Quoting: mrdeathjrbut wmv (with wmapro audio) however still is a problem in my case

Ahh, I'm guessing Yuzusoft still doesn't work by default then. Well, at least it seems like a lot of VNs are getting worked on through ProtonGE, so at least there's that.

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Quoting: reaperx7Many of you are getting this wrong...

Swanstation was a port of the libretro-core that was maintained by RetroArch without Stenzek's permission after he and the head developer of RetroArch had a falling out over Stenzek teying to push code updates to the tree and the RetroArch dev reversing the changes because "he didn't like them".

Duckstation was meant to be distributed as-is either in flatpak, self extracting executables, or the unmodified source code for distributions of Linux/BSD to do their own localized and self-maintained ports with. The exe and flatpak versions would be supported officially by stenzek where as the source code ports would be distribution maintained.

He changed the license because he doesn't want people to clone Duckstation and then steal his work, and have people blaming him for a forked project's faults like Swanstation did.

I don't blame him. The GPL is a very flawed license when it comes to allowing a developer to have absolute control over him/her project. For some projects its fine, but for others it's a total headache.

This is why many developers in the past have used BSDL, MIT, and other more restricive licenses to maintain control and prevent unauthorized forking. This saves Stenzek the time and trouble of dealing with unofficial ports, packages, and projects. He's not saying you can't fork the project, but what he is say is, if you fork, all changes have to be submitted back forst in private, and approved before you publish your changes go public in your fork so the entire project is on the same page.

This is what it means to be FOSS. FOSS is about freedom and openness of the source code. People are free to take your source code and do whatever they want with it. Both good and bad.

If they don't like it, they're free to start a new project, under a new license.

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I personally don't like it. This feels like more FOSS bait-and-switch and erosion of what FOSS meant. FOSS doesn't just mean source available nor does it meant no-commercialization. FOSS means freedom and openness for the source-code, so people can do whatever they want with it.

If he wants to restrict the binary or something, I'm fine with that. Likewise, if he wanted to make a more restricted version of the project, I'm fine with that so long as it's either a new one or a clean-fork of this one.

Add to that, I don't trust a developer this unstable. If it was 100% FOSS instead of being this weird Source Available model, I'd be able to ignore it as I can trust someone will pick up the torch if and when the original dev leaves the project.

So I'd rather just migrate now, and use something else I can trust to be more stable in the long term.

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Quoting: fritzyThe original Redhat 7.1 in 2001 left a bad taste in my mouth, and I never recovered. Is there a reason why we should use this Fedora distro over something like ChimeraOS?

For most users, the Bazzite Launcher app which makes setting up a lot of gaming and non-gaming stuff easy (like setting up virt-manager or sunshine), making it easier to use than other immutable distro. Also, overall there's just a lot of resources that's been accumulated to help people install stuff like Da Vinci Resolve and others. For me, Universal Blue as a whole is what gets me into the immutable train because it's very usable.

On a more power-user side, there is what is now called BlueBuild, which allows you to build your own images. I have a github repo in which I use Bazzite as a base image to build my own image with my own packages list and usr/etc files, allowing me to essentially have my own personal distro after a 6-click short setup process.

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Quoting: mrdeathjr:smile:

I don't know how you have the patience and time to keep doing this, but I appreciate you trying things out, summarizing what you tried, and the actual progress on the bleeding edge cases for Wine.

I don't really get all the details, but it's nice to see progress and it's nice to see users actually testing the experimental stuff.

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I hope they do the first game justice. Aside from the frustrating binary ending, it was a lot of fun with a lot of charm. There's both teenage identity and LGBT identity stuff that's done well. Something that the next games (prequel and such) just didn't capture - granted, I only know about it from the hobbydrama post [External Link], but nothing after the first main game really interested me to pick any of them up.

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Quoting: GuestIsn't it also the case that games running with Proton are automatically and individually sandboxed (to some degree)?

AFAIK by default most proton prefixes still have access to user's system mounted in Z:\ thanks to Wine's defaults.

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Quoting: PyrateI appreciate the insight into Bazzite. Do you reckon it could be used on a gaming laptop that is also used for general desktop work? or is it exclusively about gaming, where I'd be better off using something like Nobara? (I'm thinking of Bazzite because I'm interested in the whole atomic variant concept of Fedora)

I use Bazzite for my work laptop (I'm planning to do the same to my backup laptop, though rebasing it to the uCore server image once I don't need the UI). And it's fine? You'd need to add some stuff if it's not provided by default, but it's not hard to do and in fact integrated to their default yafti and ujust recipes. If you don't like the setup, you can always rebase to Bluefin [External Link]/Auaurora [External Link] or even plain ublue or Fedora Atomic images.

Granted, I also use the Blue Build system [External Link], as it's called now, which might look daunting but if you look at the How-To page [External Link] it's still the six clicks process that it remains to be from back when it's still under the Universal Blue website.

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Expanded hardware support for TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption.

Very excited for this at least if it's implemented in a way that can be re-used by other distro.

The requirement to input password before the boot process continues can be really annoying - I'd rather it be dealt with automatically, and I just have to deal with the DM's log-in page. I could easily turn auto-log-in on and off, very useful while tinkering.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyWould you say that Ubuntu is the best OS if you just want things to work and not tinker, especially for gaming?

I hear Bazzite/Nobara are currently some of the best Just Works(tm), no tinkering distro's out there.

I can second Bazzite, particularly because of the greater Universal Blue group's work on the `yafti` GUI setup tool and `ujust` CLI scripting tool, which makes setting up a lot of things so much easier. They also write a lot of guides in their forums (like how to install Davinci Resolve), and have the very robust Blue Build which gives fairly easy-to-learn declarative-ish custom image builder, so it's also great for power-user or just as a learning experience as well.

Granted, Plasma 6.0 is still pretty rough from what I hear, but you can use the GTS channel to stick with the older Fedora 39 base, then jump straight to Fedora 41 once they come out with improved Plasma 6.1 or 6.2 (this is what I'm planning on doing myself).

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Quoting: hardpenguinSo like EasyRPG [External Link] but for MV and MZ editions!

From what I saw, it's closer to a wrapper. nwjs is the engine, and rpgmakerlinux-cicsoffs runs it with custom parameters. Similar to how Bottles runs Wine with custom parameters or how LEGUI runs locale-emulator.

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