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...

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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.

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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.

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...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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