Same, especially in this market

Ah okay thats fair. Are these extended supports easy for the average user to access? Or is it more of a ‘if you know what you’re doing’ type thing?

Ah see these are the kind of interesting data points I love lol. I always find it insane to think that the CNY period can impact so many areas on opposite ends of the scale. Like tourism and gaming for example

Ah my bad, didn’t realise I could expand that, never really participated in the survey before.

I find that quote interesting that W10 had a bump, like I get W11 is a bit of a piece of hot garbage, but running an unsupported OS over that? Or am I mistaken here too about W10 being end of life?

Thanks for the response. I wanted to put more thought into it as it made absolutely no sense to me why using a different launcher (Heroic vs Lutris) would break anything. It’s the same version of Proton, prefix is already configured, we’re just pointing to exe’s really from here.

Turns out the clue was the 2 different install methods - Flatpak and native .deb.

I was just missing the 32bit Vulkan drivers, I’m assuming these are included in the Flatpak, but I needed them for the native install of Heroic. Once I installed these, problem solved and WoW is happily running again

And it does work, the problem was missing 32bit Vulkan drivers. I guess in Lutris Flatpak they are included, but I needed them actually installed for Heroic as I installed that via .deb.

Yeah should have tried this from the start. Turned out the issue was just missing 32bit vulkan drivers, I guess those dependencies are included when running Lutris as a Flatpak, but with Heroic installed as a .deb I needed them to be system installed.

Anyway, problem solved, can happily play WoW again 😀

I’m kind of struggling to understand why though? I’m just pointing at the pre-existing and using the same Proton version. What’s breaking here?

This is basically like watching the enshittification of our Android devices live

Have you had a look at the Location Tracker & Sharer category on F-Droid?

I haven’t personally used any of them, but seems to have recently updated apps in there that might be what you’re after

Ugh pay-walled article

Broken on both as far as I’m aware

Without researching it, I’m not sure who did it first, but I have a feeling it was Lenovo.

I’ve also never ordered from them directly either, imo a brand new T series ThinkPad is a horrible investment, I just let someone else lose the thousands and pick up a year old barely used on the second hand market for (I’m in Australia) 1.5k - 2.5k less than retail typically.

I’ve never used Revanced, but would Grayjay be a suitable alternative?

I’ve personally known 2 people now to own folding phones, neither still had them more than 12months later

Lenovo (as far as I’m aware) still has the Ubuntu deal going where you can order a new ThinkPad with Ubuntu pre installed