Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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Man, I didn't expect people to remember me. Uhm... hi! ヾ(・ω・*)
I've been busy with less fun stuff for a while and when I did play games it wasn't for long enough to warrant a post unfortunately. I'm hoping for a more permanent return soon as I'm eying to start some titles that will fit this community again.
CMR04 is great! Still holds up really well, has a nice balance between arcade and sim in its driving model, looks simple but in a readable way and has a mod for widescreen resolutions on PC. It also has no problems on Linux which is a big win for me. Probably my favourite rally game of that era.
Oh shoot, I hope everything is okay.
Glad to know about both widescreen and Linux, those are both pretty important to me.
It's not but I make do. You'd be surprised how well hobbies and lack of sleep can help with that! I appreciate the sentiment though.
Same here, it was a really nice surprise. I love how well so many old titles work on the penguin.
I feel that. Hobbies have definitely helped me through many rough times. Dark Souls and practicing piano have both gotten me through a lot. I’m lucky enough to have a kid on the way, she’ll be my first, but I am worried that I might go through a dark period and won’t have time to use my hobbies as much to help me out. Maybe raising a kid will take that place. I’ve heard it’s very rewarding.
I usually play older games (hence me being on here), and when I made the switch to Linux I was very happy to see almost all my games play flawlessly. Even newer games or somewhat newer games run great. I’m currently playing through the Talos Principle (2014 I think) and getting 350-400 fps. It’s certainly not the most demanding game but that’s impressive to me.
Man, I'd be terrified to have a kid honestly. I've had enough experience with taking care of people to know I REALLY don't want to deal with that if I have a choice - I'm too much of a self-sacrificing idiot for that. Good luck though! My friends with kids are happy about their choices so I hope you'll end up the same way.
My first experience with Linux made me swear I'll never going to touch it again, funnily enough. Now here I am, running it as a main OS on everything I can and having a great time with both games and any kind of personal projects I can come up with. Heck, the fact that some games run better than on Windows is still kinda crazy to me at times even though I understand why. It's amazing how much things progressed.
I am indeed terrified to have a kid. Excited but terrified. I feel like I can’t even take care of myself and now I’m supposed to be responsible for a whole other person in a matter of weeks? Wild.
I only switched to Linux recently. I started with mint, then quickly switched to Bazzite after hearing it’s good for gaming, but I found out I don’t like rpm-ostree so I’ll probably be switching to another deb/ubuntu based distro again soon. Either that or go full masochist and do arch. Probably a bad idea though. I’ll probably either go back to mint again or try kubuntu (I really don’t like GNOME). Which distro do you run on your main gaming machine?
This excitement is half the fun, I guess. Should make for some interesting memories in the future.
I never got too deep into distros honestly. My early attempts were very rough, very short and limited to Mint and basic Ubuntu I think (they were in a worse shape back then). When I made my last attempt to switch I stumbled onto Pop!_OS and found it to be exactly what I needed. It looks good, runs well and has all the necessary drivers and libraries to play games without issues. I've been using it for almost 7 years now and I'm quite happy with it.
It's Ubuntu based too so might be worth a look if that's what you're interested in. It IS using a customised GNOME for now but they're working on their own desktop environment to replace it with. They also have a handy tutorial if you'd rather change it yourself.
I’ve heard of Pop but never gave it a try. Maybe that will be my next one. Thanks for the recommendation.