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Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support
10 Aug 2021 at 2:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
10 Aug 2021 at 2:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: LachuMaybe not related to topic. Could I install normal Wine as compatibility tool to play Civ5?You'd be better off joining the GOL Discord [External Link], or starting a forum post for a query like this. However, judging by the ProtonDB comments, the only reason you'd want to play a native game like Civ5 under wine is for multiplayer with Windows players... and that's reported to be extremely flaky under wine, with either immediate disconnects, or one player reporting that they were kicked out every hour on the hour. Probably not recommended.
Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support
10 Aug 2021 at 7:37 am UTC
I wonder why they package it with the version name, but don't include it in the archive. Doing it this way means that while it's very tidy in the Steam dropdown, you can't actually tell what version you're using.
10 Aug 2021 at 7:37 am UTC
Quoting: F.UltraIt's just the default archive handler in gnome, called "Archive Manager". Yep, you're right, I tested it: I just renamed luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz to luxtorpeda.tar.xz and when I extract it, I have a single folder as I'd expect. Nice one.Quoting: scaineEasy to see if you use the tar command directly and ask it to list the contents:Quoting: Liam DaweDoesn't do it for ProtonGE though, so I assume it's the way it's packaged.Quoting: scaineHowever, while that creates a folder with the same name as the release as usual, with Luxtorpeda, they've put the whole archive inside another folder, just called "luxtorpeda", so Steam doesn't see it (because it's a folder inside a folder).Must be an archive manager specific thing, the KDE Ark didn't give it an extra folder. It's probably an option in your settings.
Yeah, I've just tested "Extract Here" again, with ProtonGE and Luxtorpeda. They look like they're packaged the same, but they extract differently. Not sure how that works.
f.ultra@Sineya:~/Hämtningar$ tar -Jtvf luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 233 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/toolmanifest.vdf
-rw-r--r-- root/root 125 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/config.json
-rw-r--r-- root/root 4406 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/README.md
-rw-r--r-- root/root 15487 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/LICENSE
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 6461024 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/luxtorpeda
-rw-r--r-- root/root 228 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/compatibilitytool.vdf
f.ultra@Sineya:~/Hämtningar$
edit: two theories here though, one is that your system handles .tar.gz and .tar.xz differently. Another is that whatever archiver you use looks at the top directory and if it doesn't match the filename it creates a dummy topdir, aka "luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz" have a topdir of "luxtorpeda" which does not match the name of "luxtorpeda-30" while "Proton-6.14-GE-2.tar.gz" have a topdir of "Proton-6.14-GE-2" that does match the name.
I wonder why they package it with the version name, but don't include it in the archive. Doing it this way means that while it's very tidy in the Steam dropdown, you can't actually tell what version you're using.
Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support
9 Aug 2021 at 2:55 pm UTC
Yeah, I've just tested "Extract Here" again, with ProtonGE and Luxtorpeda. They look like they're packaged the same, but they extract differently. Not sure how that works.
9 Aug 2021 at 2:55 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam DaweDoesn't do it for ProtonGE though, so I assume it's the way it's packaged.Quoting: scaineHowever, while that creates a folder with the same name as the release as usual, with Luxtorpeda, they've put the whole archive inside another folder, just called "luxtorpeda", so Steam doesn't see it (because it's a folder inside a folder).Must be an archive manager specific thing, the KDE Ark didn't give it an extra folder. It's probably an option in your settings.
Yeah, I've just tested "Extract Here" again, with ProtonGE and Luxtorpeda. They look like they're packaged the same, but they extract differently. Not sure how that works.
Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support
9 Aug 2021 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 4
9 Aug 2021 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 4
Wait... a... minute! I recognise that contributor name!!
https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages.html [External Link]
d10sfan... is that you?
How on earth is this the first I've heard of this project!? It even has Descent (dxx-rebirth) support! Superb! Downloading immediately! This would have saved me so much time over the past couple of years - not just Descent, but also Doom, Hexen, Morrowind.
There's vxQuake support! STALKER! OpenJK for some sweet jedi action! This is incredible!
Edit: Well, it didn't show up in Steam for me. Turns out, it's because I download the Release file, then I tell Gnome/Nautilus to "Extract Here", the same way I do for ProtonGE releases. However, while that creates a folder with the same name as the release as usual, with Luxtorpeda, they've put the whole archive inside another folder, just called "luxtorpeda", so Steam doesn't see it (because it's a folder inside a folder).
So either move that folder out before copying it into the compatibilitytool.d folder, or just use the tar xJf luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz command described on the main page, then copy (or move) the resulting folder.
https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages.html [External Link]
d10sfan... is that you?
How on earth is this the first I've heard of this project!? It even has Descent (dxx-rebirth) support! Superb! Downloading immediately! This would have saved me so much time over the past couple of years - not just Descent, but also Doom, Hexen, Morrowind.
There's vxQuake support! STALKER! OpenJK for some sweet jedi action! This is incredible!
Edit: Well, it didn't show up in Steam for me. Turns out, it's because I download the Release file, then I tell Gnome/Nautilus to "Extract Here", the same way I do for ProtonGE releases. However, while that creates a folder with the same name as the release as usual, with Luxtorpeda, they've put the whole archive inside another folder, just called "luxtorpeda", so Steam doesn't see it (because it's a folder inside a folder).
So either move that folder out before copying it into the compatibilitytool.d folder, or just use the tar xJf luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz command described on the main page, then copy (or move) the resulting folder.
Dungeon crawling action adventure UnderMine gets a big update for the end-game
9 Aug 2021 at 1:17 pm UTC Likes: 2
9 Aug 2021 at 1:17 pm UTC Likes: 2
Undermine is superb and the good news (for me) is that I haven't played at all since September 2019, so this is a great time to dive back into it - there will be loads of new content for me!
Imagine if you could customize the Steam Deck colours - try it out with this tool
9 Aug 2021 at 9:02 am UTC Likes: 2
9 Aug 2021 at 9:02 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: whizseYou take Sunday afternoon off, come back and half of the GoL community is playing dress up with the Steam Deck.It's not too late to join the fun...
Get a life you dorks!
Imagine if you could customize the Steam Deck colours - try it out with this tool
8 Aug 2021 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 3
8 Aug 2021 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 3
Love this tool, very cool.
Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 31
5 Aug 2021 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 2
5 Aug 2021 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: scaineI love the chat format. I wonder if you'll ever "upgrade" the podcast to be full video based? I appreciate that many actually prefer an audio-only format though. I mean, I'm not implying either of you are ugly, whoa, I never said that! :grin:I'm far too fugly for a video format. Not going to happen.
Seriously, just that podcasts work where video doesn't - on the treadmill, or walking to work.
Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 31
5 Aug 2021 at 2:27 pm UTC
5 Aug 2021 at 2:27 pm UTC
I love the chat format. I wonder if you'll ever "upgrade" the podcast to be full video based? I appreciate that many actually prefer an audio-only format though. I mean, I'm not implying either of you are ugly, whoa, I never said that! :grin:
Seriously, just that podcasts work where video doesn't - on the treadmill, or walking to work.
Seriously, just that podcasts work where video doesn't - on the treadmill, or walking to work.
Linux has finally hit that almost mythical 1% user share on Steam again
3 Aug 2021 at 7:36 pm UTC Likes: 1
3 Aug 2021 at 7:36 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: furaxhornyxHuh, sounds pretty recent! As I said, I'd heard good things too. That's a shame.Quoting: scaineI don't remember precisely, but it was somewhere between last summer (2020) and beginning of the year. it was before I got my Ryzen, anyway.Quoting: furaxhornyxNo offense, but I have tried Ubuntu Studio, and it is nowhere near a good out-of-the-box experience... In fact that's probably one of the worst distro I tried, and if I didn't have tried others before (and thus know better about the Linux experience), I would probably have migrated to Windows 10 by now...When did you last try? I ask because Jason Evanghelo thought the same back in 2019, but I think was quite positive about later versions? They lost a lot of developers between 2016 and 2018, which led to some serious stagnation.
I have spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out how to tweak Jack and pulseaudio with Cadence, and even now, I am not fully satisfied with this "solution", which is more of a "workaround".
I wish there was a CoreAudio equivalent in Linux (to be fair, I wish it would have been the case in Windows, too). Maybe with Pipewire ?
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