Loving this. Anything that could improve Trails in the Sky (which I run in DX8 mode since for some reason DX9 don't work with the Evo graphics patch) is good in my book.

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Quoting: ticktokI see 5.27 is still under 'test' on the arch repo's. Any idea when those will get released?

It's usually a matter of days -- Arch packagers are usually faster at testing and releasing Arch than GNOME for some reason (as I recall a case where GNOME users being annoyed how long it took for them to release it.

Quoting: slaapliedjeIn case anyone was wondering, the new Debian Stable (Bookworm) should release with 5.27 of Plasma Desktop.

Nice. It is supposed to be the LTS release as the final Plasma 5 point release so it really would have been a shame if Debian didn't get it for their next release.

Also, I didn't even know `kde-inhibit` is a thing.

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Quoting: Guestafter heroic launcher got sideloaded game support I honestly don't feel any need in lutris so far. I don't use it, I still keep it installed just in case something won't work on heroic. Sure, lutris has game options UI with more fine tuning stuff, but heroic feels way more streamlined.

Same. I'd probably only use it for emulators, and I still have a few games setup with emulators for that. I would've set up more if the process for adding game is more straightforward as in Heroic, but it's just such a hassle that I don't want to bother with it.

I'll probably just go and use Steam ROM Manager to import them all to Steam while using Heroic to manage my Wine and Linux games which is then piped to Steam as well.

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Woohoo, more language and Japanese games fixes! Always make me so happy to see them, seems like there's been a lot of work on that since Proton 7.0. Hopefully that keeps up for Proton 8.0 because Japanese games a toooon of weird quirks.

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While none of the games here interest me (aside for a slight one on Shadow Man which I watched a video of, last year), it does remind me to finish my purchase of Adams Media Knowledge 101 bundle. I owned two of the books in physical form, they were pretty good, and it seems a nice quick reference and starting point for researching stuff. And I did so with gamingonlinux as the affiliate partner, so I hope that helps.

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Looks good, but doesn't really appeal to me. I'm mostly raised on PS2 so I don't really have any nostalgia for a lot of those old games and the few classics I'm interested in (like Neverwinter Night) is on GOG, along with some of the newer stuff I'm interested in (VNs, particularly AliceSoft) so...

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> When the selected wine version was not found Heroic will search and suggest another one

Very nice, I recently had an issue of Wine not found, and this should make it clearer and easier in similar cases.

The new theme looks good, though it looks like the existing Nord Dark theme I currently use for it.

Game settings dialog box is nice as well, makes it easier to dismiss the setting and immediately start your game to try out the new setting.

More cloud save stuff, nice, nice. And the updates/download stuff is neat too.

None of it is particularly big and game-changing like the previous "Add Game" sideload option, but these are nice QoL stuff as I've used the launcher as my main launcher/library for anything not on Steam.

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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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