I think whenever I next decide to do a distro-hop, I'm going to actually jump over to CachyOS and give it a proper thorough spin to see what I really think of it.

I've been giving that some serious consideration myself. The last time I ventured into Arch territory was Manjaro.

The only thing that puts me off is the rolling release nature of the distro, since I operate on legacy hardware. I guess I've also become used to the stability of the point release approach offered by Linux Mint.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrThis d7vk version in my case work ok with mesa 26.2-dev

That's a surprise. The top picture is the original Dungeon Siege (one of my faves). I thought it used DX9.

How about that -- I just checked PCGamingWiki and the API is indeed DX7. It must have been GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper that made me think it was DX9.

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Quoting: Xpandernice, but i seem to lose about 2-4% perf when i bring mangohud overlay up in games.
with steam overlay fps thing ther's no perf drop.

Can't say I've noticed that but, then, most of the games I play are outside Steam (GOG games via Heroic or Lutris). I'll have to watch for that next time I play a Steam game.

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Quoting: Bestia

Quoting: CaldathrasI'm more worried that they are going to delist the original version of the game. It will run on my laptop whereas the Resynced version most definitely will not.

It's probably a pipe dream but I would love to see the original game show up on GOG...

In the first video they mention that the original will be still available. The new creative director says that around the 23rd minute [External Link].

Well, that's good to know. Thanks, @Bestia.

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• GL: reverted dlsym changes that caused crashes with nvidia drivers.

Yep, this was the big one. Mangohud was causing a number of my Native Linux games to crash on exit (except AppImages, oddly). I had to shift to the v0.8.3 beta to stop this.

Unfortunately, v0.8.3 doesn't seem to work in Mint 21.3 / Ubuntu 22.04 so I'll have to put up with the crashing until I'm ready to try upgrading to Mint 22 again.

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and a big one - it's now Wayland-only.

Just a reminder, only the standard/main edition of Ubuntu will be Wayland-only, simply because the GNOME 50 desktop is Wayland-only. All the other desktop flavors will still be able to use an X.org session. Canonical confirmed this during the beta.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-released-with-gnome-50-linux-kernel-7-0-mesa-26/?comment_id=292566

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Quoting: benstor214It certainly won’t run in offline mode.

I don't know about that. The Ubisoft launcher does have its own offline mode. I use it with Assassin's Creed 2. You have to be online to "activate" on initial install, but afterwards, offline works. I don't know about Proton though -- I installed AC2 in Win10 just to avoid complications. Have you seen any indication that there will be an always-online requirement?

I'm more worried that they are going to delist the original version of the game. It will run on my laptop whereas the Resynced version most definitely will not.

It's probably a pipe dream but I would love to see the original game show up on GOG...

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

But, can't we like the desktop theme without liking the underlying O/S?

After all, the desktop theme is available for Linux.
Chicago95 [External Link]

LoL. The look is a little too outdated for me, though ...

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Quoting: Talon1024

Quoting: CaldathrasNo demo? No thanks.

And yet, there are already reports about the game on ProtonDB [External Link]. 😲

I stand corrected. There apparently was once a "demo" or "playtest" available:
SteamDB: Witchspire Demo [External Link]

To expand on my comment, however. Now that they are going into Early Access, they have removed the demo. They expect players to pay to beta test their game. I'm not going to pay until the game is in final release and I'm not going get the final release without a demo.

Hence, no demo, no thanks.

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Quoting: NagezahnLegend of Keepers is currently free to keep.

Got it free from GOG a while back. Haven't played it yet.

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