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Perfect time for a revisit, and maybe this way I can carry over my saves and finally play the second installment!

I didn't (yet) succeed in carrying over the game saves to PoE II. :-(

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Perfect time for a revisit, and maybe this way I can carry over my saves and finally play the second installment!

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Kinda sad that development is coming to and end, but I can understand wanting to move onto new projects after so much time. I adore this game. It's THE game if you want a true spiritual successor to the Wipeout series. I can't recommend it enough. It's very frustrating that it's so overlooked.

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Ah, I miss Obsidian making games like this.

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Nice! More people should experience this worthy successor to Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale :)

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Somewhat recent bazzite user here (haven't updated system specs yet), I can clarify on some of the points. Bazzite does allow most power user cases but usually in a specific "Bazzite way" endorsed and documented by the developers by the distro. Bazzite has "ujust scripts" that automate power user cases and comes preinstalled with some power user tools. If you follow their docs, great! If you have a mothod you are used to already, you need a change of habits.
* General development needs: A mutable distro in a container is actually a reasonable solution. Distrobox makes it easy to create a containerized distro in which you can install development tools. You can use GUI apps in a container on the host distro and share your /home folder.
* Installing RPMs that need system level access: RPMs need a process called "layering" which generates a new image with each package you install. Installing packages is advertised as a last resort because doing so can increase update times or completely halt updates, similar to having to remove PPAs on Ubuntu before a version upgrade.
* Kernel Modules: Bazzite comes with more kernel modules than most distros. Kernel modules for Xbox controllers, Broadcom Wi-Fi and a few other ones are included. If a kernel module you need is not there, you will need to create a "custom image" that bundles the kernel module you need. Layering will not work. Custom image is basically creating a new definition that is based on Bazzite and changing your source to a repository on GitHub.
I'm actually affected by this, a maintainer refuses to include a modified module for fan control on Gigabyte motherboards due to safety concerns.
* Virtual machines: Qemu and virt-manager are installed, USB and GPU passthrough can be configured via a "ujust" script. Virtualbox with acceleration will not work because its kernel module cannot be installed.
* Remote Desktop: Sunshine is preinstalled.
* Remote Access: Tailscale and SSH are preinstalled.
* VPNs: Installing a VPN that has a flatpak is recommended yet there are only 2 lol. Proton VPN and Mozilla's VPN. An alternative is downloading an OpenVPN or Wireguard configuration and importing it to NetworkManager. This is rather uncommon but is a simple process can be done entirely with a GUI. If your VPN provider gives you the conf files. Layering as a "last resort" is also possible, except that flatpak and conf files barely cover most people's needs regarding VPNs.
* DEs other than GNOME and Plasma: Custom image, see kernel modules above.
* 3rd party software that assumes host system is modifiable: Tough luck. Patch the software.

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I'm completely addicted to it. It's the perfect handheld game when you don't have a lot of time.

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Regular users just wants to run their games and discord and a web browser, for which immutables are perfectly sufficient, just look at SteamOS, it has far more share than any other distro on Steam and it's immutable. If you see them as restrictive, there's enough mutable options out there you can use. I value the stability and robustness of Bazzite, its zero maintenance nature, the fact that updates (even major OS upgrades) are instant, and that you basically have a cloud save for your operating system built in, in addition to local rollback options.

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Normal users are never going to be configuring anything to do with the kernel.

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Great write up, very useful for new users. It could be worth adding [proton-cachyos](https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos) given how popular CachyOS is now.

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Hell yeah - DF is so sick. I'm eagerly awaiting the magic and myth updates.

Guess it's time to start a new fort and have some FUN.

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I have been enjoying this game on Manjaro with a few friends. It's been running great on my ryzen 9 5950, and my RTX 3080.

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Very nice! Now I can remove all 32-bit packages from my Debian installation.

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Nice update...
(Although I'm more into the Songs of Syx for the past year...)

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Of which the vast majority of normal users won't even notice.

That depends on what you call normal. Can you for example configure kernel modules there or immutability prevents that? Can you run stuff like VMs? "Normal" is too loose to describe it. I'd always see immutable distro as limiting and not general purpose enough.

If it covers your use cases - then it's useful. It is most fitting for console set ups in the gaming context.

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Immutable distro puts a lot of restrictions on its use cases

Of which the vast majority of normal users won't even notice.

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Bazzite is far more newbie friendly than Arch/CachyOS, and can be used for pretty much everything besides gaming

I don't think so. Immutable distro puts a lot of restrictions on its use cases, so I wouldn't consider it pretty much for everything purpose. "User friendly" is a double edged if you simply can't do what you need.

More like "super restricted so you can't easily break things" - yeah. But that doesn't mean it suits all needs.

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man I would kill for something like this mod manager for openmw.

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This is shaping up. I'm definitely excited for more Skyrim, which is bizarre, cos I've played it to death by now! It might get me back into Fallout 4 though, which I've barely scratched the surface of.

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Definitely sounds like AMD is laying the groundwork for a forced upgrade path. Open source drivers wins again. My RX6600 is safe!

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...they were proactive with valve about Linux support AND emailed the Linux press about their intentions?? Impressive!

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At least it's cheaper than a $999 Mac monitor stand.

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Fedora not surprisingly losing a ton of ground ... I bet it'll be completely gone from the list soon. Once it's gone it'll only be bazzite left on the entire list that's not ubuntu/arch.

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10 hours later, it has been working great. Only a blip last night when they had server issues, not Linux related. Thoroughly enjoying it.

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How does that M.2 slot actually behave under heavier load? What happens when you try downloading a larger game (30-100GB), and how does it behave when it then needs to write a huge update? Writing anything beyond a small indie game to SSD in that JSAUX HB0604 dock was asking for trouble. Larger downloads, so what you'd presumably need this additional space for, could take several attempts. Updating these larger games was worse still - could take many tries, sometimes you'd need to reseat the damn thing to get it recognized after it'd disappear. Virtually none of the reviews mentioned any of this, it's still not fixed (this is after the firmware update, and with the new, beefier PSU), if that's even possible to fix, and the users got screwed getting a recommended, partially defective dock.

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Let's see if the trend continues and hopefully some day we can get rid of winbugs

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Oof. Quite the price indeed for a dock.

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@bara there's 2 Steam Deck models, 0405 is the LCD and the OLED has a different codename. I believe AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)
12.64% is the OLED

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As far as I know, HDMI 2.0 is okay it's later versions that are not.

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Ignorant question: HDMI 2.0 is not supported on Linux, right? Do they include it for potential Windows users or am I missing something?

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