Heads up: Quake remaster works great on Asahi

I recently bought Quake remaster for pennies on Steam to check out the latest free DLCs and discovered many people (on different platforms) are unable to play the game due to graphics issues. I tried using different workarounds, but nothing helped on Asahi.

In the end, I used ironwail, which supports the latest DLCs as well:

https://github.com/andrei-drexler/ironwail

Compiled it from source and it works amazingly well - the performance is phenomenal, no bugs.

Quick how to:

Download the source code and unpack it:

https://github.com/andrei-drexler/ironwail/releases/tag/v0.8.2

Download the dependencies. Here's what I needed:

sudo dnf install libvorbis-devel libcurl-devel mpg123-devel

In the Quake directory, write:
make

make -j$(nproc)

(not sure if this is needed for it to use more cores when compiling these days)

Run the game:

./ironwail

In my case it detected my Steam installation of Quake without me needing to do anything.
Adjust the settings if needed, select a DLC in the mods section if you want, enjoy the game.

u/tempsanity — 6 days ago

▲ 24 r/AsahiLinux

Steam works again after latest kernel upgrade

Just wanted to give you a heads up. Both the x86 and ARM version. Works like a charm.

Kernel: 7.1.6-400.asahi.fc44.aarch64+16k (updated today)

Method I used to reinstall the ARM version below (no guarantees / please don't blame me if your computer spontaneously combusts). Please note there are probably better guides around here, just sharing what my latest process was during a coffee break:

sudo dnf install gtk2 unzip curl

LATEST=$(curl -s https://client-update.steamstatic.com/steam_client_publicbeta_linuxarm64 \ | grep -E '"file"\s+"bins_linuxarm64_linuxarm64.zip' \ | cut -d '"' -f4) curl -L -o bins_linuxarm64_linuxarm64.zip \ "https://client-update.steamstatic.com/${LATEST}"

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Steam

unzip -o bins_linuxarm64_linuxarm64.zip -d ~/.local/share/Steam

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Steam/package

echo publicbeta > ~/.local/share/Steam/package/beta

chmod -R u+rwx ~/.local/share/Steam/steamrtarm64

mkdir -p ~/.steam

ln -sfn ~/.local/share/Steam ~/.steam/steam

ln -sfn ~/.local/share/Steam ~/.steam/root

ln -sfn ~/.local/share/Steam/linuxarm64 ~/.steam/sdkarm64

ln -sfn ~/.local/share/Steam/steamrtarm64 ~/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64

muvm ~/.local/share/Steam/steamrtarm64/steam

Check this as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1uypda8/running_geproton_arm_build_inside_steam_arm_beta/

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u/tempsanity — 14 days ago

▲ 4 r/AsahiLinux

Is there a way to make Udemy work on Asahi?

Tried Zen and Chromium, but no go. Don't think it's possible, but thought I'd give it a shot here.

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u/tempsanity — 1 month ago

▲ 9 r/MinaTheHollower

Mina looking good on a CRT <3

u/tempsanity — 3 months ago

▲ 61 r/OfficeChairs+1 crossposts

My eldritch chair after 3 years of home office indie development - was supposed to last 10. Ordered a Humascale Freedom without the headrest. My back can't wait.

u/tempsanity — 3 months ago

▲ 109 r/bigboxcollectors+1 crossposts

Heart of Darkness - Anyone remember this frustrating gem from the creator of Another World?

u/tempsanity — 3 months ago

▲ 18 r/gamedevscreens+1 crossposts

Our horror pool game features the ability to extinguish candles using ricocheting balls - adding hidden details like that is one of the most satisfying things

u/tempsanity — 3 months ago

▲ 11 r/AsahiLinux

Happy to say that LionHeartP has backported a fix to the Fedora COPR and my performance and HDMI issues are gone.

Just download the latest packages from his repo. You might need to refresh:

sudo dnf update --refresh

In my case it required a restart of the display manager.

More: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/discussions/11398#discussioncomment-16841576

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u/tempsanity — 3 months ago

▲ 59 r/IndieDev

Hi guys. We've passed 330,000 views of a single reel from our indie game on Instagram after only just 9 posts there.

I could write a guide on how to increase your views on Insta in 3 easy steps so that you can quit your corporate job and get rich as an indie dev (ebook guide now only 50$ for the next 24h!), but the truth is we don't know what worked - we only have suspicions.

In short, in case of our reel:

- genre: horror pool roguelite

- we posted later than usual (around 9 PM CEST)

- we focused on the game's character and emphasised the weird/horror aspects (vomiting out powerups, skulls on the pool table, saws cutting into dead fish)

- the thumbnail contains an enigmatic line from the game and skulls on a pool table

- we used captions to make it easy to follow and keep viewers' interest

- it got more likes than usual after posting, but nothing spectacular

- then it suddenly blew up after 3 days and has reached >330,000 views so far

I've searched for good up-to-date indie dev marketing tips regarding that platform, but couldn't find any, and I'd really like to explore it further.

Does anyone have tips they're willing to share? Maybe an opinion on why this particular reel blew up?

The reel if anyone's interested: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXb6yuiDm2w/ - opinions appreciated.

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u/tempsanity — 4 months ago

▲ 2 r/AsahiLinux

I need to restart the display manager for the monitor to get detected. Works fine on KDE.

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u/tempsanity — 4 months ago

▲ 125 r/tui+1 crossposts

"Jellyfin-tui is a (music) streaming client for the Jellyfin media server. Inspired by CMUS and others, its goal is to offer a self-hosted, terminal music player with all the modern features you need."

Features and packages here: https://github.com/dhonus/jellyfin-tui

I'm not affiliated with the creator, just enjoy the app a lot.

u/tempsanity — 4 months ago

▲ 3 r/AsahiLinux

Anyone experiencing this?

Tried Zen and Firefox - streams and game trailers stutter like crazy, while yt works smoothly.

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u/tempsanity — 4 months ago

▲ 4 r/AsahiLinux

~~Any tips? Can provide logs. I tried plugging it in before & after boot. Once in a blue moon it will get detected.~~

~~Using Hyprland. Didn't have any issues before the upgrade.~~

Edit #2:

Fixed it by disabling auto-login in SDDM.

I was using auto-login because F43 had issues with multiple monitors and SDDM. Haha.

If you have trouble hotplugging, in my case restarting the display-manager fixes the issue.

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Edit #1:
Strangely, after changing

monitor = eDP-1,2560x1600@120,1920x0,2
monitor = HDMI-A-1,3840x2160@60,0x0,2

monitor = eDP-1,2560x1600@120,1920x0,2
monitor = HDMI-A-1,3840x2160@60,auto,2

it seems to be working more often when I restart the display-manager several times. Oh well. Can live with this for now. Leaving this post here in case someone runs into a similar issue.

6.19.13-400.asahi.fc44.aarch64+16k
Hyprland 0.54.3

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u/tempsanity — 4 months ago

▲ 5 r/AsahiLinux

Got these messages when trying to upgrade to F44. Any repo that could help me solve this, or should I wait some time before upgrading? Want to do it safely.

Repositories loaded.

Failed to resolve the transaction:

Problem 1: aquamarine-0.10.0-7.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository