The list of visual novels on sale that allow you to play with the original Japanese script:

• Amairo Chocolate [External Link]
• Higurashi Series [External Link] (Native GNU/Linux binaries)
• Kiss for the Petals - Remembering How We Met [External Link] (Native GNU/Linux Binary)

I already own most of these, but maybe I'll pick up Amairo Chocolate? How could I resist with a description like this:

Visual novel adv featuring cute girls with animal ears and tails

Yeah, well...maybe I'll finish Sutekano and a year of springs first. Followed by Hatsuyuki Sakura, Aiyoku no Eustia, and DRACU-RIOT. Then, maybe H2O?

I don't think I have an excuse to buy new games for another 5 years...

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI've never managed to get multiplayer to work on the desktop, despite many attempts.

I had to completely uninstall it last week to finally make it work. Also, I think I had an old Proton version selected, prior to that.

I installed it from scratch, tried various Proton versions including GE, but EAC just doesn't work for me, I guess. I have similar issues with other EAC games like Back 4 Blood. The last time I tried was right after GOL announced MCC's EAC was finally working on GNU/Linux, but...

A short in the dark but, do you by any chance played Star Citizen at some point ? To make it work you have to add a line to your /etc/hosts to block an EAC server, doing so break any other games using EAC as it can't update, you might want to check that.

I don't own Star Citizen. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Oh, and I forgot to mention I also tried the Steam Flatpak, which didn't work either.

I started thinking it was an issue with Arch Linux shipping the glibc update, but everything I've read tells me they've patched it manually over half a year ago, so that shouldn't be an issue. I don't know if the Steam Flatpak bundles glibc.

That shouldn't be related, I've played with the flatpak version on Arch. The only thing I see missing from the troubleshooting steps you listed is that you may need to manually install "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" from Steam (should be listed next to Proton in the tools section). There was an article on GOL regarding that a while back IIRC. steam install link [External Link], steam DB [External Link]

Yes, I'm fairly certain I had it installed. I searched for it at the time and found it in my library. It seems kind of pointless to check now considering it's broken, but I'll check again when 343 announces it's fixed again.

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Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications, including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton

This sounds great. What does it actually mean? To re-hash an old argument, what exactly would Microsoft need to do to fix problems in Wine's translation layers? Should it not be allowed to use Direct 3D 12 because VKD3D-Proton is not as mature as DXVK? And likewise, not be allowed to move on to Direct 3D 13? It seems like the only changes Ubisoft can demand are "use less advanced technology that Wine hasn't re-implemented yet!"

If Proton isn't working, there's a problem in the translation layer, not the code. Obviously, the solution is to write more reliable and well-documented code, which will benefit everybody, but...it's just odd.

I guess this can be interpreted to mean, "Microsoft must contribute upstream to Proton to fix implementation issues." But then that's extremely complicated, because Wine doesn't accept contributions from developers familiar with the Windows codebase. That's because it qualifies as reverse-engineering, and makes the project liable.

Because Microsoft owns the copyright to the code, that means they have the right to contribute the code directly to Wine while still retaining copyright over them and not opening them up to a lawsuit from Microsoft. Probably.

Anyway...this needs further clarification.

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Quoting: Thibug

Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI've never managed to get multiplayer to work on the desktop, despite many attempts.

I had to completely uninstall it last week to finally make it work. Also, I think I had an old Proton version selected, prior to that.

I installed it from scratch, tried various Proton versions including GE, but EAC just doesn't work for me, I guess. I have similar issues with other EAC games like Back 4 Blood. The last time I tried was right after GOL announced MCC's EAC was finally working on GNU/Linux, but...

A short in the dark but, do you by any chance played Star Citizen at some point ? To make it work you have to add a line to your /etc/hosts to block an EAC server, doing so break any other games using EAC as it can't update, you might want to check that.

I don't own Star Citizen. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Oh, and I forgot to mention I also tried the Steam Flatpak, which didn't work either.

I started thinking it was an issue with Arch Linux shipping the glibc update, but everything I've read tells me they've patched it manually over half a year ago, so that shouldn't be an issue. I don't know if the Steam Flatpak bundles glibc.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI've never managed to get multiplayer to work on the desktop, despite many attempts.

I had to completely uninstall it last week to finally make it work. Also, I think I had an old Proton version selected, prior to that.

I installed it from scratch, tried various Proton versions including GE, but EAC just doesn't work for me, I guess. I have similar issues with other EAC games like Back 4 Blood. The last time I tried was right after GOL announced MCC's EAC was finally working on GNU/Linux, but...

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I've never managed to get multiplayer to work on the desktop, despite many attempts.

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Atari qualifies an indie game publisher now? How things have changed...

I remembered this part of Atari's history today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Games [External Link]

The game itself looks interesting though. I liked the breakout re-imagining.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI would have preferred they went with Open Collective. It would have allowed people donating to have the flexibility of one time contributions as well as recurring; would have given people more transparency in how and where their money is being used; and would have allowed people to use Stripe or Paypal versus just Paypal.

Do you have any opinion on Liberapay?

I think Liberapay does a lot right. They're FOSS; allow Stripe and Paypal; and allow you to show links to repo and social media accounts for projects and people. I wish they had an option for one time donations though as they only do recurring. They also don't force projects/developers to show how much they make and where it goes so there is no transparency for people who donate. I can understand for developers because if I give money to a person I assume they're using the money to pay personal expenses but for projects it's nice to see expenses explained.

You can set it to manual renewal, so you won't get charged on a recurring basis automatically. It's what I did for Zemarmot when I supported them there. It's essentially the same thing as a one-time donation. More transparency would be nice.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI would have preferred they went with Open Collective. It would have allowed people donating to have the flexibility of one time contributions as well as recurring; would have given people more transparency in how and where their money is being used; and would have allowed people to use Stripe or Paypal versus just Paypal.

Do you have any opinion on Liberapay?

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Eventually it will be a full wlroots-based Wayland compositor as they will drop X11 support to go all-in on Wayland.

Very good to hear. More wlroots-based compositors is a good thing. It means we'll have at least one good standard for Wayland compositors...

Quoting: AustinBudgie was about being simple, efficient, modern, and especially distraction-free from all the options to customise unlike Gnome & KDE 😅.

What distractions have you noticed in GNOME? And simple? There's not even an option for slideshow wallpapers in GNOME!

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