Finally finishing Pillars of Eternity. Switched to "Easy", this is clearly not my genre.

With the release of OpenMW 0.46, started my second playthrough of TES III: Morrowind with just about 7 mods. It looks gorgeous!

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Quoting: Sojiro84

Quoting: omicron-b

Fractional scaling support, and each monitor can be scaled differently.

Wow, am I right that no other DE has this?

Don't be too impressed. I tried the feature and all it does is render the desktop/UI at 150% together with blurry font.

So if you expected good scaling where font's look like it was rendered natively...

Nope.

I was exited at first as well until I saw the cheap hack they basically did. Totally unusable in this state.

Thanks for sharing this.
I tried with a single display today, even a "simple" 2x scaling is just a zoomed-in pic. Looks super bad :(
I am keeping Ubuntu as a backup for my Debian Testing system.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: omicron-b

Fractional scaling support, and each monitor can be scaled differently.

Wow, am I right that no other DE has this?

I thought Gnome-shell was supposed to get at least the first bit. But I haven't seen it in the options on Pop_OS.

I do wish Mint would support Gnome though I kind of see why they do not. But yes, maybe if all of the Ubuntu based systems refuse to play ball with forcing snap down our throats, Ubuntu will come to realize that much like other things they've tried to push an alternate system for, that they'll just back down.

While I'm not against alternatives at all (otherwise why would I be using Linux as a desktop system, right?), there are certain things we should try standardizing on, like the graphical display tech (xorg / wayland), system resource management and startup (though to be fair, it systemd started with just being an improved init, it really is growing into much more, and I can see reasons to hate it for that, but it has become the 'standard'). We already have flatpak that isn't terrible in performance like snap, is already well integrated into other distributions (though Debian is as they always are neutral and properly support both flatpak and snap, just not out of the box, which is the way it should be).

This does give us two good options now though, Pop_OS! for those who enjoy using Gnome Shell, plus they have an easy way to switch between hybrid, dedicated and iGPU settings, and Mint for the Xfce, Cinnamon and Mate DEs, without having things shoved into our faces!

Ubuntu has fractional scaling (although it was borked for me when I tested 20.04, 19.10 was fine), I don't actually have 2 screens to check.

Yes, I am glad Mint voiced their concern with snaps (again), and this time Canonical heard it and proposed to talk.
Before they just wrote it off as 'vocal minority', 'tinfoil hats', 'windows haters', something among these lines.

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Fractional scaling support, and each monitor can be scaled differently.

Wow, am I right that no other DE has this?

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Quoting: Odisej

Quoting: omicron-bStar Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Wine)

Did you manage to solve the issue with music not playing?

I use Ubuntu 20.04 for Wine games that don't run via Proton on my Debian.
Back on 18.04 I had to install libmpg123-0:i386 for some games to have sound, this package provides MP3 support in 32-bit Wine prefixes.
On Ubuntu 20.04 it is already installed, probably as a dependency of Wine, so everything works out of the box for me.

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Vaporum - I don't play dungeon crawlers, but I love this one, wishlisted the upcoming prequel
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition (Proton) - this one is so hard for me, can't believe actual 6 y.o. play this game
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Wine)

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Played through Red Faction Guerrilla (Proton) just because I liked the first game as a child, turns out the game is quite fun.

Tried Dead Cells again and found out I no longer suck at it, picked up my character at Black Bridge and finished the game without dying once. This gave me the confidence boost I needed, so I got all the runes and proceeded to unlock and finish all levels, including the free DLC. I even got "What's wrong with these?" achievement by completing the game with the starting shield. Will take a break and then buy a Bad Seed DLC and hunt for more achievements, because I like the game so much.

Now playing System Shock 2 and I am surprised it's so addictive, I think I will finish the game in 4 days straight. It's interesting that the Linux release (wine wrapped) no longer starts for me, and Andrew Eikum from Code Weavers (who packaged this release) recommends Proton these days [External Link], which works flawless.
Never played the first game, but read the plot. Waiting for a remaster.

Taking a break from the original Unreal (Proton), which I have fond memories of as a child, and still kinda like it. My progress is about 30% now.

Overall, I am using that 4K display I have to it's maximum, as you can see :D

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Played the demo and posted some feedback here in Steam [External Link]
I like the idea behind the game

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Looks great!
They have a typo here:

Spoiler, click me

Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7 64Bit, Windows 8.1 64Bit, Windows 10 64Bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 - 2.9 GHz / AMD FX - 3.3 GHz
Memory: 8 MB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 6850
Storage: 11 MB available space

Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64Bit
Processor: Intel Core i7 - 3.1 GHz / AMD FX - 3.5 GHz
Memory: 16 MB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 570
Storage: 10 MB available space

Upd: Actually, I will buy it today because I like how it looks, want to support the dev and also book myself the best seat the lowest price :D

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Quoting: MohandevirWhat I don't know is if it gets overwritten by your preset, when you activate Proton for all titles...

No, it does not. Good point! There are quite a few titles that actually run worse with newer Proton releases, Torchlight from the top of my head.

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