Jay Versluis

Jay is a medical miracle known as Super Survivor. He runs several YouTube channels and websites, and he's also live on Twitch sometimes. To support him on his mission to make the world a better place, you can support him on Patreon or buy him a coffee.

FIXED: Why some Windows games refuse to be installed in Steam on Linux

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Most if not all Windows games have an install option on my Steam Deck, but when trying to install the same games on my Fedora workstation, Steam says the game is only available for Windows and cannot be installed. What gives? Turns out there’s a setting that will make this option available, but it’s disabled … Read more

FIXED: Steam won’t launch on Fedora 42

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After updating Fedora from 41 to 42, I’ve noticed that the Steam version from the Fedora repo no longer wanted to start. I could launch the Flatpak version, but it doesn’t have native Proton support so wouldn’t launch my games. Thankfully there’s an easy fix to make Fedora Steam work again with this simple fix: … Read more

Why won’t Fedora shut down? Let’s find out!

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I’ve had this on numerous occasions: I’m asking Fedora to shut down, and it either takes a while for it to obey my command, or it outright refuses. Most UIs aren’t exactly forthcoming about the reasons, by the command line interface has today told me that there’s a way to find out what might be … Read more

Creating an external Boot Clone in macOS Ventura and Sonoma

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I wanted to downgrade my Sonoma installation to Ventura on a Mac Studio. Before doing so I thought I’d take a full backup on an external drive using SuperDuper. This has worked great in the past, and I had assumed it would still work fine on Apple Silicone models in 2025. MASSIVE mis-assumption! Of course … Read more

How to delete all files and subfolders from the Command Line in Windows

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I was looking for the Windows equivalent of the Linux command “y| rm -rf” and despite my best efforts couldn’t work it out. We need to use “del”, with a couple of switches to do this recursively and for directories, and also automatically confirm this for every entry. Here it is: This will delete everything … Read more