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Just going to pile on: Plague Tales are SO GOOD. Very much looking forward to the 3rd game this year / next year. I'd never heard of the others, but from looking: Atlas Fallen & Shady Part of Me look pretty cool. And those prices are insane good.

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A Plague Tale is also a great way to check if you have musophobia!

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Quoting: CatGirlKatie14310/10 name

I suspect that rating is not entirely unbiased? 😸

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A plague tale are good games if you like this genre of course

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Quoting: legluondunet@ID:1059;mrdeathjr
Hello, I tried to play Spider-man 2000, only one big issue: game crahes or loose keyboard + mouse after Alt-Tab, can you reproduce with this recent Wine release?

in my case alt+tab work in menus, cinematics and on game



however i use virtual desktop with mesa 26.1-dev

😀

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I just updated my system today, on cachy arch, and I'm still on 25.3.5 ... so I bet they're waiting on the .0.1 release to do the move to 26. I'm pretty excited for that to see how RT functions now. I don't think I've ever played a game with it turned on before LOL. I still think it's mostly marketing but we shall see.

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This is wonderful! It makes me so happy to see intel continue to put effort into the arc gpus. Competition is good for all of us.

This does seem like a job perfectly fit for remote work, but it is listed as in person in CA / OR which is sad, but oh well. At least they're hiring for it!

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@ID:1059;mrdeathjr
Hello, I tried to play Spider-man 2000, only one big issue: game crahes or loose keyboard + mouse after Alt-Tab, can you reproduce with this recent Wine release?

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This wine version in my case work ok with some olds pc titles like:







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These builds are deployed untested.

That's the opposite of what anyone wants.

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10/10 name

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Meanwhile, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is still on Mesa 25.3.3.

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Looks really interesting. Reminiscent me of some levels in Kingdom Hearts, with a CupHead vibe... looks really cool.

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This is likely to ruin my life... (I have over 5k hours on StS on the steam version alone - plus another healthy amount on Android)

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Thank god, I got a 1TB SSD for my laptop and Steam Deck and bought two 16GB memory sticks for my laptop in time before they got expensive. I even bought a lot of other external SSD storage to store my data. I knew this would one day happen. I even already bought my Steam Deck OLED one year earlier. I dreamed about this.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: jams3223Thank god, I got a 1TB SSD for my laptop and Steam Deck and bought two 16GB memory sticks for my laptop in time before they got expensive. I even bought a lot of other external SSD storage to store my data. I knew this would one day happen. I even already bought my Steam Deck OLED one year earlier. I dreamed about this.

Did you accidentally post your comment under the wrong article? This one doesn't mention the hardware price hikes. 🤔

Opps sorry wrong article lol

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Quoting: memvirus(got the idea from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1036337/is-there-way-to-install-two-instances-of-the-same-application but am not knowing enough in Linux..)

What they are talking about at this link would work best with tarball binaries. For example, with OpenMW it is possible to have multiple versions installed using tarball binaries. They all share the same configuration files, however.

Otherwise, @fenglengshun's advice would work best. I recommend keeping it as simple as possible.

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Quoting: memvirusI have Lutris currently installed via apt/ a downloaded .deb
Will installing it via flatpak make a new directory for it?

Yes. Flatpak, being containerized by default, would install its version of Lutris separately from the one installed via apt. Flatpak keeps its file system separate. It shouldn't overlap with apt.

The challenge would be telling the shortcuts (launcher) apart. They'll likely share the same name. Fortunately, you can just rename the shortcut as desired.

Quoting: memvirusOr I just backup my current lutris directory (which ones are the important ones?) and then upgrade - later if I want to have my old downgraded state again, just uninstall, reinstall and restore my backed up directory?

In this case, I would suggest using Flatpak for the latest version and then choosing an earlier version to install via a .deb installer. There should be no need to back up your config files (although it never hurts - they're in hidden folders under your Home folder in multiple locations). I never have and the files & settings have remained while I've bounced back and forth between versions. Not sure how it would work with Flatpak, however. I don't know where that version stores its config files.

Quoting: memvirusalso sadly PopOS seems to be neither in compatible host nor container OS

Not sure exactly what you mean by this, but Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu. It is listed under Ubuntu in the link you provided. Generally, anything you can do on Ubuntu, you should be able to do on Pop!_OS. It supports .deb installers and LaunchPad PPAs, for example.

Being as you are new to tinkering with Linux, make sure you make a complete backup of your system and data before you start. That way, if something foobars, you'll have something solid to fall back on. Timeshift is effective but my favorite backup tool is Clonezilla (its back-ups are compressed and take less space).

Good luck and have fun.

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It is still funny the only one who actually has something to do with Linux and gaming is Liam 😅

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Quoting: Technopeasant

It's an interesting opinion from a person who created SDL, and we didn't have most of these games for Linux without his project. Everyone can agree or disagree.

It would be an interesting opinion for him, but unfortunately I meant Scott Draeker. I got my S names mixed up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020202221402/http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/24/2118235

Thank you for your response.

I know that LGP also planned to publish the original game for Linux, but they have never finished it. I wish to see a screenshot of it one day.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: ScottCarammellstill waiting for that legitimate use case the technology is sure to get. I mean this is supposed to be the next motor vehicle or whatever, right? there's gotta be something huge right around the corner. not like this was all a giant, unbelievable waste of time, money, life and resources for absolutely nothing of value. that's impossible. the people on wall street said otherwise. they're supposed to be smart, right?

I'll drop another one: generative ai found an algorithm to multiply matrices faster

https://spectrum.ieee.org/matrix-multiplication-deepmind

forgive me if two instances of in-house models making improvements in specific fields doesn't make me feel better about its primary use case being making cheap garbage that makes life worse, misinforming the public and stalking political dissidents

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Quoting: scaine

"I find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative."

This is about indignation specifically targeted at how people (individuals or companies) spend their legitimately earned funds on choices that are legal, consensual, and don't directly victimize anyone.

Why would anyone be morally indignant about legal, consensual, no-victim spending??

It's entirely obvious to everyone but you that your statement implied otherwise. It's bizarre that you can't see that.

Time to move on here, I think.

No, deconstructing everyday phrases like “hard earned money” through critical theory lenses is not
"entirely obvious to everyone."
Most people hear “hard earned money” and just think: “I worked for this, so it’s mine to spend however I want.” Full stop. No secret Protestant work ethic dog whistle, no coded hierarchy, no sly bid to make the wealthy our moral “betters.” It’s ordinary language doing ordinary work-describing effort and ownership.
Only a very specific subset of people (mostly academics, online left-theory enthusiasts, cultural studies types, and people who’ve spent too much time marinating in Foucault/Weber/Bourdieu type reading lists) reflexively reach for the ideology critique toolkit the moment they see a merit-flavored phrase. To them, everything is “loaded,” everything is “doing work,” everything is quietly reproducing domination or naturalizing inequality. So they treat a standard expression as if it were a cryptic manifesto that needs to be unpacked layer by layer until the hidden class project is revealed.
To literally everyone else- left, right, center, working-class, business-owner, barista, retiree-that level of hermeneutic suspicion applied to a commonplace idiom looks like over reading at best, pretentious performative intellectualism at worst. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of seeing a stop sign and immediately launching into a 500 word thread about how traffic infrastructure enforces car-centric capitalist spatial discipline.
"Hard-earned money" - it’s just normal speech. The clever loading and the elaborate suspicion is entirely on the receiving end. Most of the world isn’t playing that game.

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It's an interesting opinion from a person who created SDL, and we didn't have most of these games for Linux without his project. Everyone can agree or disagree.

It would be an interesting opinion for him, but unfortunately I meant Scott Draeker. I got my S names mixed up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020202221402/http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/24/2118235

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Maybe finally I will be able to play my MGS1 and MGS2 from GOG.

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Interesting how many Moomin characters are actually based on real people!

Atos Wirtanen (Snufkin / Nuuskamuikkunen)

Tove Jansson described Atos Wirtanen in a letter that he is untamed and has this drive for life yet with a very clear mind. They were a loving couple for several years.

Atos Wirtanen sought to make an active contribution and even changes to society. He was a journalist and tried himself even in political arena. Atos Wirtanen was recognized as real life Snufkin. His desire was to roam free and physical possessions were not important to him. He was, what Finns have been sometimes been described as: starer at the fire deep in thoughts in midst of woods.

Wirtanen taught her companion the rolling down of pebbles from cliffs. That's some of the things Moomintroll and Snufkin do together. Even that green hat originates to Wirtanen.

Tuulikki Pietilä (Too-ticky / Tuutikki)

She was the role model for Too-ticky, introduced in Moominland Midwinter what this game now is about.

During the Winter War she served in Karelia as a part of voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women as a Lotta.

Tove Jansson wanted to bring forth her Finnish courage (Tuulikki called as sisu or ytyä) in war time Finland as the whole nation was at stake; she excelled in thought provoking political cartoons during Winter War (and Continuation War), as one example.

Tuulikki was a craftswoman (like Too-ticky) who created her own worlds in her studio. Same way as Wirtanen's green hat came to be; Too-ticky's sweater comes from Pietilä.

Tuulikki was the love of Tove's life. They in 1955 and remained together until Tove's death in 2001. Despite Tove’s invitations, they didn’t dance together at that first meeting. Tuulikki though some time later sent a Christmas card that same year and wheels of love started to roll. As a sidenote: the movie about Tove (2020) for some odd reason gives a quite falsified picture of the couple's relationship.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Persephone the SheepPart of me is like "man now minecraft can't run on anything" but also vulkan support have been here since 600 series nvidia with kepler and HD 7000 series AMD with GCN 1 both from 2012 so as long as your gpu isn't more then 14 years old you can still play as long as they don't go past vulkan 1.2 because of kepler. I'm not sure about the laptop side with intel so that concerns me. I don't know how kepler does with vulkan I know it does terribly with DX12 my GT 640 is dead so I can't check for myself. I just hope this doesn't effect too many people.

On linux side:
* Intel GPUs found in Intel Gen 6 & above have active support and vulkan 1.4, can run latest dxvk or vkd3d
* Intel Gen 5 has Vulkan 1.3, supports up to dxvk 2.5.3. Can run minecraft with zink.
* Gen 4 has 1.2
* Gen 3 either has 1.2 or nothing

Below has nothing

On windows side, according to the url, anything under gen6 has nothing. However I recall the same document mentioned 1.2 support all the way back to Gen 2 in the past.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005524/graphics.html

This is not correct. Realistically, vulkan is broken below 6th gen skylake. In theory haswell/broadwell GPUs could support it, but the hasvk driver implementation is still very incomplete and not actively seeing work. As for ivybridge/sandybridge before it, there's a partial attempt at a vulkan implementation but even 1.0 is fundamentally broken due to hardware limitations. It likely will see no further work.

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Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: memvirusSo I am asking a noob question:
Is there a way to have two versions of Lutris installed at the same time?

So I can try out just using automatic v0.5.20 but also have v0.5.14 installed if I am not happy and rather have some manual settings?

Yes. Just install through different package managements. Maybe your main is apt, and use Flatpak or Nix in addition to it - both supports downgrading and version pinning.

Distrobox is another option and the one that I recommend - just setup an Arch distrobox with a separate home, maybe add cachyos + chaotic-aur for convenience, and then install whatever you need.

Also, I think Conty comes with Lutris as well. Again, just set up a separate home (well, XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME) so it doesn't collide with your existing Lutris. Login to Lutris if you want to sync them, maybe.

Thank you. I will take a look but am unsure if it makes it just too complicated.
I have Lutris currently installed via apt/ a downloaded .deb
Will installing it via flatpak make a new directory for it?

Or I just backup my current lutris directory (which ones are the important ones?) and then upgrade - later if I want to have my old downgraded state again, just uninstall, reinstall and restore my backed up directory?

(You see, I'm not so experienced and therefore more manual :D)

Best regards and thanks for the help :)

*Edit:
I really want to try it out, also had CachyOS as idea for my next OS - but am also just happy with my PopOS at the moment, because everything is working and I prefer it to be as stable as possible and just working

But I guess I need another host system

Wisely something immutable?
Like Silverblue or NixOS (have no experience with hem)
and then put my old system (PopOS) in there as container and also set up CachyOS as container?

how would be a fast and smart way to set it up without reproducing everything manually from zero?

I guess I also need to learn some docker? (has also been on my list) because distrobox is based on it? so then docker -> distrobox would run on Silverblue/ NixOS?

And first I need to do some cleanup to get more space on my laptop :D

also sadly PopOS seems to be neither in compatible host nor container OS
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/compatibility.md#host-distros

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Incredibly excited to play with friends

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Finally a game for when I'm inebriated before bed and want snacks

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Quoting: Chrisznix

Quoting: ArehandoroI wonder when will we start seeing crazy pricing for second hand devices in 2nd hand markets because of this.

Already happening. I see scalpers already, pricing just under 1000€ for a unit.
Take techdweebs latest video and see if you can get by with a pocket handheld instead. :D

Quoting: Jarmer^ yep. ebay is climbing up towards 1000+ for used models. New / unused ones forget about it.

Damn :_(

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