I'm not going to trust Canonical. At any point before this, Ubuntu could have acknowledged gaming as a usecase. But no, Pop and Valve had to wade through until the point where it's useable and now they're like "gaming, eh?"

Ever since I actually take a look at the their history, I don't think I could trust them anymore.

So we'll see.

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Will Pop!_OS be pushing this update to a new ISO? Wasn't the main issue in the beginning was that Linus didn't update before he tried to install Steam?

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: fenglengshunnce I've actually encountered a KDE distro that fits my taste in workflow, I fell in love with it.

Which KDE distro is this? I tend to use Debian because it sets up what the project feels should be the defaults. If the Project leads could get some advice from the distros on a better default, that'd be fantastic.

Well, I started with Garuda, but that was a bit much, though I did learn a lot from disabling some of its effects and figuring out how they achieved their looks.

Then I try Feren which has a desktop layout switcher and a more subdued effects/colors. I like it better, and I like the idea of UX/desktop layout switcher a whole lot. While a full implementation like Feren would be too much for KDE defaults, I think some built-in Panel+Dock config options would be great (Budgie's implementation was pretty good for example).

The only issue is that both of them (and XeroLinux which also interest me) uses Latte dock/panel, which would be like if GNOME ship with Plank by default. But KDE officially cited Parachute and Mission Control as inspiration for their own Overview implementation, so they might ship some of Latte's functions as well (I would really love for drag titlebar via Panel and scroll workspace via Panel being official).

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Once I've actually encountered a KDE distro that fits my taste in workflow, I fell in love with it.

The main issue for me had always been that the KDE default is clunky, and customizing it is clunky with all the panel, dock, widget, and window settings until you learn how it works.

The distro defaults help with that, especially if they follow Feren's step of multiple desktop layout (which is becoming more of the norm on the gtk side it seems, from what I saw on Manjaro-GNOME, Zorin OS, and Ubuntu Budgie)

Of course, I've encountered problems on both KDE and GNOME. But my experience with KDE have only improved in past year or so, while GNOME has always had issues with extensions. I can adapt my workflow, but ultimately, I do need a bunch of extensions with GNOME for my optimal workflow UX, and as long as that remains terrible experience, I'm only going to use it just to keep up with it but not seriously.

That said, the recent integration of some Tweaks into GNOME's system setting is a cause for hope. But man, is all these drama with GNOME is just exhausting.

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Quoting: ShmerlSo how do you install anything additional if the main filesystem is immutable? Is /home mounted to some separate partition?

Where can you add your GOG games?

I'd imagine it works exactly like Fedora Kinoite/Silverblue. As far as I can see, the system files are immutable, but `/home/*/` seems to be fine. I believe that's why Flatpak is fine too, since they often install on `~/.var`. So that means your main options for apps are Flatpak, pip (since it installs on `~/.local/bin`), and AppImage. So, once again, I'm going to mention Bauh since it'll be perfect for this case.

AUR might be fine too since that often installs on `/opt/`. I don't know, can someone who've used an immutable-style Arch distro confirm? Also, can anyone confirm if snap works fine on Arch and Fedora immutable-style filesystem? I don't really care about it, but it's good too know (particularly since it could maybe pressure Ubuntu to embrace Flatpak).

I don't think an ostree-like toolbox approach is a thing here, but you can probably toggle the read-only mode from system settings.

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Honestly, my main requirement these days are Activity Overview, Global Menu, and Borderless Maximized Windows. Plus ideally a UX Switcher so I can safely recommend it to Newbies. That's why I'm probably looking at staying on Gnome and KDE, as much as I respect Budgie from my brief time with it.

Considering today's release of Linus and Luke's Linux challenge, I think this is a good step seeing how much of a mess Gnome became while Linus only wanted to install Steam.

Pop!_OS is the go-to recommendation for gaming on Linux for newbies but it's been very messy in my experience, so a way for them to tailor the experience for gamers while pruning issues would be great. And it's just neat to see more projects in Rust.

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Quoting: Liam DaweSay it as it is: no, you can't legitimately play it on Linux.

This isn't wrong, but for people who doesn't care about "legitimately play" something on Linux, what matters is that they can't. With workarounds, that might not be available all the time, but if the question is just "Can I play it, yes or no?" then, yeah.

For me personally, it's just a question of how much I want to play a game and how much of a pain in the ass is it. Genshin is kinda annoying to set up, I don't really care about it, and I have objection towards what several of their policies, so I don't. OTOH I've pretty much streamlined the process of playing the visual novels I pirate because I want to play them and I don't care about getting those outside of Steam and MangaGamer legitimately.

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"Please note: Internet connection is required to access Escalation missions, Elusive Targets or user-created Contracts. Story and bonus missions can be played offline."

Haha, yeah, sure, if you don't care at all about progression. On a game that's all about replaying the same level as you challenge yourself with both built-in achievements and check-boxes as you unlock weapons, costumes, and alternative conditions, as well as for self-satisfiction from experimentation as well as leaderboard (in the world and among your friends).

So basically only count if you're fine with an extended demo version of the game.

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testing a major change for save files

...I'll pass, but I salute to everyone who's helping test this new method. As they said, the real treasure is the save files we made along the way, and every save files lost is a tragedy.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicIs there any advantage to using this over say Lutris for example?

As was said, CrossOver is primarily for productivity stuff. You can use it to play games but I don't think that Winetricks works on it so in terms of compatibility it is very much "take it or leave it" unless you know how to make a Tie (custom installer) file for your game.

Photoshop as I recall is compatible but only for the older versions. MS Office is generally great, although if you can't install some of the dependencies (mostly 32-bit packages which can be a problem on Manjaro/Arch) then it has some glitches.

Basically it's worth paying if they have the software you want on their database of installer - you can check that on their website. Alternatively, you can treat it as donating to support Wine development, but I consider it more of a business transaction considering how much work they put into the product.

If it's games, then you'd probably be better served with Bottles or Q4Wine which can manage different pfx with easier dll management.

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