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Digimon Story Time Strangers Review

2 Feb 2026 - 2:26am

Hi everyone! If you are not sure about getting this game or not or maybe if you would enjoy it, here is my take (hope it helps!):

If you are a digimon fan this game is an 9/10 but if you are not it is an 7/10. It's a good game and I certainly did have fun playing it and seeing all the cool digimon hanging around and living their lives as well as helping the main characters. The main attacks for all the digimon are uniquely animated and voice acted as a bit of fan service (or at leasts all the ones I've seen).

To me the evolution system is very interesting and complete but flexible at the same time.

The story is pretty good regardless of the main missions which are not always the bets time, padding can get really bad at times, at least it only gets that bad for a like 20 minutes at most so if you can push through you will find a very good story.

Side quests are mostly boring in my opinion but getting the points is important for unlocking new and cooler digievolutions so I would do all of the ones from the first 2 acts and then only do the ones you feel like doing because in act 3 side quests get the most boring and I stopped doing them. A good thing is that the game tells you when you will reach a point where you will be unable to progress in your current side quests and they will become unavailable until the very end of the game.

I really enjoy anime style graphics but don't expect anything mind blowing in therms of looks it is an anime game whether that's good or bad is for you to judge but I think it never looks ugly or bad.

It is a very Japanese game, in both humor and aesthetics so that's that.

I really enjoyed it and had a fun time getting the digimon I thought looked cool!

Even if I'm a random guy on the internet to you I hope this little review had something useful for you.

Of course I played this game on linux from start to finish and it ran out of the box and I had no issues during my playthrough.
Have a nice day!

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Why is proton hiding specific folders from wine even though I added them as drives? Even from Z:??

2 Feb 2026 - 2:14am

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On root, I have /w/ and /a/. Proton specifically hides these from my game's prefix and it's pissing me off. I don't understand why specifically these folders are being hidden from it. Tested it right in the winecmd shell. It hides the folders unlike my normal wine installs.

Every other wine install on my system sees them perfectly fine. Even the prefix has seen them a few times when I was trying to look in protontricks, but most of the time it doesn't. WTF.

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To people who know about coding/computing/operating systems, whats holding linux back?

2 Feb 2026 - 1:31am

Okay so, I REALLY want to use linux.

As an OS, I can't put it into words but, when you use linux, it just feels like its YOUR operating system

Something about Windows just feels like you're renting a house, like yeah its your OS but its not

The native customization without installing a billion software (windhawk, taskbar modifiers, etc) as well as how its not so resource hungry

A linux install literally runs on a gig of ram meanwhile a windows is so resource heavy

The question I always end up facing after uninstalling linux and going back to windows EVERYTIME is this:

If I cannot use video/photo editing programs RELIABLY (Adobe/Resolve/etc), if A LOT of games can't be run on linux (some do), what's the use case other than just simple browsing or coding?

And how do we get to a point where we can run those programs

Pirated adobe doesn't work, a lot of non kernel level anti cheat games don't work, can you guys explain exactly why?

Is it developers that MUST develop these apps for linux specifically or can people code something that can run these programs on linux?

I tried wine, bottles, and other programs but none of them truly work.

I feel like if programs that people use regularly for work and more games are supported, why would ANYONE in their right mind use windows

Windows is a terrible OS but I don't wanna dual boot and have to restart my pc everytime I wanna play a game or do some video editing

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GeForce NOW Beta App Crashes on Bazzite - Distrobox Ubuntu Workaround?

2 Feb 2026 - 12:48am

I've been trying to run the new GeForce NOW native Linux app (beta) on Bazzite, but I'm running into constant error message and have to quit after 1-2 minutes of use.

What I've tried:

✅ Installed via Flatpak from the official GeForce NOW repo
✅ Applied the Wayland workaround (flatpak override --user --nosocket=wayland com.nvidia.geforcenow)
✅ Checked logs - no critical errors, just warnings about iwconfig, libNvCamera.so, and RADV (AMD GPU)
✅ App launches fine, connects, but crashes during gameplay

My setup:
  • OS: Bazzite (latest)
  • GPU: AMD (RADV driver)
  • Desktop: KDE
  • Install method: Flatpak
The question:

Since NVIDIA officially supports Ubuntu 24.04 and the Flatpak seems unstable on Bazzite, would running GeForce NOW in a distrobox with Ubuntu 24.04 be a better solution?

Has anyone successfully gotten the beta app stable on Bazzite? Or should I just stick with the browser version for now?

Any tips appreciated! 🙏

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CRT Filters for your Desktop

2 Feb 2026 - 12:19am

Hey all. I'm a bit of a retro enthusiast running Fedora and focusing primarily on emulation. I've been looking for a solution to completely augment display output on my desktop so that everything comes up looking like a old time CRT. Does anyone have an idea of how I might get this done?

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Gmod keeps crashing

2 Feb 2026 - 12:19am

When I play the gmod native Linux version on Fedora, it will crash after sometime with an error saying hl2_Linux has crashed. How do I fix this? I also tried using the gmodpatchtool and also tried running the game with proton but then the game either won't launch or I get am error saying the main menu couldn't load.​​

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Why it is okay that not everyone switches right now.

2 Feb 2026 - 12:04am

I switched full time to Linux back in January 2025.

I would love if more people would join, and many do join. However it is not the year of Linux and that is okay.

Linux has made a lot of strides to be much more user friendly. I don’t think this is at all a major issue for people.

And the terminal is easier and less needed than ever if you take the time to help yourself.

But I think that is the main issue.

The average person has forgotten or never learned to fucking learn.

We often half joke about it in IT that “school is mostly there to teach you how to learn yourself” because.. well it’s true. But for fuck sake when you see people that don’t even fucking try. It’s gone from being annoying to being sad.

What do you mean you didn’t even google how to install an operating system from a USB before you just formatted your harddrive?!?

What do you mean you don’t know how to install steam on <distro> it’s the first hit on any search machine.

It’s gotten more and more frequent how many people hear about a trendy topic like “leaving Microsoft for Linux” and then just going for it. We see 100s of tech channels that try it.. and yes it’s interesting to see but it also saddens me because again so many of these “tech people” fail to do the most basic thing ever.. fucking read..

Sorry I didn’t want to rant but I just.. feel like somewhere along the transition into everyone has a computer we forgot to teach the user how to think for themselves.

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Problem with a game "A Way Out" after the Linux mint update to the versione 22.3 zena

2 Feb 2026 - 12:01am

Hi everyone, I passed to Linux mint about 5 mouth later, I had a lot of beautiful aspect with this change, also in gaming, but, in the last week I had a problem with the game "A way out". I installed it, on steam, with geproton 10.27 and I gamed without any problem, but, after I installed the update to mint 22.3 Zena, I found a problem with the EA app, because steam, when I started that game, installed on his sandbox a version of Ea games, for the access and after, the game started. But after the update, this don't happened yet, in fact when I start the game, the EA all don't open and the boot of game stopped. I tried to remove the compatdata files, to change the versions of proton, I installed the 32bit libraries of vulkan but nothing works. Someone can help me, please?

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Having lots of issues with Terraria minecarts in the new 1.4.5 version on Linux

1 Feb 2026 - 11:57pm

Game runs, everything seems fine so far(new world, so not that far in), but I can't seem to use minecarts? If I press R or right click on them, it spawns the minecart, but stationary in mid-air. Restarting made it kinda work, but then I'd start phasing through the world if I rode the rails... Any ideas...?

I'm on Proton 10.0-4, pop!OS. Playing the native version makes the interface too small...

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How´s playing trough ubisoft connect rn ?

1 Feb 2026 - 11:36pm

Last time I tried playing For Honor trough ubisoft connect I killed nearly a day tinkering with stuff and scraping the web for clues, got stuck on an anticheat error.

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Windows is an OS for games. Linux is an OS for Gamers.

1 Feb 2026 - 11:34pm

"I spent 4 hours today fixing a shader issue just to play a game for 30 minutes. 10/10 experience, would recommend to anyone who actually wants to own their hardware. 🐧🎮

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Windows is for games, but Linux is for the Gamer.

1 Feb 2026 - 11:32pm

After 10 hours of tweaking, my FPS is lower, my anticheat doesn't work, and my shaders are still caching... but at least I'm not on Windows. 🐧💻

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I just want to play competitive games on Linux! Why is it so much to ask for?

1 Feb 2026 - 11:11pm

I just want to play competitive games on Linux! Is it too much to ask?

Am I the only one, or who else just feels unpleasant and overwhelmed with everything around Windows 11 and everything they throw at us and how they ruining our experiences with almost every new update? And now not to forget to mention how they just randomly gave the FBI every encryption key to the security of each user.... This isn't a regular Windows OS System.... I have the feeling they purely just want to sell data for profits.

But this is where they crossed the line! In my opinion it's a great time to switch to Linux. Only problem (as you can read it from the title) some competitive games just don't work on Linux, which is sad. I would love to play LoL or BF6 on Bazzite, while doing Productivity on Chrome OS (there is a possibility to download it as a operating system on a desktop PC). Like... Why isn't it happening?

You might remember me as the one who caused some "chaos" in the Linux Community, but this time I provide taht from happening, by just asking things and may start calm any reasonable conversation

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Steam Hardware Survey, I'm doing my part!

1 Feb 2026 - 11:09pm

Got picked for the steam hardware survey! Unfortunately, the first machine was my windows boot. So, did that survey, and immediately rebooted into CachyOS, to do that one. Then booted my Mac, and did the survey there too. Didn't get the prompt on my steamdeck though, so might not bother with my Bazzite machine...

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Need a looter shooter? Division 2 runs great on Linux!

1 Feb 2026 - 10:46pm

Title.

I know a lot of people are anti live service AAA games these days, but I'm personally a fan of a few. As it turns out, Ubisoft actually added the Linux patch for EAC a few years ago and it works flawlessly on Linux through steam!

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Zack Shutt Windows et Linux

1 Feb 2026 - 10:45pm

The figures and malfunctions of Windows are chilling, and that might explain why people are migrating to Linux:

https://youtu.be/V4SV9NDs6iM?si=oakL4qEPTXLyrPAr

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Unpleasant Linux on a gaming laptop experience (G-Sync mostly)...

1 Feb 2026 - 10:43pm

Hello, Linux gamers. Recently, I've been struck with an idea of switching to Linux completely, because of the AI slop going on with Microslop recently. It's been like that for a month, but now I'm back on Windows because of the issues arised. And I hate it with all my heart, but can't do anything about it. Maybe you guys can suggest me something

I can't understand what's wrong with the G-Sync
To clarify, I've got an ASUS TUF F17 (2023, FX707-ZV4) model with Intel Core i7-12700H and RTX 4060, which has a G-Sync capable display. It works flawlessly on Windows, but feels really off in Linux. I've been testing it for some time and made a conclusion that it is not active, for whatever reason, in most apps and games. I don't have an OSD, because the monitor is internal, so I can't really tell if it works or not programatically, but I can't feel the smoothness of Windows. Basically, everything above ~95FPS feels BUTTERY smooth, and I mean it. On Linux, however, it's quite jerky. The interesting part is, however, is that in native CS2 version I limited the FPS to 90 and it still was smooth, so VRR is definetly working, but in the games I play the most (THE FINALS, ARC Raiders) it became really uncomfortable, although I don't really loose much FPS (mostly 10-15 frames less than Windows, I'm fine with it), getting around 90-120.

The laptop itself is in dGPU mode almost all the time, so that musn't be the issue

I was on CachyOS, latest release, tried with different DEs and WM (MangoWC, Plasma, GNOME, Cosmic, all latest)

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igpu ist at 100% during PoE2

1 Feb 2026 - 10:28pm

Im on fedora KDE and when launching poe2 and using the steam Performance overlay, it shows my dedicated rtx5060 at around 60% and my igpu at >100%. This is think causes microstutters ingame. I have installed nvidia drivers properly and poe ingame settings show my rtx5060. I tried wayland and x11, fullscreen and windowed.

Am i overlooking something?

I use __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command% as launch Option. Do i need something else?

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