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Linux and Steam Deck compatibility tool helper ProtonUp-Qt v2.8.0 out now
13 Apr 2023 at 1:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

You wanna know what's the greatest part about this thing is? I was a nay-sayer, I thought "normal protonup was good enough, especially as I use fish anyways."

Now I use this to install to manage Wine and Proton versions.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
13 Apr 2023 at 3:03 am UTC

Hi Liam, is Nobara qualified to be added as a separate distribution? If so, can it be added?

On that note, would it be possible for "Others" to allow for user-input? I understand the worry of people using it for vandalism, but I think it could be a good gauge of minor distro that might be worth it to add to the list.

Thanks regardless!

Driver updates for AMD RADV to give nice boost for Linux and Steam Deck
13 Apr 2023 at 3:00 am UTC

Nice. Though I hear that this doesn't affect DX12 games?

Heroic Games Launcher 2.7.0 is out now for Epic Games and GOG
4 Apr 2023 at 3:56 pm UTC

Nice, time to wait for the double hotfix cycle as usual.

But fr, the Epic login fixes is nice, sometimes it got weird with how it is logged in on the browser but Heroic things you're not logged in. Not too bad, but weird and a hassle.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition 2.0 is out now
27 Mar 2023 at 1:53 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: fenglengshunI honestly prefer something with better integration to my system and easier updating.

Though thankfully, there IS Bauh which makes installing and updating AppImage easier. And they maintain a database of extra AppImage sources on top of AppImageHub, so maybe someone can ask for this to be added ther (I personally doubt I'll ever use this, since it doesn't seem like ith as Switch emulation integrated yet).
What's annoying is we're ending up with the same nonsense we did before. Oh, we have RPM, tar.gz, deb... oh wait, now you're saying .deb between Ubuntu and Debian aren't compatible; and rpm between Suse and RH aren't compatible...

Now come along Flatpak, universal package management! Except now there is Snap and AppImage, which are also universal package management! Though AppImage is kind of lacking in the management department! I haven't heard of Bauh, I'll have to check that out, as I do use a few AppImages. But at least we're not like Windows, where you pretty much always have to go to a site, hope it's the manufacturer's site, and download an installer that may or may not have been tampered with, etc.
Eh, Flatpak is basically universal except in Ubuntu-land, and even in Ubuntu it's just a matter of installing. The only people who wouldn't install it are the ones who don't mind Snap or just don't know about flatpak (unlikely, unless they're just using Ubuntu for college classes).

AppImage is a very different thing, they're closer to portable apps and I don't see anyone on Windows complaining about portable apps vs .exe/.msi installed apps.

Snaps itself has a place in CLI/server environment, it's just Canonical insisting on using it for everything and in such an in-your-face kind of way that makes people annoyed.

I don't think it's as much a problem as some make it out to be, just use whichever has most of your apps. They're just tools in the end.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition 2.0 is out now
23 Mar 2023 at 6:46 am UTC

Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: LinuxerAww there is no snap for it or a flatpak
An AppImage is not good for you I assume?
I installed it from the AUR on my side. :heart:
I honestly prefer something with better integration to my system and easier updating.

Though thankfully, there IS Bauh which makes installing and updating AppImage easier. And they maintain a database of extra AppImage sources on top of AppImageHub, so maybe someone can ask for this to be added ther (I personally doubt I'll ever use this, since it doesn't seem like ith as Switch emulation integrated yet).

Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release
23 Mar 2023 at 6:16 am UTC Likes: 1

Huh, understandable, sucks that this happens, but it is what it is. As long as the Proton version works well enough, then I'm pretty happy about it.

Counter-Strike 2 from Valve releasing Summer 2023, Limited Test starts today
23 Mar 2023 at 6:09 am UTC

Quoting: ArehandoroI don't understand why is it called CS 2 when in reality it is just the same game but with a modern engine/physics/graphics...
coughOverwatchcough

Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu
23 Mar 2023 at 6:07 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeRight, but who would want to bother when you can just use flatpak? :)
Actually I think someone did make a proof of concept alternate store to snapcraft, it just never gone anywhere. I don't even remember what its name is, I just remembered it exists.

GNOME 44 is out now finally adding thumbnails to the file picker
23 Mar 2023 at 6:03 am UTC

Well, at least it's finally there, and with the work done on Treeview on Nautilus, maybe I don't have to groan whenever I see gtk filepicker because it's just so much less feature complete than KDE. It was to the point that I remember I turned on the debug feature to try to force everything to use portal, so that it'd use the KDE filepicker.

I really don't care which toolkit or DE or whatever it is -- if it works, it works, and thank god someone finally did the work. Even if it's not the most thanked job, I salute the devs tackling this ages old issue.