This is clearly an attempt to be poetic. He provides examples of exactly what he means immediately after that sentence.

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How did you move to Norway? Afaik you can’t just show up to stay permanently.

It was a good assumption. These days most games will work flawlessly in WINE/Proton, but the same can’t be said for other Windows software, sadly.

The Affinity suite is notoriously difficult to get working properly in WINE and/or Proton

I currently run it in a Windows 10 VM using virt-manager and the virtio drivers from RedHat to enable OpenGL acceleration on a Windows guest. It is a decent experience. Would probably be much better if I passed a USB pointer directly into the VM instead of relying on virtualization.

Haven’t tried it in WINE, and probably will never bother until the Affinity team take it seriously.

Can’t speak to your other software, but battle.net and diablo 2 run great on Linux via WINE/Proton

“vast majority” lul

And everyone else’s that uses Fedora?

It looks like the 5800x3D (and other AM4 cups) have been discontinued. They are going out of stock everywhere. Might be better to go with AM5 (7000 and 9000 series) at this point.

Excellent anime!

I just couldn’t get into the groove with Dr. Stone. I felt it required a much greater degree of suspension of disbelief since the setting is rooted in our reality, but they hand-wave over a lot of infrastructure needed to create the technologies they produce. When they got to cell phones/radios I just had to stop.

Delicious in Dungeon!

interstellar, interstella5555, gladiator

How are you launching the exe with WINE? Try doing it via the command line if you aren’t already. That way you may get some more information about why it isn’t working. Its as simple as wine path/to/your/exe

You could also try something like Bottles, which will let you use possibly newer versions of WINE without modifying your system’s WINE.

Are you on BTRFS? If so maybe you could restore to a snapshot prior to the apt upgrade?

I’m not very familiar with Debian, but perhaps there are official “groups” of packages that comprise a set of softwares, like KDE. Perhaps you could re-install that group, if it exists?

You could also create a new user, log in as that user, and see if the issue persists. If so then you’ll know it’s a system wide issue. If not, then maybe you could migrate to the new user?

Good luck!

Great post, thanks!

It’s been working pretty well for me on GNOME 45 via Fedora 39, much fewer issues compared to GNOME 44

Completely agree, and well said