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More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld
17 Feb 2024 at 3:41 am UTC Likes: 5

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

Heroic Games Launcher v2.13 brings GOG support improvements
13 Feb 2024 at 9:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

: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.

Linux Mint 21.3 released with Cinnamon 6.0 and experimental Wayland support
13 Jan 2024 at 1:37 am UTC Likes: 6

sudo apt install mint-backgrounds*

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

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support
20 Oct 2023 at 7:00 pm UTC Likes: 2

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.

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 'Faye' enters Beta
17 Sep 2023 at 10:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

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.

Canonical give some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop
27 Aug 2023 at 3:42 pm UTC

Mark Shuttleworth giveth and Mark Shuttleworth taketh away

He invented Linux Desktop and then blew it off.

Linux Mint 21.2 is out now with app upgrades, artwork tweaks, login improvements
17 Jul 2023 at 7:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

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.

Linux hit over 3% desktop user share according to Statcounter
11 Jul 2023 at 4:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

13% in India is huge :woot:

Get a free copy of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition with Prime Gaming
19 Jun 2023 at 5:06 am UTC

Quoting: GuestI'm a heretic that thinks 2 was better in about every way
I agree with the spirit of the statement. I wouldn't however agree with "in about every way". NWN2 simply had abysmal performance on the best GPUs of the day. One of the worst games I've ever played in this respect. Only Guild 2 was more terrible.