Oh, okay.

I’d say around half of the games I play on Linux require some kind of special launch script, specific Wine version, or even different versions of Steam to run properly. It’s nowhere near as simple as people make it out to be.

Hmm, good question. I’d imagine they’re very similar (if not identical.) Don’t know, however. Mine is self-compiled from source, but when I tried Arch’s LTS package it didn’t crash either.

I believe 6.6 is the current LTS version. A similar crash to the one you describe in the OP started happening to me in the 6.7 kernel. If you check my posts, I have a writeup on it.

Try the LTS kernel. Fixed a similar crash for me.

Warframe at 28 is nice. The devs acknowledge Proton and even accept bug reports for those using it. Very cool chart overall.

Unlikely to help, but while you’re experimenting: PROTON_LOG=1 PROTON_LOG_DIR="/tmp/" WINEDEBUG="-all" fixed some extremely annoying hangs during loading screens for me. Probably a 1 in a million chance it helps in your case, but who knows.

The biggest red flag here is that someone is trying to derive meaning from Eva, an anime whose religious/philosophical imagery and themes were used “just because they looked and sounded cool” (not a direct quote.) I mean I like it too, but it’s gibberish.

I’ll say this about OSS and the community around it: It’s painfully obvious at times that while the individuals working on these projects (often thanklessly) are brilliant people, they often lack the communication and project leadership skills necessary to make a project thrive. The last few posts I’ve seen on this particular issue have been extremely vague and for whatever reason just won’t come out and say what they mean. They’re verbose, go off on tangents, and beat around the bush. We must first have explained to us the plots of TV shows, movies, and other ancillary things in order to understand what likely boils down to “people with differing viewpoints cannot find common ground.” I see the linked blog post as nothing more than someone trying to work out relatively complex feelings about the time/effort they contributed to a project they no longer have faith in more than an “expose-eh.” Given that people in the comments of previous threads have boiled the issue with NixOS down to a sentence or two, I think this is an accurate view.

See: Soft skills.

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Very cool! Still early, so ran into some bugs:

• Buggy playback on some files. Would either not play or play back glitched. Using Pipewire plugin.
• Inconsistent vert/hori split behavior. Not sure I completely understand what I was doing wrong, but when editing the layout sometimes a split would open to the right of the widget area I was trying to split.

Anyway, I like that Foobar can group albums next to their cover art in a playlist. Made visually scrolling through a large playlist much more interesting IMO, and fooyin does it well! Now to see if I can tweak the size of them.

Very interesting. Thanks for the detailed explanation! I’ll check it out.

Freerdp test? I’m curious.

Downvotes with no replies explaining why? This is happening a lot.

I use qutebrowser and still show tabs, but this is a very interesting approach. Thanks for the rec.

Interesting. I’ve been developing a game with SDL2 and think I know the stutter you’re referencing. I passed it off as an oversight in my rendering code, but maybe it’s as you say. Forcing Wayland does appear to work on my test machine, but integer scaling is broken. Might require some more tinkering or proper support in SDL3, but that’s the only thing that didn’t work OOTB, so not bad.

To have this laundry list of negatives get a reply basically saying “yeah, it’s bad, but we need to impress the stakeholders by forcing a Wayland default even if it doesn’t work correctly” is baffling.

I use SDL so this hits a bit closer to home. Hopefully they can arrive at a conclusion that isn’t harmful to us devs. It’s already kind of a tossup whether it’s even worth it to provide a native Linux build when Proton works so well anyway. I can’t imagine this will help.

What kernel version are you seeing that lockup bug on? I have a similar bug on Ryzen 5 2600x with kernel versions >= 6.7. 6.6 is fine.

More directly: Buy used. Lots of reputable sellers on eBay and their returns policy for defective products is unbeatable.

I made it a few hours in on 6.7.9 yesterday after this thread inspired me to check. Still persists and I can now tell if the system is going to hang by starting a video on my second monitor and playing a few minutes of Warframe. The system kind of “stumbles” but won’t crash right away. It might even take a few hours to go down, but I know if that happens then the kernel is no good. Happy you got it sorted, though! Lucky for me 6.6 is LTS for a few more years.

It’s not that widespread as far as I can tell. I gave details elsewhere and included a few other places where people were reporting it. Not sure if it’s tied to AMD GPUs, AMD CPUs, etc., but the common thread is that everyone I saw reporting it was using AMD.

Ryzen 5 2600X w/ an RX580.

I detailed the issue here. Very persistent and tricky issue to track since there’s no reproducible steps and it generates no errors. Happens under zero load, full load, after 5 minutes, 2 hours… it’s about as random and as you can get. And yes, RAM is fine.