Quoting: slaapliedjeThere was some talk about this for Launchbox (emulator front end) to be ported to Linux, and the developers have mostly said that the Linux development tools just aren't as good... though I tend to think it is more like 'it isn't as good for the language that we chose to write things in', as development tools under Linux have always seemed superior to me over Windows.

I believe the issue with Launchbox is it's written in .Net and specifically WPF. WPF in particular is very much windows only. Dotnet GUI applications are pretty much garbage on Linux, you can do it, but you have to develop and plan for it from the start, and each major Dotnet version changes what that means entirely.

There are plenty of good ways to develop cross platform things with GUIs, but not really if you're a .Net WPF developer.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeBut did they make the game not 'meh'? Ha, everything I have heard online about this game makes me think the writers of the dialog were angsty teens.

Yeah, that's what I've heard too. The trailers did a good job of making it look like exactly that, and initial word is... it is exactly that.

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These games are great. If anyone is considering this, doesn't already own them, and likes old-school point and click adventure games do yourself a favor and get these. It's downright criminal how cheap the bundle is for what you're getting!

To note, not only do they have native linux versions, but WadjetEye hired the dev that did the linux ports in a post-proton world where he absolutely did not need to do that.

To note #2, ScummVM also semi-recently added the AGS interpreter -- which is what these games are made in -- to ScummVM and you can play most if not all of these games in ScummVM if you'd rather for some reason.

Primordia and Gemini Rue are some of my personal favorites for this type of game, and I pretty much always recommend them whenever Point and Clicks come up.

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Quoting: dibzI wonder how many people still actually pay for these

It's true that in some months the filler games outnumber the desirable ones by a fair margin...

That's actually what I was talking about. I wish they'd stop including blockbusters and raise the quality of the filler instead. Typically when I pay for choice, I only want one or two games from it, then I try and give the rest away. Keyword is try, because friends and family never want that crap either. Typically I can only ever off-load one or two keys to someone else, usually it's if there is desirable game I either have zero interest in or already have. Pretty much everyone I know is "over" adding junk to their libraries...

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I wonder how many people still actually pay for these, I definitely pause more months then I pay for now and I imagine that's true for a lot of people holding onto their classic plans. They bundling a "headline" game with a bunch of not great stuff, but the headline games a lot of people already own...

I wish they'd just not do that and maybe have higher quality indie games for the whole bundle instead.

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Quoting: dibzFor some reason I always find the layouts of GTK3 apps to be confusing. This looks like no exception, unfortunately.

I usually find them cleaner and easier to navigate, but I have been goofing around with Gnome for awhile now, and have gotten used to the ebb and flow of their stuff.

Though they could have done a better job of labeling things in the app. "Installed Tools" should be "Install Tools," showing that's the button you click to download a new version of Proton. The entries below that should be labeled as the currently installed tools per the launcher listed above.

The layout isn't final at all. I've just updated to make it more usable. I know user experience is important, but right now I'm more focused on the backend rather then the frontend. I'll make sure to keep that in my mind for a future update tho. Thanks you for your feedback :)

My issue with GTK3 in general isn't really your app, your app looks fine in the GTK3 sense to me. My issue is really with GTK3 in particular, the weird centered tabs in the title bar; menus in strange places, visual elements that aren't necessarily obvious. It's a symptom of all GTK3 stuff. Some apps are cleaner and easier to understand then others, but pretty much none of them are ever "immediately obvious look I know how to use it without having to learn how to use it". The designers of GTK3 really seem to have uh, let's call them "modern" ideas on what good UX is.

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For some reason I always find the layouts of GTK3 apps to be confusing. This looks like no exception, unfortunately.

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Quoting: dpanterYikes.

Security issues are hardly uncommon for stuff like this, Linux users just tend to pay more attention. Kudos for Liam mentioning driver versions, not sure if NVIDIA did too or not. Usually stuff like this is when I have to explain to people what backports are and why their systems are okay.

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Agreed with the other pro-Mint comments here. It's the better Ubuntu, sans Canonical. Packages are a little slower to be pushed, and that's a good thing; They're tested better.

Ubuntu is pretty solid, but I have always had niggling issues here and there that people tend to attribute as part of the Linux experience, with virtually every Ubuntu release. Canonical tends to not have a great attitude with minor package or w/e issues, and if they fix it, it'll be in the next version -- where you get new minor issues, rinse, and repeat. Minor annoyances can really put people off if they're new to Linux.

Except it's not really part of the Linux experience. Mint polishes that not-quite-a-turd, I could count the issues like that on one hand that I've had with Mint over the years, and it's quite a few years at this point.

Also, on a different point, I will never understand why some people recommend Mint as a beginner distribution, which is a weird stigma to create. It gives the idea that it's meant just for beginners, but why does a distribution have to be hard, or work, heavily customized, or simply more difficult? It's totally fine if that's your thing of course, but there is no justification for it beyond personal preference typically.

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Honestly I agree with the others, sideloading usually refers to "not this". Apparently, Wikipedia even has an entry backing that up...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

All that said, I can see why it's not entirely off-base to use here either, but the confusion it would cause also isn't unreasonable. Using it here makes it sound like Heroic is an ecosystem itself, which it isn't; though if you use a flatpak it might be...

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