Sometimes. It contains fixes for specific games and patches from wine-staging (the newest, testing branch) that are not included in Valve’s Proton releases, many of which have a positive impact on performance. The project’s overview is the best summary.

Extrapolate from the context. I’m tired of explaining obvious things to unreceptive people.

The discourse goes to the same fucking place every time Felix is mentioned. People don’t deserve the benefit of doubt.

I seriously doubt that anyone who asks that question doesn’t already have a foregone conclusion, but fine, I’ll indulge you.

Probably not. If he was, and had been hiding it his entire life, even in the era when he was the youtube star and had zero restraint, why would he slip up those few times, and especially such highly public ways?

He did and said some shit in his early 20s, and he deserved the criticism at the time, but those incidents weren’t repeated and weren’t part of a pattern. He wasn’t the paragon of virtue and maturity, but I’m willing to bet my left nut that neither are the people who are lining up to crucify him, and the only difference is that he had an audience. The people who aren’t willing to let go of their prejudices after a decade are equally as immature.

Do you want to continue posturing and fishing for confirmation from other edgy teenage minds, or do you want the answer?

I’m sure all the reactions will be nothing but respectful and factual, and not riddled with festering teenage emotions.

hosting their videos on their own website

I love that entrepreneurial attitude. If an online service is unsatisfactory, just develop your own software from the ground up and provision the infrastructure from your pocket. Car industry sucks? Just build your own car! GPU prices high? Grab a soldering iron and a handful of sand, how hard could it be?

Things are always more complex than they appear. The whole point of services like Youtube and Patreon is to offload that complexity onto the provider in exchange for a fee (or some other form of compensation) from the user. Just look at how many early Lemmy instances have gone offline because of the overwhelming financial or administrative burden. Hate the companies all you like, and by all means look for independent solutions, but don’t pretend they offer no value whatsoever.

What is missed is not necessary or available.

For some people, the differences can be deal breakers. Nix is interesting, but I won’t likely move away from Arch because access to the AUR is more valuable to me.

Mint also doesn’t install snap when you want to install an apt package, nor put Amazon ads in your search box. GNOME is also just a horrid experience for someone who’s transitioning from Windows.

Through some script sleuthing, I did discover that Steam ships several of its own 32-bit and 64-bit libraries, and that paths to both are added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (search path for library files) when the client is launched by the Steam Runtime, but many files (specifically the Steam Runtime) are only present as 32-bit binaries in ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32.

Whether the Steam client uses those is a question someone else less sleep-deprived can answer.

I have high hopes for the Steam Controller 2. All it needs to be is a Steam Deck with the middle removed.

What if you try reaching it through your public IP?

Stupid question, but is the service reachable at all? What if you map 81 to 81? Or whichever port the other, confirmed-to-work service uses? What if you map that other service to 8100?

It’s based on hole punching, but with extras. The clients punch a hole in their respective firewalls then the service connect the holes so the clients end up communicating directly with each other. They have a lengthy blog post about NAT traversal.

Tailscale. It does some UDP fuckery to bypass NAT and firewalls (most of the time) so you don’t even need to open any ports. You can run it on individual hosts to access them directly, and/or you can set it up on one device to advertise an entire subnet and have the client work like a split tunnel VPN. I don’t know about OpenWRT, but both pfSense and OpnSense have built-in Tailscale plugins.

People are freaking out about their plan to go public, but for the moment, it’s a reliable, high quality service even on the free tier.

I’ve also used Ngrok and Twingate to access my LAN from outside, but they simply use relay servers instead of Tailscale’s black magic fuckery.

You could try using pre-9.0 wine-ge-custom or proton-ge-custom. And I’m sure someone will put the legacy Wine on the AUR.

Surely this won’t upset people.

Ansible is an abstraction layer over system utilities, shell, and other programs. You can specify what you want to happen, and it will figure out how to do it. For example, you can use the ansible.builtin.package module to specify which packages you want to be present, and Ansible will decide which specific package manager module should handle it and how.

Ansible tasks are also idempotent – they are concerned with the end state instead of the action. Many of the modules (like the package module above) take a state parameter with the possible values of present or absent (instead of the more common “install” and “remove” actions). If the system’s state satisfies the task’s expected end state (e.g. the package is already present), the task will be skipped – unlike a shell script, which would simply re-run the entire script every time.

Ansible also implements strict error checking. If a task fails, it won’t run any subsequent tasks on the host since the end states would be unpredictable.

If the game comes in an archive (like portable Windows applications), you can simply copy the files to a directory and point Lutris at the executable.

Compatibility has been pretty solid for me. There are only a few games that didn’t work out of the box (excepting those that are intentionally broken through anti-cheat). You can often get away with running games on Wine, but for most games you’ll want Proton. Lutris will detect and use Proton versions that are installed by Steam, copied manually into compatibilitytools.d, or it can download Wine and Proton releases on its own. There’s also GloriousEggroll’s fork with many game-specific fixes.

ProtonDB and Lutris.net are the most useful resources, you can check if the anti-cheat solution might be an issue on Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?, Steam forum is a thing that exists, and you can ask in this community.

I’m going to assume you’re using official, paid-for GOG offline installers. Other installers will work the same way.

I have a directory for non-Steam games mounted at /games. Every game has its own directory, and a game and prefix directory for the game content and the wineprefix respectively. For example, for Cyberpunk 2077 you would run mkdir -p /games/cyberpunk-2077/{game,prefix} to create the directory tree all at once.

To install the game, I simply use wine to execute the installer with the prefix directory set as the wineprefix: WINEPREFIX=/games/cyberpunk-2077/prefix wine SETUP_FILE_NAME.exe. The root filesystem will be mounted as the Z: drive – use Z:\games\cyberpunk-2077\game as the install path.

I use Lutris to launch the game. Add a new game, choose “Locally installed game”, then set the executable path to the game’s main executable, the working directory to the game directory (usually works, some games expect a different working directory), and the prefix to the prefix directory.