I don't know what PCSX2 has been like in the past, but since I've gotten into emulation the past few years, I've found it quite good. Thank you to all the people who work on it.

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Cool. I intend to play through the GOG releases of the Resident Evil games as soon as all three are available.

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Good news for me. With the exception of the GameCube remake of RE1, I am not a fan of the Resident Evil remakes. The classic RE games with tanks controls will always be my favorites; especially RE2.

I've wanted to give the PC releases of these games a try, but I do not know an easy method of installing the Sourcenext releases on Linux. Something like these are right up my alley.

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I like Flatpak because it allows me to have access to the latest versions of software without adding PPAs/third-party repositories, or potentially breaking my system.

If I want the latest versions of emulators like Dolphin, PCSX2, or RetroArch, it's as easy as installing the Flatpak. Likewise with Firefox, or the various KDE software.

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Funny coincidence, considering I just recently have been giving the original DOOM and DOOM 3 a try.

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I'll give them credit for one thing; it actually has dual trackpads.

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Hopefully, the bump in graphics performance translates to the Battlemage desktop GPUs whenever those drop. I've been pretty satisfied with my Arc A770, despite its occasional warts. I'm the sure the next Arc cards will be even better.

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I have no objection to this. I have no comment on Kaspersky as a company, but I've told in the past that their anti-virus is very good. I did briefly use it back on Windows 10 shortly before I switched to Linux, and it appeared to do a good job of finding things.

Would I use this? No, because I don't like downloading things from the Internet and running them as executable (and giving them sudo access, in this case). I am, perhaps naively, not concerned about viruses or malware on my PC. I use Linux, all my software comes from Flathub or the Ubuntu repos, and the stuff I do download from the Internet (images, music, ROMs, etc.) do not have root access.

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Still no trackpads.

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Honestly, I largely forgot about this game; but since I had donated to their Patreon eons ago, I ended up getting a code for this game. So since it was free in a sense, I gave it a try anyway.

It's not bad. I have it on High settings with a frame limit cap of 60, because the frame rate isn't stable above 60FPS. The instability is maybe a bit worse at frame rates above 60 on OpenGL, but it's difficult to say. Either way, High + 60FPS frame limit on Vulkan or OpenGL appears to be the sweet spot for my PC.

I have a modest setup of an i5-12400 + Arc A770 8GB, also on Kubuntu 24.04, running in 1440p resolution on both of my monitors. Since upgrading to 1440p from 1080p, I generally lock all my games at 60FPS despite have a 165hz gaming monitor. I am perfectly fine playing at 60FPS, and the lower frame rate eases the load on my GPU and keeps the fans from coming on most of the time.

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