Does the game support Wayland natively through the native Linux build?

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It's just a rumour, but I read it some years ago. The trend at that time was to make the games as long as possible.

I like exploration adventures, but many modern open world games are too much for me because they durability is artificially extended.

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If the 120 hours durability is confirmed, I will not buy Silksong. I much prefer to play Super Metroid in a loop before because metroidvanias are not a genre for games longer than 20 hours. Even the original Hollow Knight tires me a little, although I like it a lot.

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I use Aeon Desktop, so I use Flatpak for all additional graphical app I have installed (less the pCloud client, which is in AppImage format), Podman for non-essential services of the system like a LAMP or Postgres and a Distrobox container based on Tumbleweed for additional command line tools, compilers, Git and other programming tools or interpreters.

I play exclusively on Wayland since 2021 and I didn't have any serious problem. Today I swapped almost all native Linux games to the Windows versions on CachyOS's Proton because it allows me to run the games natively on Wayland.

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Red Hat and SuSE always shared tons of things, even they used the same package manager in the past: YUM. Today the mutable variants of the Red Hat ecosystem use DNF and YUM is just an alias, while the SuSE ecosystem uses Zypper.

The proximity of SuSE to Red Hat is not something new, but a thing that always happened.

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whoa, they removed yast? I can remember from my time on tumbleweed, that was a wonderful tool that was widely loved by the community.

YaST was great in the 2000's, but today is an outdated software that introduces a lot of redundancies and inconsistencies.

I think that YaST will be replaced with several tools, but by other hand, YaST needs a deep redesign to survive, specially to make it much more modular.

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1) the Steam flathub package is not made by Valve, its a community flatpak

The Steam RPM packages provided for openSUSE aren't made or maintained by Valve, but the openSUSE community. The only packages officially maintained by Valve are the SteamOS version and the Deb package for Ubuntu that you can find on the Steam website.

2) even then, the Steam and flathub are fundamentally incompatible on some things, regarding application isolation, as Steam does its own wrappings. Aside that you have to go with that package pants down, so that it doesn't make much difference.

Most of users just download and run games from the desktop interface. Even most of users who play with a controller don't use Big Picture.

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The results show that Tumbleweed is a very underrated system for gaming purposes. Aeon will never be there because it's tied to Flatpak.

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Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Epic Games (as a developer or publisher) are the three videogame companies I have on my blacklist.

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Anyone see the irony of this situation? Linux users have been enticing Windows users to start using Linux because Microsoft has the audacity to block users of older technology from using the most recent version of its desktop OS. Meanwhile, Linux distros are on the verge of doing the very same type of thing. You know, some folks would probably still prefer to use typewriters, carbon paper, and whiteout. Does that mean the rest us should keep that stuff around, just in case?

I think that the situation is the opposite. Windows doesn't kill anything, it keeps very old components for decades that makes the operating system extremely heavy and inefficient. By other hand, some Linux distros try to kill old components to only maintain modern and maintained components and to lighten the operating system.

Many people say that IBM is turning Linux into Windows, but are the nostalgics who try to transform Linux into Windows dragging tons of old components.

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