You got sponsored by mozilla? Cool!

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Quoting: EduAAACool, don't really understand how this helps Linux since game has to be already available for Linux but hope he hmmm, improves Steam Deck compatibility somehow?

a) Moving to newer FNA can bring native Wayland compatibility instead of relying on XWayland
b) Some apps do audio backend detection (pulseaudio/alsa/pipewire) in very fragile ways. It could be made more reliable

I'm sure there is more...

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They probably should have two tiers:
1. curated
2. uncurated

A few ideas to flesh out the concept
- only curated snaps can be in classic mode,
- only curated snaps have been reviewed at least once.
- There could be a setting for "view uncurated snaps", which is off by default
- Canonical commit to review the top 5 non-curated apps by install base every month, promoting them to curated if they pass or removing them completely and publishing a security advisory otherwise.
- Apps in the curated store should be re-reviewed randomly and on user reports, to catch apps going to the dark side.

This is because if I'm installing a potentially shady app, it's better if it's sandboxed.

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Looks interesting

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Seems quite stable - great!

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I hope he gets customers - it's better for all gamers

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That's unfortunate. Have you talked to the people behind asus-linux [External Link]? They're not asus, but they might know what's behind the odd displayport behaviour on asus laptops

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Quoting: user1Too bad that WT has recently stopped working on Proton after working beautifully on it for some time (it now crashes after login). And I'm not touching the dumpster fire that is their so called "native port" with a ten-foot pole. Every time I was trying the native port it was a bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience... And again, bad experience.
When the native port still used opengl, the game was essentially unplayable most of the time. Especially in 2017, when it was a total glitchlag fest. And when it received the Vulkan renderer, the performance also wasn't that great in the beginning. The Vulkan renderer has of course matured over time, but the Linux client still suffers from occasional crashes and other issues. At some point you couldn't even set texture quality to high (WTF?!) And last time I tried the native port, it caused a gpu hang on my RX 580.

Sorry if it was a bit of a rant. Overally I love this game, but getting it to run on Linux is like drowning in a sea of grief most of the time and occasionally finding a few islands of happiness.

I've used the native port of WT since 2016. It works quite well on Nvidia, especially since they moved from OpenGL to Vulkan. I've used my integrated AMD GPU with it a bit too and it's fine - 20-30 FPS on low-medium settings was better than I expected while I couldn't get Nvidia drivers to work on the new kernel. I'm playing on Kubuntu LTS with HWE, so currently the equivalent of Kubuntu 22.10.

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Fascinating. Do you have WarThunder installed standalone, or via Steam? I've got it installed via Steam and never had this issue on Kubuntu 20.04 and 22.04, and previously on Peppermint 8.

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Quoting: d10sfanThat's a shame, for that game probably means a ton more dlc like what happened to prison architect

Yeah. Paradox games get great support but a flurry of DLC I can never keep up with

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