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Quoting: octarine_dreamThe dreamland optimist in me thinks they're projecting more gamers switching off windows and they want to avoid an entire new generation of 'avoid nvidia on linux'; a mantra like that is tough to shift. Yes, I used a semicolon, but I assure you I am human.

• Dungeons of DUSK: Very good. Native Linux compatibility, shows it's a "labor of love", smooth CRPG difficult curve. Very good performance.


• Gambonanza: A turn-based chess roguelike. Very fun, seems too basic at the beginning, the chess-puzzle difficult escalates pretty smoothly. Similar to Balatro with a cool and animated interface, and in the sense you buy very strategic power ups with money earned after each special "mini chess" match.

Question: Does building Lavapipe on Windows require building “microsoft-experimental” as well?

Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: soulsourceRed flag: The I.MX8M Plus is painfully slow...

That's the CPU used by Purism in their Librem 5... So painfully slow AND painfully old.

The ability to have virtual desktops only on the primary screen.

Quoting: Developer12This 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.

Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: CatKiller

These builds are deployed untested.

That's the opposite of what anyone wants.

It's on the No Tux No Bux crowds now. Just today, I saw a reddit thread saying "Wine is not an excuse," so they better walk the talk and actually play this game, give feedback, and contribute real support to a game that's actually doing what they're asking for.

Quoting: CaldathrasWhether I go back to Lutris remains to be seen. There are some nice QoL features in Lutris that are not yet available in Heroic (like launching the game from its Windows shortcut, for example).

Quoting: memvirusThank you very much!
I have installed the most recent flatpak version to give it a try :)
but only one lutris is being displayed in the program overview in popos
and it is not opening flatpak lutris, so when I want to open my old deb lutris I have to write lutris into the terminal right now

Quoting: memvirusalso in flatpak there are some "problems" - I guess due to it being containerized
mangohud was not working, but I fixed that by also installing the mangohud flatpak (is it supposed to be fixed like that? or can I link my goverlay mangohud to flatpak lutris? cuz installing mangohud twice is also taking space..)

but my bigger problem which I cannot fix right now: pulseaudio latency fix in lutris is greyed out - I guess because it also cannot find it in the container?

• [The Amusement](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4372570/The_Amusement_Demo/)


• [Crushed In Time Demo](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4273470/Crushed_In_Time_Demo/)


• [Causal Loop](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3921450/Causal_Loop_Demo/)


• [The Eternal Life of Goldman](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4315490/The_Eternal_Life_of_Goldman_Demo/)


• [Mumintroll: Die Wärme des Winters](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4179690/Mumintroll_Die_Wrme_des_Winters_Demo/)


• [Echoes of Mora](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3870460/Echoes_of_Mora_Demo/)


• [ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2863680/ZERO_PARADES_For_Dead_Spies/)


• [Blades of Fire](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2091020/Blades_of_Fire/)


• [Wild Blue Skies](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1921490/Wild_Blue_Skies/)

Quoting: Caldathras

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.

Quoting: whizse

Quoting: CatGirlKatie14310/10 name

I suspect that rating is not entirely unbiased? 😸