I'm a little confused. Is ZOOM Platform Media separate and distinct from the ZOOM Platform storefront? Or, does the storefront sell Steam keys? I'd be somewhat surprised if a non-Steam, DRM-free version from the storefront included Steam achievements...

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Online co-op and offline single player.

I like that the devs explicitly state this!

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Quoting: Luca

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'll switch when Mint does; I'm vaguely hoping that will be soon, but I haven't had any problems with X11.

The only thing I really miss on Mint is actually Plasma 6. :grin:

Lol. I get that. Still, I've been pretty happy with the Cinnamon edition. I find the DE to be pretty robust and flexible, with a lot of modern features. I only wish I could find a decent, stable tray applet for displaying CPU and GPU temperatures. XFCE has an excellent one.

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Quoting: tohurLutris is pretty much a dead project.

There is activity on the dev channel but they are very slow to release on the stable channel.

I like Lutris. I am going to give Heroic a serious look, however. Some of my Lutris prefixes have been inexplicably corrupting after months (if not years) of working fine. Since I have to reinstall them anyway, I figure I might as well give Heroic a go.

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Quoting: tuubiHopefully you'll find time to do it before Mint 23 comes out in half a year or so. :wink:

Wouldn't be the first time I've completely jumped a version! :grin:

But, in all seriousness, I won't be able to do that using the Mint upgrade tool so I guess I better get around to it soon...

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Quoting: tuubiAll you need is someone motivated enough to implement (or copy) the Pressure Vessel and Steam Linux Runtime launcher bits for the purpose of running native games

I believe that Glorious Eggroll has stated that this is a long-term goal for the UMU project.

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Quoting: tuubiNow that Mint 22 has been out for a year and four months with 22.3 coming out in December, is there a reason you don't want to upgrade? I know 21.3 still gets security updates for a long time, but is there something specific holding you back?

Time & stability, I guess? Upgrading to Mint 22 requires Internet access. It might seem surprising to you, but I only have computer access to the Internet one or two evenings a week. No access at home. I have to prioritize my needs based on that. If it ain't broke, I don't fix it.

Presently, Mint 21.3 is configured exactly the way I like it on my gaming laptop. Time spent on reconfiguring Mint to my satisfaction after upgrading is time I cannot spend gaming.

Don't get me wrong. I want to upgrade to Mint 22 but I got burned on my first attempt. Mint 22.0 had too many issues that I wasn't happy with and I chose to roll back to Mint 21.3. I plan to try the upgrade process again, after I have completed transitioning my daily driver laptop to Mint 22. I figure that the experience of upgrading my daily driver, along with the improvements of two point releases, will help me work out most of the kinks that dissatisfied me during that first attempt.

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Not for me. My mods are already installed. All I have to do is upgrade the game and update the config files with my mod list and game settings then I'm ready to go...!

I guess I spoke too soon. The OpenMW 0.49.0 generic installer works beautifully in Mint 21.3 but the OpenMW 0.50.0 installer throws a "version `GLIBC_2.38' not found" error and fails. So much for the OpenMW team's claim that they provide a universal/generic installer that works for any distro.

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And most games do exactly that. They ship their 32bit modules.(not all 32bit libraries, mind you, but still!)

And it's a shame more of them don't ship ALL of the needed libraries (32-bit or 64-bit). It's annoying to download a supposedly universal/generic installer only to have it fail on account of a missing version of a particular library. If they did, I'll bet we wouldn't have to worry as much about old native games failing in newer versions of Linux. (Missing libraries even happen with flatpaks & AppImages due to poor packaging jobs by devs.)

Looking at you, OpenMW 0.50.0!

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Well, Liam, I think you lasted longer on Kubuntu than you did on Fedora when you first switched over to it. Can't remember why you left Fedora last time but, hopefully, you'll have a good run this time around. :wink:

Myself, I've had a lot of luck maintaining a separate partition for my game installs. Both Steam and Lutris have adapted well to this approach. I try to keep as much stuff off my system partition as possible (hence, why I have been avoiding flatpaks thus far).

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