> Currently it is a requirement that if you own the game on Steam, for you to downgrade Fallout 4 to the pre next gen (Fallout 4 1.10.163.0) release of the game.

- https://fallout4london.com/release/ [External Link]

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Quoting: pbSo eventually I gathered some courage and time, and I installed Hyprland.

I've been using ion3/notion for the last ... 18+ years(?) ... but I recently came across https://github.com/leukipp/cortile [External Link] and now you mention https://hyprland.org [External Link] - I think the universe is trying to tell me something.

I'll take a look at these two this weekend, thanks for mentioning Hyprland.

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Found a video showing off the 60 FPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ED8HSHdHHQ [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat I wonder about Flatpaks, and Snaps outside of Ubuntu, is where are you on maintenance? A Flatpak might be totally up to date the day I install it from Flathub, but my other software updates semi-automatically along with the OS.

and

Quoting: emphyCan't speak for other distros, but linux mint's software updater includes updates from flathub.

Flatpaks *can* be distributed as a large standalone file or as tiny '.flatpakref' files that link to a repository that will download and install the software, but typically it's distributed through an app store and typically that is Flathub.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyYa know, I find it hard to take this attitude very seriously. I know the computer security people are all authoritative and expert and everything. But I've been using computers since before there was an internet, and in all that time no computer of mine has ever had an attack that I noticed the results of.
[...]
... it gets harder and harder to sustain that panicked "The sky will fall in the next few minutes if I don't do the latest security thing right now!" mentality.

This is because those same security experts are working behind the scenes to keep your computer and your person safe.

The nature of software and culture of software developers has changed considerably in your 30 years of being a computer user. Once software cpu cycles, ram, disk, network bandwidth - if you even had a network - were precious and a lot of attention was spent in using them efficiently. Updates were expensive and hard to distribute and just so many basic things we take for granted now were laborious or undiscovered. That was *our* 'normal'.

The complete opposite is normal today. All of those things are more than abundant, they're present and so rich they often feel like *infinite* resources. Infinite disk, infinite ram... the generations of software developers brought up in this environment were never deprived of these resources. Seemingly unlimited resources, sophisticated high-level programming languages, abundant free/open source libraries and free/cheap third party services to host, test, deploy that software as well as vastly more developers! Which means vastly more software being produced as quickly as possibly for a society ever more dependent upon it. And a new disturbing trend is ubiquitous telemetry and monitoring (it's no longer an affront to include this, it's expected. It's normal now).

Sandboxing software is only partly about packaging or security, it's also about curbing runaway modern excesses in software by adding friction. You get to deny an app on your phone access to geolocation data. Or limit an app within a Flatpak to which directories it can write to.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIf I was running a server or something, sure, I'd take security seriously. But I'm not, I'm just a guy with a computer.

This sort of apathy is a blessing and a curse. Even when empowered by and protected by sandboxing tech you still don't give a shit, however this same apathy makes Flathub installation preferable to most than "apt install foo --no-install-recommends -y", following prompts to resolve conflicts, etc.

By all means continue being blasé about it, just don't publicly denigrate it. The sky isn't falling for you because others are holding it up.

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hey man, nice avatar.

Quoting: GrimfistThanks torkus for the information. I am using Ajour but it never was clear to me that this program is now abandoned.

Yes, Ajour is no longer maintained. Casperstorm (author of Ajour) left a farewell here: "This is the end of Ajour" [External Link]

Quoting: GrimfistI guess I will now use Strongbox! :D

Please use whatever suits you the best, there is a lot of variety out there [External Link].

I highly recommend layday's instawow [External Link] and antiwinter's wowa [External Link].

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Quoting: torkusThe Wowup addon manager became very popular very quickly but they've decided to cozy up to Overwolf/Curseforge and have made some dubious decisions around advertising and user privacy that I won't tolerate in Strongbox.

After looking into this more closely, Wowup were rejected by Overwolf but accepted by Wago.io [External Link]. Wago.io are following an Overwolf approach to monetisation. Advertising and user privacy concerns in Wowup still stand.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ssj17vegetaA command line tool would be neat too, to update the addons just before launching the game

There was Cursebreaker, but thanks to Overwolf's changes that and other addon managers are left to die out in favor of their adware/spyware delivery monitization client.

Long time lurker here, thought I'd take a moment and describe the state of things.

I have a WoW addon manager project called Strongbox [External Link] targeted at Linux users.

I also maintain a list of WoW addon managers past and present [External Link]. You can filter by CLI/TUI/GUI.

The two largest addon hosts are wowinterface.com and Curseforge. wowinterface has the better community but is less popular than curseforge and a lot of addon authors will only publish on one host. Both have been around for a long time.

Curseforge merged with Ace, was bought by Twitch and then sold to Overwolf. Overwolf are being particularly aggressive with monetisation and locking down APIs that have been free to use (but undocumented) for many years.

Overwolf also made it very clear that access to their addons will only happen under their terms, requiring a rather draconian and unfair legal agreement [External Link] to be signed. I decided to remove Curseforge support from Strongbox entirely. Other popular addon managers like Cursebreaker and Ajour folded. Some are holding their breath to see what happens when the old API is finally turned off.

Other dedicated WoW addon hosts include Tukui and wago.io. Github is also becoming a popular place to host addons and Strongbox leans on wowinterface and Github a lot now.

The Wowup addon manager became very popular very quickly but they've decided to cozy up to Overwolf/Curseforge and have made some dubious decisions around advertising and user privacy that I won't tolerate in Strongbox.

It's a fun environment with some interesting problems, I learn a lot and that feeds back into my non-Ogri'la work.

If you use strongbox don't be shy about opening a bug or feature request [External Link].

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