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'Video game library manager', huh? Well, we already have Lutris, Heroic, and Steam, but I suppose another one wouldn't hurt. I mean, there's something like half a million desktop environments, so ecosystem fragmentation isn't anything new.

Never heard of Playnite, but looks like it's another game library app. Hopefully this one uses QT, AFAIK the others all use GTK>=3 which sucks.

I use playnite to have some control of what I have. It's an excelent backlog tool. I'm getting very emotional by this update! For now I run it inside a win VM. Ah, I also use it to randonly pick my next game.

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​In my case with this vkd3d finally can play alan wake 2, in before versions game crash before entry main menu but now:



however with my oc igp stay around 15fps (for 60fps in my actual screen resolution maybe needs in igp something like 780m possible with oc )

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Lost me at "free to play".

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A feature to be proud of, although I always wondered how they were able to fund the servers.

They still use your typical micro-transaction shop, including lootboxes. The difference between them and a F2P game really is that they don't have to go full-predatory, since they also generate some money from DLC sales, where F2P games don't. And as far as I know there is nothing in these lootboxes you can't also buy directly, or earn.

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Under strategy, no Anno 117 but instead Civ 7 is nominated? GTFO with these "awards".

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Never heard of Playnite, but looks like it's another game library app. Hopefully this one uses QT, AFAIK the others all use GTK>=3 which sucks.

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While desktop mode only I do hope later on he can look into adding the big picture mode

For now big picture mode on steam does a good job of thst for me, and I use boilR to add my heroic/lutris games onto steam, if you add your steamgrid api key it will even sort all the artwork out

I do wish valve would add ambient background music to big picture and steamOS. They could even have a selection of music on the points store!

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Impressed by the number of nominations for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The game that came out of nowhere and went straight to the top. Bonus points for being the only new franchise amongst the GOTY nominees.

Must confess that I haven't play the game, but the track "Lumière" is phenomenal (go watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpNVf8sczqU ).

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Nice! This may be a rare day-one purchase for me. Hopefully they bring a controller update to GW2 as well. I'd love to play that on Steam Deck.

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I see a large overlap between that and Lutris.
Not sure if there is enough difference to be worth the effort instead of joining up with the existing projects.

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But is there a Majestic Carrot?

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HDD prices have gone up so much. I went to refresh and replace some of my 4 and 8TB old ones with 14TB, and was horrified at how expensive 4 and 8 still are compared to when I bought them years ago. It's why I went with Snapraid and mergerfs for my big media array. Can use any mixed sizes and types of disk, parity is confined to specific disks, only disks in use spin up, and if the array fails then I can still read each disk independently so only lose the disks that died. It's great for WORM type setups, doing the overnight sync and able to recover from disk loss if needed. I have had to do that, and it worked perfectly.

If you do get a Poweredge or similar, I recommend putting something like Proxmox on to start with and then out OMV on that. Keep to a very basic config for Proxmox, don't try and learn too much to start with, and then pop OMV on as a VM. That'll let you then be able to add other VMs/containers and nodes to the system later as you learn it. Though OMV can do a little of that as well, so can always just install that directly and get used to the options that provides first.

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@tpau they don't actually whitelist keyboards.
They blacklist drivers.
It just happens that some keyboards only work through vulnerable drivers.

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I thought everyone hated Civ VII? I've yet to read a single positive review. Granted I don't go looking for them, so maybe I'm just in a bubble here, but I'm still surprised to see it nominated for anything.

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GOTY: Digimon Story Time Stranger. Best racing game: Assetto Corsa Rally.

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'Video game library manager', huh? Well, we already have Lutris, Heroic, and Steam, but I suppose another one wouldn't hurt. I mean, there's something like half a million desktop environments, so ecosystem fragmentation isn't anything new.

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The last and only online game that I enjoyed playing. Can't remember if it was GW1 or GW2, though.

And, of course, there are still no subscription fees.

A feature to be proud of, although I always wondered how they were able to fund the servers.

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Incredible.

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will there be participation awards, too?

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I think I'll stick with https://veloren.net

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I'm planning to move to Linux in 2026 after P11 is done, and since Playnite is my personal blocker for the move, I will try to make some Linux version in 2026.

As good a reason as any other to develop a Linux version, I guess. Another convert!

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Arc Raiders not being nominated for Best Sound Design feels wrong. The Geoff Awards get weirder every year.

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The free expansion pack, entitled Handful of Missions, was released in 1998. A Few Missions More would have made a great title for a follow-up pack.

I have an unopened copy of the Outlaws original music soundtrack on CD, given to me by LucasArts during my days in computer software retail. Not absolutely certain where I put it, though.

Sadly, I've never played the game, as first-person shooters tend to trigger my vertigo.

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Playnite on Linux would be great since there's probably going to be more users that move from Windows to Linux that would like to have this program available because of the many features that they use on it.

I was in that boat when I first switched to linux. It was disappointing to not have access to Playnite anymore so this is great news. I'm curious how it'll work with Heroic, it'd be nice if Heroic didn't have to open to launch a game.

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So, the dev will create a Linux version because dev wants to switch to Linux? That's a new one.

Welcome to the neighborhood!

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I guess the Anni event made the devs finally realize that GW2 isn't the drop-in replacement for GW1 it was meant to be. Both games are great, but they are very different games, appealing to different play-styles, and perhaps different moods. People want to play both games.

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Playnite on Linux would be great since there's probably going to be more users that move from Windows to Linux that would like to have this program available because of the many features that they use on it.

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I wish all the best for Death Stranding. It is art.

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So is there a sequel called "A Few Missions More"?

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Ooh! Looking forward to this. Guild Wars 1 was a really great game and plays very differently compared to GW2. Glad they are giving it attention.

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