Can you confirm for me that I am right about needing to install UMU-Launcher?

I have got umu-launcher installed apparently, but it shouldn't be required. Do you have "ge-proton" in the Wine version list? I think that's actually what you need to select, instead of UMU-Latest. Sorry for the confusion. The whole UMU situation seems to be a bit of a mess still, at least when it comes to these launcher GUIs.

Anyway, if I select ge-proton as the Wine version and start a game, the log shows UMU doing its thing (downloaded the latest Steam Runtime Sniper) before launching the game using umu-run, so I assume it's working correctly. And it still works correctly when I remove the umu-launcher and python3-umu-launcher packages from my system.

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What about setting up the Lutris and Heroic launchers to use UMU-Launcher?

I don't think there's any setup involved in Lutris beyond selecting "UMU-Latest" as your Wine version.

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I’ve always seen C and Linux as being intertwined

First of all, I'd be very surprised if C is a popular language in game development these days, or even in the last couple of decades. And while the Linux kernel is (mostly) written in C, the language isn't tied to Linux in any meaningful way.

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I enjoy driving games, and I love games that let me explore at my own pace. I'll use the lack of native Linux support as an excuse to continue my "no new games until the backlog shrinks" campaign, but they're not making it easy.

This one is going right into my wishlist.

Ditto.

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Good to know. Thanks for updating. I don't do social media myself. Would never have known without this.

I don't do them either, and never have. His Mastodon felt safe enough to check with my tinfoil hat on. :grin:

I think he mainly posts his personal stuff on bluesky though, seeing as that's what he links in his "About the author" bit.

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Liam is fine. From his mastodon:

PSA: away for a couple days, no news from me till Wednesday night / Thursday.

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Sorry, devs, please hire a skilled artist.

Heh, I was sure some people would hate the style. I don't actually mind the doodles.

Going on my endless wishlist.

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I don't really understand what Bazzite being Cloud Native means. Does this mean that Bazzite is unable to function if the computer is offline (i.e., no network or internet connection)?

The author says that "Developers and users alike can fork, contribute to, and expand Bazzite. This is what makes us Cloud Native". No, that's what makes them an open source project. The author used a buzzword they didn't quite understand.

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Ladybird Foundation

That's a fine charity I'm sure, but if you want to support the browser project, you'll want to donate to the Ladybird Browser Initiative [External Link] instead.

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I know use cases will vary wildly from person to person, but for me, my definition of "daily driver" phone would be:

If I had the banking app requirement, I'd be out of luck, but the rest of your list is covered by Jolla's Salfish OS on Sony Xperia phones for me and my wife. It's not perfect, but everything pretty much works like I expect it to work, and my (subjective) user experience is better. Very limited choice of hardware obviously, but I don't really care as long as I can always find something that's supported and affordable.

Native software selection isn't perfect, but the Android app support is good, and anything that doesn't absolutely require Google's services tends to work just fine. I've only got Signal, the Steam app and KOReader installed that way myself, everything else is native. Oh and we've never used WhatsApp. It might not work I suppose.

The fact that the phone runs a very familiar Linux stack with Wayland, PulseAudio etc. is a fun bonus. There are some closed UI bits and hardware driver blobs I suppose, but at least I can switch to dev mode, start up a terminal and ssh away or check some logs, divert audio to my desktop via a remote audio sink or whatever, if I want to. I rarely do, but still, it's there if I feel like fiddling. :grin:

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