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[Fess]

Playnite always looked great, but 99% of my games are on Steam, so I'm not sure why I'd pick Playnite over Steam Big Picture mode, even on Linux.

What are you doing with that last 1% then?

I used Steam BPM but grew tired of all the hassle using games from other launchers and eventually just used Steam versions. Meant wasting money rebuying games or not playing them at all.

Then I found out about Playnite, suddenly I could launch everything from one spot. Awesome! And no manual operations adding games, it automatically adds complete library of games from all launcher accounts you're logged into, and show an install button and after that a play button, full-controller support. On Windows it can also throw in your full Gamepass library on the menu. You're literally not missing anything. It's awesome.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

The bugs I've had with Cachy are more centred around UI, with editing taskbar etc seems to have gotten stuck a couple times leaving me unable to do anything.

The default taskbar is the glitchiest, most unstable piece of shit I've used in a long time. Can anyone recommend alternatives and how to install them? Thanks.

 

[BeardSpike]

Another Cachy & Win+LTT user here.

The bugs I've had with Cachy are more centred around UI, with editing taskbar etc seems to have gotten stuck a couple times leaving me unable to do anything.

Outside of that it's just game running issues which are more of a Proton/Wine issue AFAIK.

The default taskbar is the glitchiest, most unstable piece of shit I've used in a long time. Can anyone recommend alternatives and how to install them? Thanks.

I'm on GNOME though with these extensions:

• Alphabetical App Grid
• AppIndicator and KStatusNotifier Item Support
• Blur my shell
• Dash to Dock

You both are probably using KDE, right? Apparently you get better HDR support than me but maybe UI bugs are more common.

 

[Poppinfresh]

What are you doing with that last 1% then?

I used Steam BPM but grew tired of all the hassle using games from other launchers and eventually just used Steam versions. Meant wasting money rebuying games or not playing them at all.

Then I found out about Playnite, suddenly I could launch everything from one spot. Awesome! And no manual operations adding games, it automatically adds complete library of games from all launcher accounts you're logged into, and show an install button and after that a play button, full-controller support. On Windows it can also throw in your full Gamepass library on the menu. You're literally not missing anything. It's awesome.

I'm using Heroic launcher for the other 1%. It seems to work just fine.

 

[-Minsc-]

I also learned before I installed Bazzite when I was dipping my toes back into Linux, that installing any Linux distro on the same physical drive as the core Windows files, risks a windows update breaking the bootloader. Just keep the core OS files for each on a separate drive, then you can separate partitions on those drives for whatever extra storage you want formatted to whatever file system each os takes.

Even if you decide to have two separate drives, you need to physically remove the Linux drive when installing Windows because Windows will put it's bootloader on the Linux drive and there's no way to point it to a different drive.

If you do not do this, when you re-install Linux, it will wipe your Windows bootloader because Windows has placed it on your Linux drive.

I finally have the answer to why my bootloader was corrupted back when I had Windows installed. It's probably been a year or two since I went Linux only so it's not something I have to worry about anymore.

 

[Soodanim]

I'm on GNOME though with these extensions:

• Alphabetical App Grid
• AppIndicator and KStatusNotifier Item Support
• Blur my shell
• Dash to Dock

You both are probably using KDE, right? Apparently you get better HDR support than me but maybe UI bugs are more common.

I am. I just stuck with the default on install and it's fine. I'll have to try Gnome one day, it looks very clean

 

[BeardSpike]

I am. I just stuck with the default on install and it's fine. I'll have to try Gnome one day, it looks very clean

It is so much smoother than KDE for me that's why I couldn't get myself into KDE tbh - in a workflow I mean and my friend has said it's very Mac like and he is very much into an Apple ecosystem.

It's just you have to use GNOME Tweaks which you get already installed, to turn like Maximize and Minimize buttons adjust startup programs or change icons to your liking, etc etc

Plus https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager
I use extensions I mentioned above.

Another stuff I changed are:
Theme: adw-gtk3-dark https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3
Icons: Papirus-Dark-Yellow https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1166289/

To install icons you don't have to use the OCS extension, just drop them in
~/.local/share/icons

Another useful path is:
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions

Basically if you download any of the extensions I mentioned and they are not working since they were made for GNOME 48, and Cachy currently uses 49.1, go in there edit metadata.json file with text editor, and go into:

Shell section

  "shell-version": [
    "45",
    "46",
    "47",
    "48"
  ],

And readjust it to:

  "shell-version": [
    "45",
    "46",
    "47",
    "48",
    "49"
  ],

Log out and log in or reboot for it to work.