Heroic Games Launcher has been improving a lot, now having install scripts like Lutris, more platforms available, and a lot less janky than it used to be.

Bottles I don’t have much experience with for games, but it’s a really good program a lot of people use, and if you like Libadwaita apps it’s pretty amazing.

If you only need Lutris as a game launcher (rather than the install scripts, WINE/Proton-GE, and such), Cartridge is a nice little GTK4/Libadwaita launcher too. But it is just that - a launcher, nothing more.

Ngl a 90s PC beige steam deck would be amazing to run emudeck on

I tried this but even permanent marker kept rubbing off

A lemmy.ml mod, being an absolute joke of a mod? Say it ain’t so!

Always is with Phoronix comments.

You find everything there from “Gnome is satanist” all the way up to pro-genocide crap.

I really don’t know what it is about the site that brings out the craziest souch.

The Snap hate makes perfect sense. It performs worse, each app is mounted as it’s own fs which clutters my file manager, they cause all kinds of issues (e.g with Steam), the sandboxing only works on one distro, there’s a proprietary element to them, they’re controlled by one organisation that’s somewhat questionable, and they undermine the actual packaging standard that seemingly everybody else has adopted.

It’s perfectly reasonable not to want them, and it’s very reasonable not to want them forcibly installed without consent when you’re trying to install something else.

If you like them, fair enough. But I’ve explained why I don’t, and you liking them does not invalidate all the people that don’t like them.

Even using apt to install things has lead to some things actually being installed as Snaps, unfortunately.

And Snaps work outside of Ubuntu…

My point is, Ubuntu goes out of their way to make installing stuff as anything other than a Snap a hindrance.

Their new storefront, which was originally a community creation that allowed for the installation of debs and snaps, initially had deb support ripped out of it when Ubuntu started using it. Only after backlash did they reluctantly add it back. You certainly can’t install Flatpaks through it (unless someone has a fork).

Why would I use a system that so aggressively pushes a packaging format I don’t want to use and suppresses ones that I do?

Doesn’t actually seem like a bad release at all.

But I’m pretty married to Flatpaks at this point so no thanks, I’m good.

E: not sure who I’ve hurt the feelings of, Snap fans (are they out there?) or Flatpak haters. Either way, nobody important.

I have a Fedora Workstation (i.e. Gnome) desktop, a Fedora Workstation laptop, a Windows 10 laptop I’m forced to use for work.

My wife doesn’t have a PC (well I guess she has a Steam Deck, actually, but it only ever goes into desktop mode in order to install/update Stardew Valley mods).

My daughter has my old laptop, with Mint on it.

No issues so far.

My dad did have a laptop with ElementaryOS on it, but since he bought an iPad the laptop has just been gathering dust.

The number was not small. It was 10+ SKUs… which also happened to be most of the most popular ones.

Intel claimed multiple times to have fixed the issue, only for it to have not been fixed. Maybe it really is fixed this time, but who knows?

Also, stuff is often in warehouses for months. You could very easily still get an affected CPU. And intel has been very clear that they will not replace faulty CPUs. If you get a faulty CPU, you’re on your own.

It’s not worth the risk.

This is all on top of Intel having worse CPUs on a worse platform with zero upgrade path even if you ignore a lot of them being faulty, which you obviously shouldn’t.

Looking through the gitlab, it seems the backport of this hold gesture to GTK3 was rejected for good reason. Seems very unfair to imply it was done out of sheer spite.

It would break a lot, require a new API, and devs reworking a lot of programs.

It’s also completely reasonable just from the POV of not accepting major new features in GTK3 when GTK4 exists.

Devs likely expect GTK3 to be feature-stable, given GTK4 has been out a while and GTK5 work starting soon. It’s at the tail-end of its life.

If somebody wanted a major new feature in Python, for example, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Python team gave it the go-ahead for Python 3 but not Python 2. GTK3 is done, they’re only really doing bug fixes now.

Nobody expects new features to be added to Plasma 5 or Gnome 45.

It’s 100% the right decision not to keep adding features to an old widget toolkit that has been superceded by GTK4 and is almost EoL.

That issue aside… good. Seems like a nice feature.

You will never convince an Nvidia fan that Nvidia has ever done anything badly.

Debian, Fedora, EndeavourOS (arch).

Nvidia’s issues on Linux are very well documented… even by the inventor of Linux himself. I didn’t realise I had to bring receipts.

As for what do I mean by nightmare, I already said. It would break after updates, I had constant flickering, stuttering, and artefacts. No it wasn’t a hardware issue. They’re Nvidia driver issues.

To me, that’s a nightmare. I need my machine to function, and with Nvidia, it couldn’t.

Except, as I and others are telling you, it doesn’t “just work”.

A crying-laughing emoji is not a counter-argument.

I’ve tried a 3060 as well, which was a nightmare too. Although that was in a laptop so I’m not sure if that’s a laptop-specific thing.

I doubt it though, since every other update would render it unbootable, and there was excessive flickering, both of which also happened with the 1080 Ti.

I do know that AMD “just works”, though.

Nvidia needs to seriously improve before they’re right for a typical Linux user.

Shit, Valve’s new big picture mode was delayed for like a year because it was unusable on Nvidia hardware. Doesn’t exactly sound bug-free to me mate.

This is why I’m still on Windows 3.1

Man I wish my time with Nvidia was as easy as you claim it to be.

I had a 1080 Ti that I was forced to sell because Nvidia drivers made my PC unusable.

The performance drop going from a 1080 Ti to a RX 580 was huge, but it was well worth it for a system that would actually work reliably.

Channel? I think you may be thinking of the other tech Linus

Or does Torvalds have a channel now

I think anything with an ambiguous pronunciation, where someone has to stop and think “wait… is it pronounced this way or this way?” isn’t the best name.