Do you use linux?!

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Sorry for the long wait for a reply. Right after my previous post (7 months ago!) I went through a disastrously messed up move to another residence which left me without a computer until recently. Been catching up from where I left off with everything.

I have no clue if that issue was ever resolved, though by now I would assume it has. I have decided to use the AppImage instead.

Separately, I am shortly starting another topic in the how do I category, specific to Linux users, that you may be able to help with if no one else has by the time you see this.

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That is incorrect and misleading. And what purpose was there even saying that in this topic besides to toss trash talk into the discussion? Such a comment adds nothing beneficial to the discussion. Instead it caused confusion.

And this makes me curious. Considering I have played games from GOG on Linux without any issue (not through WINE, just direct from GOG made for Windows and Linux and sometimes Apple games), and know that many other Linux users play games from both stores (again direct made for Linux, but also Windows only games through WINE), why are you having difficulty? Not actually asking you a question for a reply because this is off topic, just saying that is what has me curious. There must be a reason, just not found or solved yet.

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Who have you seen doing that? I think sometimes there is a bit of confusion regarding the difference between what people like and what they recommend. I’ve seen lots of people saying why they like Arch, but mostly big warnings toward newcomers about why it might not be a good way to start on Linux for them.

In fact, I recently switched to Linux because Microslop really didn’t want me installing Win11 on my aging laptop, and I was getting really fed up with them anyway so I figured it was a perfect time to move. As I began researching (read: getting lost in) all the various distros, the message I got from so many places was “don’t start with Arch”. I heard all these accounts of people failing to even get a bootable system for weeks.

But some people said, you can start with Arch if you are good at following directions, don’t mind using CLI, and like the idea of building your system from the ground up. I realized that I was all of those things, so I thought why not give it a try and if I hate it, I’ll switch to something easier.

So I took the plunge and I haven’t looked back since. Keep in mind, I never used Linux before, so my only advantage was having grown up with DOS. The ArchWiki pretty much explained every step of the install (I didn’t use the archinstall script because I actually wanted to learn something), and it was way easier than I thought. I thought detecting hardware would be an issue - nope, everything just sort of worked. Wifi card didn’t work at first but all I had to do was install a package for it (because its old). Yeah I couldn’t boot at first, because I literally didn’t make a boot entry, lol… my mistake for skipping a part that was literally written right there in the guide. Took only one evening to get to booting the system, the next day I got the wifi card working, installed Sway window manager and it’s just…awesome. It actually made using my computer fun again. I have my old Windows 10 system on a different drive still, haven’t missed it for a second.

So on to GDevelop… seems to work fine, I used the AppImage, and haven’t noticed anything really amiss so far. Performance is actually better for me (as in the snappiness of the interface). I will admit that I haven’t used it extensively because I have been focusing on a different project. I did have crappy framerate in the preview, but running in browser was perfectly fine, so I’m not sure what that’s about.

Stuff that I have tried with Wine has been fairly easy too, I guess we’re the lucky people who get to enjoy all the benefits of the improvements over the years as I’ve heard many horror stories from the past. I even installed FL Studio within Wine and it works great.