I don’t understand what the problem here is. But why the option exists? If someone does not care, then why would someone have any say in such an option? You can’t enforce people to care.

It’s actually surprising that this is not configurable already. At least in a GUI.

I guess one could create shortcuts to a tool like wl-copy and wl-paste to either copy or paste content to primary selection (or regular clipboard for that matter). So in that case a simple script could run the command and in your desktop environment you setup a shortcut to run the script.

Yes its hacky, but in Linux nothing is impossible. :-) (unless it is…)

Then I tell you something that might either blow your mind or be useful in future (or just being fun fact):

On Linux there is the regular copy/paste clipboard, which you already know how it works. But then there is this primary clipboard called primary selection too, that is independent from normal clipboard. Text will be copied to primary selection when you select a text (in example in Firefox). Just by selection the text with the mouse is enough and it will not affect the normal clipboard. Then you can middle click the text from primary clipboard.

Read more here: https://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html#s-2.6.1

They only discuss to disable it by default, not removing the functionality.

The essence of the article:

The discussions, visible in Mozilla’s Phabricator revision D277804 and a linked GNOME gsettings-desktop-schemas merge request, focus on disabling the traditional primary selection paste by default.

Mozilla proposes changing the default behavior of the Firefox browser on Unix builds so that pressing the middle mouse button no longer pastes text by default.

The functionality will be there and can be enabled. The reasoning:

The author of the revision frames the current behavior as a source of confusion and accidental pastes, especially when users press the middle button without expecting the clipboard contents to be inserted into text fields.

Gamescope works on Wayland too nowadays.

Gamescope is developed by Valve and used in Steam Deck. But you can install it on any system. You can think of it as a commandline application, to run games with. It can fix issues you or give some options and should make games run better if they are problematic otherwise.

It doesn’t even need to be Sways issue. What I mean are secondary issues like packaging of Sway or related packaged that are used when using Sway or Wayland. It doesn’t need to be a Wayland issue in itself. I just had in the past issues and quickly blamed something and it turned out something different.

How do you know its a Wayland issue? Edit: I mean its not the entirely same setup, because Sway WM does not run on Xorg. That means there are other differences in play than Wayland only.

Which distribution? Maybe its an issue with the packaging. 580 is the last version that supports the older 10xx cards and there were some packaging changes in Archlinux. Now your card is newer than that and should not be affected. But maybe your distribution made some changes to packaging that caused the issue?

The servers are not really dead. One can not buy new games, but the Nintendo account is still active and checked for legitimacy, as you can download purchased games. And some other functionality are still working on eshop. My fear is, that a list of games and game IDs are uploaded when connecting.

Using a game controller will now count as “activity”, stopping the system from automatically going to sleep or locking the screen. (Yelsin Sepulveda, KDE bug #328987)

I don’t know why this was not done before. I had in the past some nightmare experience trying to play emulation and my screen would go sleep every 15 minutes or so. That’s why I have this disabled and display never sleeps! I am curious to try the new feature if it works as intended.

Well, that’s one thing with Flatpak. There is a permission system, as the applications are fully or partially sandboxed. You can install “Flatseal”, that can change permission for each installed Flatpak application. But it can be confusing or hard to understand what you have to change in order to make it work. Or maybe the application itself is not packaged correctly as a Flatpak, I don’t know.

I trust System76 more than I do trust GNOME.

So its more a general question how to backup (with versioning) these files. I just always wondered what “manage” in this context meant. I don’t handle them differently than any other file to backup.

I don’t understand what to manage about dotfiles. You mean backups?

I don’t know if they said it, but if so, I can imagine they had some trouble with the publisher. And now the original developers maybe recommend not to purchase it. Just my guess if it is true.

I would have suggested too, but it requires Origin client and it must run in the background while playing. And requires an EA account on top of it. The game is rated Steam Deck Playable, so not really the best experience on the Deck.

Which is a shame, because the single player campaign is so nice. I don’t know if the online component still works.

The Winter Sale goes 8 days still, so you have plenty of time. Some games in example from EA and Ubisoft require additional launcher or an account to play them. I usually avoid them.

Steam Deck Verified: 5 games including Cyberpunk for total $47,8

• Cyberpunk: $ 21
• Ace Combat 7: $4.80
• Resident Evil 2: $10
• Subnautica: $8
• Disco Elysium - The Final Cut: $4

More interesting Steam Deck Verified games

• Hollow Knight: $7.50
• Stardew Valley: $9
• Maneater: $4
• Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition: $4

Also have a look at games that require additional account or launcher:

• Red Dead Redemption 2: $ 15 (Steam Deck Playable, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Rockstar Games)
• Halo Master Chief Collection: $10 (Steam Deck Verified, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Xbox Live)