"deduplicating files" did they re-pack every asset again and again with their map files and ship themin huge chunks?

Maaan glad Linux has CoW file systems. Well doesn't help with downloading but at least storing these chunky games is better.

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Been on openSUSE (Leap/Tumbleweed/Aeon/Kalpa) for over 20 years now. While KDE was Always my primary Desktop. I also use Gnome on Laptops as it has nice handy touchpad gestures, but KDE just feels like Home.

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Nice to see more distros moving towards optimized builds for various x86 feature levels. So Windows can left behind in the dust even quicker. Considered how bad Windows already performs compared to Linux even without optimized CPU architecture packages.

Even though Linus hates this "abomination" of these feature levels as they are not really a thing from a CPU architecture point of view. Some do exposure only some "v3" Features, some with hybrid cores do even have "v3" only on one set of cores while the efficiency cores for example don't.

Anyway: Hope in the future Ubuntu does automatically install thoe v3 optimized packages on eligible hardware as Tumbleweed does. (Yes that is the whole reason I wrote this comment to say TW already does it)

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This is just moving the problem from outside the Flatpak to inside the Flatpak: If we want to run all those old 32 butt games, they need 32 bit libraries somewhere.

That's what the Steam Runntimes and org.freedesktop.Sdk.Compat.i386 are for. 32bit support on 64bit systems.

You do not need a single 32bit library to run 32bit software on 64bit systems with flatpak. Also there is WOW64 for Wine / Proton which is to run 32bit Windows game on 64bit. Even Windows uses 32bit abstractions on 64bit to run legacy software.

Removing 32bit support is not an issue at all.

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Finally Vegan Horror!

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RISC-V Steam Deck with much better battery lifetime when? 😁

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Flatpak at 3rd place! The Linux Desktop is slowly healing!

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I played countless hours GTA Online and never single player ... according to the Rockstar Launcher over 200h ... all wasted by introducing EAC BattlEye and blocking legit players ...

Also I wonder does the old online account migrate to the new enhanced edition? Assuming it will at some point start working again on Linux ofc. Furthermore as an owner of the "classic" one is there a way to get the enhanced update without re-buying the game!?

Is it just me or was the enhanced edition once rated playable? I am like 90% certain I saw a playable rating earlier and was asking myself did they enabled EAC BattlEye for Linux only for the enhanced edition but not for the classic one? Or is my mind playing tricks on me?

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Is there something you're waiting on being added or fixed in the NVIDIA driver on Linux?

Yes weird syncing issues they have since explicit sync. I mean how do they manage than older games like Warhammer 40K Dawn of War have struggle to maintain a steady 60fps and in turn jump between 40 and 50 with frames times all over the board. But other titles, much more recent and demanding titles, are steady with no issues?

With older drivers those old games didn’t had any issues. They started to have these since they added explicit sync ...

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I'd might be alone with this perception. But I never found that Half-Life 2 looked particularly good. Not even back then. More like they just made photos of real-world object, smashed it on some polygons in the hopes it will look realistic. While in turn it was very flat and boring to me.

I mean I played HL2, Lost Coast, Ep One and Ep Two and I enjoyed them. But not because they looked ... good or stylish or it had a special art direction.

Imho the RTX version looks way better. Even though I will never be bale to play it on my hardware. I find the original is often times way too dark and uncanny.

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