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distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
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AppImageLauncher
Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages
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AppImageKit
Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat
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flatpak-wine
wine using flatpak (build with runtime freedesktop sdk 22.08), provides wine to Centos like distros (https://flatpak.org/setup/)
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junest
The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro.
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apx
Apx (/à·peks/) is the default package manager in Vanilla OS. It is a wrapper around multiple package managers to install packages and run commands inside a managed container.
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Serious-Engine
An open source version of a game engine developed by Croteam for the classic Serious Sam games.
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Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – bad news for Steam gamers
Another solution is Conty[0] which is a download-and-run containerised Steam based on Arch; I use it to run games on Slackware without multilibs, and it's worked flawlessly so far.
However, it seems Arch are also dropping multilibs as a dependency of Wine, and moving to WoW64[1], with "reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly".
What this implies for Steam on Arch (and hence for Conty) I'm not sure, though according to [2], as of May some Proton versions have a PROTON_USE_WOW64 env var now, so maybe multilibs can be avoided natively anyhow.
0: https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty
1: https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-...
2: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6889
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Gnome introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
I admit I'm an edge case, but last year I installed Slackware on my main desktop specifically to escape the clutches of systemd, and by god it feels great to have a working /etc/rc.d again!
I do use containerised solutions for a few things (e.g. conty[0] for Steam games and a couple of rocm tasks) which probably come with their own systemds.
KDE is the default desktop and does everything I need. I haven't used gnome for a decade anyhow.
0: https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/
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[PSA] If you are having problems running EAC enabled games on Steam, try running Steam through conty
For the glory of mankind he edited his post saying that running Steam through conty (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty) fixed his problem with EAC enabled games.
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Civ6 in a Windows VM?
Have you tried using: Flatpak (use flatseal for other library locations), Conty (use HOME_DIR in case you want to separate it from host's .steam folder), or Distrobox (use Bazzite-Arch image for quick setup)
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Wine 8.10 Released
nah, there is conty to save the day of not dealing with i386
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Gaming in Slackware?
Or go the https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty way
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Portable Arch Linux packed into a single executable
These ideas I'm toying with also is what made me request the non-image option with Conty here (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/issues/77) where u/Kron4ek speedily patched an option to do so (ty!). Though I'm still pondering what I'm trying to do and if it would make sense with Conty.
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Current state of linux application sandboxing. Is it even as secure as Android ?
I'd imagine the sandbox options are bubblewrap presets, though -- you'd probably want to look around conty-start.sh for more details or ask in the GitHub Discussion.
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The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!"
Have you tried Conty? The best way I could describe it is the combination of distrobox and AppImage. You basically build a single binary (or use the pre-built one the dev made) containing a minimal Arch install and any other packages you listed in the create-arch-bootstrap.sh file.
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Thinking of purchasing a 4080 laptop and replacing W11 with KDE plasma
Do note that with Nobara having Fedora base, some stuff might not have a Flatpak/AppImage or RPM for you to install easily unlike on Debian/Ubuntu-based (tho PikaOS is Nobara re-implemented under Ubuntu-base, but I haven't tested it). Distrobox and Conty may help you with that, but if you were fine with Steam Deck's limitation, you should be alright under Fedora-based distro.
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