Yeah I really wish Steam would partner up with ProtonDB or provide something similar for easy troubleshooting. Proton is amazing, but it ain't perfect.

For sure! Ugly, but good. And if you don't vibe with it then there are a few other good picks. I cycled through five or six solid programs before I figured out exactly what I wanted.

Yeah I used that thing for maybe a year before I started looking for alternative image viewers.
Admittedly I mostly ended up using the somewhat buggy Nexus Image because of how simple and lightweight the interface is, but I also had better experiences with Irfanview

This take was always odd to me, because I've had the opposite experience. I'm sure I'm an outlier, but the ONLY time I've had wifi issues on Linux was when Windows Fasboot disabled my adapter .

Every other time for me has been plug and play for Linux, hit and miss for Windows.

Yeah, that one's going to be the tough part since you already declined DaVinci Resolve.
Most professional software is Windows or Mac, not Linux. You could try to rely on Wine, Crossover, or a VM to make your choice app work, but I don't know of anything on DaVinci's level besides Premiere.

I'd hardly call using proton "going through multiple loopholes". If the game is on Steam then most of the time your only concern is the publisher specifically blocking linux users via anticheat.
And emulators are a non-issue in my experience.

I'm having such a good time with Hytale. If the development team can keep on like this, I can easily see it becoming one of my favorite games.

After much anticipation, 10.0.0 is out now!

We thank everyone for waiting, as well as all the contributors from the last year for making this our biggest release yet 🥳

You can read more about it at prismlauncher.org/news/release...

And as always, you can download it at prismlauncher.org/download/

Yeah it really sucks that Destiny 2 and Battle for Neighborville can easily run on Linux, but the publishers will ban you for doing it.
I'm happy with my proton-friendly games, but those two make me sad.

Boo to EA and Activision. ☹️

Honestly, that's my approach too. I made an exception when going from Windows 8 to Windows 10, and boy was that not a good call.
Let somebody else beta test 👍

Heck if I know.
A real Monkey's Paw you've got going on there.

Of course it's not
Apple and Google are waiting right over there

ProtonDB says that Time Stranger runs fine on Linux in current year

It's nice that Steam will refund no questions asked, but it sucks that it's on Valve and not the publisher.
On that note, it may not be such a bad idea to allow (at least a partial) refund when the publisher changes the EULA

The era of playground rumors is kind of over. :/

So today I learned my phone had a pending update when it decided to update in my pocket and install a bunch of nonsense apps (read: awful mobile games)

I did not have "switch to iOS" on my bingo card, but boy howdy it's coming

I had it preordered for two years before Amazon canceled it in 2020 because I didn't think to update the payment information.

But now it's finally coming, and Amazon can't hold me back.

I mean, there's gaming off of vibes and there's wasting my time. I was very prepared for a chill time sink, but it felt like it was more often just tedious menu navigation and mashing A to get through dialogue that I'd already seen several dozen times before.

Bro same. Fuecoco IS the only Gen 9 mon on my list.
He is also the best starter since Oshawott. Funny how that works out.

Funny you say that. XP was the OS that turned me into a power user.
I'd used windows on Family and Library computers before, the first computer that was truly my own ran Windows XP. I loved that machine.

Believe me, if Windows made an OS like XP I'd jump on it yesterday.

Most major Distros work well with Plasma, but if you want to avoid using the terminal then it's easiest to do a fresh install. Fedora KDE Desktop, Debian, and Kubuntu are all popular, so it shouldn't be too hard to troubleshoot any potential issues.

TBH, I feel like the Desktop Environment is the most important thing for casual use cases. When I switched off of Windows 10, I found KDE Plasma to be much more attractive than Cinnamon, which is what Mint ships with.

The flashiest PC Game Launcher I can think of is Pegasus, but I'm not sure it's quite what you're looking for.

My solution to that is usually just to go in Winetricks and start installing a ton of Windows components. My Default wine prefix has so much stuff shoved into it, but it usually works

The "better" method is probably to launch it with wine in the terminal and google each error, but... it works now

IIRC, Microsoft designed their controller after Sega's, since Sega was on its way out when Dwayne Johnson showed off the Microsoft Box. Cool motive, still not quite my tempo.

Yeah I don't post much, so it takes a while for Posts to sink.

So what I meant by the Nintendo Comment is that Xbox has their ABXY in a different format from Nintendo. I usually play with Nintendo/playstation Glyphs, so using the Xbox style trips me up pretty badly.

I'm just some guy who chimes in on the Linux/Trek feeds sometimes
I know I can be a bit negative about things sometimes, but I am trying to work on coming across more positively.

Hey
It's all right, guy.
I'm sure you don't mean to be aggressive, but I want to make sure we're chill.

This isn't Twitter or X, and I don't want it to be.
No need to fixate on the minutia
No need to go looking in my page for old posts to argue about.

Woah there
Of course I believe it's Ethical to Pirate Nintendo games. Do I really come across as a corporate bootlicker? 😢

I dunno. I like tweets as a descriptor for these kinds of short posts. It works as a sort of genericized term like Kleenex or Tupperware - Especially since Twitter Tweets are a relic of the past and nobody claims the term anymore.
I've always found "posts" to be a bit less specific than I'd like.