Fixed adding non-Steam shortcuts with spaces in the path

Oh my god, finally, this. This got me so, so confused when I first got into Linux, it took an entire year for me to understand what went wrong and how to fix it on my own.

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I used Syncthing for a while! It's actually pretty cool, and I'd recommend it for people who have multiple devices and just want to sync folders between them. It's pretty much the only option for these that is properly open source and doesn't rely on complicated setup.

The main issue I have is the lack of on-demand feature and a more robust phone app (and IIRC their iPhone client is proprietary and pretty much paid-only as well). I want to use it to get off the cloud, but it's too limited for that, unfortunately.

I switched to Resilio because of that, as while proprietary, it is robust enough for me to use as cloud replacement that, with one device that is always-on, allows me to access my remote files from phone as well as selectively backup + download my photos. Instantly canceled my OneDrive subscription after that.

Buuuut it is proprietary, isn't available via package manager, and selective sync as well a few other features are paid-only on PC - thankfully, both selective sync and ID connection works on phone - you can use your phone as introducer in case your other devices doesn't have trial anymore.

I would happily switch back to SyncThing as soon as they have they have all I need, but considering how Syncthing Lite was dead for so long and the disappointment that was Mobius Sync, I can't say I'm optimistic it's going to happen anytime soon.

(yes, i won't stop mentioning resilio and bitching about syncthing's lack of simple selective sync on both android and PC until it's implemented - I'll take it even if it's paid option)

Then again, SyncThing is probably the only option we're going to have on Steam Deck for a long while (unless you want to fiddle with SeaFile - which seems like even more of a hassle and less trustable) so if I have a Steam Deck then I'll just install SyncThing to at least have a sync setup.

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Kinda wanted to donate at first, then I saw that starting amount is $40 and it has less everything in terms of quantity and things that interest me compared to itch's, which I've already paid for. Much as I want to donate, I'll have to skip - that minimal amount is too much for me and even if I earmarked next month's discretionary spending, I can't really justify it with that kind of contents (mainly because itch's was just much better).

They really are a shell of their former self at this point. Even with this big of a bundle and for 100% charity, it's just... mediocre for what they're asking.

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Uh, latest patch [External Link] seems to have returned the anti-cheat file?

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Quoting: TrainDocAnyone have screenshots for those at work or no way to build ourselves?
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PS: I don't see any link to the actual WINE websire.

It's really not much different, just cleaner and looks less dated, but it's really is just a slight change in color scheme.

Spoiler, click me

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You can test it yourself if you're using wine-staging, pretty sure it's been there since staging 6.0 or something.

Personally, I'd love to see an official dark theme support at some point. There has been a few tries [External Link] at it, but I'd like for an official one.

Edit: also, link to official websire's announcement: 7.4 [External Link]

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Quoting: Dribbleondo

Quoting: fenglengshunI'm pretty sure this was fixed, as I recently tested this with Hitman 3 (pirated)

I like how you had to mention you pirated Hitman 3 for no reason, other than thinking it's some kind of sign of coolness, when in fact it's a sign you're being an asshat to the developers. Buy the sodding game.

I will, once it reached a decent price and no longer as convoluted. I am a big fan of the series, played through the old games (except the very first one) to the new Hitman 2, did a few SASO and full challenge in Hitman 1 and 2, already did the carryover process even though I don't own the game yet.

I just also don't want to support the shitty moves they pulled and will only pay once I think it's reached a point it's worth paying for with my <$350 SE Asian meager wages. I thought about not paying, but I love the series too much and value progression enough that I'll eventually pay it. For what I think it's worth, which by my poor ass stand, should at most be a fifth of what I pay for rent every month or about $20. Also a good excuse to wait out until they finished releasing all the updates and I could play them all in one go.

I do generally pay for my games, eventually, but piracy is just what it is in SE Asia man. We used to grab PS2 games on the street for $1, with PS3 and PS4 never achieving as much success as it makes far more sense to buy a laptop/PC and buy games $2-10 up until internet becomes cheap (so torrenting becomes a real option) and Steam presents a sensible price for us with regional pricing (I ain't paying for what's equal to ~50 meals for a single game unless it's really good).

Isn't trying to be cool or anything, just the reality of gaming in a poor ass country with long history of piracy. Can't be helped if some people just have different standards and priority than you, is just what it is, man.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualSteam's "Add Non-Steam Games" function doesn't work unless you already have a .desktop icon for the game—it can't find it.

I'm pretty sure this was fixed, as I recently tested this with Hitman 3 (pirated) after I mentioned the same issue somewhere before. The only issue from my testing that it seems to interpret spaces as end of line, so you have to manually reinput the correct exe directory and folder directory which would stop at the first space it sees, but after that, it works just fine.

Overall, it's fair assessment, but from a hardware and price point perspective? I think it's great and I think it's a valid usecase for the product. I personally don't feel any of the issues are major issues for me, but I do understand that it might take a while for the simpler instructions to make it through the less experienced users (and Bottles, as much as I love it, is still not as reliable as normal Wine or even Lutris).

Mind, most of the time I use Garuda so I could install wine-tkg-staging-fsync which plays most thing easily with a single click (including JP games if you made some .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications for Wine run w/ specific env variables) but I don't think that's hard to do with SteamOS if you enable Dev Mode (though, again, there's Bottles and Lutris' Flatpak is progressing bit by bit).

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualA number of things have to get a lot better before visual novels on Linux are a good experience, let alone the Steam Deck. I wish it were better.

...that's interesting, but I kinda just don't really care? If I can get a game on Steam, I'll buy it there, assuming it's uncensored or there's a restoration patch. If there aren't, then I just go to the high seas. Though it is interesting that you don't mention Johren/Shiravune (which is a spin-off of DMM/Kadokawa), the old timer MangaGamer, Denpasoft, Kagura Games, Fakku, DLSite, JAST, and Nutaku.

I don't see it as fundamentally that different than the usual case of buying VNs as an English players, especially with Wine/Proton 7.0 seems like it's fixing codec issues now (which took the bulk of the old setup instruction [External Link].

I can open VNs games just fine with a double-click with Wine most of the time, maybe set `LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8` and `TZ=Asia/Tokyo` variables which is easy with Lutris (the flatpak version works fine for Wine games) and Bottles (also has flatpak version) or just with Steam's Add Non-Steam Games functions. Textractor seems to work just fine [External Link] so long as you run them in the same winepfx as the game (much like running CheatEngine, which works just fine aside for the speedhack function).

Maybe for the Japanese people who want to buy JP games legitimately, but for that market it's only recently announced that they're going to open pre-order there. Though even then, last time I tried DMM to play Princess Connect, it managed to install just fine, with the only issue being the hand-off between starting the game on DMM to the PriCone.exe running which I wouldn't discount being fixed by Wine 8.0 since they seems to be tackling a lot of old issues this year (like WoW64, which is the other bulk of that old VN setup instruction). Besides, those market are currently mostly covered by Switch (aside for eroge, ofc).

Personally, it's an absolutely fine way of playing VNs. I've tried playing VNs via Steam Link on phone, and the only issue is my wifi's bottleneck. Worst case, I could just dual-boot Windows or run the games via VM (Gnome Boxes fortunately available on Flatpak) which works just fine for most VNs even on my 10yrs old Lenovo laptop.

So, yeah, that's some neat things to know, but a lot of that aren't particularly relevant to me, and most of the issues seems like it'll be solved or has a fairly simple workaround.

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Fix Melty Blood: Type Lumina hanging on the intro video.

Yep, looks like video codecs are finally getting fixed. That'll enable a lot of the Japanese games I play. I should check BlazBlue again sometimes.

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Persona 4 Golden marked as working is a big deal. For a long while now, codec has been an issue with a LOT of games, particularly Japanese ones like ArcSys's games. Persona 4 Golden was literally the first non-VR game marked as not playable in Steam Deck Verified program. If it's actually working, that's a LOT of games that suddenly went from Silver to Gold or Platinum in ProtonDB and so much less hassle to play.

A lot of people in the visual novel community was interested in Steam Deck as a VN machine, and those people can pay a lot of money to import stuff from Japan and just want people to accept their money to get something officially. They're also already pre-disposed to like handheld like Switch and Vita, even though most VNs are on PCs. So they might be a good customer in the future if codec is really 100% working now.

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