Linux

Monster Hunter Wilds Beta on the Steam Deck

The Monster Hunter Wilds open beta ran this weekend. And not only does it actually run on the Steam Deck, it does so surprisingly decently!

Fri, 1 Nov 2024

Adventures in Linux Boot Debugging

It all started yesterday morning, where I booted up my laptop and found that the greeter (the visual login prompt) was not displaying anything: I had a cursor and a black screen.

Thu, 9 May 2024

Linux is a Double Edged Sword

Talking with someone about Apple ecosystem, linux, and cross-device integrations in general Made me realise how much of this is actually a pain I usually joke “It’s hell, but one of my own creation so I at least know which torture devices there are.”

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

Booting via the UEFI Shell

After having the motherboard replaced in my laptop, I was unable to reconfigure the boot-manager to rEFInd the normal way. Fortunately, I had a tiny bit of experience with the UEFI shell and 'recovered' things through that.

Fri, 6 Aug 2021

Recovering From a Broken Smartcard

My Nitrokey suddenly broke. This is some ramblings about working my way through the harebrained backup schemes I established, and setting up something a bit more sane+safe...

Wed, 28 Jul 2021

Dualbooting Arch Linux and Windows with Full-System Encryption

A step-by-step guide to dualbooting encrypted Windows and Arch Linux, using the rEFInd boot mananger.

Sun, 12 Jan 2020

How to install Arch on a ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 1)

A detailed overview of how I installed Arch Linux on my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 1), having never install Arch before.

Thu, 17 Jan 2019