Nice. Still waiting for Native Host Messaging to progress, and I'm really hoping for that portal for usb-control and communicating with other flatpak apps progresses soon. But Flatpak is pretty nice when it works -- and Nix, Distrobox, and Conty covers up the rest.

Legitimately, I've gotten annoyed whenever I need to install packages to my host system nowadays.

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Interestingly enough, I recently tested the Lutris' Flatpak runner and it worked... even though I was using Flatpak Lutris. I was able to run flatpak yuzu from flatpak lutris. I don't think that's very compliant to what Flatpak wants, but for migrating to a flatpak-focused install, that helps. I hope that it gets incorporated to a real "use installed Flatpak executable" option for the runners.

I still feel like Lutris is currently repaying a technical debt accrued over the years as it needs to adapt to the new needs of gaming and Linux trends of the past two years. I hope it gets there, but for now, I prefer Heroic for managing Wine games. It's just more straightforward.

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Thanks for the template, been wanting a horizontal bar for mangohud, but wasn't sure how to do it.

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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.

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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!

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

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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