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You can give flatpaks permissions for those. Flatseal is a great GUI for that if that's your thing.

Imagine loading a modern game from spinning rust. And then loading textures. And the next area to render. And its textures. And… I’m getting tired of waiting just from imagining it.

Hey, I appreciate your warning.

For a bit of context, I have been a Debian user for almost 30 years now. Mostly using testing for desktop / workstation systems, and stable on servers and containers. Debian is comfortable and provides me with stability where I need and cutting-edge where I want. It mostly "just works" with great defaults for everything, and it's easy to customise where I desire.

With that out of the way: you're not wrong. In fact, the testing FAQ describes situations where these kinds of breakages could happen.

That said, this is exceedingly rare if not nearly unheard of, and I can always pull packages from sid or experimental if I need (like I do Mesa).

Edit to add: for anyone interested in trying out Debian testing, please check out the Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

Edit 2: I have published a blog post describing my setup if you're interested: https://blog.c10l.cc/09122023-debian-gaming

I’m using Debian testing + a few packages from experimental (Mesa) and xanmod or liquorix kernel.

It’s been a great experience. Stable as expected, performant as anything else.

There’s GOverlay if you want a GUI for this stuff.

https://github.com/benjamimgois/goverlay

That reminds me of that joke:

Two economists are walking side-by-side.

One tells the other: I’ll give you $100 if you take a shit on the pavement.

He proceeds to shit on the pavement and grab the $100.

He then tells the other economist: I’ll give you $100 if you eat my shit.

The other does the deed and collects his $100.

After walking a few more blocks, one of them says: both of us left our dignity with that work back there and neither of us are any richer!

To which the other responds: no, but we grew our combined GDP to $200.

And they both walked away happy, patting each other on their backs.

Latinum is only valuable outside of the Federation, where societies are not post-scarcity.

Now, before you argue that there are no material conditions demanding scarcity in (some of) them, I’ll add that artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.

You’re arguing against a straw man. They never said it ceases to exist, only that it’s irrelevant.

Wine is not a Windows emulator. The name literally means “Wine Is Not an Emulator”.

It’s also not based on Windows 2000. In fact, it started out translating syscalls from Windows 3.1.

The syscalls themselves are pretty stable between Windows versions, which is why you can run a Windows XP application on Windows 11 without recompiling it, as long as it’s for the same architecture.

It’s a fairly new game. The WINE and Proton devs might still be working out kinks.

I couldn’t even find it in ProtonDB.

You could also test different Proton versions.

Proton-GE 8-22 had a fix for HDR on AW2, so there’s definitely people looking into it.

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-22

Oh wow, that sounds fucked up. I don’t remember the ext4 requirement for /boot but after reading your comment the EFI stuff came back to me. I also thought it was weird and painful.

Anyway, glad you sorted it out. It should (hopefully) be smooth sailing from here.

That’s kinda why I said “if it’s a gaming-only computer”. Nobara is the best and simplest out-of-the-box experience for gaming. Do everything through the GUI, treat it like an appliance-ish. Updates, packages, it’s all got its own GUI.

My gaming PC runs a mix of Debian testing with some stuff pulled in from sid and some stuff from experimental (just Mesa, really), plus a Xanmod kernel which updates frequently (I’m not convinced the patches make much difference).

I did all this because I’m a long time Debian user (going almost 3 decades) and I wanted the computer for a bit more than gaming. It’s not without its issues though, and I find myself frequently tinkering and troubleshooting.

I still have a Nobara partition that I can boot into, update and trust that it will be game-ready without fuss.

Most likely you need a newer version of Mesa.

If this is a gaming only computer and you don’t want to go off fussing with installing packages from other sources and maintaining a hybrid system, just install Nobara Linux.

Oh ok, so you’re skeptical of anything coming from people born in China. There’s a name for that, if only I could remember…

Nothing are British.

https://nothing.tech/pages/about

On my previous 5 years old phone the OLED looks as good as it did when it was new.

My LG OLED TV of 4 years looks as good as it did when new.

I had a PS Vita for about 4 years and the OLED was good as new when I sold it.

I’m not questioning your experience but OLED can last a lot longer than 1-3 years if it’s of good quality and the software has features to help preserve the pixels.

The game we should have had at launch is one where my >100h save wouldn’t make it crash on load.

Funnily enough, this is the first time a game’s NG+ actual felt compelling to me with how it’s actually part of the story and the workings of the universe.

Just don’t overdo it. In large quantities, xylitol is a powerful laxative.

I run it on my router which has the CG-NAT IP address.

Whilst you’re right that it could clash, it’s very unlikely (a 1 in 4194302 chance), I imagine Tailscale would detect the clash and change IPs though I could be wrong as it never happened to me (and probably never will - though in all fairness it will eventually happen to someone).