...am I the only one who felt "neat," and then just shrug?

Maybe because I'm starting to get used to using Flatpak, distrobox, Conty, and Nix that I'm just not fussy about how I get my apps. If app don't work with Flatpak, I find it on Nix, if it's not there, then I'll use Conty, distrobox, or AppImage, and if it really wants to be installed on root... then I'll just install it.

My only issue with snaps is the clutter, otherwise I'd probably use it as well. It's, like, whatever man. Just install your app and do what you need to do. People getting more access for Steam is nice, and Canonical's the one doing the work anyways, so, uh... neat. Have fun!

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Don't mind me, I'm just here praying for some sort of official release for SE Asia. Maybe they could give pity and have SEA release while on the way to shipping to the Australians.

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According to some of my friends, LAN transfer can still be slower than downloading from Steam directly. But I think in most cases it's good -- I've made sure to enable it for everyone on all of my devices, because who knows, maybe someone else in the sharehouse want to download a game I already downloaded and in our connection I'm pretty sure LAN transfer will be better.

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All these complicated comments meanwhile, all I think about when I saw the announcement was "More funding better flathub, better flathub more apps, more apps more good." Besides, I think @gradyvuckovic already expressed all of my worries, and I'm sure the flatpak (and related) devs are aware of those concerns.

I'll just use whatever's available, man. Testing out Vanilla made me not really fussy about what way I could get my apps, just use flatpak, if not work then either nix, container, or appimage, if not work then install natively or build it manually. It's, like, whatever man.

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Apparently they managed to make it so much smaller thanks to a new archive format:



Which is nuts since Cold Steel 2 is still taking 20GB of my SSD. I think CS1 was around the same size as well.

Anyways, I'm glad for an eventual English release even if they haven't even decided what to translate Kuro no Kiseki as -- I just hope it's not something confusing like Trails of the Abyss. Meanwhile as an EXA_PICO fan I'm still salty over Surge Concerto being released on Steam but you can't even buy it unless you're in Japan.

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Huh, nice. Linux Mint is the boring (in a good way) and safe recommendation people always make, anything that helps keep it as the "boring but inoffensive and just works for most people" is good.

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Quoting: GuestIndie devs: port their games to every platform possible, flawless native linux ports.
AAA studios with billions of dollards profit: wE cAn't aFfOrD LiNUx sUpPoRt uwu :cry::cry::cry:

just admit that game industry is full of incompetent useless people managed by greedy billioners. even though you buy all games, you don't support developers. you support upper management's annual paychecks so they buy another yacht size of aircraft carrier

That really doesn't apply in this case. EA and Apex has been (surprisingly) supportive of Linux and it is one of the cases where Linux players also play the game, proving the investment worth it.

Also, the game does support Linux, it's just an issue of tweaking the parameters to not have false positives -- fundamentally, that's what is about, it could also happen on Windows because of misconfigured parameters. And as much as I hate anti-cheat, you really do need to take it seriously or you reach a state like Tarkov where the sanctity of the gameplay becomes questionable once someone like g0at exposes it.

To be honest, these days the only games that actually doesn't support Linux (as opposed to just anti-cheat blocking them) are probably just random Japanese games with weird codecs and DRM.

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Quoting: denyasisI'm all for donations and being able to support various developers, but when I hear "subscription" I think something more commercial (especially since it's mentioned above in addition to recurring donations). And when I think commerical payments, I'm expecting commercial level support... That seems like a pretty high expectation for a dev from a consumer.

I'd like for that to happen. It's major, major hopium, but I hope Adobe can eventually come to Linux - so that more users can switch to Linux - and a strong commercial environment for desktop users is necessary for that.

At the very least, we know that Spotify is interested in supporting Flatpak officially but right now they're focused on Wayland and maintaining their official Snaps release.

As Flatpak and Flathub matures, I think it will be the way to get desktop apps on Linux, but there's a long road in the back-end and front-end support and adoption to reach that point, and this is one important step within that road.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMakes me wonder how workable it would be to build Flatpaks with (Windows application + Wine), and whether Codeweavers could make a few pennies setting up such packages on Flathub for Windows software sellers?

This has already been done in Winepak [External Link] (the old one) and flatpak-wine [External Link]. In addition, in practice, this is what the launchers for FFXVI and Genshin on Flatpak are, dunno about other apps like the Minecraft launchers. But I've at least played Genshin on Linux and the setup was easy, game runs fine.

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Quoting: drjomsI do, and it's hit and miss. When it works - it works. When it doesn't, well, it doesn't...

Echoing this. I'm on KDE x11. The most useful usecase for me is when it's an old game or games that have annoying alt-tab behaviors.

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I really wish they don't make the process of getting the ISO so annoying though. Why do I have to give my email address to be emailed a download link that's only valid for 30min? It's very annoying -- Tuxedo meanwhile just leave their ISO available. Kubuntu Focus has a lot of cool stuff that I think people should check out but I doubt most people would want to do it.

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