Thank you for looking into, appreciate the help. I wanted to read the article later to figure out the details. I think a custom Kernel goes a bit too far for my taste, so will then wait until its officially integrated.

Also the linked articles headline is

Fixing AMDGPU’s VRAM management for low-end GPUs

And in the entire article the word nvidia is not found once.

RADV is driver for AMD. So I assume it is for AMD cards only.

I think RADV Vulkan means its for AMD, not Nvidia. Nvidia has their own set of drivers. Unless I am misunderstanding here something.

Archlinux BTW. When?

I want to highlight a few mods (because this question will come up eventually :-) ):

Alex Kidd in Miracle World_

• Snappy Snorg and the Seven Silver Stones: Total conversion with different graphics and gameplay, including puzzles. High quality.
• Octo Unleashed: Impressive conversion with good graphics and atmosphere.
• Stella in Adventure World: A more traditional style of gameplay with new character, story and level designs.
• Voyage - A Sorceress Vacation: Total conversion with new gameplay, character, graphics and story.

Sonic_

• Boxguy Adventure 2: Part of a multiplatform series. Play as a new character within its own levels structures.
• NC Revision: Keeps main game intact, but updates graphics to very beautiful style. Other improvements in gameplay and miscellaneous alterations are made as well.

Sonic 2_

• Frenzy: 7 zones with secrets and alternate paths, making up to 21 levels. Further some changes to graphics and musics as well.
• Zen Island: Main game stays intact, but with changes to graphics palette, music and and a little bit on gameplay.

Phantasy Star_

• Makeover: Redesigns graphics (including Character Sprites Improvement hack) inspired by graphics from PlayStation 2 Phantasy Star Generation 1.
• Easy Patches (Double Meseta and XP): Collection of patches to reduce the grind. Simply double the money and xp earned from battles.

Super Boy 4_

(Note, Super Boy 4 is an unlicensed game in Korea that is a bad knock-off clone of Super Mario games. It has this uncanny effect of Mario games, but just in bad and wrong.)

• Individuality Improvement: Changes the graphics to something new and unique, getting rid of or the Super Mario aesthetics. Or makes changes so it looks a bit more unique than before.

Wonder Boy 5 Monster World (E)_

• Sram Pad Enhancement Hack: Adds a save function so you don’t need to use passwords (or save states). Coloring are also adjusted, as the original colors can be ugly.

I’m not really indepth familiar with the series. But if every new entry feels like a simple DLC, then I can understand why people get upset. While I do not expect a revolution with every new entry, they should be distinct in some ways. At least after multiple entries. The engine improves, new console generations and new developers.

What I expect is, same engine and developers from Horizon 5, but with new setting. As someone who never got into the series before, this is actually exactly what I want!

What you describe is not unique to this game. Would you pay for this if it was a DLC to Forza 5? I see it as “more content”, but with a new game engine and setting. I don’t think that every new entry of a game in a series needs to revolutionize. I am okay with a new style or setting, with slight improvements and lots of new content. That’s what a new entry in a series should be (at least for racing games). As long as it is not like the yearly sports game updates FIFA in example.

And it’s alright to talk about stuff you want to, to get it out of your chest. This is a forum and a perfectly valid place (so a game review would be too). It’s good to see what other people are bothered with, because it could be a reason not get into in example. I never played Horizon game before, so cannot judge how it feels for you. For me, this is the first time I’m really really interested into the game series, as I (and many others) love the Japan setting.

Wait, Balatro doesn’t have a “custom engine”. They use https://love2d.org/ . On itch.io you can even search games made with this engine: https://itch.io/games/made-with-love2d

Nothing wrong with Godot. It’s just not the industry standard. Godot competes against Unity, but does not cost any money and its Open Source (so you know a company can’t do whatever they want). I’m not a game developer, so cannot go deeper than that I guess. :D

The game engine should not be a factor in my opinion, but sometimes I have some feelings. In the end ultimately the game itself and how fun it is is the most important factor.

• Unreal Engine 5: This engine has such a poor reception for me, that whenever I see it I dislike the game before even having a chance to play. Its not fair I know, but its also not my fault that I think like that. Often games with this engine have stutter issues, require lot of resources and for whatever reason, most AAA games launching with this engine are in a bad state. In the end I will buy a game if its good, obviously, but the engine has a little deciding factor to look deeper or not… even if its just a little factor.
• Unity: I personally don’t like Unity anymore for the bullshit they did. But if I am honest, if the game is good then I do not care if its in Unity.
• Godot: I really want to like games made with this Open Source engine. But if I am honest again, I would not buy a bad game even if its made with this engine.
• RPG Maker: I am a fan of oldschool RPG Maker, so I don’t mind that. But whenever I see made with RPG Maker (or suspect it), the value of the game goes dramatically down for me.
• any custom engine: I highly respect good custom engines, made specifically for the game or company. They often feel and look different, so its actually a factor. Or at least it will make me curious and look deeper into the game.

I don’t know how far you compare, as I only know him since I saw the Tetris video (with the great reveal part). He is not the only one that speaks lot slow, there is at least one another YouTuber (in a different context, but still gaming). Initially I suspected they slowdown videos to get longer playtime. But maybe not.

No, that is not what it was about. I know, don’t run sudo yay, but rather just yay and wait for password request. What it was is about a configuration to not ask password anymore, a passwordless package manger.

Hey, I didn’t meant this to be removed or anything; was just sharing my personal opinion. Everyone can do whatever they want, as long as they are aware of consequences and get teached about it. I’m just a bit paranoid, that’s all.

I don’t feel safe doing so. Would a script be able to run escalated rights without asking me a password? Is it somewhere displayed that such a process is started (notification in example or at least in the terminal a message?). And even for applications I am directly starting, I want it be explicit to require a password, that I am always aware its escalated root rights the app has now.

I can understand your view of convenience and I am “guilty” of some convenience stuff too. But this goes a bit too far for my taste.

You mean you have a package manager for your system without a password? Why would anyone want that?

Edit: For context. The part I was replying to was edited out.

I assume edit changes take a while before they are updated on all other instances. I had similar “issues” in the past too. It’s pretty annoying. When I replied it didn’t show the edited version.

I should have quoted the part I am referring to:

Cinnamon is on track to be *the first smaller DE with full wayland support. I understand that you don’t want to wait if you’re actually interested in some of wayland’s features, though.

I meant that there is a desktop environment with full Wayland support. And my question was if s/he considers COSMIC to be a smaller DE, that could qualify this statement.

What about COSMIC? It is Wayland only. Do you consider COSMIC to be a “smaller DE”?

I sometimes prefer Flatpak over AUR, because I do not trust everyone on the AUR to run scripts with root rights on my system. At least Flatpaks are a bit sandboxed (even if the sandbox is an illusion) and the programs don’t install and run with root rights. Sometimes the Flatpak is from the original developer and the script in AUR is not. Or the AUR script is not updated well and often enough, unlike day one Flatpak updates. But Flatpaks do not integrate well in your system and applications can look out of place too. There is a lot to consider, besides what you already mentioned.

I use both, prefer the AUR in optimal cases.