GitHub + obtabium for automatic updates

Install Lutris.

Use the battle net install helper for Lutris.

Launch battle net.

Profit.

It’s like one extra step (install Lutris) compared to Windows. Using Linux doesn’t have to be some archaic mystery and the proliferation of the steam deck is doing wonders at improving the ease of use of all this stuff.

Spoiler alert: your individual choices don’t matter. Drastic and sweeping changes need to be made at the corporate/supply chain level if we have any hope of surviving this.

So… We’re fucked.

This really only affects legitimate users.

Legitimate users are usually the ones who suffer most for DRM

Unregistered torrents (from upgrades to season packs or nuked releases) and the occasional upgrade paths that don’t always work.

My own upgrade paths tend to pull in some versions which get made redundant so every so often, just ensuring there’s no multiple copies as a result of said upgrades

Whole-heartedly agree on the quote and it stuck out to me even before coming to the comments here. Redhat might not like that people are repacking “their” software, but the spirit of GPL software is that you can charge for it but folks can also go through the trouble of building it themselves should they not want to go that route and are able to support/debug/maintain the software themselves on their own hardware.

If they don’t think the clauses of GPL are fair, then they should probably stop distributing Linux entirely because their entire business model is founded off of profiting off the work of other open source contributions.

Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere.

One could argue Redhat already does this on packages they have not improved or submitted contributions for.

I mean, it’s not hard to make a browser screenshot say whatever you want it to say.

I had more difficulty remembering the markdown image syntax than I did spoofing your comment

Moonlight on the deck (via flatpak), Sunshine on the PC

I had that issue with the built-in streaming recently too. Sunshine has been flawless for me (though I did have to patch my nvidia video driver to overcome the nvFbc limitations in consumer cards)

One of the easier options would be something like a DNS-based load balancer with an extremely short TTL (<60 seconds). Cloudflare offers an option that is $5/mo to use.

You would need 2 haproxies to do this.

Otherwise, you’re likely looking into something like keepalived with an elastic/additional/failover IP that can swap between instances if a failover situation is detected

edit: something like this would be what I’m talking about for hetzner: https://vitobotta.com/2020/03/20/haproxy-kubernetes-hetzner-cloud/

Essentially you’ll need some sort of API access to be able to swap the floating IP between the ha proxy instances on demand if keepalived detects a fault and needs to swap the floater to another machine.