Affinity absolutely does not work on linux easily, or well. Some people have gotten a barely-functioning app working in bottles, and reportedly some have gotten it “mostly” working through wine, but it is through a convoluted process that will be beyond many newer linux users and prone to errors. (And you have to dig through 100 pages of the affinity forum to try to figure it out.)

It doesn’t support hardware acceleration and seems to tend to be glitchy and crash often.
Which… is still a vastly better state than the last time I checked, at least, ha. But that’s been progress over the course of 4 years.

I think this page is the best bet for even trying: https://codeberg.org/Wanesty/affinity-wine-docs

It’s legitimately the only thing I miss from windows. I might try again with this installer when I have the energy… sigh hahah

sorry if the Incredibly Late reply is bad, but i saw this today and these are the people in the picture if you still want to know:

double trouble (she-ra and princesses of power)
najimi osana (komi can’t communicate)
crona (soul eater)
raine whispers (owl house)
a somewhat spoilery character to explain (steven universe)

i can’t tell who the red jpeg’d blob in the middle is supposed to be if anybody though lol

It was close for me between ONI and Darkest Dungeon, but I’ve basically “solved” DD to the point where I need 120 (I counted) constantly rotating mods to even have anything to challenge me… I’m not sure I’d ever “finish” ONI! I feel like i’ve barely scratched the surface, and i’ve put in hundreds of hours. (I love them both, though.)

That it’s cute and has so many little random thoughtful details like how the hatch eggs are as big as the hatches (ouch) definitely helps too.

Honestly, I’d be pretty sad with zero city-builders. And Rain World is non-negotiable, hahah.

Rain World!!!
Second place is hard to do though! Oxygen Not Included, I guess?

While you are technically correct, this is a massive PITA to turn off manually every single boot and rebooting just to play a game isn’t very fun, ha. (It also breaks linux, where I play.)

For the forseeable future, unless someone is committed enough to making Darling work.
(Mac layer instead of Windowz, the mac version does not and will not have vanguard.)

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This. An always-on rootkit is worlds different in terms of privacy and security than most conventional ones like EAC.
(Not like conventional ACs are good for these things either, of course. But it is many degrees less invasive.)

I’ve been trying to find the words to express how disappointed I am in riot’s decisions to become a “big company” including all of the shitty decisions completely at odds to their playerbase, and I’m just struggling.

I had hoped they had decided skins were lucrative enough, for how long they had just sold skins and left it at that. Now they’re chasing “whales” for the sake of money, adding more and more ads, bloat, categories of fake money, and intrusive gacha crap, all the while their decisions progressively guts the core of people who actually care about their game. The people that drive the community and “engagement,” as it were.

The people who make content for league (like SkinSpotlights, who is affected by this,) the custom skin makers, people who go out of their way to make it work on linux, these are passionate communities that they are actively shafting just to have a band-aid solution (and let’s be real; it is a band-aid,) for high-elo scripters and low-level bots that affect (generously) 5% of the playerbase meaningfully. I acknowledge that scripters are extremely shitty to deal with but doing this isn’t going to stop them, and it has serious downsides.

That it makes the barrier to entry for “even windows” users higher isn’t good either-- a game that was well known for working on potatoes now has an always-on anticheat that makes many people have issues playing other games without freezing and stutters, fucking up their BIOS and bricking their pc, bluescreening at random, being nearly impossible for the average user to remove properly, and getting false positives for people who are programmers just running their work programs. How prevalent an issue these are isn’t THAT important, that it happens at all regularly enough to get people clamoring about how it bricked their pc will make any average user pause. Realistically, if an issue happens to one person in a friend group, then you’ve most likely lost the whole group.

This is ignoring that it’s a security nightmare being an always-on rootkit that millions of players use. It is the prime backdoor for legitimate hackers to target now.

I have a lil barebones potato laptop that runs windows that I could theoretically keep league on. I am seriously debating on whether I will, even though I unironically love this game, and was just finally able to get a foot into the competitive scene like I’ve wanted to for years. Hell, I don’t even know for sure if it’ll work on my potato laptop. It already barely runs league. 8/

it’s just gambling. the thrill of getting something “good” or FOMO with limited editions is what they operate on.

The newest runner should have fixed League for most users now!

Here it is, https://kbin.social/m/leagueoflinux/t/728889/How-to-Update-Your-Wine-Runner-to-8-27-Fix-Through

I’m hoping that is understandable or helpful for people ^^;

I don’t know whether a clean install changed anything but the runner, only changing the runner worked well for me. I also use League through Lutris, but I didn’t figure out how to find and add new runners easily until I figured it out for this, and I absolutely wished I had known how that worked earlier (because it would have saved me a lot of time in many scenarios. 8i )

I’ll try to post something coherent and get back to you. (Making words hard.)

I am also unsure why they “moved to kbin” if they had no intention of keeping the community updated via here. It’s not really “moving” at all, then.

They only deigned to post the megathread, period, on Reddit, and I feel that says it all about their attitude about moving here: They never took it that seriously.

I would personally rather the community be here; but if this choice is choosing no moderation, and no official updates, then it’s not really a true choice. I vastly prefer the fediverse and I’m not going back, but if they have no real intention of moving here, they should figure out what they are going to do. It’s been 6 months since Reddit showed its true face.

I think, in the end, the community will split off, yeah. Both here and on Reddit.

Thanks for updating the people here, I totally forgot to share the solution myself, whoops. Maybe I should post the way to update the runners that doesn’t require a reinstall, hahah. //sweats

Beef maruchan ramen. Basically almost entirely what I survived on until I was 25.
I used to do chicken + mushroom flavour when I was very small but they discontinued it.

I had just joined a LoL group to try to play with people, sadness. :/ Hopefully this is fixable soon. Same issue with unable to launch loading screen, constant “Reconnect” and error popup
“A critical error has occurred and the process must be terminated. Would you like to create a crash dump to aid the developers in troubleshooting this issue? This may take up to 5 minutes
NOTE: The process may appear unresponsive during this time.”

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If one is interested in the perspective of using Mint for games:

I have been using Mint for gaming for ~4 years and anything that was broken for me is fixed now. Went straight from Windows 7 to Mint and have had a very pleasant experience. If you’re using Steam primarily, there’s very little that doesn’t simply work out of the box. The rare case that doesn’t is generally solveable through ProtonDB, or eventually fixed.

The only shit that doesn’t work for the foreseeable future is generally online-only stuff specifically that has invasive anticheat. Big MMOs, Destiny 2, Valorant, that sort of thing. Blizzard games mostly work fine, though have some random temporary issues rarely. But I don’t usually play games like that for various reasons, so I do not personally care myself.

Special mention to League of Legends which is the big multiplayer game I do play and works a hell of a lot more consistently than it used to, there’s actually a community here on the fediverse if you have issues setting it up, ( !kbin.social/m/leagueoflinux ) but in recent years it should be pretty easy compared to even 2 years ago. Install through lutris and it just works for me now, and it runs measurably smoother.

I wouldn’t really recommend using the Epic store, as stuff does not run very consistently and it’s awkward and slow to run through lutris. Itch has a native client that works very well for native games, and at least tries to run windows stuff through wine (so-so on if it works, some small first-timer games just aren’t very stable ha. Most games work for me.) GOG is a pain in the ass imo and I know that’s a controversial opinion, some people like downloading every individual game through the website lmao. I have hundreds of games and this is mostly annoying to me, personally. There’s actually a third party doodad for it (minigalaxy) that works fine, but I don’t care to try it myself. (A lot of the appeal to GOG for me was their client, not being able to use it just makes it “worse steam” to me.)

If you like indie games (especially those popular enough to have steam pages), singleplayer games, or retro games, it’s a great OS. (It’s actually superior to run retro games on Mint versus Windows, from my experience, trying to get some of them to run on Windows was an absolute nightmare.)

I have had no drivers issues, didn’t really have to go out of my way to “set things up.” Though I would recommend having a rig with an AMD gpu. Nvidia is the one you run into more drivers issues with. I did swap to pipewire manually but it’s not really necessary. Everything I’ve stuck in has been serviceable as plug-and-play, though some I’ve added tweaks to some things for my own tastes over the years.