So, sway is an awesome window manager, but to stream/screenrecord correctly without black flashes... you need to disable something called direct scanout.

To do this, you must pass an environment variable in the config file used by login managers to start sway.

It is located at /usr/share/waylan...

This whole article starts with the idea that you just installed Archlinux, with the archinstall tool, using that tool's btrfs subvolume setup.

If you aren't using that, you'll have to adapt the steps to your situation.

Installing yay/paru/any AUR helper.

First, install yay or paru.

For yay i...

So, many folks distro-hop for years before finding the distribution that they like the most.

I know, I did it for a bit more than 20 years !

My linux journey

To give you a bit of context, I started my linux journey in 2000, while I was at school. We were learning to code, and it was around 2...

So, recently, Dino Crisis 1 and 2 released on GOG.

Obviously, being a fan of the first one and the bundle with both games being cheap, I bought it.

But, by default, I was greeted with a "DirectDraw" error on launch, no matter the Proton version.

Turns out the solution is easy : the game needs...