Crimson Desert on Linux

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:00:00 -0700

Just saved Pailune. Chapter 7, 139 hours in, and Crimson Desert has its hooks in me deep. Here's how the Linux launch actually went — crashes, workarounds, and the people who fixed it.

It Did Not “Just Work”

Launch day on my RTX 5070 Ti: blue lens flare in the opening cutscene, then hard freeze. Audio kept going, GPU locked up. Every time. The 595 beta driver had a regression that crashed Blackwell cards at that exact moment.

TJvox: macOS-Style Dictation for Linux

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0700

I type a lot. Emails, code, chat messages, angry comments on the internet. My wrists were starting to file complaints. macOS has this delightful built-in dictation feature where you double-tap a key, speak, and it types for you. Linux... did not. At least not in a way that didn't involve shouting at a browser tab or paying some cloud API by the syllable. So I built my own.

What It Does

TJvox is a local, offline voice dictation app for Linux (Wayland-first, because that’s what I run). Hit a hotkey, speak, and it transcribes your rambling into text using OpenAI’s Whisper — running entirely on your own machine. No data leaves the house.

Linux on tjnome

Crimson Desert on Linux

It Did Not “Just Work” #

TJvox: macOS-Style Dictation for Linux

What It Does #

It Did Not “Just Work”

What It Does