Visiting the Store via Heroic adds Heroic's affiliate link, so they get a bit of money for every purchase you make there.

No, it could be true. AI—especially with .NET—tends to generate exceptionally verbose code. Especially if you use "AI best practices" such as telling the AI to ensure 100% code coverage. Then there's the, "let's not use any 3rd party libraries, because we are Microsoft" angle.

.NET is already one of the most absurdly verbose languages (only other widely-used language that's worse is Java). Copilot could easily push it over the top 🤣

All it would take would be for Microsoft to have AI rewrite some of the core libraries.

With heroic, GOG games work flawlessly, you can use both proton and wine with it. Also supports Epic Games and other games from launchers.

Native GOG launcher on Linux would be nice, too though

You bastard, I almost forgot about that.

I'm guessing that in some region of the world, 'lever' and 'never' rhyme with one another?

I am definetely gonna reference thay IRL lmao.

Ah, a shaggy dog story, those are the best.

I could be wrong but i don't think the wine instances themselves are containerized. Maybe he's confusing it with flatpak sandboxing, since that is the only officially supported way of using it.

It doesn't use any seperate layers of containerization other than flatpak. So if you don't install it via flatpak, it won't be sandboxed.

There is also no proper instance containerization (you can enable it in Bottles's settings, but it's marked as experimental and I've been unable to run a single application with it on), so an app installed on one instance in Bottles will have access to all other instances' files.

I don't know much about it. I tried using it to set it up with Epic Games. There was a lot more manual work than say Heroic or Lutris, but all was able to be done through a UI.

I needed to select my dependencies of C# versions, C++ versions, XInput software, Direct X version, various other stuff. This was done within a single bottle, so I'm guessing they're separate from the others.

To be honest, I managed to get Epic Games running, but had trouble signing it. Not sure what else I was missing.

It also lets you take snapshots of your Bottles state. And provides you with a Task Manager, command line, Registry Editor, Windows compatibility versions (e.g., 10 or 11), toggle OBS screen capture, gamescope, Wayland (experimental), other graphic stuff,

Its got Launchers for many things, like also: Battle. Net, Enlisted, EVE, FL Studio, AutoDesk, Guild Wars 2, MEGA sync, Origin, PlayStation Plus, QOBUZ, Star Citizen, Ubisoft Connect, Wargaming. NET (World of Tanks, Warplanes, Battleships), the GOG Galaxy official launcher.

They show the ratings for the various launchers from within the app, to show its score for compatibility.

Yes, it has different wine instances for each installed application, it uses a flatpak style separation to prevent them from accessing each other.

Bro's gender is open source

Sure, but you still need to package Steam for all different "Linux distributions" (I put it in quotes, because I dislike the term) separately, or use things like Flatpak, which some people might be comfortable with, and others not really.

And if you go to page like ProtonDB, it shows that people have all different hardware and software configurations and it's a big mess, because you are never sure if game will work or not, until you try (and maybe try different "hacks" to get it running). I have problems running ETS2 (Euro Truck Simulator 2) on Debian, even though it run on Windows fine, and let me say: I don't have time for this shit.

I use Linux, because I am fed up with Windows, and I don't really play games anymore (or at least modern titles) but if I replace my computer this year to get new build (will run Debian of course), I think I will just install either Bazzite or Windows 11 (or both) on the PC I am currently using, and let my brother play games there.