Here on Lemmy, I think the number of Linux users is in the thousands, not dozens.

Can confirm

It supports GoG, Epic, and Amazon, but it also supports installing games manually, which has worked for literally everything else for me so far.

I used to use Lutris, but in the last year or so Heroic got so good I stopped ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Meh, I like Heroic better personally. It’s a preference thing at this point between the two of em IMO

1,028 movies

517 shows (20,702 episodes)

Shows are all 1080p or lower except a couple seasons of select shows in 4k. Movies are 4k HDR when it’s available, otherwise best quality I can find.

I use Jellyfin because of the client apps and FOSS nature.

I tend to prefer HEVC/h.265 encodings for the strong trade off between player compatibility and smaller size for the quality level, but h264 and AV1 are also both in my library. I don’t reencode anything except through the Jellyfin server transcoding.

I don’t play MMOs anymore (nothing can satisfy me like City of Heroes used to), but just wanted to chime in to say I love your vintage anime character names.

This. I use symfonium for my audiobooks. Great app.

Yeah, it’s really all just cost savings. On their overpriced “luxury” cars

Good point

Seems like you can drill a hole in the bottom to make it drain more effectively and reduce the chance of mold buildup

8Bitdo is good. I have the Pro 2 and it’s quite nice.

That said my current favorite controller is my RetroFighters BattlerGC Pro

FYI, it would almost certainly cause no damage. 91% isopropyl alcohol evaporates extremely fast and with no electricity flowing it couldn’t short anything.

DXVK is not “Proton’s fixes”. It exists as a separate entity whose development Valve has helped fund and who Valve devs have directly contributed to.

Proton’s fixes are out-of-tree tweaks to DXVK, Wine and VKD3D that, put together, make games work much more seamlessly and smoothly than they otherwise would.

I used to use Lutris, but I found Heroic more consistent and convenient for filling the same purpose. It’s quite good at downloading just the diff needed for GoG game updates these days, for instance, which is key for big games like Baldur’s Gate 3.

Agreed. Proton is important as a bit of an “iPhone moment” where all this tech comes together in a way where non-techies “get it” in the sense where they understand why it’s useful, even if they’ll never bother to learn the details of why or how.

Proton is Wine plus DXVK and VKD3D, as well as a big pile of little tweaks and out of tree changes that Valve maintains to specifically maximize game compatibility and performance.

Proton uses Wine, which is a Windows system call API translation layer for Linux. In other words, it translates commands for the Windows kernel into calls for the Linux kernel.

So it’s kind of an emulator and kind of not, but regardless the metaphor of a translator is fine. As a lightweight translator, you might say it’s like using Google Translate on your phone to translate back and forth quickly and automatically, rather than having a person in the middle who needs to think about it.

A collection on somebody’s Jellyfin server.

I run caddy to handle https certs. Works great and it’s incredibly easy to setup

Yeah, with old stuff we just don’t remember the crap, so only the gold sticks around.

Heroic is a FOSS launcher that’s straight up better. They use a sponsored link to get some kickbacks when you buy GoG games thru their launcher. Seems worth doing every once in a while in order to donate to the actual best launcher for non-Steam games