“Two pointers” makes a lot of sense if you actually have the ability to pay attention to two things simultaneously. Most froods are not hoopy enough for this.

Nouveau or Nvidia’s own drivers? X11 or Wayland?

Looks like you need winetricks to install CJK_fonts.

I just fired it up on an N4000 potato, the whole thing is amazing!

Likewise. I also have a glut of really cool new indie games from the last couple of months to catch up on.

Oof, that is a low blow

Oof, that sounds like an appimage alright.

If you haven’t seen the first one, I can’t imagine what sidereochronological phenomenon you’ve been lost in for the last decade and a half. It’s a bridge-building game, but the bridge is made out of nodes of goo. The goo is both cute and not an ideal construction material.

If Apple would stop breaking game APIs for a second, then yes

I would recommend against installing ppas in general.

I think that Kubuntu/ubuntu Noble is on a pretty recent stable kernel as is. There would be something even fresher in the HWE track, dunno if that exists for noble yet. The DXVK version is up to Proton (so Proton-GE would be slightly fresher).

The Mesa version, I’m not sure where that comes from. You have an OS installed copy, you have a flatpak/snap version, but aiui Steam Runtime and/or Proton also likes to bring its own version.

Better gpu crash handling is a todo on Linux.

https://ubuntu.com/kernel/lifecycle https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Per-Ring-Resets

This. A fresher Proton-GE is also going to come with a newer DXVK, the DirectX to Vulkan translator.

The other part of your equation is “what is the Nvidia driver version?”. Dunno if Fedora has the E-sync capable version 555 yet.

If you’re on Nvidia, go with something like Nobara or Bazzite. Nvidia’s linux drivers are in flux right now (esync/wayland), you want a distro that is aggressively chasing the latest drivers but lets you take a step back with atomic updates.

It’s hard to reach out from a flatpak’s sandbox to run other programs - for example Steam’s flatpak doesn’t like to “add non-steam games”.

When somebody tells you “fuck off, I don’t want your business”, believe them.

My solution is “have a large game collection, and move on to the next game”. The odd bad game will likely get better in a future version of Wine. Proton 9-something even picked up support for some of the fussier Japanese VNs (but not well enough for IMHHW, alas).

It’ll be another 400 years before Valve makes the “this title has no icon” text not look like total ass, but finally somebody over there took a whole minute to grab an icon from steamgriddb dot com

I have quite a few games where the native linux build is broken, too. World of Goo came out in 2008, and shockingly still works great today. I think #2 is gonna be great on Linux, too.

So they called it an “Orange Pi”, but it is not an ARM SBC.

That’s an interesting choice.

I’m not sure how much influence you can really have there. Steam is supposed to have every dependency sorted out for you. A native linux game should have a fixed environment, it runs in a bit of a canned distro such as “Scout” (Debian 16.04 iirc).

If the Linux build is broken, you’re usually best off to change it to run Proton.

Quite a few drm-free game builds still come with “steamapi.dll”. It’s supposed to be neutered, but maybe it still saw dregs of your steam install and tried talking to steam anyways? It might just need a “steam_appid.txt” file (with just the appid # inside) to nicely ask it to back off. Or the game might go merrily along with removing the steam dlls.

Most games sold on steam do a “does your account really own this” check. There is a “goldberg emulator” that I’ve heard deals with that, haven’t tried it myself.

And a few hours later, 3.4.10 is out. This is already more OS churn than I want, for a game I that don’t have. :p

99% of the time, that means SteamOS is getting sleeby and needs a reboot. (Some component of wine or something is not very good at cleaning up itself. You could try to chase it down, but trust me just rebooting is easier. Welcome to Linux.)

ProtonTricks may be the app for your problem. It can run Winetricks specifically targeting the prefixes that Steam sets up for each individual game. Soo, (I do not have BG3) run Protontricks, pick the game, wait, find that Winetricks starts off at a really awkward point in its UI, pick add an application, cancel, find yourself at a better menu, choose “Install a Windows DLL or component”, and check off the appropriate dot net version.