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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • It is a tough sale for sure.

    I am trying to transition to Linux but there are a bunch of hurdles.

    For example I installed fedora KDE spin in dual boot on my desktop. Then I installed steam as a flatpak and pointed it to my already installed game. Didn’t work because of some permissions I didn’t understand how to configure with flatseal.

    Alright then noted I need to learn that shit but now I want to play a game so I uninstalled the steam flatpak and installed the steam package from the fedora repo. Checked the boxes in the packagemanager-gui (discovery) for nonfree steam and nonfree nvidia drivers, pointed to the library and it worked.

    Great! Updated the games and downloaded the saves. So far so good. But after all that I had no time to play anymore because i had to look up a bunch of stuff to understand that I don’t understand enough to make it work the way I tried.

    I took my laptop with me which also has fedora KDE on it. When I had a little time I thought “hey maybe I can play a bit of moonring. After all I now know how to get steam running”.

    So I downloaded steam from the fedora repo, Logged in, downloaded moonring and… No save sync.

    I go into settings and see that cloud save is enabled. Start a game maybe that triggers it? Nope.

    It doesn’t even say that sync failed or something like that beside the start button.

    Okay so off to the web search. But as that gets more fucked by the minute I just get some problem adjacent stuff.

    Like: “how to install steam on fedora”. I already installed it, why isn’t the cloud working? “Maybe it is because the path for savefiles is casesensitive?”. Maybe but what am I supposed to do about it? And so on. So I closed my laptop with a bad taste in my mouth.

    It is just frustrating to have to understand a bunch of shit you are not interested in just so that something works which worked before without a problem.

    The world is just to complex and fast moving to understand everything and to retain everything. That’s why we are an expert society. “I invest my time to understand this stuff really good and you invest your time to understand this and in the end we exchange our labor”.

    And that’s the “problem” with Linux, that you have invest time into it. And people mostly don’t have the time because they have lifes beside the PC.







  • Yeah, the pain is real. Bought it not long ago because a friend was deep into it. It is fun. Has it’s problems but still a great experience so I played it solo too.

    But then I found out my friend had a different version with, in my opinion, unfair advantages. Which was a bummer. And now this shit? I’m out!

    A shame. The concept is great but in a hardcore game like this, every advantage weights even more because there is everything at stake so it makes no sense to play it with this kind of crap.

    Hope that single player version will find a way to make public server possible so BSG can get fucked.

    Completely tonedeaf decision on their part.