The first one seems feasible for a Proton-GE protonfixes quick automation... The second one will need investigating unfortunately.

The Enigma Protector DRM though... That's the one with really bad performance hit vs Denuvo on RE4 remake right? That is worrying for RE9 and Onimusha...

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Hm, the guide doesn't have some of the newer custom Proton builds like proton-cachyos (and proton-cachyos-slr which is probably worth explaining because I also had to look up the difference), Proton EM that I think is focused on Wayland, and dwproton (dawn-winery) that's focused on non-Steam gacha games compatibility.

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Oh, neat! I thought Endfield would be relegated to just dwproton's domain.

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A new ASUS Armoury driver to bring more ASUS hardware tweaks directly on Linux.

I've been waiting for this, as a ROG Ally owner who uses rog control center. Though, the Decky Desktop GUI is more relevant there since I started to use Ally Center plugin.

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Quoting: d3Xt3rBut for a more serious (production) or install-it-and-forget-it type scenarios though, I'd recommend a lightweight immutable and atomic distro, such as uCore OS - because Arch/Cachy ocassionally breaks or needs manual intervention, and that might not be acceptable for some server scenarios.

The uCore transition is finished? Tbh I'm a bit wary of Universal Blue - there were a LOT of changes and deprecations a few months ago. Enough that I, admittedly emotionally, crashed out because I felt like my trust was being broken.

My laptop could probably use it tbh. All it needs to be is to run Resilio Sync, seed the um... Linux ISOs I have to help people, and be useful when I need to open a browser. On an i5 Broadwell Lenovo G40-80 from like 10 years ago (that I really need to repaste and swap fans at some point). It won't help much but I hope the memory management will be better (that poor 8+4GB mismatched memory...) and I'd need to reboot it less.

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Quoting: DirgeI know a lot of people use the distro as a NAS OS due to their ZFS implementation. I'm interested in seeing what they implement in order to break out and into more broad environments.

Same. I prefer having the same distro on my machines, and so far I'm liking CachyOS. I'd want to see what the server edition offers and see it tested before using it on my repurposed old laptop.

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Well, the CachyOS was very good in responding to the various threads on Reddit and their forum when users (me included) has some issues with the updated ISO's installer.

At the very least, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and trust them as a team because they were on it when there were issues.

Hope CachyOS can work on my long term because I really enjoyed the distro so far.

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So, he tends to push changes before they are fully ready so he can play with them. Examples are day one Fedora releases regardless of whether it works properly (although we got good at that), yanking X11 in early 2024 as Chris Titus (first big youtuber) was reviewing Bazzite, breaking a lot of his software and causing him to ragequit the review, introducing Bazaar too early while it had memory issues and crashed on low end hardware, switching to iwd the day Phoronix announced there are rumors Intel stopped maintainance and breaking enterprise WiFi and WiFi on a lot of Intel devices, using Ptyxis as the default terminal (decent software, but Konsole is fine), bundling the Steam client plus problematic codecs so Bazzite cannot ship on hardware, and putting an assortment of unnecessary packages that we then have to maintain (8 Gnome extensions, etc). There are more, but you get the idea.

Between this and seeing that my thread [External Link] are among the top read [External Link], it feels... Relieving to realize I wasn't going insane with my concerns. Regardless of what actually happened, I'm glad to realize that my concerns, which I finally voiced when Bazaar was added before it was fully ready (in my opinion), is actually something that wasn't totally insane.

I'm willing to wait on more on this before passing any judgement, but I just feel a huge relief to realize that my concerns weren't totally insane and that at least one of the core devs privately has similar concerns.

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Quoting: MinoscerebI like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

I generally default to Heroic. Even outside of EGS and GOG where I like how much more seamless it feels as well as liking the UX more than Lutris, I also like how much simpler it is to add my games that I... Got from elsewhere.

It is also easier to backup the settings files, which is mainly useful for syncing and manually correcting my play time. I usually report such things in my reviews so Heroic is quite useful for that.

Also, I like their Wine/Proton manager. Having the option for just "proton-ge-latest" that can be installed and upgraded in compatibilitytools.d is nice.

Honestly though? I like their UX. I'd rather use them with Lutris only as backup and either Faugus or Bottles for quick run via file manager (still trying to decide which one I want of the two).

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Quoting: BumadarAlthough this is very cool, I am a bit worried about their own kernel, more in the sense of anti cheat kernel drivers appearing in their kernel. But maybe I am to negative.

Well, Bazzite's dev at least has stated that he believe that anti-cheat should be done server-side (paraphrasing).

For trustability on BOTH side (no potential malware for users, no need to trust that the client hasn't been tampered anyways) it does make much more sense to do it that way.

I'm a bit surprised that Nvidia or Denuvo hasn't made moves towards that. I feel like they could more easily get the data, hardware, and capital to create a moat of server-side anti-cheat of sort. They could have easily just invoked "AI" and get it moving.

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