You can use localectl to change the locale on Fedora. Here’s what you need to do:

• See if you have Japanese locale installed. Something like ja_JP.UTF-8 should be in the output of localectl list-locales.
• If it’s not, you should install it using the following command: sudo dnf install langpacks-ja (I’m not 100 % sure about this and I don’t have a Fedora system to test it on.)
• Set the locale: sudo localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
• Reboot your system. Everything should be in Japanese now.

This will (probably) change everything to Japanese – texts in menus, error messages in the terminal, and also the font rendering. This answer on Stack Overflow suggests to do something with your fonts.conf. This way your UI would be in English (or your preferred language) and kanji would render as the Japanese variants.

A. I don’t know much about CJK fonts. I’m just spitballing. I am also half asleep.

B. It depends where the font is displayed. As you probably know, different Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters, which share history and look similar, share one unicode codepoint, see this Wikipedia article. Which specific glyph is shown is decided by some variable that specifies in what language the text is written:

• If the text is somewhere in the GUI (the title bar, the panel, some menu), it is probably decided by your default language and locale. This can be changed somewhere in settings. Changing this would also probably change everything to Japanese.
• If the text is somewhere on the web, this is decided by the lang parameter of the website. You can’t change this easily.

I’m responding to both your comments here.

Did you undervolt your SD? Is it the steam version of Spiderman? Did you install it on your SD card or main memory?

The Deck’s basically new, I haven’t done anything to it (yet): No undervolting, no SD card, no non-steam games (except Minecraft).

Uninstall the game. Restart your deck. Install it again.

I’ve tried this already, but it did not work. I’ll try it again, but it’ll take a while, because my internet is really slow.

I’d open a support ticket over it. Since it works for everyone else really well it has to be an issue with your deck, specifically.

Sounds like it’s my a fault of my particular unit. 🫠 As I said, I’ll try to reinstall the game again and if that doesn’t work, I’ll open a ticket. Thanks for the suggestion.

I haven’t played many games on my Deck yet, but all of them—except the two I mentioned—worked very well. Even Baldur’s Gate 3 runs fine and it is a very demanding game. I wonder why just the games from Sony are problematic. The worst thing about this is that they load, seem to run fine for a few seconds, then freeze and crash.

Maybe I’ll bite the bullet and not worry about it now and later I’ll buy Steam Deck 2 sooner rather than later.

I tried a bunch of versions of Proton, verified the game files, redownloaded the game, installed a previous version of the game. Sadly nothing worked.

What made you uninstall American Truck Sim? I played a bit of Euro Truck Sim on my computer and I was satisfied; it’s good for what it is.

I don’t have anything special installed, I didn’t undervolt anything. My Deck is an officially refurbished unit, so the borderline passable hardware is unfortunately likely. :(

According to other people, Horizon worked but a recent patch broke it. Spiderman (the first one) launches, freezes after a few seconds, and then the Deck restarts. 🤷‍♂️

The game that surprised me the most was Murder by Numbers. It’s a very nice hybrid of a visual novel and a puzzle game. When I had more time I played the story mode, and when I didn’t I played the challenges.

My biggest disappointments were games from Sony — Horizon and Spiderman. Both of them are verified, but both of them crash at start-up.

I would have bought another similar device years ago

vita

I’ve been playing this as well! If I have more time, I play a part of the story, and if I don’t, I play a few puzzles of “Scout‘s memories”.

Yes, it shouldn’t. Unfortunately, the developers of GTK thrived on changes to the API during the GTK3 era. I don’t know why Go devs don’t (and I am indeed very glad that they don’t). Perhaps it’s because of the different structures of the development teams or perhaps because GTK has more hazy goals. 🤷‍♂️

The GTK3 port has been in the making for a very long time. Long before anyone even mentioned GTK4. Porting an application to a different GUI toolkit is a lot of work.

How is Nushell? Is it stable?

1. Keep up the good work. Your project reminds me of small “old school” distros from the noughties and I love the vibe!
2. I get the aim at “regular” people. I’d wager there’s an interest for a somewhat polished tiling experience; perhaps not among regular people, but among the a bit experienced (and a bit lazy) crowd of Linux users, which is definitely numerous.

Anyway, I’m just spitballing. Good luck with your project!

It’s basically one click in VS Code. It’s more clicks in Sublime. 🤷‍♂️ Turning Sublime to a full blown IDE for a bunch of different programming languages takes work and I’m lazy.

I have my eye on Regolith. Sadly it seems to be only available on Ubuntu and its derivatives, because they rely on apt.

8 DEs aren’t enough for you?

They are, but a man can dream. And thanks for the tip!

It breaks some system keyboard shortcuts

And so does Sublime Text: CTRL+SHIFT+U for inserting Unicode characters doesn’t work in it. :(

I recently switched from ST4 to VS Code (Codium actually) because of this and because it’s easier to set up a Python debugger.

Cool concept. I really appreciate the “independence” from the project after the installation. It would be cool, if the author preconfigured some less common DE/WM alongside the ones they package now. I yearn for a distro with a preconfigured tiling WM, so I wouldn’t have to use my half broken i3wm setup.

I was an avid Minecraft player in my teens. It being cross-platform (basically 100 % compatibility) made my switch to Linux quite painless; if Minecraft did not work, I probably wouldn’t install Linux.