Hella cool!

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Quoting: FjolserikI have just installed Forza Horizon 5 on Ubuntu 24.04 and when I start the game this msg comes up:

Z:/home/jano/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ForzaHorizon5

Installation path is too long. Please move your Forza Horizon 5 installation to a shorter path.

I have no idea how to do that since I'm a newbi to Linux. Any advice from the community would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

It's a stupid limitation in the game itself, not a problem with Proton:

"Forza Horizon 5 needs to be installed at a Steam library location that is 59 characters or shorter."
From https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/4410640111123-FH5-Steam-Installation-Troubleshooting [External Link]

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A duck detective? That's just silly...

Frog? Sure [External Link]! Alligator? Of course [External Link]! Giraffe? Most definitely [External Link]!

But a duck? Sheer nonsense!

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Quoting: LachuI remember about Alky: Exe file recompiler to native Linux binaries. Alky been illegal after court process.

This Alky [External Link]?

There's no word of of any court process or lawsuit in the (very candid) post-mortem and links to the source code.

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Quoting: iorekbyrnisonI'd like to make a note here:

Dirt Rally 1 and Dirt Rally 2.0 both are better games, with better physics and content, and are both available for a few bucks on any good key retailer- and both run gloriously on both desktop linux and the deck.

the first game, unlike the second, is also free of always-online nonsense, so it's my preferred version.

as always, these games from awful publishers with bad practices are rarely best in class anyways, so nothing of value was lost

Or possibly going back even further.

Richard Burns Rally (twenty years old now) have ongoing fan made online events and lots of new stages (there's even a stage editor based on Blender!) thanks to modders.

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Given that the game launched without the EA App/account stuff I was hoping whatever remnants was left of Codemasters had some clout within EA to stop this nonsense.

I was wrong. Never bet against EA doing awful stuff.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI have never, in over two decades of using Linux, had a problem with updating a distro from a desktop terminal.

Not a GNOME user then? :tongue:

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Quoting: finaldestIf so what about HDMI 2.1 support?

"Even though AMD might not be able to add support for HDMI 2.1, nouveau certainly will as Nvidia's open source driver _also_ supports HDMI 2.1 so there is no reason to believe that at least some drivers can't support HDMI 2.1

It's quite backwards, but apparently having all the logic inside firmware (like Nvidia does) will probably help us implementing support for HDMI 2.1 🙃"

From Karol Herbst (Red Hat / Nouveau dev)
https://chaos.social/@karolherbst/112014061455305513 [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestWait. Why? Is valve...? Why are they doing this? Is something with nvidia in the works or is it steamos?

Flirting with Nvidia to keep AMD on their toes? :tongue:

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Well, Mono is certainly working well for Unity.

C# is presumably doing well on the Windows side, but doesn't seem to have caught on much on the Linux side as far as I can see? Most of the big ticket apps from the Mono heyday (like Banshee, F-Spot etc) seems to be unmaintained.

Microsoft did buy Mono (well, Xamarin the developer) and also subsequently started open sourcing .NET. That seems to have blurred the lines somewhat between Mono and "offical" .NET.

At least that's my take on the situation.

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