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troyreadyon COSMIC Alpha Released

fwiw, I feel the same way and made a simple GNOME extension to support quarter tiling https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4857/quarter-windows/

troyreadyon Wine 6.0

The answer to this is Lutris - https://lutris.net/

It's a launcher that manages the dependencies needed for each individual application (setting up dedicated wine prefixes, installing any dotnet packages, etc)

Install it, then use the appropriate install script from the website: https://lutris.net/games/diablo-ii/

troyreadyon Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

One of the very annoying consequences of the Chromium move to snap on 20.04 is that it will silently fail to launch most external links (e.g. Slack, Zoom).

A workound is posted at https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/comments/29 (simple patch & recompile). May be worth making a PPA for the fixed snapd if we can't get the Canonical dev team to fix the core issue.