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Playnite
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I wrote an app for myself to filter my library by HLTB
I've done something similar before with Playnite (an open-source PC game library manager), which has an HLTB plugin.
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Tags no longer register and i've finally had it with galaxy 2.0. Any recommended alternatives?
Playnite.
Playnite: The one with the most features and libraries available via addons and has a lot of options for customization. In my opinion the best one available for this purpose.
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Steam Deck OLED
Here is where I come in and recommend everyone check out Playnite: https://playnite.link/
When I care about supporting a developer or publisher and they offer their product on their own storefront DRM-free, I will often go there to buy. Or I buy from GoG which takes a smaller cut. Playnite lets me launch my Steam and non-Steam games in a seamless fashion. Steam still does a great job as a game installer/patch manager, and helps me discover new games. But I'm not locked into paying them a 30% fee, which is pretty brutal for some smaller publishers.
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PSA: Playnite Launcher has a "HDR Mode" per game!
For anyone with any of the myriad of HDR monitors that prefers to leave desktop mode in SDR RGB, I just discovered that the excellent Playnite game launcher has a feature where you can enable HDR on a per-game basis. Simply tick the "Enable HDR support" option under "Advanced" tab for the settings of the games that you want HDR turned on for. I was previously using the now-abandoned AutoActions for this, so glad to see there's an alternative in a tool I already use.
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Trying to use Sunshine to play Diablo 4 on my Sony OLED - help!
Try playnite https://playnite.link it was a game changer for me. Awesome tool. I use it for my streaming needs to TV/Steam Deck/iPad.
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smm with playnite
Use in what way specifically? You can add any executable into Playnite manually or add it as an additional action to an existing game.
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Is Nvidia Shield good for streaming PC to Tv over LAN?
I setup Sunshine to open an app called playnite (playnite.link) which consolidates all of the games I have from all of the major stores (Steam, Epic, Battlenet, etc) into one controller friendly interface. This way I dont need a keyboard and mouse when I am in front of my tv.
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Don't sleep on Star Trek Resurgence!
I'm sorry for the trouble your friends got with Epic, surely other storefronts have more options / are better, but in the end - aside from the occasional issue, it's just a launcher and personally I don't mind wether a game is on Steam, or on Epic or U-play or GoG. They're just launchers and I don't even see them thanks to Playnite which merges them all :-)
No, for PC it's on Epic. If you're concerned with another launcher, check Playnite which merges all of them and you don't even need to know which launcher is used in background :)
PowerToys
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We released a new powerful efficiency tool called RunFlow, which is similar to PowerToys and Alfred, welcome to try it
RunFlow is a cross-platform productivity tool which can launch apps and search files and more, that similar to Wox and PowerToys on Windows, and also similar like Alfred and Raycast on macOS. But we have differences with these tools, and we have our own unique new features. Right now, at the below, we will introduce you what features of RunFlow have been implemented in more details. It's an amazing journey, let's start.
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GTK: On fractional scales, fonts and hinting
I'm curious - when you were doing research into the mechanics of hinting options, did you stumble onto any relevant discussion around allowing custom pixel geometries to be defined, to enable hinting on modern OLED / WRBG displays? There's a good thread on the topic here[0], with some people referring to it as 'ClearType 2' on the MS side [1]. On the oss side I know FreeType theoretically supports this[2], but I can't quite figure out how relevant the FreeType backend is to this most recent work.
This is great work btw.
[0]: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/932
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595
[2]: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-lcd_render...
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Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?
Thank you all for the informative advices. Here is the summary for those who are in the same situation:
1. Run Windows on Linux by using VM
for the applications you can’t run on Linux
Risks:
* some softwares may attempt to detect VMs and refuse running
* Anything what needs to touch hardware may not work.
2. separate "data" partition on D:
3. back up %APPDATA% and %USERPROFILE%
4. learn chocolatey, scoop or winget
Winget should be good enough
5. Don’t worry about C:\Program Files
6. (Mixed) Use/Don’t use Ansible (or saltstack/salt)
Use:
* Allows you to setup a new machine quickly and consistently when one breaks, get stolen, or lost in an inconvenient time.
* You can get a clean and consistent development environment so that you do not depend on anything accidentally installed on the machine.
* If you define specialised roles, create test playbooks for those individual roles, use these roles to compose more complex playbooks, and offload logic to custom ansible modules that are written in python, you won't wrestle with heavy logic in the template or playbook layer.
* installing software and pulling some configs and scripts down is fine
Don’t use:
* You will spend your days fighting a mix of yaml and Jinja.
* You will end up looking at Python errors because there are no static types.
* errors are cryptic.
7. Use WSL2
You need 32gb of ram, but ram is cheap so choose a good thinkpad
8. Debloat with Recommended Tweaks
Run
irm christitus.com/win | iex
from Administrator Terminal (Powershell)
The link leads to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/mai...
VirusTotal
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/709834b0e003b6bb546cf16e...
9. Get [PowerToys](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys)
10. Use Devbox for containered environment
11. Dual-Booting Linux and Windows
If you use physically separated drives, you don’t need partitioning.
12. Dedicated Windows machine for class
Yes it sure would be the cleanest solution but I prefer one device for everything
13. keep a git repository with all dot files in it
Many people suggested me to use virtualization, otherwise just let Windows be Windows.
Also, backing up seems to be a good practice.
I’m planning to write a blog about this, if it worked.
Again, thank you all for the helps!
- Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
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Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
Powertoys Run (https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys) can do this. There are not that many plugins as Alfred but Window Switcher is built-in.
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LAN Mouse is a mouse and keyboard sharing software
For sharing a mouse/keyboard between Windows PCs, there is Mouse Without Borders. It's included in PowerToys nowadays.
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Hrvach/Deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
- https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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Fluent Search
If you disable telemetry in the windows setting it also disables telemetry for PowerToys [0], I agree it's not ideal it's not hard.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/11873#issuecom...
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Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (2022)
Windows power toys has a kb remapper https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
- PowerToys Release 0.71
What are some alternatives?
Radarr - Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users.
Achievement-Watcher - A sexy achievement file parser with real-time notification, automatic screenshot and playtime tracking. View every achievements earned on your PC whether it's coming from Steam, a Steam emulator, and more.
pegasus-frontend - A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.
Wox - A cross-platform launcher that simply works
HeroicGamesLauncher - A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
DualSenseX - Connect your DualSense Controller, use Adaptive Triggers, Emulate Xbox 360 or DualShock 4 through USB or Bluetooth on PC
sharpkeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
Flow.Launcher - :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
awesome-gog-galaxy - A list of GOG Galaxy 2.0 integrations and upcoming features
lutris - Lutris desktop client
Fluent-Search - Official repository for Fluent Search, use to report issues or ask for a new feature