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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Curupira

a significantly reworked installer, which also now includes bootloader selection

I can vouch that CachyOS installer included a bootloader selection screen since I've first tried it (more than a year ago). Maybe even earlier. :)

I'm not too clued up on it, but it seems it was done differently before. Direct from their blog post "bootloader selection has been moved directly into the installer".

Yeah, it's weird. When I fist installed this, about 8 months back, it asks if you want Grub, SystemD-boot or a couple of others. So it's technically been there for a while. I wonder how it's changed that warrants that update message?

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Quoting: Curupira

a significantly reworked installer, which also now includes bootloader selection

I can vouch that CachyOS installer included a bootloader selection screen since I've first tried it (more than a year ago). Maybe even earlier. :)

I'm not too clued up on it, but it seems it was done differently before. Direct from their blog post "bootloader selection has been moved directly into the installer".

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Legal gears slowly grinding, huh? Two years to get to the point of "yeah, let's review this".

I wish this was a case against Amazon for Kindle Unlimited, instead of Valve for Steam game pricing, but there we go.

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a significantly reworked installer, which also now includes bootloader selection

I can vouch that CachyOS installer included a bootloader selection screen since I've first tried it (more than a year ago). Maybe even earlier. :)

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The UK continues to target consumers and make it bad for their own citizens... And all because of these "protect the children" fake organizations that clearly have a second agenda, and it is not about protecting the children. I wish these organizations would be sued for abusing the state of abused children for their own gain.

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If they are really taking into consideration Linux, at least one engineer with knowledge about Wine/Proton would also be necessary. Or they should consider closer cooperation with other known Wine engineers (for example GloriousEggroll or folks from The Dawn Winery, those who do custom Proton builds for gachas like Genshin).

Not all games work well and some still have some Linux specific bugs (for example Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood with a laggy cursor - recent Wine builds fixed it only partially).

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Wow, it's consistently had 800-1500 players every month for it's (considerable) shelf life!

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I suppose the performance thing is cool, but the bit of CachyOS I love is that it integrates snapper into grub seamlessly, so if you break your system (say, an aberrant Arch update), you just reboot into an earlier snapshot and you've learned your lesson. Takes all the pressure off the fact it's Arch. Or being an idiot like me and constantly experimenting with stuff and breaking things.

I'd like them to include ChaoticAUR by default, like Garuda does, but it's straightforward enough to add manually. If you haven't used ChaoticAUR before, it's a precompiled version of the AUR - very fast, because it acts like any other Arch source. No waiting around for AUR compiles.

My next challenge with CachyOS is integrating the boot with TPM, so I don't have to manually unlock my disks at startup. If that's successful, I don't think I'll be distro-hopping for a long, long time.

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Quoting: PyrateAffinity Studio teasing Linux support

Could you please provide a link where they did so?

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Quoting: MinoscerebI guess it goes to show how seldom I actually play anything on EGS.

I was exactly the same, and it turns out that not having to deal with a shitty launcher does lead to wanting to play those free games. Give it a shot, you might end up like me, actually choosing to play those freebies because of the much much better UX.

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What I really like to see is a bit of back-end/library consolidation.

I saw Heroic made efforts to sync the savages to GOG (experimentally), which seems to be a missing feature of Minigalaxy https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy/issues/23

Idk, is it so much fun to reverseengineer a platform or such a hassle to use stuff from others?

Sry for my rant. I just don't want to watch another client for xyz suffocate in bugs, which tints "Linux as a bad place to game" .

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The game looks nice. But I hate other players. I mean, there will probably always be at least one that I hate. Just like the Ark: SE GOL server where I spend my 1 hour free time every few days in, only to start all over again because of that one person.

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Quoting: MinoscerebI'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

Same. I don't get logic, why stubbornly not to include Steam games import to Heroic.

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Quoting: MinoscerebI like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

Unless this was changed, Lutris installs EGS meaning you have to deal with that garbage game store. Heroic basically bypasses any store it integrates and just asks you to login to the services to serve the games you have purchased.

I hadn't considered that actually. That's definitely a point to Heroic. I guess it goes to show how seldom I actually play anything on EGS.

I used to have both installed, but worried I'd end up with multiple installs of games (out of lazyness and lack of attentin on my own part) and just didn't want to bother deciding on a case by base basis which one to use, but maybe I should give Heroic another shot just for EGS-integration.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronThe rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?

It depends heavily on how you use it and what for....
I guess majority of the market has no idea yet how and where to use it properly. That is because the technology itself is just not there yet; it cannot be used for 'anything' en masse; it makes sense for certain select tasks only...

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Will 2026 truly be the real year of Linux gaming on the desktop?

Between this, and Adobe Photoshop getting a Wine fix, Affinity Studio teasing Linux support, and the new Vulkan extension that will apparently fix the performance loss on Novidia..

Yeah, I'd say this is the year 😁.

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Quoting: MinoscerebI like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

Unless this was changed, Lutris installs EGS meaning you have to deal with that garbage game store. Heroic basically bypasses any store it integrates and just asks you to login to the services to serve the games you have purchased.

My use case for Lutris over Heroic is for those game setup files I find laying on the ground after they fell off a truck full of game setup files. The customizability shines better there, even if both programs are capable of the same end results eventually.

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Hell yeah! This would get me to buy and play more of their games. Hopefully they follow through on this.

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Having both support for "Galaxy" and (preferably) some measure of: "if GOG end up making use of Wine / Proton", that would be the proverbial "Game Changer" for me.

Up until now, I've largely ignored GoG, aside from buying games for "ScummVM" and a few older titles for DosBOX. The reason for that, is that their commitment to Linux (compared to Valve) has seemed "half-assed" at best and almost non-existing at worst.

This change, if it's realized, could mean that I actually start using GoG for new/modern games. A legitimate alternative to Steam.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronThe rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?

That's what I thought too, and it's probably the case generally, but I got my mouth shut yesterday. One software architect at the company I work, created a new feature in a day that had been estimated in 8 or 9 months of work. It has been quite the buzz in the office. Now, I don't know if the original estimate was way off, but the "achievement" is still rather impressive.

Quoting: ShadowXeldronI'd be fine with going back to shopping with GOG if their official client actually comes to Linux as a native package with proper wineprefix handling for non-native games. Their lack of Linux support is what made me give up on them.

100% with you on this.

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I'm totally okay with a CLI tool like legendary

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The rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?

I'd be fine with going back to shopping with GOG if their official client actually comes to Linux as a native package with proper wineprefix handling for non-native games. Their lack of Linux support is what made me give up on them.

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Fun story time!

Back when I worked at GOG (over 8 years ago) as their Linux gaming expert the company hired a highly qualified Linux engineer for the GOG Galaxy team. As far as I know the poor fellow never got to do anything Linux-related in his job. Still, he was a fun friend to talk Linux with.

There were a couple of us Linux gamers back then at GOG. Unfortunately not among the decision makers 🙂.

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about time I guess?

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15 years since this conversation with former GOG head of support happened: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2017/08/looks-like-gog-galaxy-wont-come-to-linux-any-time-soon-as-its-not-a-priority/?comment_id=100651

It took them a long time.

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Quoting: GoEsrI wish they didn't make DX12 the default on Windows, that's exactly what developers are going to use and target for performance. 😫

Unfortunately, NVIDIA's and AMD's Vulkan drivers on Windows is such a goddamn mess, I don't blame any developer that switches to DX12 by default. I really do hope that the drivers get better, but the Godot developers wants to make game development as seamless as possible, and that will unfortunately mean choosing a graphics API that works better, even if it's not an open standard.

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I like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

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Quoting: CreepioI still play Dirt 3. It runs perfectly on the Steam Deck and provides loads of fun even to this day. I cannot say the same for many modern racing titles. I waited years for Forza Horizon 4 to reach a reasonable price, but by the time I was ready to buy it, it had already been pulled from the store. What is the point of waiting for a game to be affordable only for it to be killed at the six-year mark?

It's absolutely not the same. FH4 still works well as of today, including online features such as pvp races and eliminator game mode. The only exception is that they killed the festival playlists, effectively making some of the achievements impossible to unlock, which is a bummer. Anyway, delisting a game from the store because the licences expired is absolutely not the same as making the game not launch after the servers are shut down.

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Quoting: PhlebiacBoth this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?

If you want to deep dive, strace would probably tell you what they're trying to load there.

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Quoting: CaldathrasNot sure about the other effects, but the first one is available on GNOME

Window animations of many kinds, supporting both GNOME and KDE:
https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

Desktop cube for GNOME (same author):
https://github.com/Schneegans/Desktop-Cube

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