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 **Hello World**!

content/posts/BuyingtheSteamDeck.md

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-title: "BuyingtheSteamDeck"
-date: 2022-12-08T18:22:09-06:00
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+title: "Buying The Steam Deck"
+date: 2022-12-08T15:59:09-06:00
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+# Why
+
+First off- im a Linux nerd. I run Arch Linux, and love it..
+
+I have been in the market for a console- or at least something i can play on that i have games on. All my consoles are gone currently. While  my laptop currently doesn't have enough storage. The only computer i have that can play games is a my laptop currently,  and that is completely fine. I will be getting a whole new PC soon too, from a relative of mine.
+
+# However i want a console
+
+Why? Because its just fun to have something that is pickup and i start playing a game, and that is exactly what the steam deck tries to be while on Linux.
+
+# Another reason i want a Deck
+
+Well- quite honestly, I love Linux.
+
+With this being a  open, Linux based console firstly, while supporting everything else second. You can literally do anything you want. This i really appreciate. If i want to, i can make this into my main rig, and plug in a monitor, camera, anything.
+
+The difference between this and a normal Linux based computer, is that tries to guide you. It tries to make it simple to someone who never has used a Linux based computer. This it does pretty great at. This is a combo honestly- it is what the switch wanted to be.
+
+I hope to review my steam deck when i get it, and hope it is what it claims to be.
+
+# Emulation
+
+I will get to play titles like Super Mario Odyssey  portablely without a cartridge. This is great for playing titles like potentially the orginal Mario, or even something like NFL 2K5 with the [Resurrected mod](https://github.com/lostsoul63b/NFL-2K23)
+
+I think loads of side scroller titles would be amazing on this thing.
+
+# Ending notes
+
+So steam has really made something that appeals to just about any type of Gamer.
+
+PC gamer: You can make this into a PC
+
+Console gamer: this is a console by default
+
+Emulation person: this thing can emulate just about anything
+
+Linux lover: This thing runs Arch Linux in the back
+
+Name just about anything- and this thing can do it pretty easily. Even if not- someone can create a project that does what you need it to.
+
+
+draft: false
+---
+# Why
+
+First off- im a Linux nerd. I run Arch Linux, and love it..
+
+I have been in the market for a console- or at least something i can play on that i have games on. All my consoles are gone currently. While  my laptop currently doesn't have enough storage. The only computer i have that can play games is a my laptop currently,  and that is completely fine. I will be getting a whole new PC soon too, from a relative of mine.
+
+# However i want a console
+
+Why? Because its just fun to have something that is pickup and i start playing a game, and that is exactly what the steam deck tries to be while on Linux.
+
+# Another reason i want a Deck
+
+Well- quite honestly, I love Linux.
+
+With this being a  open, Linux based console firstly, while supporting everything else second. You can literally do anything you want. This i really appreciate. If i want to, i can make this into my main rig, and plug in a monitor, camera, anything.
+
+The difference between this and a normal Linux based computer, is that tries to guide you. It tries to make it simple to someone who never has used a Linux based computer. This it does pretty great at. This is a combo honestly- it is what the switch wanted to be.
+
+I hope to review my steam deck when i get it, and hope it is what it claims to be.
+
+# Emulation
+
+I will get to play titles like Super Mario Odyssey  portablely without a cartridge. This is great for playing titles like potentially the orginal Mario, or even something like NFL 2K5 with the [Resurrected mod](https://github.com/lostsoul63b/NFL-2K23)
+
+I think loads of side scroller titles would be amazing on this thing.
+
+# Ending notes
+
+So steam has really made something that appeals to just about any type of Gamer.
+
+PC gamer: You can make this into a PC
+
+Console gamer: this is a console by default
+
+Emulation person: this thing can emulate just about anything
+
+Linux lover: This thing runs Arch Linux in the back
+
+Name just about anything- and this thing can do it pretty easily. Even if not- someone can create a project that does what you need it to.
+
 

content/posts/My-Journey-To-Arch-Linux.md

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+title: "My Journey to Arch Linux"
+date: 2022-12-21T09:00:00-06:00
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+#
+## Intro
+Arch Linux is a great distribution. There is zero doubt about that. The syntax of the package manager, the choice by default, and among other things the wiki.  But how did I even get to using arch Linux? Well- it was a long history, and that history is super long and complicated. 
+
+##  How I originally used Linux {#orginal}
+As a child, at age 7, I installed Ubuntu. I actually ended up having the home machine drive entirely wiped with nothing to boot. I even booted 'chromium' os on a school computer. This I somewhat say ruined my Linux experience. As one- the apt package manager makes no sense. Second, Ubuntu wasn't ready. I was big into Roblox, and I still am   But again, this exposed me to the world of other operating systems other than the Windows 7, which at the time was the latest Windows version. I quit after it just not making any sense to me at all. Like for real Ubuntu: 
+Apt feels so bad... Apt makes no sense and default repos didnt include alot of the stuff I wanted...
+
+And then I eventually got my own laptop with Windows 10. Which I used for multiple years, and still occasionally use for testing both Linux distributions, however modern Windows 10 is super slow on this computer ( it takes 10 minutes to login to Windows 10 off a cold boot). So this ended for many years
+
+## The second time around
+
+
+ ###  Reasons that brought me back
+
+#### COVID Year
+
+2020  brought many things, and a sequence of events really brought me to use some kind of Linux. First that happened was COVID- it gave me a bunch of free time away from school, which I used to learn a bunch of new things, and I started to really put effort in my own hobbies. 
+
+#### Youtubers {#youtube}
+
+Secondly was some YouTubers talking about Linux, spefically at the time was [SomeOrdinaryGamers](https://www.youtube.com/@SomeOrdinaryGamers), which had me messing around with spefically Manjaro, which despite what some people say, is a good distribution to learn some stuff from. I still didnt quite understand what I was fully doing though. I also made a friend and we tried to get some stuff working.
+
+There came [**Mental Outlaw**](https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8), which appeared well from the 'YouTube Algorithm'. Which had been a big part of what got me to learn Linux and the philosophy surrounding such as much as I do now. 
+
+#### Windows 11 {#windows11}
+
+Next came Windows 11, which with it came a new found reason to get away from Windows entirely. Which this was a minor reason. But it really had me set a deadline, I was to fully switch to Linux before Windows 11 dropped, and that I successfully did, I saw the Microsoft ad for Windows 11 and said that was garbage. A year after, I used Windows 11 on a friends computer. I couldn't even play rocket league on it.  I'm not sure if it is because of the Intel graphics being entitely broken, or Windows 11 being broken. But it was awful.   From this i made a comittment to use Linux entirely by the end of year.
+
+
+
+#### Grapejuice AKA The Nail {#grapejuice}
+
+Well this is what was preventing me from using Linux. I needed a way to play Roblox on it. Here is the story of how it was fixed AFAIK: a patch was added into wine which fixed getting instantly kicked, that sparked interest from someone who wanted to make it almost a seemless experience. Which formed [Grapejuice](https://gitlab.com/brinkervii/grapejuice). Which when I was searching for ways to get Roblox working on Linux , I found it. I went and booted manjaro to test. To my surprise it worked just about flawlessly, I could now play Roblox on Linux.  
+
+This was really the nail in the coffin, to get me to try everything else that came after this.
+
+###  The Actual story  {#actualstory}
+This part will be referring quite a bit back to the reasons, and additional information provided before with a helpful link like [this](#actualstory).  
+
+So- well it was a combination of these things, and well it was quite honestly a pretty big jump to make, I was gambling.  
+
+#### Leadup- Initial testing
+
+
+
+
+Well- I was inspired by [Muthar AKA someordinarygamer](#youtube), that I tried out Manjaro, I kind of liked it, and that was it for a while. I switched back, again because there wasn't a way to get Roblox working at that time.   A year later, there was a new thing called 'Single GPU pass through'. I installed Manjaro on my main machine and followed SomeOrdinaryGamers [video](video Here). I failed at it, and gave up on it.  I went back to using Windows
+
+####  Second time around
+But I wasn't done yet, I found a channel called [Mental Outlaw]() and said hey that looks cool. Then I  saw [grapejuice](#grapejuice), and I was amazed. Exactly what I had been wanting. What what kept me from using at that time. I installed Manjaro onto my main Machine again. This time I tried out Roblox, my mind was blown, it fully works with performance being okish,  but most importantly: **IT WORKEDDD**. I could now launch Roblox and play it fully under Wine on Linux. It was honestly amazing to me, roblox had been broken for at least 6 years. As long as I had played Roblox it'd been broken. Manjaro now was my daily driver.