Quoting: FrawoCan't you have this by creating a bottle for every game?

Oh absolutely, nothing's stopping someone from doing this! I just found it a bit more straightforward with Lutris. So technically there's no correct choice between the two softwares in this regard, but there's a lot more options to get lost in within Bottles.

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Dang that UI looks slick! Bottles team know what they're doing.

Quoting: GuestShould I use it for games instead of lutris?

I personally use Lutris because that's what I've been using before Bottles was a thing, and I like setting up my Wine prefixes from scratch and adjust all the dials and knobs manually. On the other hand, Bottles makes managing your, well, bottles easier. It also looks more all-encompassing, focusing on simplifying the installation and running of both games and applications.

There's also Lutris Wine and Bottles Wine; I think the Bottles devs call it Caffe? I don't know what patches they have in it, but might be worth looking into and deciding if that's the Wine you want to use.

So at the end of the day I suppose it boils down to which of the two UIs you like more. I tried Bottles and went right back to Lutris because it works better for me visually, and for how I manage my prefixes.

Edit: I might be wrong here, but I'm guesing Bottles also tries to make general-purpose Wine prefixes instead of separate prefixes for every application, by having a "Gaming" and "Software" prefix, plus whatever else prefixes you might wanna make. Also there's a Flatpak, if you're into that. Which is definitely a great concept that will be useful to many people, I'll add! But it's also another reason I use Lutris, I like having a prefix for every game I play, and I definitely don't want Flatpak or Snap on my system.

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Grabbed this on GOG few months ago (am using RVGL as well), so lovely to experience this childhood classic again <3 Just as fun as I remember it. Folks, grab it, if anything just for the music alone :P

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Very interesting, thanks for reporting on this. Looking forward to inevitable comparison shots in more games.

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Yikes :S Don't know if it's only the Steam version that suffered this fate, but still glad I trusted my gut and downloaded all the GOG installers for my copies of the BioShock games onto my network storage.

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Quoting: ShmerlAlso, how do you apply thermal paste on that heat spreader plate? I.e. won't it go into those openings?

I saw a picture of a Ryzen 7000 CPU with thermal paste residue from a removed cooler, and it looks like it'll work completely fine. Cannot find the pic anymore, I'm afraid, but it applies very nicely from what I saw.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWill these ones contain the Pluton backdoor?

I can't say for sure, but I haven't seen or heard a single AMD rep state that Ryzen 7000 is infected with Pluton, be it at an event or investor meeting, so I'm hopeful.

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I can buy video games AND flip off old white men in suits trying to control other peoples' bodies?

I'm in.

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Well, I am not trying to promote piracy or anything but.. I AM interested in seeing how this one is going to be cracked purely out of curiosity. (Let's face it, I'm sure there are some crackers out there looking for a challenge.)

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Quoting: Eike

This isn't some marketing gimmick either, Zach has taken up a teaching job and really is moving on.

Nooooo.....!

*inhales*
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....!

Jokes aside, really cool to hear Zach is a teacher now! His games alone have taught me a lot, so what better role to move on to?

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