I think the best way is to make it a package instead in a personal channel, see How to define a package and How to create a channel

Steam manages this for you on any distro it runs on, nowadays you dont even need to worry about it anymore.

Without steam you can run umu-launcher (basically valves solution with steam removed) directly, or use one of the many gui-programs that manage wine/proton prefixes for you like for example bottles.

umu-launcher and the gui solutions require wine or proton, I recommend proton-GE, a soft fork of valves upstream proton with experimental patches and gamefixes added.

Fuck Denuvo, but ive had absolutely no problems running games that included that piece of malware.

This is a bit heavy handed I think. This also forbids AI assisted code review and lots of other things. Perhaps they should have defined it a bit more focussed on getting rid of vibecoded spam instead of forcing a specific developing format for their whole platform.

I mean, you can always try Choicer Voicer over Jitsi/Stoat/Discord and then try to patch its audio using pipewire into the microphone capture in Choicer Voicer. Might not work though, I havent tried it.

To add to what the other commenters are saying, I also sometimes look at whos responsible for the software. Is it a repo from a big company? Is it a gnu project? Is it just from somebody with a username consisting entirely of numbers? Is it hosted on codeberg or forgejo or some other friendlier server? That stuff also says alot, even if there are few recent commits, if its from reputable people you may still get well maintained software.

true. I will adjust my comment. Good logo!

Lineage is not gegoogled? You have to install google services seperatly, when does it connect?

I suppose if corporate status is inherited that may be correct. in my opinion, its a bit too far removed to be corporate. Asahi linux is a purely volunteer distro, and ubuntu mobile was discontinued years ago, and is also purely volunteers-run nowadays.

There are some weird picks here. Is replicant even maintained anymore? UBports and Asahi Linux in Corpo-ish? And what do you have against LineageOS?

Ah I see. From what I know of it, SEO has been broken for a while now. Good luck!

sooo… If I understand this right, this is a tool to spam the web with daily AI generated blog posts?

what is this?

I never tried pirating native linux programs, but windows stuff worked well for me. Use some sort of wine prefix manager for this, like bottles. I used PlayOnLinux, but its an old buggy mess and there are modern alternatives nowadays. There is also umu-launcher and stuff that uses umu, which is more for games, but also works well for programs.

The most trouble I had was with installers and setup tools that need certain files to be in certain locations. There is a mod manager for Dawn of War 2 thats an exe that needs files from an installed game, and it was very bad on linux, with missing fonts and crashes. I got it to work with some fiddling however. On WineDB and ProtonDB there is guaranteed at least one person who had any given problem and has an arcane solution, or at least a bug report with lots of information, so try there if you are stuck. Good Luck!

Edit: Here is the WineDB link, seems to work well, but it was only tested up to version 17. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2793

I personally have no faith in Xlibre, its developer(s?) seem inexperienced and their contributions to x11 codebase are of low quality

Thankfully there are other projects around keeping x11 alive:

theres xwayland-satellite, which implements more of x11 in wayland so you can basically run an x11 session with wayland support.

And than there is phoenix, which is a new implementation of x11. Supposedly it shall have none of the legacy garbage code that makes x11 so hard to maintain.

Interresting project!

So basically, peer discovery is through Cloudflare, until a connection is made, and then it gets sent through google? And since there are a lot of AI generated assets: How much of your code was AI generated?

or guix, for free software and a proper configuration language :)

Good article, apart from the fact that the last part is just raw ChatGPT output on the advantages of REPL. I could have prompted that myself!

Why would it be DMCA’d? Ive never heard of a DMCA on a linux distro…

Really cool, its always nice to see reverse engineering to revive games!

The only DE I know that does that, is enlightenment. I really miss that feature…