.deb installer link has been fixed [External Link]

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It's late for Canonical, too late I'm afraid. They should have done that a long time ago, let's say back when they replaced native Chromium with snap in Ubuntu 20.04. Snaps for desktop users without graphical tools of configuration, without a transparent way of handling updates, permissions and background processes has been kind of disastrous for Canonical's reputation not to say anything about offering 1:1 parity with native packages. They have lost a good deal of good faith in Linux community. They did something similar again with new apparmor rules and profiles in latest LTS. Flatpak on the other hand has taken off without anyone forcing it into our computers.

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Stalker was slow-burning but intriguing at start. It became one of the most memorable gaming experiences of my life. Went on with Clear Sky. It had some performance issues/bugs back in the day. I called it off. I started Call of Pripyat quite a long after the first two. I couldn't refind the magic though everybody was saying that this was the true successor to the original. Perhaps now it is a fine opportunity to revisit the original trilogy.

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Higher vm.max_map_count (1048576) to stop various games crashing

I can't wait to use this feature... in Mint 22 :tongue:

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They definitely need to make that immutable gaming edition their main one. It will save us so much aur+manjaro drama. :tongue:

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I have BG3 at home it's Pillars of Eternity :wink:

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:heart: Heroic!
If they had their brains intact and did not choose to piss on Linux, CD Projekt should hire Flavio n co to create the Linux "Galaxy" client.

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sudo apt install mint-backgrounds*

An amazing collection of hundreds of wallpapers from the early days of Mint till now

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Quoting: strycoreRunning Steam games from Lutris doesn't offer any added benefit at all

There is a not insignificant number of Steam games which are drm-free. You can run them without launching steam-client. Moreover although I am grateful for proton I find Steam client on Linux as not the "best optimized" :tongue: among the major apps available on our systems. So Lutris at least for me has its uses even for Steam games beyond the obvious benefits of an all-in-one game library.
TY mate for your invaluable contribution to Linux gaming.

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The main advantage of LMDE over Debian + Cinnamon for experienced users who like this DE and Mint's Xapp family of programs is that you get all their upgrades against the same base system. For example, LMDE5 started with Cinnamon 5.4 and now is on 5.8.x getting all the new features users of main Mint edition got with LM 21.0 and LM 21.1. This is not possible in vanilla Debian.

For newbies, niceties like enabling os-prober (they dual-boot in the beginning, no?), non-free firmware software sources (needed in the past) and contrib / backports repos out of the box (still needed), flatpak/flathub support in the Software Manager are not something to dismiss. It takes 5 minutes to me to add them but for new users setting them up can be confusing and time consuming.

Apart from all these, Cinnamon runs predictably well everywhere, Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Armbian (!) you name it.

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