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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/44859587

I convinced my teenage son to install bazzite on his gaming laptop to avoid Windows 11 and he likes it!

The best part: he wanted some game and worked his way through using Wine and Bottle to make it work, all by himself. He told me he feels "a bit like a hacker" now.

Can't tell you how proud this made me.

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[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well he's more a hacker than me, I regularly give up trying to make games run with Wine and Bottles and whatever that launcher is called.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no joke, if I'm having issues with a fussy launcher I will just add the damn thing to steam and force run through proton experimental.

it tends to work like 7/10 times. but I typically only do that for launchers that are very problematic. as a last ditch effort.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Run flatpak update. Helped for me. You need to run this after every time that your GPU driver updated.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

thank you I will Denver for next time. 🙏

edit: ...remember. not denver. no idea where that came from in the autocorrect lol