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Quoting: Eduardo-Thiesen

Quoting: CaldathrasDrakan: Order of the Flame is my favorite dx6 game.

Thank you very much, I was beginning to think I had imagined this thing 😅.

You're welcome.

Unfortunately, Drakan: Order of the Flame is abandonware now. You won't find it for sale anywhere. Surreal Software no longer exists and the IP is apparently owned by Warner. They seem indifferent to it. There is a strong fan community out there, however.

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The fact is that as far as I can tell, most distros are pretty good. Linux technology has matured a lot, and with open source if a problem has been solved, the solution probably went upstream and most distros inherited the solution. Even the distros going "No, I actively want it to be hard because noobs have cooties, I mean, it's good to understand how things work" are generally good at what they're trying to do.

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For anyone else who was wondering:

A comprehensive campaign, currently encompassing 34 missions

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I'd love to appreciate these small victories for Linux, but together with the RAM crisis and the news lately, all I can see here is the gruesome death of consumer PC hardware. It's like partying on top of a sinking ship.
This will likely force people who want to play games to be part of a closed garden like game consoles, or to pay for remote applications/machines. It really feels like we are going back to the remote terminal days, as ironic as that is.

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I did look at this for a while, because most of my online gaming is via my PlayStation 5 and I'd rather stick to my Steam Deck... But NVVIDIA GeForce NOW is super expensive here in Australia, so I simply couldn't justify it.

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Quoting: RouhollahWe already have dlss override on linux. Take a look at the dxvk nvapi wiki on github.

Those still seem to just be the original DLSS flags, not the newer ones added in DLSS Override like switching between CNN and transformer models. I'm not seeing anything to change that.

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Quoting: The_Real_Bitterman

Quoting: vertigoMakes sense, it's feature complete and superseded by RTX Remix.

There is a RTX Remix? Always thought this only works on DirectX 9 titles as this is what nvidia made the remix studio for. Since OG Quake uses OpenGL as it's default engine I never expected a RTX Remix here.

Oh yeah, that's a very good point. Remix works with DX8 and DX9 games so maybe a source port would work?

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I've been on Manjaro for years now, not sure, between 5 and 10, and i'm feeling very alright for gaming and working and multimediaing, etc. Before i was on Mint, for about 5 years i'd say, and it was fine too.

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Nothing like accelerating the decay of the future Linux and PC ecosystems like removing one of the biggest reasons to own your own hardware in full by delegating the GPU workload of gaming to "cloud" services!
People say options are always a good thing, but I have good reasons to disagree here, and more than one whole decade of examples to uphold them.

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenYay! Now we can move faster towards a hardware-less future!

You probably dropped a /s, right? 😅

Me: all I want is a decent GPU at a reasonable/affordable price
NVIDIA: best I can do is a glorified web app (I'm selling everything to tech bros, sorry!)

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Quoting: GoEsrCool, but are we ever getting the DLSS override features? 😡 DLSS Updater (like DLSS Swapper) only lets you change the version, not the in-game modes.

We already have dlss override on linux. Take a look at the dxvk nvapi wiki on github. Also some distros like pikaos and cachyos have environment variables that let you update dlss version and change presets. I, myself manually replace game's streamline dlls with the latest streamline sdk version from nvidia github and use environment variables exposed by dxvk nvapi to update dlss preset to the latest and enable multi frame generation.

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Those are lovely numbers! 😃

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I'm on Gnome, but I could swear that this also is a problem I had in the past. Haven't played many games with controller lately, so no idea if it's still an issue or not.

But even then it annoys me at times: screen going blank during lengthy cut-scenes. Or the opposite: screen not going blank when Firefox with Youtube is open, and no video playing (happens only on occasion, though).

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The only real issue I've had with Bazzite is on Sunday my living room PC would only boot in to desktop mode. Updating it fixed it but how did that happen?

This review made me realize if the docking improves this maybe more convenient for travel because when I travel I bring my Steam Deck, Its dock and a PS5 controller to play on the TV where ever I'm staying, but the detachable controllers would mean I wouldn't need to bring my PS5 controller. Not that I can afford a new handheld plus dock. How well do the detachable controllers work?

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They have put up a standalone release in their website now, also simply bundles it in with librequake. No need to own Quake and give money to the Microsoft mob indeed :>

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Yay! Now we can move faster towards a hardware-less future!

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Time to switch to an exponential trend line!

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Thanks Valve for helping Linux grow.
Also thanks Microslop for always striving to make Windows worse.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis is getting freaky. I expect progress to be spiky--a zig or two up, then a zag down, but overall the zigs bigger. This is crazy . . . the progress since September is about equal to our whole share at a low point a few years ago!

What about +147% since last February?
(I know it was a dip, but still)

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This is getting freaky. I expect progress to be spiky--a zig or two up, then a zag down, but overall the zigs bigger. This is crazy . . . the progress since September is about equal to our whole share at a low point a few years ago!

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I finally got fed up with Windows and switched to Fedora KDE in a couple weeks as its been a few years since I daily drove linux, and its night and day improvements compared to a few years ago. I can't speak for anyone but myself but Fedora KDE comfortably replaces my Windows and I don't miss it. I reduced my friction a bunch since my media and Steam games are on separate drive that I could easily mount to Linux but I genuinely haven't thought about logging into Windows in weeks.

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Quoting: helloCLDOn the off chance I actually play through all of this, does anyone have any other recent Quake mods they recommend checking out?

if you've not done the machinegames campaign for the remaster, those are very good. not recent, but arcane dimensions is another classic.

i'm sure the actual quakeheads will have some deeper cuts, but hopefully that gets you started. :)

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I was only able to get something like 20 minutes in on this yesterday, but damn is it impressive so far. I might just be out of the loop on Quake mods, but I've never seen anything on this scale before in terms of map size. Already stumbled on a couple secrets, can't wait to really dig into it.

On the off chance I actually play through all of this, does anyone have any other recent Quake mods they recommend checking out?

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I have two friends who moved to linux within the past 6 months or so. For the nerdy techy guy (like me) I told him to go with Cachy. For the non-tech-savvy friend who just wants things to work and do work, I told him to go with Mint.

Months later and both are happy as they could be. Only had a minor issue with the Mint install, which was quickly fixed, then nothing else. They both say they wish they'd have dumped Windows earlier, but oh well. Happy linux users!

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MS doing the linux community the best favor ever!

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Wow, that's a huge difference. It seems that Linux is gaining momentum!

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Quoting: Brandon M

Quoting: CarollyStuff Wot I Said

Inexperienced Linux users may initially want something shiny and niche and novel, but my experience is that willingness to tinker simply isn't that common amongst that population; they want Windows. Windows familiarity, Windows stability, Windows compatibility, Windows ubiquity. Either the requisite learning curve to hammer the distro into the expected shape of OS is low, or they reject the distro and return to the familiar (read: Windows).

Maybe it's just a matter of my being at a different stage in life than many (as I enter middle age,) but in spite of being quite techie and having used Linux for some time now, this is still about what I want from a Linux distro; I don't want to have to fiddle with it too much. I'm glad that I know enough to customize some things but I really don't care to get deep into the nitty gritty.

Honestly I think part of the problem we run into is that as a community we're susceptible to conflating "experienced Linux user" with "basically a full-stack developer" and that's no longer anywhere near true, and shouldn't have to be! I'm glad that my OS handles most of the grunt work so I can get to the parts that actually matter to me (i.e., using it!) It saves me time and energy that I don't want to spend, particularly when I have other things that I'd rather be doing.

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5/7 trend, a perfect score. 🐧

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AMD's worst product naming scheme ever. It's almost impossible to know what is what without looking at the specs.

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It's nice to put a face to the name! These are some very hopeful predictions, especially the idea of an anticheat focused kernel. I'm glad to see it finally getting the respect it deserves when it was previously ridiculed. Nick I recognize, but the other two hosts are new to me. Nice introductions.

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