Most reviews on youtube are already telling the full story. My review is this: it’s a good controller, comfortable to hold, with tmr joysticks, gyro, trackpads and back buttons. I use it to play controller focused games, and as a mouse/keyboard solution for htpc purposes. It does the job very well, can’t complain. It’s also “just a controller” with more features, so there isn’t much to talk about in the first place.

I don’t know much about quicksync but it’s very likely that you’re just missing something on debian to have it working. I believe the hardware in that mini pc (particularly the 32gb of ram, that’s practically gold) is more than capable of running all the services you listed.

also, if anything installing stuff from the AUR makes things slightly safer because PKGBUILDs and .install files are a lot easier to inspect: you can check the source repo/tarball/whatever points to an official source, and you can verify that the scripts (which are just shell scripts) are not doing anything nefarious.

on the other hand, IIRC OBS and COPR just distribute binaries that are very hard to inspect

EDIT: just don’t use an AUR helper and you avoid most of the trouble

Take a look at Xournal++, it’s not precisely the same workflow but if “scrapbooking” is what she’s looking for then it’s quite good for that

It’s a simple game that runs well at launch and doesn’t have scummy micro transactions or live service. It might just be my opinion, but while the game is enjoyable, there’s nothing special about the story itself to justify making it into a series. I mean they can if they want to, but it’s more the technical formula that works and they need to repeat, rather than the story concept itself.

This reads like quite a different workflow, but AFAIK the standard in both x and wayland for inserting special characters is using a compose key. You can set up a key as the compose key in the keyboard settings of any de/wm/compositor (right alt in my case) and use it in a key sequence to assemble special characters. I use it all the time to type italian accent characters on a us keyboard and it’s always dependable and quite intuitive even for characters I don’t regularly use.

Some examples:

• compose a " → ä
• compose e ' → é
• compose c , → ç
• compose o o → °
• compose - > → →

I’m not saying your use case is invalid, but it falls well into unsupported territory I feel like, and reminds me of this.

This said, there must be a way for an application to simulate input, that’s what virtual keyboards do, including steam’s virtual keyboard which is not integrated in the desktop environment, so your workflow can likely be replicated. You might need to spend some time finding the right tool for it, or possibly creating your own, but wayland and plasma wayland in particular have all the bits in place to make this happen.