andyburke

lul

They are clearly enshittifying and may already be sharing data about you. Eject asap, friends.

🤷‍♂️

Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of overlap with you. (I do own Star Citizen from the initial kickstarter, but haven’t tried it on Linux. There IS a Bottles setup for it that says it works well, but I have no experience to share.)

Phasmophobia I thought I played on Linux a bunch, but the game itself was just terribly buggy. Could be that was Linux, but I could swear my friends on Windows were having similar problems. (One reason we don’t play this anymore.)

The rest I haven’t tried, so can’t help. It feels like either you game quite a bit more broadly than I do, or you got really unlucky. Here’s a quick list of my recently played games with no hiccups - maybe the issue is indy titles tend to work better?

Vampire Survivors Schedule I Kingdoms Reborn PULSAR: Lost Colony Mindustry Star Trek: Resurgence Tales and Tactics Powerwash Simulator Motor Town The Headliners Ale & Tale Tavern Space Engineers …

No problems. Didn’t really have to think about anything with any of these.

You haven’t told me any of the games you’re trying to get to work.

If they have kernel anti-cheat, anti-Linux checking, etc then you’re going to have bad luck and may want to consider a VM and GPU passthrough.

With the vast majority of games I have tried on Linux, things Just Work out of the box.

I mean, usually you can think about your own process as a black box as long as you can take in whatever format they give and output whatever format they need.

You have to make your own decisions, of course. I just want to say: it’s not impossible.

lmk

Tell me you haven’t tried Proton on Linux without telling me you haven’t tried Proton on Linux.

No, they’re saying you are making a mountain of molehill and using it as justification. You are saying you are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Now you two feel free to proceed, I have my popcorn.

If you’re not willing to try to escape the terrible enshittification of Adobe, I don’t think anyone’s gonna be able to help you.

That sucks. Sorry you have to deal with their bullshit AND Microsoft’s bullshit.

Other software might surprise you. 🤷‍♂️

So… Skynet. 👀

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

In any other engineering discipline this would he negligence.

… and you’re blocked.

Amazing that this person thinks spamming is going to improve anything.

I am very interested in this as well.

I wonder if creating some kind of shared NixOS setup might work? (I know very little about NixOS but it seems like it should be good for this sort of thing?)

If you start down this road and set up a git repo or something, I would be interested in contributing/testing.

I also kinda like the idea of being able to slap other things into usb ports - dashcams, a usb stick with a good road trip mix, etc.

This is cool.

It’s this old link, eh?

Citation needed.

The most compelling feature I always get asked if Jellyfin has ala Plex is the discovery/NAT punch for linking people up.

That does not strike me as something that necessarily breaks backwards compatibility. It would require some centralized discovery, and I think that is probably where we run into an issue because if I were the Jellyfin devs, I wouldn’t want to have to support that, either.

You sound like me. I hope you can find a way to flip your focus: your time outside work should be way more about you than it sounds like your work life is letting it be.

Maybe you are one of the very few with a meaningful job. If not, consider trying to treat your job like the bullshit it is and use your best cycles outside work on stuff that will really make you happy.

Jellyfin is open source. You could be helping out.

Best of luck with Plex, though. I would say this is even more writing on the wall but it does not sound like that matters to you.

Just saying, in this thread about Linux adoption, that for every case of nitpicky issue like this I think it worth mentioning that I have had fewer issues than I had under windows.

Edit to try to be clearer: I usually don’t comment in these threads, but I am worried that these threads then only end up with people in your situation while people like me stay quiet, giving the incorrect impression that all people will have issues.