Quoting: ArehandoroCurious honest question: What do you all mean by "normal" distros?

I think it equates to "mainstream" or "easy to use". I couldn't even get Manjaro to do basic stuff like finding my wired Xbox360 controller, so I'm definitely not ready for the likes of Arch or Endeavour. I'm super-technical and nerdy, but I just can't bring myself to care enough about a distro that doesn't even do basic stuff out of the box. Ubuntu has set a standard that I'm not interested in going below.

My next curiousity / distro hop will be to check out Elementary, then Pop. I was toying with the idea of checking Solus too, but their recent packaging squabble has left me a bit cold. So it'll be Mint vs Elementary vs Pop. Then I'll decide what I'm going to settle on for the next couple of years.

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Reminds me a little of Wildermyth. It does look very alpha though - lots of placeholders, they succeeded the first mission, but the reward screen said "failed" and when they turned over the rescued-and-very-much-alive husband, the text revealed that he was in fact, dead when they found him, and the farm-wife mourns!

Solid fight mechanics though, definitely one to keep an eye on.

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Ubuntu was too safe, not particularly exciting and I didn't want another normal distro

Isn't this weird? I can really relate to it, but I don't really understand what drives it. It's the fundamental force behind distro-hopping I think.

I'm mostly settled on Mint, but there's still an itch that there might be something better out there. Certainly, Mint's biggest problem is the lack of an upgrade path. You basically have to re-install every two years, simple as that. Hardly ideal. But otherwise, it's amazing. So why am I constantly on the lookout for another distro...? :grin:

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Quoting: scaineSTASIS had no Linux support, so I skipped that one.

It's in the beta branch on Steam, or at least it was when I played the game last year. But yeah, no idea why it never was released on GOG...

If it's not advertised with Linux support, then (beta or not) I'll avoid unless it's a game that I want to support for some other reason.

Just played 25 minutes of CAYNE and it's really not my scene. I skipped through a YT playthrough to satisfy my curiosity, and I'm glad I did. Old school point-n-click, with a horribly clunky hunt-the-interactive-thing mechanic. Glad I avoided wasting my time on it.

Time to try out Desolation.

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This reminded me that I was going to buy Beautiful Desolation! Nice - downloading now. I bought CAYNE as well, since it was pretty cheap, but STASIS had no Linux support, so I skipped that one.

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Noita has a very slow start, so be sure to watch some howto guides. I recommend FuryForged [External Link], although there are big spoilers in there. Although the thing about Noita is that it's so obscure that if you don't use spoilers, it's probably impossible to understand any of the game in the first place! You also have to absolutely read the Noita wiki to understand how wands work - https://noita.gamepedia.com/Wands [External Link], although that'll only take you a few minutes to wrap your head around.

However, get over that hill, and you'll find a game that you can pour literally hundreds of hours into without boredom. I'm well over 200. FuryForged has well over 1100.

I mean, it took me hundreds of attempts to finally beat the game. Then I discovered the Orb runs. And parallel worlds. And Hell. The Gold. Sky. Space. It's absolutely GIGANTIC. Love it.

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So roughly 200 units sold for Linux on Steam (assuming everyone that bought on steam played it within 2 weeks, of course...) and from Jake's comment, over half again sold on Itch. That's 2.76% of all sales we know about. Given the market share, that's not terrible.

It's just a shame that in the grand scheme of things, there's no way to avoid that this only a touch over 300 units for supporting a whole new O/S. And you have to wonder how many of those 300 would have bought the game anyway (either because they have access to Windows, they dual-boot, or they use Proton).

No wonder Valve is pushing so much into Proton. They must see these figures, this story, all the goddam time.

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Quoting: AciDDishonored (I tried 2.4h, but it crashed my whole computer 2 times, so removed it :()

Wow - I just finished the main campaign (clean hands, ghost) and in 30 hours I think it crashed maybe once, but not the whole system. Running a GTX1050 under KDE Neon (20.04 LTS), I got 130 FPS almost the whole time using Proton 5.13-4. Just starting the DLC tonight.

I had much the same experience. Dishonored was one of the first games I played through with Proton and it was absolutely flawless. I didn't experience any crashing in the main campaign, nor the three DLCs. I also bought the two sequels and had similarly flawless experiences with them. They're just such epics titles.

In fact, the original Dishonored is an easy "Top Three of All Time" entries for me. Not sure what the other two are mind you, but I've also had a soft spot for that game and its DLC. Especially the Knife of Dunwall, which was that case where a DLC is better than the original game. Just brilliant games. Brilliant.

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I poured nearly 15 hours into completing Deep Sky Derelicts. It's a slow starter, but ends up being very engaging. Highly recommended! I enjoyed Tacoma as well. Total steal for those two great games - one for 75p and the other for just another fiver more? Superb.

Top tier is a waste of time though. Both games are silver-rated at best, and neither game plans to release on Linux. Dual-booters only.

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Amazing price for the specs of this thing. It's in that magical Raspberry Pi range of value where you might afford to take a risk on it, even if you end up hardly ever using it.

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