Hello everyone. I'm your local user of Fedora Linux. You can call me a madman.

Random question:

Are there any decent games that run on non-GNU non-Android Linux systems? For example, do you know of any good games for Alpine Linux?

(Specifically, the game needs to not require glibc to run for it to qualify here.)

I think appdb deserves the blame for being a PITA.

There are hundreds of Linux/GNU distributions. I guess the idea is not to list every one here but maybe those more suitable for gaming.

maybe add manjaro to the list? Its not perfect, but many people use it (coz its basically more stable version of arch) care to explain? From my little experience (I've tried it long time ago, before switching to debian) and from the point of view of any outsider (people who didnt use it personally, but know about it from distrowatch and news), it looks like exactly what I've said - ubuntu with few packages, unavailable in canonical's repos (and also their own DE and some minor tools). They even highlight (or at least used to) official canonical's repos in their package manager.

Again - Im not saying its necessary a bad thing. Just that people tend to hate unnecessary forks. Even mentioned above manjaro receive a lot of hate for being an arch fork (while it doesnt even use arch repos directly, but has their own, based on week/two-old packages)

I think you'll have a lot more trouble with the lack of X than the lack of glibc. I'm not sure I know of any games with source code that depend on glibc. Are there specific games you know of that need it? The main thing I'm sure is at least gcc-dependent is anything that uses assembly for acceleration. Even then it's not necessarily glibc-dependent.

I know that back when I ran a Sharp SL-6000, a few SDL programs worked OK, but they were explicitly ported to that platform. Crimson Fields comes to mind for some reason. They may need some porting work to get running on Alpine. Alpine does include SDL1/2 and Mesa, at least.

In any case, with source code included, any GNU-only libc calls and/or behavior dependencies can be fixed, by you, when you encounter them. You could probably also contribute your fixes back to Alpine, the game's upstream maintainers, or whatever so everyone can benefit.

Otherwise, just stick to the ASCII classics. You won't be getting most of the graphic ports working without X, though, as few used SDL. At least you can have color.

A couple projects that should be in any GOG Linux gamer toolbox:
* lgogdownloader — Download GOG games from command line
* innoextract — Extract game data from GOG Windows installers without running them through WINE
* ./play.it — Streamline games installation on multiple distribution families

Disclaimer: I’m biased, I use two of them on a daily basis and am the main developer of the third one ;)

Since you use Fedora, i call you "beta tester". AFAIK Fedora is the test version of the (future) Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

People who want to use tested free RedHat Linux, use e.g. CentOS.

It's nothing like that. Fedora is a modern, relatively user-friendly, all-purpose distro with desktop focus. RHEL is something you buy if your job is to wear a suit and tie and delegate problems to other people who know better than you but who aren't calling the shots. CentOS is for people who don't want to buy Red Hat garbage yet have to support some institution / business which has one of these suit & tie persons in charge. Nobody who actually wants to use Linux runs the latter two voluntarily as there's nothing friendly about them.

My experience with Fedora is that it's good for gaming as well as home use in general. In fact I'd recommend it any day over Ubuntu. And IME it's better than Debian too. I never say never, but I would never recommend anyone touch RHEL.

There are differences in the default package selection and configuration (e.g. multiarch is enabled by default) so Mint offers a much nicer "out of the box" experience

Sure is.

https://danielmiessler.com/study/fedora_redhat_centos/

The time when I used Fedora (which was many many years ago) was that it was very unstable and unreliable, but got updates constantly. By the time it started becoming stable... a new Fedora was released to which you were supposed to upgrade, and again it was unstable and buggy. At that point I left Fedora because the idea that I was pretty much forced to upgrade from a (finally) stable Fedora release to a new unstable release... meh.

RHEL is obviously not for home users because it costs money, which means corporate support etc.

CentOS is basically the free version of RHEL without corporate support, and doesn't have the stability problems of Fedora.

I guess it goes down to what is more important to you, stability or latest features and stuff available ASAP.

Okay, guys. QUESTION.

Does anybody there use bubblewrap for sandboxing? If yes - can you, please, share some working rulesets, in order to use as reference? I've tried to make it work based on info from archwiki, but something always goes wrong - sandboxed software rather works if I've linked whole root as read-only (instead of just '/bin/' and '/lib/', as suggested in examples), or doesnt work at all

I heard SteamOS was made specifically for gaming. :P

You should extract the archive (tar xzf) and go on from there.