I've stopped even checking protondb before getting a game these days. Pretty much unless they've gone out of their way to make it not work (which is mostly competitive games, so you can tell beforehand), it works.

I realize by posting that here on HN I'm tempting people to send me the ProtonDB garbage tier list, but it's true for the types of games I play.

I must be the one Data Scientist in the world whose PopOS has twice failed to boot after updates. To the point I have give up on it.

My stack is so vanilla (nvidia, python, R) I can’t think what the issue is. Maybe hardware.

Give Fedora a shot. You can run that cosmic desktop on it.

Thanks for the advice. I spend 99.99% of my time in a terminal, a browser and vscode.

The graphical environment is neither here nor there for me, I just want to do an update and cuda libraries/nvidia drivers not break and for my OS to boot!

Same setup here, one game setup I've hit but this will be a rare problem, is StarCraft Remastered. Wine has an issue with audio processing which I can't seem to configure my way out of. It pegs all 32 threads and still stutters. Thankfully this game can likely run on an actual potato, so I have a separate mini PC running windows for this when I want to get my ass kicked on battle.net.

The beta based on 24.04 ubuntu or the stable which is still based on 22.04? Not that it wasn't nice when i used it, but it is very much outdated at this point from the regular packages perspective

26.04 will be a huge upgrade if you stay

Also have the same setup. Very few issues. Been very happy with the switch