while I generally agree, this is probably the only case where frame generation is not that awful. the original GTA2 was capped to 30 fps. it was possible to set it to 60 fps but then the game ran on double speed. so with this you can make it smoother without changing the underlying engine’s logic and run speed.

in my opinion, the lighting with this looks very nice and suddenly the game doesn’t look outdated at all anymore, I’m kinda hyped. I never liked any of the 3D GTAs and I take GTA2 out every few years (mostly on small LAN parties). however, we use version 11.44, this seems to target 9.6

for comparison (only identical scene I found, this is probably among the darkest scenes the game has): original remix

I only tried nixOS once in a VM, so I probably know next to nothing about it and I am very happy with Gentoo which I run everywhere (desktops, laptop, VMs, NAS)

well, for one, Gentoo builds it’s packages from source when you install them, so you don’t need a binary that targets your specific version of libraries because it was built with those library versions from that point in time. like with other distros, you have to choose the el9, el10, fc44, fc45 version or the one for “noble”, “forky”, “bookworm” or “trixie”. on Gentoo, the application you install get’s linked to the library version you have installed. (simplified)

for the second part, the “conflict with each other”, Gentoo doesn’t do it like NIX, where you have those unique paths like “/nix/store/ggl4fqsvvlyf1y3rl6mk72nf0dc8c8hr-system-path/bin/bash”. but some packages (but not all) have “slots” that you can install in parallel. (e.g. rust, python, gentoo-kernel, wine, lua, …)

usually the actual binary of those packages is named like the version, e.g. /usr/bin/python3.14 and /usr/bin/python (which is the thing that actually gets used via PATH) is a symlink that you can switch with Gentoo tooling (eselect). another way it is done is: packages you install come preset with what dependency version they like to use and that version gets installed along the already installed version, if necessary. (e.g. they set RUST_MIN_VER=“1.98.0” or PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=“python3_12”)

when a dependency gets updated, sometimes the application also needs to get rebuilt to that updated library version. it happens automatically on dist-upgrade (@world update)

As a Gentoo user, I can relate ;-)

Kate