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Fedora Linux 36 is officially out now
11 May 2022 at 12:14 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeI meant being able to upgrade from RHEL 7 to 8, like you can go from Fedora 30, to 36..

Fair point. There is limited support to upgrade 7 to 8. I know there are some packages/products, IPA server for one, that cannot be upgraded this way. IIRC RHEL 7 was based on Fedora 19 and RHEL 8 on F28. That's quite a leap in a single upgrade.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_7_to_rhel_8/index

Fedora Linux 36 is officially out now
11 May 2022 at 12:09 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeSure would be splendid if Fedora's upgrade actually would carry into RHEL and RHEL based distributions...

I'm sure it would be a nightmare. Depending on what release of RHEL you migrate to most packages would be a downgrade (by version at least, if not functionality).

But if you're game you could try https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-convert2rhel-now-officially-supported-convert-rhel-systems-rhel

I don't know if it would work but since it's just rpms who knows. RHEL 9 was released today and is the most likely to work IMHO.

Classic Bethesda titles come to Steam, play them easily on Linux
27 April 2022 at 3:50 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: slaapliedjeHuh, is it the native version of Enemy Territory? I still have my physical copy of Quake Wars sitting on my shelf. ET was kind of a game that started a genre and doesn't get the credit it deserves!

Not by default but it's easy to enable in Steam using ProtonUp-Qt and Luxtorpeda as described in the article. It took me just a few minutes.

Proton Experimental updated, fixes Resident Evil Revelations 2 for Steam Deck
21 April 2022 at 9:35 pm UTC

Sigh, yeah, I guess the diff context didn't include the version and I assumed, and we know what happens when one does that.

Proton Experimental updated, fixes Resident Evil Revelations 2 for Steam Deck
21 April 2022 at 7:13 pm UTC

There was another build today (Apr 21). The only change in this is marking Elden Ring as playable.

Point and click adventure Pants Quest gets a Linux release
1 April 2022 at 1:41 pm UTC

Inspired by the TV show in the LEGO Movie, "Where are my pants?". I wonder.

Unity games crashing with Proton on Linux or Steam Deck? Check your USB devices
31 March 2022 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 4

Wine 7.0 changed the joystick/gamepad input to use USB HID so it may be a bug related to that. Wine 6 used a different mechanism for joystick/gamepad support.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 'BFGPU' has rolled out
29 March 2022 at 3:22 pm UTC Likes: 7

450W GPU aka "watch your lights dim while processing large data sets"

Proton Experimental gets a bunch more titles working for Steam Deck and Linux
24 March 2022 at 4:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

The Assassin Creed Odyssey unsupported driver window drove me nuts. It had to be dismissed prior to loading a game otherwise you were stuck with it for that session IIRC.

The itch.io app works on a Steam Deck
7 March 2022 at 6:45 pm UTC

Quoting: flesk
Quoting: rcritLooks pretty good for what I think is an Electron app.

I didn't poke very hard but I don't see bundles anywhere. Like on their web page, bundle items are hidden until you download them "in order to avoid flooding your library." But bundles don't seem to be available at all in the app, just the games already downloaded.

If I remember correctly, you can paste https://itch.io/my-purchases/bundles into the address bar of the Itch client, and navigate from there to download games from your purchased bundles.

Excellent tip, thanks. There are like 49 pages of things in the bundle I bought.

I also noticed that if you own a game in a bundle you can still buy another copy of it. I'm not sure if that's a bug or a feature.