole drive) - it should work just fine at this point
3. After confirming everything works - connect the other drives back
4. If Linux no longer boots after adding drives then tweak disk boot order in BIOS

First moved from 7 on home PC as a daily driver

And then later once I stopped distro hopping (stopping at Arch) and could do my work in full from home… ( by porting time tracking app to Linux )

Moved from 10 on work PC

I play BeatSaber and few more VR games using ALVR and it’s working great. (But I know that not all VR games fully work on Linux)

But you just need to know that its for Quest headsets running mostly over Wi-Fi (but you can also run over USB) so your milage may vary depending on your WiFi setup.

I use Arch btw 😅

I didn’t left it, I needed provide that “part” to it to get the correct answer.

Because like in the whole thread is mentioned over and over again, chatgpt doesn’t know the correct answer, it’s a mathematical model of “what looks ok” and “what should be the next word”, it looks ok to try to put --reset parameter to reset it, but because chatgpt can’t actually check documentation of podman stats if the param exists, it just generate it based on “common known text patterns”, and “common known text patterns” are written in a way suggesting that it is the truth.

So once again - do your own research if following the results it could cause breaking both in tech and especially in life. And that is true for both chatgpt and random pages on internet.

In this case I did exactly follow chatgpt answer without doing fact checking - I asked chatgpt, I copied the command and pasted it into terminal, because I know that if it didn’t work the worse that could happen it would fail and do nothing. But It’s bad for new people that will not know what the result could be if it’s wrong!

@z00s Don’t take me wrong. I’m not telling not to use it, on the contrary.

You should use any tool that helps you do your job/task. But you should try to understand how to use those tools wisely.

Telling someone never to use ChatGPT is like telling someone to never use excavator. That is wrong, you should use excavator but you should know what is an excavator, and what harm it could do by for example accidentally destroy a building or even hurt someone (or youself) if not use wisely.

Example that confirms that “Chatgpt does not know truth. It does not know if the info it provides is true.” or more like “It will spell answer that match your inquiry that sound correct even if it’s totally made up.”

https://chat.openai.com/share/206fd8e9-600c-43f8-95be-cb2888ccd259

Summary:

User
in `podman stats` you see BLOCK IO as a summary of hard drive activity.
how to reset the 

ChatGPT
To reset the block I/O statistics displayed by podman stats, you can use the podman stats --reset command.

User
Error: unknown flag: --reset

ChatGPT
Apologies for the confusion. It seems I provided incorrect information. The podman stats command does not have a built-in option to reset the statistics.

So once again, don’t be afraid to use it, but do your own research especially if following LLM could result in something breaking both in tech or in life.

don’t run any commands that you don’t understand. Ask it to break down any commands it tells you to run if you don’t understand them.

You need to pay extra attention to this, as ML models will spit out commands and parameters that doesn’t exists if there was not enough examples in training dataset for that action. Especially with explain as it could just spit out totally wrong but “sounding good” explanation for parameter etc as it not always will tell the magic keywords like “typically” that indicate that it doesn’t have confidence as it’s “based on other similar command/knowledge”.

In your example it spit out:

 -m: Prune empty directory chains from the file-list.
 --prune-empty-dirs: Exclude empty directories that result from the inclusion/exclusion pattern.

which is actually exactly the same parameter with 2 different explanations, you can confirm this with man rsync

 --prune-empty-dirs, -m   prune empty directory chains from file-list

So the more edge case you have the bigger chance it will spill out bad results, but those new models are shockingly good especially for very common use cases.

ALVR works on Linux with Quest 2, BeatSaber works fine, dont know much about other games.

You just posted, so first step achived.

cfdisk only changes the partition table, this table like a small paper that you store at the front (or back) of drive where you put information, it’s just a list of coordinates like from this point to this point is your home, from this to this is your yard, from this to this is your neighbor. Just because you changed the values on your paper doesn’t actually make your neighbor closer or further.

System read this list to figure out where are the “borders” between different sections that you defined to load and use them logically for multiple file systems.

Connect, disagree, return?

Just by looking at the biggest instances someone could think that they cover most of the users but I’m positively shocked.

Kudos for the work!

But the summary is missleading.

That’s why I stated that it should be illegal to promise product while selling a undefined time limited license, there should be a clear minimum time stated when you “buy a subscription” for (single player?) games.

I concur Buyer should not gain rights to product, so they should not be allowed to profit from it, but they should be able to preserve it, unless the license that you actually buy had a time limitation, but that should be clearly stated when you buy it that you only buy access to it to (at least) X amount of time like you have with online subscriptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRGszw0KubQ

I would suggest to add those additional AP as soon as possible if going UniFi way, as adding more later might require to replace all units as we already saw multiple times with UniFi devices, as they are quick to deprecate old ones and make them not work with new ones.

I like the concept, you could also detect the compose file name automatically.

Or write down hashes for tag even if compose don’t use your variables so reading from compose, so people would not need to relay on the script but could use it as additional backup