Hey thanks for the feedback. When you say elements, are you referring to the Desktop variant that needs external power or the portable?

That makes sense. And do you know between Mybook and Elements what is the primary difference? Besides the looks of the outer casing.

Good question. I would imagine the internal ones would be cheaper, but its the contrary. Crazy

I like the post, and have experienced similarly after moving to GOS. What I also like is I could put some apps that I still need (but dont really like) just in case in a Private Space (eg Whatsapp, or banking), this way is always closed and just check it once a day, with a specific purpose. No notifications from there whatsover. Most people (the important ones anyway) know they can reach out immediately if needed via Signal.

Ah, interesting. So in principle they wouldn’t leave a VLC or Media player with a big bug out there for long. The VLC of Mint is actually older 3.0.20-3build6 and it also looks like backported 3 times. I thought they were the same as Ubuntu but apparently not.

I couldn’t fix it, and also wasted a lot of time on it. In the end, I decided to run everything that works out of the box from the secondary, and those that give problems I move them to the primary drive. That way everything works. Ideally i’d have just all of them in one drive, but it’s just not worth the effort to find out and fix each of them, it’s some kind of nightmare. In the end, it’s just a game location.

For those interested, from 13 games installed, 4 did not work in the secondary drive and 9 do. So it’s not too bad of a %.

Update: I managed to create the symlink with the entire steamapps folder, to the point that Steam recognized the game as installed in /home while it was actually on /mnt. However, it failed to launch in the same way as it did when the symlink was not there.

I did now, it says Unhandled exception: System.TypeloadException: Could not load type of field ‘InstallerMesage.Form1+…’ due to: COuld not load file or assembly ‘Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, …’ or one of its dependencies.

Does this tell you something?

PS: To clarify it is a rather long text that I get via the terminal when launching said game

I did now, it says Unhandled exception: System.TypeloadException: Could not load type of field ‘InstallerMesage.Form1+…’ due to: COuld not load file or assembly ‘Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, …’ or one of its dependencies.

Does this tell you something?

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Linux mint, and I run the games via Steams. Indeed, I am aware of the DRM but the interesting part it only is a problem on the secondary drive and not on the primary drive. That must be pointing to the root cause… i just dont know what.

Hey thanks. It does look complicated indeed. Maybe I did something wrong and I think I created a symlink and not even know where/how to remove it. I am not sure I am capable of that. I hope that someone has an idea of the root cause for this strange behaviour (I dont mean about the symlink, but rather why games need the primary drive to run)

I see. When I tried the last step to move the game from /mnt to /home, it told me that it couldnt move because the folder already existed (the one i created in Step 1)

Thanks for the explanation, i will try. On Step 3, shouldn’t the game be installed in /mnt isntead of home?

I understood they backport security updates, but is that also for apps in the software manager? For example: Currently I am using Mint. The VLC version there is 3.0.20 which is behind 2 years (current is 3.0.23). According to the releases of VLC, it indicated security fixes. Do these get fixes within the old number or are they neglected? What do you think? I concord by the wya on what you say related to rolling distro vs stable.

And I never worried one time in my life about exploits in media files, it’s just extremely unlikely that between the time a 0day is discovered, and your system is updated (you do update frequently, right?), that torrent is going to exploit some player or media library.

Last time I heard of something like that, it was like 10 years ago, a gstreamer 0day that got quickly patched.

Executable files aren’t going to execute themselves. If you don’t chmod +x them they shouldn’t execute at all even if you click them. I guess it can depend on your system.

I am much more concerned about internet facing applications like a web browser or torrent client.

True, the combination of Media Player exploit + Linux + not patched, it is very unlikely. However, what if he is using a Debian based distro? Those may have a couple of year old version of VLC installed in the package manager for example…