Quoting: memvirusSo I am asking a noob question:
Is there a way to have two versions of Lutris installed at the same time?

So I can try out just using automatic v0.5.20 but also have v0.5.14 installed if I am not happy and rather have some manual settings?

Yes. Just install through different package managements. Maybe your main is apt, and use Flatpak or Nix in addition to it - both supports downgrading and version pinning.

Distrobox is another option and the one that I recommend - just setup an Arch distrobox with a separate home, maybe add cachyos + chaotic-aur for convenience, and then install whatever you need.

Also, I think Conty comes with Lutris as well. Again, just set up a separate home (well, XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME) so it doesn't collide with your existing Lutris. Login to Lutris if you want to sync them, maybe.

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This is what an actual independent game success looks like. Not what the Tencent-funded industry plant that Highguard masqueraded and rightfully failed to be.

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Sigh.

I don't even have the energy to care anymore.

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It doesn't have the Save Sync function yet, but it's great to see a lot of updates. There has been a LOT of changes to the way we're doing non-Steam games in the past 1-2 years since they had a release. The changes were probably tough to get done, but hopefully everything is cleaner from here on out.

I for one have been very happy with the way they preserved my play time and list of non-Steam games.

Heroic will still be my default of GOG & EGS, but Lutris is now back as default for anything that isn't on those platforms (with Faugus for running games from the file explorer).

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Based. I'm so happy that Steam Deck is even mentioned. There's been a lot of gacha games moving to Steam now - as a Cygames slave I'm happy to see that they've never restricted Linux. But outright Steam Deck mention is another step! Thank god for Valve having Steam Deck as the Linux trojan horse.

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The first one seems feasible for a Proton-GE protonfixes quick automation... The second one will need investigating unfortunately.

The Enigma Protector DRM though... That's the one with really bad performance hit vs Denuvo on RE4 remake right? That is worrying for RE9 and Onimusha...

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Hm, the guide doesn't have some of the newer custom Proton builds like proton-cachyos (and proton-cachyos-slr which is probably worth explaining because I also had to look up the difference), Proton EM that I think is focused on Wayland, and dwproton (dawn-winery) that's focused on non-Steam gacha games compatibility.

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Oh, neat! I thought Endfield would be relegated to just dwproton's domain.

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A new ASUS Armoury driver to bring more ASUS hardware tweaks directly on Linux.

I've been waiting for this, as a ROG Ally owner who uses rog control center. Though, the Decky Desktop GUI is more relevant there since I started to use Ally Center plugin.

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Quoting: d3Xt3rBut for a more serious (production) or install-it-and-forget-it type scenarios though, I'd recommend a lightweight immutable and atomic distro, such as uCore OS - because Arch/Cachy ocassionally breaks or needs manual intervention, and that might not be acceptable for some server scenarios.

The uCore transition is finished? Tbh I'm a bit wary of Universal Blue - there were a LOT of changes and deprecations a few months ago. Enough that I, admittedly emotionally, crashed out because I felt like my trust was being broken.

My laptop could probably use it tbh. All it needs to be is to run Resilio Sync, seed the um... Linux ISOs I have to help people, and be useful when I need to open a browser. On an i5 Broadwell Lenovo G40-80 from like 10 years ago (that I really need to repaste and swap fans at some point). It won't help much but I hope the memory management will be better (that poor 8+4GB mismatched memory...) and I'd need to reboot it less.

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