Quoting: devlandLutris forces you to configure each game from scratch while bottles gives you one prefix aka bottle in which you can run things however you want.

Uh, no? I myself just uses the same prefix (and the same system Proton CachyOS) for Lutris, Heroic, and Faugus.

If I need to, I am able to make them use different prefixes, of course. Which, in a btrfs system, is honestly just pure positive - I get to enjoy different games that may need different protonfixes, and it doesn't take much space on my system.

Them being all UMU based makes it easier for me, actually. All of Bottles' own middleman to work around the "legacy tools" meant they're actually got blindsided when everyone adopted UMU (which is also where non-Valve protonfixes are centralized). I do have Bottles installed, but Faugus takes care of most of my needs with Lutris being there for the ones I want to add to Steam, and Heroic there for GOG/Epic.

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Does Bazzite and CachyOS not get named labels on Steam's Survey?

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A truly Yo Dawg moment as Steam running through Steam RT can run games through Steam RT.

Hopefully we can lay down the multilib requirement soon.

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Didn't know about WiVRn. Well, I guess Meta Quest 3/3S is back on the table now as an option for use as a cheap XR screen.

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Sounds like more Slopfield from Microslop-owned Bethesda (who recently proudly featured themselves on Nvidia DLSS5 slop showcase).

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My experience with Manjaro had been pleasant back then - there were some issues with libcrypto migration and some updates had had some issues, but never something more than a quick snapshot rollback + reupdate wouldn't fix (well, aside for an issue after 8 month of not upgrading as my PC was left at home but that's just a known Arch issue).

What made me stop was the way they removed, restored, and then removed some codecs without adequate dialogue and then not mentioning it in the updates announcement. Between that, and the various management mishaps, I just chose to move to Universal Blue, then Bazzite, and now CachyOS.

I think their community is right in wanting to break away, though I would say making a new distro without the associated branding of Manjaro that is just toxic now.

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Oh, this is finally blowing up now? I actually skipped the entire section where the Mathieu glazed AI in The Linux Destination podcast. It was pretty long.

Look, I get it, people use AI. I personally don't mind if he generates codes, checks it, rewrite it into something that fits with the rest of the code in the project. Others' lines might differ, but as long as the program didn't become slop, I am willing to tolerate it.

But this:

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not.

Is absolutely the wrong way to handle it.

Although I do find it rather ironic that Lutris, in the same podcast, is claimed to be a platform for game preservation, and yet he uses AI, which Myrient (a game preservation site) has cited to be a reason why they're shutting down.

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Been using CachyOS for a month since migrating from Bazzite. It's been pretty smooth so far.

Octopi seems rough at first, being more like Synaptics or dnfdragora, but once I got used to it I actually quite like it due to how fast and to-the-point it is - it's kinda like having an ultra efficient search engine to Arch packages and AUR.

I still do install stuff on Distrobox and Flatpak for mitigation reasons. But the host system overall is pretty well thought out. It feels like they just set Arch up for you, include many optimization in the backend, and otherwise unintrusively give you Arch with just a couple of nice-to-have and decent out-of-box-experience.

I think that's what makes it stand out from Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour. It still feels like Arch, as the nice-to-haves and the defaults feels seamless even though they absolutely set things up for you... Arguably pretty aggressively. I think it's because it feels unopinioated regarding stuff that people notice, while actually setting things up for you.

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Quoting: CarollyA majority of distros aren't even based in the US, so good luck with that.

But I'd imagine it would just be thrown out of court regardless. California cannot impose their laws outside of their own jurisdiction. There's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either. If it were that simple the California AG would be suing people left, right, and centre for failing to comply with Prop 65 labeling legislation outside of state.

A good majority of them are still doing business in the US, if not outright in California/Colorado. There is also the question of organization and hosting/mirroring - I doubt it'd get enforced to THAT extent, but it is possible for them to order non-compliant OS to be dropped by hosters and mirrors. Even gitlab likely gets a decent amount of money from users / companies in California / Silicon Valley, nevermind the direct donations that major distro like Arch receives.

With Canonical and Red Hat covered, if the law moves forward, I can see happening is the dbus gets implemented anyways. Downstream distro not in US can likely avoid it.

Another alternative I could see is an opt-out during install process. Insert disclamer that installing user is above 18, blablabla, and it gets installed without the age confirmation subsystem.

The question then becomes how long until they force application to have to check for the user age bracket indicator as well. Because the law, from my reading, isn't just for OS distributor, but also application creator.

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Quoting: Stellawith the Ptyxis terminal you can easily open a new container session from a dropdown in the UI, Konsole did not have this until very recently (we're still waiting for the merged commits to land in an actual release, but you'll be able to select your containers if you right click the 'new tab' dropdown)

It hasn't landed? I've been just right-clicking tue New Tab dropdown and entering my distrobox just fine this month. Granted, I'm on Arch and I already got 6.6 and I don't remember if I've been using it since before then, so I might be mistaken.

It was as easy as setting up the profile to start with a distrobox enter. Like so:

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