nelson

Connections timing out have always been a firewall issue for me.

Client sends packet, firewall drops packet, client waits for a reply that’ll never come. Client times out.

I would check firewall logs or temporarily disable it to see if it works without it.

so yeah check the firewall on the server, the client and in between ( if any ). That’s what I would do.

TIL doctors are easily shocked horrified.

And if you are in the “It doesn’t work” camp, then you are screwed without serious skill.

This the same for windows. Or Mac. Or your plumbing. Missing something.dll errors and whatnot. Running things in win98 compatibility mode. What’s your point?

If you are one of the lucky ones where it works without effort, be grateful and don’t go around telling everyone who has problems that it’s super easy. Because it’s more luck than skill and your experience might not fit the experience that others have.

• Op asks for experience.
• I shared my experience
• You’re here criticizing me for sharing experience and that it might not work for him

What exactly is the angle here?

That I’m lucky it all works? Sure. There’s no skill involved in pressing the install and play button.

Can I guarentee it works for him? No. Did I claim it would? No.

He asked for experience and I shared mine. I’m not adding a disclaimer to day it’s all just luck. Because frankly in my opinion it isn’t. There’s been stellar work done by devs to get it this smooth. It might not be perfect. But it’s far from just “luck”.

Gentoo is IIRC one of the harder distros to use. Or at the very least one that requires a lot of Linux knowledge.

At least that’s how I remember it.

Personally there’s plenty of good distros to work from. Things like proton and wine are pretty well hidden.

I’m running on bazzite for a while now and have run into zero issues. ( Full AMD pc ). My previous rig had an Nvidia card and that one worked pretty flawless too. Only issue I’ve had is Edge of screen flickering in ff16. But only in ff16.

Bazzite came preinstalled with everything i needed. Wifi drivers, controller support, …

It’s what I’d recommend to friends if they’d want to give linux a go for gaming. I’d benchmark bookmark protondb for them as well to see if the game actually runs on Linux :)

My only issues with Linux gaming are mainly the custom launchers ( ubisoft, ea app, battle.net ). Heroic app works great for gog/epic.

Edit: wrong word

Maybe one of these is interesting? I have no actual experience with them though:

https://actualbudget.org/

https://github.com/DumbWareio/DumbBudget

https://maybefinance.com/

https://paisa.fyi/

They should all be self-hostable.

Edit: I don’t know of these all match your criteria. Maybe finance looks pretty Sleek imho. I just dread the thought of exporting my transactions and importing them because my bank is forking horrible w.r.t. integrations.

And logging in every time to do a CSV export is just annoying.

Edit 2: formatting

What game is this even from.?