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I do too! Playnite is AMAZING. I've been using it for a couple years now and it is incredibly stable and so versatile. AND it's got community plugins!

Same with my multiple attempts at Lutris.

And ooh, Heroic has a Windows client! I can try it out now! Thanks!

Edit: So, after a couple hours of fiddling around with it, Heroic Launcher seems really great! Only a few flaws that I can see so far, like not being able to sort by category (you can filter by category, though) or being able to edit any metadata fields for a game unless it's been manually added, like any of these for instance (screenshot from Playnite):

Not deal-breaking by any means, but it can be very annoying, especially when you get instance like BioShock 2 being listed before Bioshock 1 in the game library. Lol.

Edit 2: Yeaaaaaaaah I don't know what the hell just happened, but I refreshed my GOG library and all of a sudden like 2/3rds of my games are now listed as "uninstallable". ...Yeah, I'm going back to Playnite. I hope it's better by the time Windows 10 is unsupported because there's no freaking way I'm downgrading to Windows 11. Lol.

I don't know what that is. Sorry.

I understand completely. I believe my speed is 175/10, so although the download is great, the upload is rather pitiful. Even with PF, I still get maybe a total upload of anywhere from 500 KiB/s–1 MiB/s according to qBittorrent.

Another user already said this, but just in case, Mullvad got rid of their port forwarding.

Same.

Not strictly speaking, but it definitely speeds up seeding because without it a lot of potential connections would be closed to you.

I actually didn't even notice that one. I guess all the recommendations sort of blended together! xD

Thanks for the heads-up! Haha.

I have not! I may have to check that out! Thank you!

MakeMKV is available on Linux as Flatpak and works out of the box: https://flathub.org/apps/com.makemkv.MakeMKV

I was not aware of this. Thank you! :)

Probably a tough one since most people will use the command line to bulk rename files. I do use ChatGPT sometimes to create rename commands for me that are more complicated.

I'm still very much a Linux newbie so although I am familiar with some things on the terminal, I never even knew you could bulk-rename files with it. I knew you could rename them, but not bulk-rename them, I mean.

I use Sound Juicer now, used fre:ac before.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.SoundJuicer

https://flathub.org/apps/org.freac.freac

Thanks, I'll check that out!

I used Mp3tag on Windows and switched to Picard, I like it even more than Mp3tag now: https://flathub.org/apps/org.musicbrainz.Picard

Thank you!

Is GIMP really that complex for this use case? I use GIMP to do simple stuff like paint, rescale images, blur things, fill things, … https://flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP

Yes, it takes a bit longer, even on higher-end PCs, to load up, than Paint.NET. Pinta used to be a good equivalent, but I think that's long since been abandoned, though I could be wrong. It also has way more functions than I need, frankly, and that leads to a cluttered UI. I've tried to use it before, and that always ends up being the case.

I don’t use anything out of Steam often but If you don’t like Lutris, maybe Heroic for GOG and Epic? https://flathub.org/apps/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

I've heard about it, but from what I've seen it doesn't seem to be very close to a 1:1 comparison. Though admittedly I've only read about it, but it seems to not be as good. Again, I'd be willing to try it out, but there doesn't seem to be many Linux equivalents as good.

Also, it's not that I don't like Lutris, but compared to Playnite, it's very bare-bones.

r2modman has native support for Linux: https://github.com/ebkr/r2modmanPlus

There’s also support for one-click installation of Mod Organizer 2 with steamtinkerlaunch: https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Mod-Organizer-2

Nice! Thank you again!

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I didn't know it was on Flatpak. Thanks! :)

Thank you! I was not aware of this!