It can be done on mobile but it’s really tricky. They should give it a bigger hitbox so that it’s easier to tap.

EDIT: Turns out the tooltips were wiped out after all.

Here’s hoping EA does this with Origin, next. I wanna play Titanfall 2. I had heard it was supposed to run well in Linux, but I ran into problems the last time I tried installing it. IIRC, I ended up buying it on both Steam and Origin just to try and get it to work.

One of Pi-Hole’s developers says it would break updates and Gravity (one of Pi-Hole’s features): https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/6459#issuecomment-5429247641

So there you go.

What I really wanted to know was why you were using a lower resolution for 2D games, but it turns out you’ve already gone over that in a different comment.

IMO, low resolutions for 3D are still valid particularly if you don’t have a recent GPU, and the idea that 1080p is “too low” for some modern games honestly really bothers me. I feel like 720p should be enough, and that developers are doing something wrong if they can’t scale their UIs to fit that properly.

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What’s the point of using a lower resolution if not for demanding 3D games? Unless we’re talking 240p for CRT gaming, but that’s a whole different thing.

Make it available on other distros and I’ll be interested.

Hot take, developers should start optimizing for 4GB of VRAM or less. I’m personally just fine with a 7th-gen console level of detail at 1080p60, and I’m even willing to settle for 720p30.

Then again, most of the games I play these days are literally from the 90s, so what do I know?

I’ve considered trying that to see what happens.

I’ve noticed that if I pass the --config=yes option for mpv in SMPlayer’s advanced preferences, it will use some of my mpv config, since it’ll load the autoload script I use, but it’ll ignore all the settings needed to load YouTube subtitles. Setting disable_player_config=false doesn’t change this.

Celluloid, meanwhile, will load subtitles, but using it feels kind of jank compared to mpv by itself. On my setup, you have to pause while it’s “loading”, then play to actually get a YouTube video to start, and you also have to press J to bring up the subtitles.

I’m using FreeTube Nightly, and I’m actually using a newer build than the one that’s on the AUR, since you can pull the latest Nightly build from their Github, yay -G the PKGBUILD for freetube-nightly, then modify the PKGBUILD to point at the newer .pacman file. FWIW, this has never really fixed any problems I’ve had with using whatever the latest version on the AUR is.

But in any case, different people have different results with FreeTube, and it sounds like you’ve been having better luck than I have. It’s not consistent.

The last answer works for MPV. I’ll have to figure out if it’s possible to get it working with SMPlayer as well, but for now telling FreeTube to use MPV directly works.

If anyone doesn’t feel like opening the link, the fix involves adding this to your ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file:

slang=en,eng,enUS,en-US
sub-auto=fuzzy
ytdl-raw-options=ignore-config=,sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=

Likely the result of them using AI in the development process, even if they claim it’s “just for reference”.

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Wake me up when there’s an actual slop-free Linux fork.

I don’t bother with Steam games that use third party launchers. Too much of a hassle on Linux. I learned that the hard way a few years ago when I grabbed Titanfall 2, after people insisted that it ran well in Linux.

People keep downvoting you, but you speak the truth. GOG’s Linux support is a joke. If they were serious about Linux, they would’ve released an official version of Galaxy for it by now.

I wasn’t sure how powerful of a machine you had. The Ryzen you have likely slaughters the CPUs in both of the laptops I mentioned; an i5 4300U in the HP, and an i5 3320m in the Thinkpad. I should’ve been more specific about that.

I have Debian 13 running on a desktop i5 4570 box, and it seems to run well, though I have it set up differently than the laptops since it’s a headless machine I mainly access over RDP and SSH. It also has twice the RAM (16GB vs the 8GB in both laptops), an NVME SSD for a boot drive, and XFCE instead of KDE Plasma.

Whatever the case, I feel like if your machine is powerful enough, the performance difference between Debian and more aggressively optimized distros shouldn’t matter too much, BUT, I can see not wanting to use it if you’re adamant about squeezing every last drop of performance from your machine.

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EDIT: Hopefully this isn’t too TL;DR. I got a bit carried away writing this response.

Debian Stable uses an LTS kernel, so while it’s based on an older codebase, it still gets regular security updates. You won’t get the most bleeding-edge performance features, but since you’re using an older Nvidia GPU, not being on the bleeding edge might actually be helpful.

I honestly wouldn’t be too concerned about the space used by Flatpak dependencies, unless you have a really small SSD that you’re trying not to use too much space on. If you use a separate home partition, it’s helpful to set up Flathub as a user repo (add --user to the usual install command) so that the space that gets used is on your home partition and not on root.

As far as sandboxing issues go with your development workflow, I’m not super well-informed on that subject, but I know that Flatseal gives you a fair amount of control over what Flatpak applications can access.

I think if Debian Stable has one big caveat, it’s that it’s not the lightest distro, particularly when you’re running it with a full DE and Flatpak applications.

On machines like my Thinkpad X230t or my HP Elitebook 840 G1, EndeavourOS has been noticeably snappier. However, EOS is basically Arch, and I don’t like running Arch on machines I don’t intend to use regularly, since it tends to break when it hasn’t been updated in a long time.