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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31885942

You can now download or update your Speed Dreams Flatpak to the latest version (2.4.2), and enjoy our SimRacing Open Source Game in this kind of package:

https://flathub.org/apps/org.speed_dreams.SpeedDreams

Thanks once again to @son_link for his invaluable work.

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[–] Valso@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Aaaand you can't install it elsewhere outside the root partition... It has to be on / , otherwise it won't start. "Perfect"... I don't like putting any games on the root partition, so... moving on to other FOSS games. It would have been great if everything were put together in one dir, similar to discord's way: /opt/Discord and that's it. With such a path you can symlink Discord to wherever you want. But you can't do that with this game.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

dwaa? you'd have to try so hard to make a game fail if it isn't on the root partition. having trouble conceptualizing it

[–] Valso@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

If I manually "install" the game somewhere (and by that I mean manually unpack the two zst packages from AUR's PKBUILD download sources), it refuses to start and returns a whole bunch of erors in terminal. If I let trizen decide where to install it - it starts OK. I know the game isn't large and I can keep it on the root partition, but it's about principles, not about size. How can I trust something that FORCES ME to do this, instead of that? Needless to say which corporation such a behavior reminds me of.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

By "you" I meant "one", referring to the game's developer/integrator. Pardon.