Quoting: damarrin

I don't play many visual novels

Here we go again. :-) You should put this in your "about the author" box, it'd save you having to type this every time you write about a VN. You know they're not synonymous with sex and nudity, right?

Is this some sort of projection? I think everyone knows they're not at all synonymous with sex and nudity - both the ADV and NVL style/format has been more and more used outside of its original context and people just refer to those format as "visual novel".

Which is fine, the genre/medium is ever evolving, and as a proud VN player I'm just happy that people are getting into/interested in the genre regardless of where they came from and which niche they're into. OELVN in particular really needs all the help it could get.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWineHQ have their own Debian Repositories for current versions of wine. Though they are occasionally built a little weird, but overall do work great (if you've never installed wine from the Debian repos).

Oh, yeah, I tried that when I was trying out MX Linux, but for some reason it kept failing to pull from the repo, `sudo apt update` would just keep saying error for those repo but the other repos are fine.

I don't know if it's my connection (as sometimes we even have issues downloading from github - and there was a time where I couldn't connect to github at all without a VPN) but it is part of the reason why I haven't tried Debian and Debian-based again. There were a few issues that was confusing me, and I don't know if it's my device, my connection, or just something I couldn't figure out.

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It sucks, but I won't entirely blame the devs for raising the price since everyone's struggling right now. I would prefer if they pick a better time to raise pricing, but it is what it is.

I will admit that the reason I'm somewhat forgiving of it is because I checked the price in my region and it raised from 110k (7,36 USD per today) IDR to 130k IDR (8,69 USD), 20k IDR increase or about the price of a very filling lunch with lots of side dishes (though only about half the price of a nice meal by delivery). It's a sane price for my region, before and after, otherwise I would also be angry.

Quoting: GroganWhy would anybody pay that much for a game of that nature? It doesn't even look very nice. I mean seriously... in this day and age, $35 USD for that?

People who like that game. Graphics isn't the end-all be-all; in fact, as the growing indie market proves, there are more people who gravitate away from graphically demanding games. Factorio, from what I've seen from my friend, is one of those games that can be very engrossing once you're in the zone and people can spend thousands of hours on it.

We can argue about the pricing of games and the economic situation, but don't dismiss the worth of a game just because it doesn't appeal to you or it doesn't look like AA/AAA games.

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>Forspoken needs desktop Linux to spoof being a Steam Deck to work
>It "didn't be installed" on my Windows Linux.

It do be like that sometimes my bro.

The restriction is... weird, and normally I would say "I'll take it," but all the reviews I saw says the game is mediocre with some issues and the PC req is being so high means that, while I appreciate it being possible to run in Linux in general, I don't want it, thanks.

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Well now, that should be in time for Ubuntu 23.04. Wonder if it'll make it to Debian 12 since we haven't yet passed the Soft Freeze deadline.

I'm glad for all the improvements for CJK and media playback. As someone who plays a lot of Japanese games, I'll take every improvements for them because good lord can those Japanese games can be very messy to run with a whole mess of dependencies to play videos, have fonts rendered well, and sometimes just to get running.

A massive thanks for all the people involved and congrats on the new release, here's hoping for a good 2023 for Wine and related projects.

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Q: Why do you think people should use Heroic over Lutris, or Bottles or *insert other app*? Do you see them as competition, or is it more like companions?

Honestly, I think these days it's just about which user experience fits your usecase and preferences better. I can see how Bottles fits some people's and I still need Lutris as my emulation games' tracker.

But I do vastly prefer Heroic for my Wine games. The best part about Heroic for me is how easy it is to add games now, and make it look good. Also, the fact that it tracks game play time is nice, as I like to report playtime HowLongToBeat and VNDB accurately. And separate wineprefix makes it easy to prevent dependency conflicts and backup my saves per game.

I'm also super glad that they could have a Windows release -- it's been very convenient using it on Windows side too.

If I have a wishlist... I guess it's a JAST USA integration -- or an extension system that would allow that like Playnite have for JAST -- because price there is cheaper for me than GOG, and some sort of simple way to plug in emulation games into the library (the Add Game panel just spoils me, it's so simple to add game, have it auto-added to Steam, and then play the game).

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Multi-monitor has been the achilles heel of using Plasma last year. As someone who has multiple monitors with 3-5 workspace/desktops at a time, kwin/Plasma has often crashed requiring me to run the restart-plasma script (kill/restart kwin & plasma) I've binded to a shortcut. More improvement on that is welcomed.

Not requiring Flatseal anymore is nice. That and the new welcome app seems like one of the Deck-driven improvement that benefits everyone that uses KDE as well.

Having followed Nate's Pointiest Stick blog, it's been awesome seeing improvements to Plasma every week and that improvement is now finally landing. Here's to a good last hurrah for Plasma 5.

Quoting: mr-victoryThis time KDE stole from Microsoft, the new tiling feature is probably inspired by Win11's corresponding feature. (was it called snapping?) But they didn't just copy pasta but slightly improved it.

Regarding tiling, the only thing that KDE 'stole' from Microsoft is the Snap Layouts that appears when you however Maximize button -- in the form of someone making Exquisite, which is similar to that Snap Layouts feature.

Snap Layouts I've found to be rather annoying, but I do use it sometimes so I keep it on despite how bothersome it is sometimes (I've disabled the screen-top's Snap Layout UI tho, too annoying considering I put my taskbar at top).

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The Year of Linux Handheld is Here.

Anyways, I'd be happy to have this. Valve hasn't touched my region while Chinese distribution network are generally better at working with local trusted distributors, so for a long while now there's been official stores in Tokopedia (so much safer in terms of warranty/returns) selling the Chinese handheld over Steam Deck (though recently Steam Deck price has started to come down, locally).

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI ask this because the earliest version of Bottles used to be available as appimage...
It was very practical. just click and use...

I feel like that's just an unnecessary extra step in this context, since you can just make the AppImage do the "wine ./Game.exe" for the 'Game.exe' packed inside the AppImage, thus having a "click and use" experience already.

I don't think old Bottles have good CLI pipeline either, since I recall it being a late addition or rework in the middle of last year.

A better approach IMHO is to use Portable Mode [External Link] and/or modifying the 'default wineprefix' in the Wine folder you bundle for the AppImage (or do an automated winetricks dependency install if it doesn't detect an associated .wine/.home portable folder).

Quoting: McCartheeSeems like an absolute dream for pirates.

Please. As a pirate myself, I find this to be an unnecessary step over just finding a pre-installed copy of the game, and either double-clicking the .exe in file manager or using Heroic/Lutris/Bottles to manage my library of pirated games.

I can see usecases for this tool, but as a pirate myself, I don't really see the point of using this over something that already works -- unless there are people who bothers to pre-package this for me, but even then it just means extra download size over just downloading normal pre-installed version of the game.

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Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: ChuckaluphagusI can only speak for my kids and their friends, but all of their gaming is on Switch, Xbox, Playstation, and Steam. None of the younger kids (10 and younger) we see have phones that are capable of gaming, but everyone has a console at home and/or their parents' PC.

Same here. And they make fun of mobile gamers.

We always have a 'core' gamer and a 'casual' gamer divide, and the 'core' gamer will always mock the 'casual' gamers. Why would anyone think it'll be different with children today?

There's always that kid who has a cool console/PC that's a cool kid for getting their friends to play together and that's a circle that'll eventually grow to feel superior about being able to play 'real' games.

Elitism will always exists in children, and if it's not having a cool Fortnite skin or Genshin character, it'll be about "playing real games on a real gaming console/PC". Things don't change as much as some people think, humans will be humans, and kids will be kids.

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