I never understood why people would want tearing. It’s such a bad experience.
Software Artificer, Object Orienter, Regular Expressionist, and Machine Herder at Unity.
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I mostly play MMOs, but Steam Deck has let me ma
I never understood why people would want tearing. It’s such a bad experience.
I use Bottles for battle.net and it works fine. Played wow hardcore last night no problems. I use WineGE
Because Google doesn’t do standalone tools. It’s all web and they don’t want to host it forever.
And no, because there are now third-party tools that can flash it that are standalone.
Vampire Survivor, Last Epoch, Path of Exile, Victor Vran, Adventures of Van Helsing, Wolcen, Warhammer Chaosbane, etc.
I’ve gotten into Diablo style ARPGs and trying them all. So for Last Epoch is the funnest for me, primarily setting wise but PoE is fantastic, just soooooo many systems to figure out.
I actually think even if they kept it two way, most people will still use Threads. It’s all about ease of use and where everyone will congregate. Don’t underestimate the power of technical illiteracy or general don’t give a damn.
They will use Threads long before mastodon or lemmy, as unfortunate as that is.
I’ve been using Atomic stuff for a while. First Silverblue but now I use Bazzite Gnome.
I actually use Nix ontop of it for dev tools and CLI tools that Flatpak doesn’t handle.
I don’t like the toolbox style of doing things. Nor devbox, dev containers, nix shells, whatever. Too much hassle.
But I do like using Nix + Home-manager to manage my home directory and tools, especially between computers as it’s all in a git repo and has separate configs.