is it frowned upon if im using a windows rackmount with my gpu to stream games to my linux laptop? :x
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Oh neat I didnât spot this ok.
I installed league last night but, uh, it doesnât really work. Like at all. But its a start! Gunna try overwatch today.
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Worked for me but Im not a really player⌠The fault with flatpaks is saves are lost unless you alowe them to really access your home DIR etc. I had the same issue with starcraft while so fun to play through the zerg story for free after never playing the game in ages. The saved games where lost and it was the online progress that let me push onward.
prefixes already do this without having to do any special packaging
prefixes already allow differing wine versions
nah, plenty of people do this with a passthrough vm, even. Way more consistent functionality.
The current version does not do that⌠I know how to pass though paths to fix it but it doesnt make winepaks fixed
I did enjoy starcraft the void I got for freeâŚBlizzard at there best, The stories was epic
I know, thatâs why Iâm confused about the usefulness of this 
yeah, it seems like an attempt to find a legit use for flatpak more than anything else.
The people spreading flatpak and snaps are dragging us back into the 80âs and they donât even know it yet. At least appimages donât try to be a package manager
What I donât understand about flatpak/snap in general (and please correct me if I seem to be getting this wrong butâŚ) is⌠itâs nice that you have consistent versions and as a developer you can rely on the correct version being installed so you donât have weird issues with differing versions. But on the other hand doesnât that also promote not updating certain packages for a while because âthey just workâ without updates? Canât this be a security issue too?
I know Iâm off quite a bit, but this always bothered me.
thatâs one problem, yeah. Thereâs also the issue of each package rolling its own versions of libraries, even if theyâre supposed to be a system wide standard, when the majority of packages absolutely donât need this. So, you get a massive inflation of package sizes and potential security issues with every new package you install because âlinking to another lib version is hard for usâ
Itâs the OSX model without any of the security or UX considerations, essentially.
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That was exactly what I meant, yeah.
So that you install a package rather than install lutris. And so that League or Overwatch are just in the app store of ubuntu or whatever OS.
ubuntu packages wine games?
wew.
will incompetence never cease?
also if you donât see the problem with having 10 outdated versions of a core library floating around that can be executed in userspace then I canât help you.
I agree that all containers are a risk of trust. You patch your system and they patch your containers.
If it is a game behind a firewall. Im not as concerned as a internet facing service in a container.
@tkoham I see your concerns but I think that containerization is a good thing. It makes devops a lot easier, userspace break less, and leads to better UX. Potential security issues will need to be handled appropriately, but in a world where we want people to use the system this makes a lot more sense. In something like a server I can see how we wouldnât want the bloat, but a little extra hdd space isnât something to sweat over.
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I definitely see the advantage for sure, Iâm just voicing my concern with people not updating their dependencies because âthey just workâ.
Because thatâs whatâs been happening in the Windows world for pretty much forever.
People shouldnât have to update their own dependencies*. That should be handled by the program/system.
- when used for userspace applications. Prod environments still need meticulous attention.
Iâm not talking about the user, Iâm talking about the developer or the guy that packs the flatpak.