Ugh, that broke both the AUR and Pacstall version. I see why they put out that letter asking to not package their app outside of flatpak with that timing - to get ahead of the mess that this change brings.

Libadwaita turned out to not be that big of a deal for me though. On Pop_OS 22.04 via Flatpak with WhiteSur-dark for theme, most of it was themed correctly with only one asset missing (the final image at the on-boarding).

Between my general antipathy to libadwaita, "Don't theme my apps," headache-inducing flatpaks, their recent announcement, and GNOME in general, I must admit I had a childish moment of glee because everything was themed to what I want instead of what they want.

Well, I'll check the project out again next month - hope it gets better then. Running things normally from terminal or file manager still works best for me right now. Outside of games, the only Wine app that I run regularly are Office 365 which still works best with CrossOver and WhatsApp which even on Bottles requires being launched with terminal output for some reason so it's moot for me anyways.

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Quoting: itscalledrealitysnip

Huh, is it an issue with thunderbolt/dock or something? I know that the dock life is generally pretty awful on Linux (though in general it isn't great unless you're running everything Apple I guess?) which is what Valve is trying to improve (and they're running a version of KDE themselves).

On my PC with a 1080p old Toshiba TV (connected via VGA-input with a DisplayPort adapter) and 768 even older Acer monitor (also via VGA-input but with HDMI adapter this time) things generally work fine, even when I put the PC to sleep. That said, sometimes they also wouldn't wake from sleep if I've left it to sleep for like 3 hours or something, so I do have some Sleep issues as well.

As far as I can tell, things seems to be fine? I haven't gotten the Plasma update yet, running on Garuda I'll probably get it in a week or so. The new update seems to have a connected displays profile manager so I hope that might include a fix for your issues.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI haven't played with it yet, but does the KDE Overview let you also search?

Yes, actually. At first it was limited to only searching open Windows, but it seems to be able to search other stuff as well. That said, I never liked Baloo and I recently tested and liked Pop_OS 22.04 so KDE search is of limited use to me and I just use rofi to switch Windows and open new apps, while using the much, much better FSearch for searching files.

That said, it's not a full "KNOME" experience yet. Moving windows between screens on KDE Overview is finally added in 5.25 but I don't think we have a moving between workspaces while on Overview yet. Moving windows between screens was a pretty late addition/announcement so I think we should see other surprise fixes on 5.26 and I'd expect 5.27 is when everything from Overview to Wayland to mature enough for GNOME user's standards.

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I did my part this month- I actually got my first Steam Survey prompt since going to Linux this Monday.

Not that I moved much of a needle, since I was using newer distro (Garuda Linux). Though I'm tempted to try Nobara (AUR is just so convenient tho).

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The project is very interesting - I've been opening a few requests and some gets accepted pretty fast, others a bit slower.

I think this is handy for discovery, quick setup, and maintaining updates. I didn't even know that the Zoom app I have was outdated (I'm more used to Zoom natively installed - I've had bad experiences with screen sharing before and prefer to play it safe. I'll definitely keep using this as I distro-hop - it'll save time for apps like browsers and it'll help keep some apps like Bitwarden up to date (both of which I prefer to have installed natively due to native host messaging still borked on flatpak).

I hope that more third party projects lands on pacstall and deb-get because having a script that can install and update these things makes my live so much simpler.

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Quoting: itsNottingcan someone please explain the hype about these launchers?

Convenience, granularity, and management.

Heroic makes it so much simpler as you don't need to fiddle with Add Non-Steam Games, deal with Non-Steam Games' proton compatdata, load SO MUCH FASTER, have all the games quickly presented to you for quick downloading/playing, and easier to backup.

Corollary to that, the tweaking options is honestly more convenient than Steam or Lutris. Steam focuses on getting things working out of the box but the weakness is that tweaking options are much less accessible and doesn't acknowledge community ratings whereas with Heroic it's all laid out in a simple fashion and even has a link that opens the game's ProtonDB in a pop-up window.

And for Lutris, I think it's finally catching up with its early design decision it made that hadn't account for Linux newbies, 2020s gaming landscape, and the Steam Deck's decisions (like Flatpak). Still, I do like using Lutris to manage my, ahem, Privateer'd games (I live in third world countries, okay, and VN prices and DRM outside of Steam and to a lesser-degree JAST sucks ass) but Heroic is just better for the free games I claimed from EGS and it's opening up a whole new option of buying from GOG if they can get Cloud Saves working (I'm just so done with losing my save data).

So yeah, there are a couple of reasons to use Heroic, Lutris, Gamehub, etc. Especially if you use emulation. The best thing is that I recently found out about BoilR [External Link] (in addition to Steam-ROM-Manager [External Link] so you can have the best of all worlds by installing the games on Heroic or Lutris, then connect them to Steam, so you can have the games themselves (instead of the launcher/emulator) be shown on Steam for quick launching and have Heroic and Lutris for the tweaks management/game installation.

Quoting: fearnflavioCloud sync is tricky but we were able to sync save some games already like CP2077 and others, the problem is that not all games follows the same pattern for file saving, so its complicated to cover all cases, but we are working hard on that and I am optimistic that this will be able to go into the next major release :)

You guys are actual badasses. I've always bitched/laughed about how GOG for Linux always being the top request in GOG Wishlist no matter what filter you use for ages, and here you are, doing it yourselves. Massive kudos.

The only thing that I could request then is some sort of shortcut to open straight to EGS' Free Games page or currently running free game. I always use Heroic to claim them anyways, because that way it's more isolated from the rest of my browser.

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While it is by no means Heroic or Minigalaxy's responsibility, I still wish that we have any way to have Cloud Saves available for GOG games. For me, that's the main worth of buying games - the ability to store your progress across devices, and it is very handy for a chronic distro hopper like me.

I saw that the Linux Request on GOG development wishlist is now In-Progress status, but I'm skeptical of them until I see it materialize. Even then, I wish there's just some sort of API that can be accessed the same way Heroic can access EGS' Cloud Sync.

It's a shame, because I legitimately would have bought some games from GOG - especially VNs as they are properly uncensored there and for some, like Fullmetal Daemon Muramasa, it's not available on Steam at all.

I'm willing to stomach the horrible price difference vs Steam's regional pricing (which is the only reason why I could afford legally getting games for a long time) but if I'm not getting cloud saves then I might as well just get them somewhere else or pirate them.

Heroic has been great from what I've tested it. Definitely use it for EGS which works miles ahead of Lutris and even the official launcher. GOG is still a bit iffy, but hopefully the In-Progress Linux GOG materializes and Heroic can benefit from it.

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My main problem with snaps was storing user data in ~/snap. I've already resigned myself on the dotfiles front, so can't we just use ~/.snap or something? I'm pretty much fine with flatpak storing their stuff in ~/.var and anyone who uses KDE and Mozilla knows the amount of dotfiles they still like to create outside of the XDG specification. I've resigned on that front, and I don't really care where I get my softwares anymore so long as I can get it and it works - though in that regards, I really would like an easy interface like Flatseal for Snaps as well.

My problem with Ubuntu overall is that I don't feel like I get a lot of benefits from using it? Like, if I want stability, then there are better options. If I want fast updates, there are better options. Ease of use? Same. The only real advantage of Ubuntu is that it's a "reference model" of Linux as a whole, so getting support is easier, but new Linux user onboarding is done better in other distro still and in the long term a lot of the documentation works cross-platform (I still consult the Arch wiki a lot).

I don't think Ubuntu is that bad, but I personally am not sure what advantage I'd have over Mint, Pop, Zorin, Feren, or even Fedora, Manjaro, and Garuda which are all distro that I regularly look at or use.

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Huh, I wonder what's actually the problem with Succubus x Saint that they would specifically mention it. It played just fine when I tested it with normal Wine. I guess some RPG Maker MV games still aren't well optimized? I just finished playing Celesphonia today and the CPU spikes was brutal for such a simple game running on an engine based on Chromium.

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What I'm looking forward to is getting this to the hands of laptop reviewers like Dave2D and Short Circuit - the latter would be the redemption that Pop/S76 need after blewing it up in the LTT Linux Challenge.

I really liked what I've tested of Pop 22.04 so far. Granted, my experience isn't stock, but I've only added extensions for minor tweaks. The core experience themselves is still very close to what system76 made out of the box, which surprised me given how usually I found it unbearable to not use at least dash-to-dock, dash-to-panel, and ArcMenu.

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I quite like it, but a good part of the reason why I liked it was the additions that Ubuntu Budgie brings, particularly with budgie-extras and all the welcome tours (UI Layout Changer should be standard in all Linux distributions). I hope they can incorporate that.

The main reason why I stopped using Budgie was that there was this problem with Wine apps that decorates their own windows, particularly with ribbon UI (Foxit PhantomPDF, Office 365, a few games), not playing well with maximization when I last tested it. It would think it's not maximized and switched between normal to maximized, getting smaller each times, so it can be hard to even close the app and sometimes it can be accidentally triggered.

Though it might be a conflict with pixel-saver add-on.

But yeah, other than that, it's great. They even have quick Flatpak install on their Welcome App.

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