Gentoo Desktop

[Gizmo]

This for a Samba server. I've figured out that it's related to PAM settings, I just haven't figured out what rules I need to properly authenticate.

Ran into a weird issue with HL2, though; I could launch the game and play it, but I couldn't load a saved game.
Apparently, Steam defaults to using the Linux binary (understandable) which seems to have...issues. Forcing Steam to use the Proton layer allows it to use the Windows binary and then I can successfully load a saved game.

 

[Gizmo]

Ran into an issue with Webex and VirtualBox; well, the issue was VB, but I first noticed it in conjunction with Webex.

Apparently, VB was configured to use Alsa for sound. Not sure how that happened, but regardless it did. So, everything was working fine, near as I could tell, until I went to jump on a Webex call while running VB. I access my customer through a VM on my side (running in VB) and connect to a VM on their side using an application named "Windows App" which is essentially RDP, but don't call it that because it's totally and completely different, see, and you have to use this special Microsoft Windows application to access it.

Anyway, I was doing some training for my customer so was using audio from the remote VM into my VM, and somehow that caused VB to grab Alsa exclusively, so Webex wouldn't work (in fact NOTHING involving my local audio would work; even the sound control panel was unable to do anything).

I went into VB settings for the VM and changed it from using Alsa to PulseAudio, and now things are working much better. Not quite sure what went wrong there.

 

[Gizmo]

Games seem to be just a little jittery. Specifically, I've noticed that Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 seem to jump just a bit when turning left or right. Strafing left or right seems fine, it's rotating that seems specifically to cause the game to 'twitch'. I don't recall Mint behaving this way, but it COULD just be me.