Quoting: scaine

Quoting: RedjeI consider myself a casual user.
And I don’t really get the hype for flatpak. Me and friend of mine had several big annoying bugs. For example; in the steam flatplat my nvidia 3080 mobile was not working in games. And games installed outside flatpak worked just fine. And also apps just not working with flatpak, and local app just working as expected.

Flatpak is out there for 10years+ or so? And still such big issues…

Steam is a terrible example of flatpak - it's not created, or recommended by Valve. I'm actually not sure who created it, tbh, but it's a constant source of issues on our Discord support channel when people use it.

The "hype" for flatpak is two-fold. First, it's not distro-specific, so any Linux distro can install a flatpak and it'll generally give you the same experience regardless of what libraries you, personally, have installed, either manually, or through your distro. Second, it's containerised, which means that it has far less access to your PC than normally-installed software, hence less ability to negatively impact your system (e.g. through malware).

That second point is the cause of so many of the Steam issues. Games often need quite a lot of access - screen recording for Steam Replay, access to microphones, access to gamepads, sometimes even access to external filesystems (if you have a "Games" drive, for example). So a Steam flatpak was always going to be challenging. You can use flatseal to manage these permissions, or if you're on a recent version of KDE Plasma, you can manage them directly from within System Settings.

I kind of wonder if Valve will ever fully embrace flatpak and create an official version (and make it the recommended install). Might solve a few issues!

The limited access is nice on paper. I do agree, but it gives me so much extra work for some apps.
And from casual perspective, that is not a good experience.
I hope they can improve the flatpak experience in the future.

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I consider myself a casual user.
And I don’t really get the hype for flatpak. Me and friend of mine had several big annoying bugs. For example; in the steam flatplat my nvidia 3080 mobile was not working in games. And games installed outside flatpak worked just fine. And also apps just not working with flatpak, and local app just working as expected.

Flatpak is out there for 10years+ or so? And still such big issues…

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It looks CachyOS is continuing to rise on steam survey. I haven’t tested that distro yet, is it stable and noob friendly?

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I’m very disappointed by their drop of native Linux support. I don’t feel like getting this game for full price without native version. I play most paradox games since 2014 on Linux. But if they threat me like second class citizen. Then I’m not in a hurry to buy this game.

The drop of native wil be a performance hit for sure, with CPU intensive game like this.

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No native EU5 is an big disappointment for me.
Most paradox games like EU4, vicky3 run better on Linux, maybe better cpu use or something?
With no native version we have to use the worse performing Windows version. And we can also enjoy the cpu overheat from proton.
So this is actually double bad.

I was very hyped for this game, but no way I’m going to buy this game unless they release the game later with native support, or a huge discount later on…

Sad to see such usually friendly Linux dev studio go this road.

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I'm sorry, but have you followed the 'project Ceasar' dev dairies? I think not.
They are realeasing those for over 1 year. And they are getting a lot of feedback from those dev dairies.
A lot of that feedback is actually used to improve the game, or correct historical errors inside the game.

EU5 won't be a shitshow like victoria3 was.
The only danger EU5 faces, that is it far to complicated for 'casuals'.
Its so detailed, really awesome, but also insane hard to master...

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I'm happy to see EU5 finally coming!
I do hope and expect EU5 to have native Linux support.
Games like EU4 and vicky3 have about 10-20% better performance on linux compared to Windows.

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I’ve used Ubuntu and unity/GNOME for over 10 years. But I was kind of done with GNOME DE, to much nice stuff that getting removed for no good reason. That and snaps… that can be hit or miss.
I’m using fedora41 KDE for 6 months now. And it feels like a mixed bag for me. I have an Nvidia laptop. And Nvidia panel doesn’t have prime menu, which is very annoying. Also getting the Nvidia driver and other proprietary software is unnessesary complicated. Also I had some very annoying bug with steam flakpak, with my Nvidia driver not working in games in the steam flakpak.
Because of this Fedora feels like mixed bag…
But the very possitive is KDE, such an awesome DE.

PS: I consider myself a very casual Linux user. I can fix easy stuff, but i rather have it just working out of the box.

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I’m not so sure what to think about this season pass. It might adres the trade issue, althought I’m not entirely convinced about that.
Still there remains a big issue not adressed here, the poor combat system. Another issue imo is the VERY poor performance. They changed some things, but the game remains very slow beyond 1870-1880….

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Once upon a time they were good, but that was long ago. 10+ DLC per game is nuts, and virtually every Paradox game goes down this path.

What would you like them to do?
Do it like the old days, bundel 2-3 DLCs worth and content, add an extra number on the end and call it a new game? EA is still doing that shit with fifa.

For example, EU4. If you compare eu4 vanilla to nowadays with all DLCs etc. It’s almost revamped completely. And many of the changes is also input from the community.

If Harebrained was such financial succes, then there would be no need for them to sell their studio again. That sounds to me like wishful thinking. They probably just needs paradoxs money to continue functioning.

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