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How do I have Japanese fonts displayed in Fedora?
  • You can use localectl to change the locale on Fedora. Here's what you need to do:

    • See if you have Japanese locale installed. Something like ja_JP.UTF-8 should be in the output of localectl list-locales.
    • If it's not, you should install it using the following command: sudo dnf install langpacks-ja (I'm not 100 % sure about this and I don't have a Fedora system to test it on.)
    • Set the locale: sudo localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
    • Reboot your system. Everything should be in Japanese now.

    This will (probably) change everything to Japanese – texts in menus, error messages in the terminal, and also the font rendering. This answer on Stack Overflow suggests to do something with your fonts.conf. This way your UI would be in English (or your preferred language) and kanji would render as the Japanese variants.

  • How do I have Japanese fonts displayed in Fedora?
  • A. I don't know much about CJK fonts. I'm just spitballing. I am also half asleep.

    B. It depends where the font is displayed. As you probably know, different Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters, which share history and look similar, share one unicode codepoint, see this Wikipedia article. Which specific glyph is shown is decided by some variable that specifies in what language the text is written:

    • If the text is somewhere in the GUI (the title bar, the panel, some menu), it is probably decided by your default language and locale. This can be changed somewhere in settings. Changing this would also probably change everything to Japanese.
    • If the text is somewhere on the web, this is decided by the lang parameter of the website. You can't change this easily.
  • [Discussion] What were your favorite and least favorite games you played on Deck in 2023?
  • I’m responding to both your comments here.

    Did you undervolt your SD? Is it the steam version of Spiderman? Did you install it on your SD card or main memory?

    The Deck’s basically new, I haven’t done anything to it (yet): No undervolting, no SD card, no non-steam games (except Minecraft).

    Uninstall the game. Restart your deck. Install it again.

    I’ve tried this already, but it did not work. I’ll try it again, but it’ll take a while, because my internet is really slow.

    I’d open a support ticket over it. Since it works for everyone else really well it has to be an issue with your deck, specifically.

    Sounds like it’s my a fault of my particular unit. 🫠 As I said, I’ll try to reinstall the game again and if that doesn’t work, I’ll open a ticket. Thanks for the suggestion.

    I haven’t played many games on my Deck yet, but all of them—except the two I mentioned—worked very well. Even Baldur’s Gate 3 runs fine and it is a very demanding game. I wonder why just the games from Sony are problematic. The worst thing about this is that they load, seem to run fine for a few seconds, then freeze and crash.

    Maybe I’ll bite the bullet and not worry about it now and later I’ll buy Steam Deck 2 sooner rather than later.

  • [Discussion] What were your favorite and least favorite games you played on Deck in 2023?
  • I tried a bunch of versions of Proton, verified the game files, redownloaded the game, installed a previous version of the game. Sadly nothing worked.

  • [Discussion] What were your favorite and least favorite games you played on Deck in 2023?
  • What made you uninstall American Truck Sim? I played a bit of Euro Truck Sim on my computer and I was satisfied; it's good for what it is.

  • [Discussion] What were your favorite and least favorite games you played on Deck in 2023?
  • I don't have anything special installed, I didn't undervolt anything. My Deck is an officially refurbished unit, so the borderline passable hardware is unfortunately likely. :(

  • [Discussion] What were your favorite and least favorite games you played on Deck in 2023?
  • According to other people, Horizon worked but a recent patch broke it. Spiderman (the first one) launches, freezes after a few seconds, and then the Deck restarts. 🤷‍♂️

  • [Discussion] What were your favorite and least favorite games you played on Deck in 2023?
  • The game that surprised me the most was Murder by Numbers. It's a very nice hybrid of a visual novel and a puzzle game. When I had more time I played the story mode, and when I didn't I played the challenges.

    My biggest disappointments were games from Sony — Horizon and Spiderman. Both of them are verified, but both of them crash at start-up.

  • When your kids misbehave
  • It's not Czech. I'd say it's Croatian.

  • "I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming"
  • If you don't need push to talk, I'd suggest using the browser version instead of the app.

  • "I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming"
  • If you don’t mind me asking, what is the problem? I have heard (I am being patient and I haven't bought the game yet.) mostly good thing about running BG3 using Proton.

  • Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal
  • I would have bought another similar device years ago

    vita

  • [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your deck? - December 2023
  • I've been playing this as well! If I have more time, I play a part of the story, and if I don't, I play a few puzzles of “Scout‘s memories”.

  • The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
  • I started playing Enderal, a total conversion of Skyrim. I like the deeper RPG mechanics, which the mod adds, although I'm a bit nervous about choosing something wrong and fucking up my character.

    The game is set in a different world than Elder Scrolls. I'm not sure I like it as much, but that might be because of the different music.

  • GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule
  • Yes, it shouldn't. Unfortunately, the developers of GTK thrived on changes to the API during the GTK3 era. I don't know why Go devs don't (and I am indeed very glad that they don't). Perhaps it's because of the different structures of the development teams or perhaps because GTK has more hazy goals. 🤷‍♂️

  • GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule
  • The GTK3 port has been in the making for a very long time. Long before anyone even mentioned GTK4. Porting an application to a different GUI toolkit is a lot of work.

  • [Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why?
  • How is Nushell? Is it stable?

  • SpiralLinux - It's really Debian underneath the hood!
    1. Keep up the good work. Your project reminds me of small "old school" distros from the noughties and I love the vibe!
    2. I get the aim at "regular" people. I'd wager there's an interest for a somewhat polished tiling experience; perhaps not among regular people, but among the a bit experienced (and a bit lazy) crowd of Linux users, which is definitely numerous.

    Anyway, I'm just spitballing. Good luck with your project!

  • Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
  • It's basically one click in VS Code. It's more clicks in Sublime. 🤷‍♂️ Turning Sublime to a full blown IDE for a bunch of different programming languages takes work and I'm lazy.

  • SpiralLinux - It's really Debian underneath the hood!
  • I have my eye on Regolith. Sadly it seems to be only available on Ubuntu and its derivatives, because they rely on apt.

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