I already asked over at the GoL forums, but I think it's worth repeating: Does anyone know where one might find a legal download of this game? https://www.mobygames.com/game/3132/rally-championship-international-off-road-racing/
It seems GoG does not have it, and I would really like to play it again - for nostalgia reasons.
Yes and No.
In the short term the answer is a clear "yes", as it allows players to play nearly all Windows games on Linux without modifications, and game developers to ship their games on Linux without any extra costs.
In the long term it might have a bad effect on the market, as it further helps to cement Microsoft's control over multimedia APIs, since game developers now have little incentive now to target anything other than DirectX...
In this case it's a bit weird though, as the game lists Linux as supported platform, but obviously just ships the Windows build with Proton instead of having a native Linux build that uses open cross-platform APIs.
95% being trial and error. At least where I work.
The Orange Pi Neo will ship with a custom version of Manjaro, and is imho the only Steam Deck competitor that is even worth considering.
Just take an Xbox 360 gamepad, and an Xbox Series gamepad in your hands and compare them. Press the buttons, move the sticks, try the triggers.
One feels like quality. The other feels like - especially the D-Pad.
I loved that game, and completed it twice, but the last chapter (or last 2 chapters - depending on which ending you get) is super annoying. The encounters are repetitive, and there are quite a lot of them. It's almost the same group of enemies again, and again, and again. Once you have a working strategy those encounters aren't even that challenging, but if you play turn-based, they take a lot of time...
I'm still hooked on Backpack Battles. It's slow enough that medicine-induced-brain-fog ridden me can play it, and it's a lot of fun.
Stay away from any Xbox Series X/S gamepads. They are cheaply made trash.
I bought the standard version of it for my Deck, expecting it to be somewhat comparable to my Xbox 360 gamepad (which I really like, but which does not have Bluetooth), but nope, it is so much worse...
A friend bought the Elite version, and he also agrees that those gamepads are utter garbage.
Mesa has its own OpenCL implementations for AMD GPUs too: Clover and RustiCL. However, Clover is not really developed any more (afaik) and lacks some important extensions, such that many programs can't use it. RustiCL is rather new, and I don't know how well it works.
I am still in the process of customizing my desktop on my new MNT Reform laptop. This includes some work on my status bar tool. I just fixed decibel scaling for the ALSA volume plugin yesterday: https://github.com/soulsource/swaystatus/tree/feature/alsa
I am planning to merge the ALSA plugin to the main branch this week.
Next thing to add is a battery display. Probably using the udev crate, though I am tempted to just use sysfs instead.
Sorry, I was a bit confuse. I meant, in the short term Proton is definitely a good thing.