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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Mark Shuttleworth giveth and Mark Shuttleworth taketh away

He invented Linux Desktop and then blew it off.

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Wasn't the reason I decided to "main" Linux Mint but it has been extremely well-mannered when it comes to gaming. I've been able to install and run - giver or take a Flatpak or two - everything, games, launchers, utilities so far. LMDE which I like very much as well could be a little bit more restrictive for gaming on Linux. If Mint ever switched to Debian stable, I hope it could come up with some solution for extensive hardware compatibility, let's say in the same manner with MX's HWE editions.

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