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Quoting: GustyGhostHonestly, they should just mainline LMDE and drop the Ubuntu derived version. Mint team spend way too much time correcting for Ubuntu's interesting choices.

Agreed. Having LMDE as their main version would be wonderful, especially if it came with all Mint flavors: Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE. Sure, we can always install any desktop environment on top of a fresh install of LMDE or any distro, but it would be much more polished if it came with the Debian base + Mint goodies + your DE of choice right at the start.

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Great game! But with that price, and in this economy, it goes from "day-one purchase" to "I'll wait for a huge discount". The lack of Steam Cloud support is also a big offender. At least now it will be much hassle-free to run the game on the Steam Deck / Linux desktop, since it doesn't need the Battle.net client (which always ends up breaking after some random update).

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sigh.

I've got 2 copies of Diablo, Diablo 2, LOD.
Now I've got 2 of D2R.

Getting the expansion via Bnet was stuck, so when I saw it on steam,
I grabbed it. Install etc, no problem.
No more fighting with the Blizz launcher and proton.

Worth it to me.

Now, Warlock class. COOL!!! (played Warlock in WoW since the start)

sorted stash etc, nice, but max of 99 in a stack. Once the stack is full,
you have to manually move the item to regular storage. (no control click)
I had a LOT of full rejuvs from my current run, so..... heh.

The always online, or check in IS annoying, but, if you launch anything via the Bnet launcher,
it's gonna do that anyway. (so is steam) We're stuck with it.
(ok, I could reinstall D2:LOD via disk.... heh)

and 40 bucks ain't bad. (darn near 40gb dl)

oh, almost forgot. Achievements. LOL! *ding* "you killed 500 monsters" me: umm. did that 25 years ago!

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There is a goldmine of RAM sitting around in e-waste. Who is good with BGA soldering?

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Honestly, they should just mainline LMDE and drop the Ubuntu derived version. Mint team spend way too much time correcting for Ubuntu's interesting choices.

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This is good news! Especially for those who are using Cinnamon.

A bit of story and context: the PC of some of my relatives are on Mint Cinnamon and that DE is rougher than usual in this release cycle (Mint 22 series, which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). Several times they couldn't put their computer to sleep / suspend (the option wasn't there) and had to call me to help them. That bug got fixed on 22.3 (their latest point release), but then another one showed up: the Shutdown button sometimes doesn’t respond – they click on it and nothing happens (thankfully, this one is much more rare).

In the end, both of those cases could be solved via terminal, but for people that are not tech-savvy (most of Mint's target audience) issues like that are show stoppers. I'm a Mint user too, but I'm on Xfce and haven't faced these bugs, so it's clear those are Cinnamon issues.

And to be fair, it's been a while since many Mint new features are purely aesthetic (how many times they have tweaked their theme in the last three years, for instance?), which to me felt more like they were doing for the sake of doing it; just to show others they are busy. This new slower approach is coming for the best, I believe, and will surely bring more solid and battle-tested changes.

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Both the expansion and bundle should be $5 USD less. I added the expansion to my Battle.net wishlist and I'm waiting for it to go on sale. Otherwise I'd just get it on Steam like I did with Diablo IV. It's too bad that they don't just give us Steam keys for our past Battle.net purchases though. They'd make it back in good PR.

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Quoting: williamjcmFlatpak *can* be used from the terminal, though. GUI frontends are completely optional.

Yep, know all about it. I run MobileSheets Companion as a flatpak because the author only offers it that way. I prefer installing "raw" on my system but will use flatpak too. Ain't no thang.

I prefer the terminal because I like it there. I don't have any objections to folks who use GUI launchers. Just because I like apples doesn't mean you can't like oranges. :)

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That price is hilarious.

I mean at first glance I would be hard pressed to tell if this is a joke listing or not ...? Or someone accidentally hit a 0 before posting ...? LOL just absolutely insane otherwise.

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When I thought bundle, I did not expect over 1000 games. Had to double check that I didn't scroll to a game recommendation section.

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Quoting: Jarmer$40 ... !!! 😂

$49 in Poland 😤

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Gothic is very much the opposite of the design and ideals of something like Morrowind and especially Skyrim etc. In Bethesda games the world is your oyster, it revolves around you and grants you a power fantasy of your choosing. If you happen to choose all of them - enjoy all of them. Not so much the case with "pay for protection or enjoy a tasty knuckle sandwich" Gothic 1 or "get a job and become a respectable member of the community you're trying to embed yourself in" Gothic 2. Bethesda is very The Capitalist West. Piranha was closer to Working Class Reality Check.

Another point: these games seemed slightly archaic in some ways already back when they were released. Having played them again recently they pretty much haven't aged whatsoever. You still need to get used to all the things you'd have needed to get accustomed to back in the day anyway.

I also recommend reading up on the fine art inspirations behind the original Gothic's looks and playing that version as well. It's not just low fidelity resulting purely from technical limitations, it's a style. Nothing left of it in the remake, unfortunately.

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My God that's a lot of physical games.

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Looks like the ICE is melting there. I'm glad that there's charity bundles like this. While charity doesn't fix the inherent problems of our bourgeois society, at least it's something and can also spread awareness.

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ICE must be melted and evaporated!

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Quoting: syylk

Quoting: LampHope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM

Isn't the CPU that's the bottleneck.

It's RAM, storage and GPU.

ARM processors still need good old main memory.

You are correct, and I realise I didnt finish my train of thought, that is the cost savings in going over to arm, smaller device etc, can be used to dampen the effect, even just a little, on the sum price with the more expensive memory for the standard sku with a x86 apu with memory and such.

But that is just an arm chair thought, I'm not to well versed in component prices in these devices, there might not be any cost savings at all with the higher end snapdragon cpu's from qualcom.

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$40 is kinda steep for a 20+ year old game, even if it has "improved" visuals.

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Quoting: ZlopezLet's hope the bubble around AI will burst soon.

I'd say, before it's too late, but the environmental damage is already being done. Because of this, at least in the US, our dictator-in-chief has thrown us all in on AI, so when it bursts, the economy is going to tank hard. He likely won't even suffer consequences because he'll just blame the democrats or China and his followers will eat it up.

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The expansion is 25$ on Battle.net. I'm going to wait until they either give us a way to get the Steam version for cheap if we own the Battle.net version (unlikely to ever happen unfortunately...) or until there's a sale where its cheaper to buy it off Steam than buy the expansion on Battle.net (which probably means years of waiting). I'm glad its finally on Steam, but I don't want to pay for the game twice.

Edit: actually, that would be the third time, I bought the original on release day in the 90s.

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I'm playing through Ghostwire Tokyo right now (got it on a huge discount during a steam sale, and am loving it so far!) which has rt, but as with all games I turned it off. When I get updated to this new mesa, I'll turn it on and see how it goes. It's a ue4 game, so I'm not really sure what to expect.

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And AAA developers still make games like RTX 5080 and 32GB RAM grows on trees!

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$40 ... !!! 😂

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I played the original three or four years ago for the first time and while controls and graphics are a bit clunky it held up surprisingly well, in my opinion better than something like Morrowind where certain mechanics are just inscrutable to modern players

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I'm sure they're gonna be so relieved when they make the move fully to wayland to not have to do all this extra work to support both x and it.

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this is so wonderful of them to do. I don't really need any of those games but I'm gonna get it anyway. I was so glad to see the news this morning that the murderous roaming squads of masked men are "drawing down" aka leaving town. WOOO!

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This was right in the middle of my college years (I'm so old lol) when I wasn't playing anything single player / rpg (but was playing a ton of multiplayer party stuff) so I totally missed this one as well.

Very excited for this to release as everyone heaps so much praise on it.

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This is so wonderful! I love when I see a game on mobile or desktop that's developed with godot. Makes me like it just a little bit more.

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Quoting: TarosIf VR finally just works as good as in Windows (which is a shame for my Valve Index) I can finally get rid of Windows completely.
This is my only use case for Windows. I mean in Linux I cannot even see my desktop because of wayland or I don't know.

When using Steam VR, opending the desktop from the Steam VR dashboard is a hit or miss. Often closing the dashboard and opening it again might make it work though.
Yet, try WayVR. If you're not using Envision and have it enabled there as a plugin, you'll need to download it manually and start it once manually, it'll add itself to autostarted apps in Steam VR. You'll have to allow sharing your screen in the Desktop Portal dialog, but then with double tap on B (or A?) it'll open the desktop in VR. Or tilt your left wrist and a little widget will show up, where you can click on the icon for your monitor and the keyboard.
Et voilà... your desktop in VR :)
Works best with Monado instead of Steam VR though 😆

I hope Valve will improve the Steam VR experience, maybe they did in the meantime... I got used to Monado with WayVR and it works so smooth. With my Index, with my Quest 3 (through WiVRn).

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Ah.

I really want that to be good, but between the footnote, the reviews, and the "blizzard-ness" of things, I'm really wary of it. I have no problem with the price, but given everything else, it feels like a trap.

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I just went ahead and deleted my account. I don't use Discord all that much, I'm pretty sure I can do without it.

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