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  • I think your example is pretty good. The important detail is that the timetable for Bulgaria, would be fairly similar to your own, except it has some kind of offset, which would be more or less exactly what the time zones express. So, instead of everyone that want to relate to some other places’ relative time schedule, having to do it themselves, we just use… Time zones. that’s what time zones are.

    Without it, you’d have the same complexities inherent with time zones, but with none of the benefits.

    A case of a problem being solved, and mistaking inherent challenges, i.e. the sun moving with a different offset around the world, as a fault of the existing approach. The suggested alternatives would improve nothing, and instead make the problem worse.












  • Sort of. It might be a good idea to see what the mentioned Heroic Launcher does. What I do is tedious and cumbersome.

    Edit: I tried Heroic Launcher. Use that. It’s exactly what I wanted. Ignore what I’ve now placed in the spoiler.

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    1. Download all GoG install files for a particular game, and place them in some folder.
    2. “Add a non-steam game” from within steam, for the installer executable, with the corresponding working directory (“start in”).
    3. Run the “game”, with the proton compatibility mode enabled.
    4. After installing, change the entry from 1., to point to the game executable (you’ll have to search for it), and corresponding working directory. It should be somewhere in $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/

    PS: Surround all paths with double quotes. Both the TARGET and START IN fields. The working directory is almost always the directory that the executable is in.

    When updating a game, it is sort of the same story. Download update files. Change the entry to run the update. Update. Change the entry back.

    I’m sure there are better ways to do this. So I’ll probably check the Heroic Launcher. I remember trying similar things in the past, and I wasn’t all that happy with it.