Anybody know how it compares to ALVR?

Not too loud. Don’t want the suits to find out.

That’s because every time you run a new program with Proton on Steam it creates a new Wine-prefix (fake Windows drive). So when you run the installed battlenet.exe it creates a new Windows environment where Battle.net is not installed.

But the installer is using the environment where Battle.net is installed and apparently it has a function to run Battle.net when it detects that it’s already installed.

If you don’t want to go the Heroic route (you really should go the Heroic route) you can

1. download the offline installer from GoG
2. add the installer as a none-Steam-game to Steam
3. select Proton for compatibility
4. run the installer
5. add the installed game’s exe to Steam as a none-Steam-game
6. select Proton for compatibility

Trouble with that method is that Steam always creates a new Wine prefix (a kind of fake Windows drive) every time you run a new none-Steam-game with Proton. They can pile up and take unnecessary space away. It also makes it harder to install dependencies or mods or add ons.

So yeah, Heroic is the way.

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I don’t think the RAM prices are going to go back down again any time soon. So there wouldn’t be any point in waiting.

Cats and dogs living together!

Many people equate the DE with the distro they tried it on. So yeah, DE is a huge factor. There’s a lot of them out there and too many people think you have to switch distribution to try a new one.

If you don’t like KDE, can’t you just stay on Gnome?

Write your own OS running on RISC-V.

I started playing Earth Must Die. Pretty funny although I haven’t at the earth must die part yet.

I mean, just go to Anna’s Archive and check. It’s not really hard.

They haven’t been released yet. I also expect it to make the news when they are actually released.

Star Craft 2

BTW, in general you can change your desktop environment without switching the distro. They just often come with a default. But installing another is usually one command away and then you can choose at the login screen.

I listen to short science videos. I usually put them into a playlist of about five videos and fall asleep by the second. New videos or topics I know less about go first.

My favourites are Dr Becky, PBS Space Time, PBS Eons, Omega Centauri and Urknall, Weltall & das Leben. Angela Collier would be up there as well, but her videos are too interesting to fall asleep to. And I also like Looking Glass Universe, but she tends to show too much stuff you have to see.

I so so love open source. “We are all in competition with each other. Let’s pool our resources and share knowledge to make us all better.”

KDE’s Activities could help you. They are basically completely different desktop layouts and open programs for different tasks. You could set up one for each website with a different Firefox and Thunderbird profile and desktop wallpaper and other things.

Firefox recently added a new profile manager to do just that. Thunderbird should also support having multiple separate profiles.

I have this beautiful small case lying around here. It can passively cool up to 65 W. Since the Gabe Cube announcement I’ve been itching to revive it with new components. Unfortunately I lack the energy. But all this time it’s sitting there on the shelf, whispering to me.