I have been gaming on Linux more than usual lately; that's part due to my main gaming rig being out of reach and part me wanting to play more on this platform than Windoze. I played a few indie games to pass the time and eventually went looking for new games to check out during the Steam Summer Sale.

That is when I found Space Haven, a native Linux space-themed colony sim with base building, survival, and combat elements built into it.

According to the USA Gov, Linux usage is at 5.8%

In addition to Pornhub and Steam, the USA government tracks platform usage as well. Plotted here and updated monthly:

https://github.com/CodebergIsBetter/platform-share-usa-gov#platform-share-on-usagov

Useful to have one more platform to check Linux’s growth.

@linux

I haven't ran this for a few months, so I may not remember everything I had to set up.

Anyway, it's just regular install of Proxmox that I then installed KDE Plasma on top of (same as with plain Debian).
I had to remove WiFi interface from /etc/network/interfaces for it to work as expected.
I also set up NAT for guests (10.0.0.0/24) (lower middle in screenshot).
To guests I added vhost-vsock-pci to make Vsock work (used for Waypipe), and VirtIO sound card to make audio work through host. (Under args: in middle of screenshot). You can see audio show up in Applications tab of sound menu (bottom right), currently playing music from Debian's Firefox Window (top, slightly left).
Waypipe is set up to automatically listen on host using KDE's Autostart menu (bottom, center). Applications are launched using desktop shortcuts which send a command to guests over SSH (middle, slightly left).

One thing you may notice is app icons not working (Wayland icon is shown instead). I don't know why, it only works for LibreOffice. But that's just cosmetic.

End result is that aside from guests not having HW acceleration for thing like video playback, things just work like with normally installed programs. Double-click an icon, and it launches.

I haven't set up anything nicer for storage. SSH is sub-optimal due to useless encryption, but for the occasional 5MiB file this doesn't matter.

One thing I am not sure how to do "properly" is Waydroid. I tried to set it up in unprivileged Arch LXC, that did not work. I could just put it directly onto host, but that feels wrong. And inside a VM I can't use GPU acceleration, which even on a more powerful machine was a quite painful experience.

After Plasma 67, we also have plasma 666 now hehe.

This release adds two months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important.

I know new distros pop up like mushrooms, but this one has a particular angle and level of care that I think might interest many of you — both experienced users and those who want a ready-to-use system.

It's called Odyssey. Void-based, rolling, no systemd. An optimized kernel à la CachyOS, browser running in RAM, a bulletproof supply chain (https://odysseylinux.org/security.html) you can verify yourself, and much moer. https://odysseylinux.org/features.html

Take a look: https://odysseylinux.org/

Stable release lands in early August — the beta is already available. I hope you'll find it interesting.