Ardenfall looks so interesting. A "first-person RPG inspired by Morrowind" which, according to the Steam forums can be played in third-person as well -- just not always in combat. I'm old school -- I absolutely do not need nor desire complete voice dialogue.

I am just under the graphics card requirement. I might see if it will still run regardless. The GeForce MX150 is supposed to be the equivalent of the GeForce GT 1030 ...

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I can't help it, it makes me think of Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle -- except on wheels instead of feet.

I don't like deckbuilders, but I might check it out.

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This is good but I'll be sticking with LibreWolf and Vivaldi.

Quoting: EhvisLibrewolf is a Firefox version, so still lives or dies by what happens to Mozilla. So I don't see that as much of a difference.

LibreWolf is a Firefox fork not a version. To me, that's a big difference. They are not part of the Firefox organization and they have a very different philosophy and approach to the browser compared to Mozilla. With LibreWolf, I get everything I like about Firefox without Mozilla's negatives. That LibreWolf depends on Mozilla's future is not the issue here.

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You'd think that GOG, in the interests of game preservation, would want the original version too, not just the "slightly upgraded" version.

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Quoting: CaldathrasWhether I go back to Lutris remains to be seen. There are some nice QoL features in Lutris that are not yet available in Heroic (like launching the game from its Windows shortcut, for example).

Well, Lutris has made the decision easier for me. I haven't even upgraded to v0.5.20 yet and they managed to piss me off. Lutris has this "feature" where the devs can change the default WINE version, overriding the one I chose manually. This would be fine if it only applied to new installs but, no. Any game prefix that used the old default WINE version gets switched over to the new default as well! I always find out when I launch a game that worked perfectly fine before, only to have it lock up and/or crash now. It usually corrupts my prefix and I have to reinstall the game.

This is the third time I've been hit by this "default version override". Other than the odd exceptional case, I am done with Lutris. I will begin migrating all my game installs over to Heroic Launcher. I discovered with my test migration that Heroic Launcher v2.19.1 supports the Windows shortcut. The migrated game even performed better than it did launching from Lutris.

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Quoting: memvirusThank you very much!
I have installed the most recent flatpak version to give it a try :)
but only one lutris is being displayed in the program overview in popos
and it is not opening flatpak lutris, so when I want to open my old deb lutris I have to write lutris into the terminal right now

I assume you mean that the launcher under Applications IS opening Flatpak Lutris.

Sounds like the Flatpak version overwrote the shortcut instead of adding a second one. Your solution works but if you don't want to be using terminal long term, you can manually create a menu/desktop launcher (make sure you use a unique name) and point it at the apt executable. Since it is in your path, just using "lutris" as the command should work but I would supplying it's full path so you can be sure it's launching the apt version. I don't have my PC on, otherwise I'd be able to provide that path for you. Unfortunately, I don't remember how to create a launcher in Pop!_OS. You'll have to figure that out yourself.

Quoting: memvirusalso in flatpak there are some "problems" - I guess due to it being containerized
mangohud was not working, but I fixed that by also installing the mangohud flatpak (is it supposed to be fixed like that? or can I link my goverlay mangohud to flatpak lutris? cuz installing mangohud twice is also taking space..)

but my bigger problem which I cannot fix right now: pulseaudio latency fix in lutris is greyed out - I guess because it also cannot find it in the container?

That's how Flatpak works. All supporting "tools" have to be in Flatpak as well. While more knowledgeable types might disagree with my simplification, Flatpak is essentially like running an operating system on top of your base operating system. That's why I stopped using flatpaks. The extra space they eat up annoys me. I prefer to stick with the repositories, AppImage files or downloadable installers (.deb, tarballs, etc.),

You'll probably have to install a Flatpak version of GOverlay as well. (FYI, GOverlay is also available in an AppImage. It works with my apt version of Mangohud -- I don't know if it will work with the Flatpak version.)

Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your pulseaudio latency fix issue. It could be a Flatpak container permissions issue or it could be something else.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfMeanwhile, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is still on Mesa 25.3.3.

PPA?

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Quoting: CaldathrasWhat they are talking about at this link would work best with tarball binaries. For example, with OpenMW it is possible to have multiple versions installed using tarball binaries. They all share the same configuration files, however.

Now that I think about it, this should work with AppImages too. The same caveat about shared config files, however.

Lutris isn't available as an AppImage, unfortunately.

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Quoting: memvirus(got the idea from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1036337/is-there-way-to-install-two-instances-of-the-same-application but am not knowing enough in Linux..)

What they are talking about at this link would work best with tarball binaries. For example, with OpenMW it is possible to have multiple versions installed using tarball binaries. They all share the same configuration files, however.

Otherwise, @fenglengshun's advice would work best. I recommend keeping it as simple as possible.

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Quoting: memvirusI have Lutris currently installed via apt/ a downloaded .deb
Will installing it via flatpak make a new directory for it?

Yes. Flatpak, being containerized by default, would install its version of Lutris separately from the one installed via apt. Flatpak keeps its file system separate. It shouldn't overlap with apt.

The challenge would be telling the shortcuts (launcher) apart. They'll likely share the same name. Fortunately, you can just rename the shortcut as desired.

Quoting: memvirusOr I just backup my current lutris directory (which ones are the important ones?) and then upgrade - later if I want to have my old downgraded state again, just uninstall, reinstall and restore my backed up directory?

In this case, I would suggest using Flatpak for the latest version and then choosing an earlier version to install via a .deb installer. There should be no need to back up your config files (although it never hurts - they're in hidden folders under your Home folder in multiple locations). I never have and the files & settings have remained while I've bounced back and forth between versions. Not sure how it would work with Flatpak, however. I don't know where that version stores its config files.

Quoting: memvirusalso sadly PopOS seems to be neither in compatible host nor container OS

Not sure exactly what you mean by this, but Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu. It is listed under Ubuntu in the link you provided. Generally, anything you can do on Ubuntu, you should be able to do on Pop!_OS. It supports .deb installers and LaunchPad PPAs, for example.

Being as you are new to tinkering with Linux, make sure you make a complete backup of your system and data before you start. That way, if something foobars, you'll have something solid to fall back on. Timeshift is effective but my favorite backup tool is Clonezilla (its back-ups are compressed and take less space).

Good luck and have fun.

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