Quoting: TheRiddickAllot of people were complaining that Valheim is a pretty terribly optimized game even for normal PC. Given its low polygon+texture art style, that is surprising.

Everything seems fine, until your friends decide to build a (massive) base...:whistle:

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Quoting: constI own witcher 2+3 and never really played them. Certainly looking forward to try them again on my deck (just finished the real order *yay*)
Can I just start with witcher3 or should I go back to Witcher1 and walk through the series?
Anyway, very reassuring that CDPR is actually committed. Guess I'll go out of my way and order cyberpunk on next sale :D

If you have time (1 and 2 are "shorter" than 3), I suggest you walk through the series again.
There are a lot of references in each games about things that happened in the previous games, and I like how you can carry on from the save of the last game to the next one, keeping your equipment and part of your inventory, too.

Like, if Geralt is a traveller, he surely would have some possessions when going to a new location, right ?

Spoiler, click me

I also loved the fact that, in Witcher 3, you get all your money from the previous game, but you have to wait a certain point in story to be able to use it... Cleverly integrated in the lore of the game, and of course preventing being overpowered too early in the game, while rewarding you from playing through the series

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Quoting: furaxhornyxIn addition to this excellent comment, I would like to add that there would be way less people using smartphones, consoles, cars, and whatnot, if they had to resort to command line to use them (and this comes from someone who launched a lot of games as run"mygame" on an Amstrad CPC as a young kid)

When it comes to command line usage in a standard consumer environment, Linux IS the exception ; everything else has a nice GUI to guide the user.

What you seem to miss here, is that the command line is not only something that can save your ass when you exhausted other UI solutions,, but a resource per se that can be used to do certain tasks much better than a gui would ever do.
And expressly avoiding even to name it because some people fear it is not something that meet my approval.
[...].

It's not a question of "avoiding to name it" (Liam even added the command line way to the article), it is a question of "appealing to most people", which usually favor the GUI way, such as Warpinator :smile:

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Quoting: furaxhornyxWhen it comes to command line usage in a standard consumer environment, Linux IS the exception ; everything else has a nice GUI to guide the user.

Your Linux doesn't have a nice GUI? Mine does.

Yes, it does. Not for everything though: I had to install a GUI separately for quite a number of programs though, and I still have to resort to CLI, because either the online tutorials use this, or there is no GUI for a particular program

Quoting: tuubiOr is the availability of the CLI a problem in itself? Because I sure as hell remember having to resort to running commands on an extremely awkward command line interface to fix stuff back in my Windows days, 20+ years ago.

I discovered PC with Windows 98, and even back at the time, no CLI was required. The only command line that sometimes saved me was sfc /scannow (which is also quite easy to remember)

Quoting: tuubiIf you do any advanced tinkering or troubleshooting (or software development), you're going to be typing commands into some sort of a CLI at some point, regardless of operating system.

What if you don't, like most end users ?

Quoting: tuubiAll that said, I agree with Purple Library Guy in that being comfortable in the terminal is not a sign of intelligence. The terminal is a powerful tool that doesn't limit the ways you can mess with your system, or that you can mess up your system, and hardly a day goes by that a professional nerd like me doesn't do something using a handy CLI tool simply because it's faster or more comfortable (for me) than messing about in a graphical UI of some sort. Learning it is definitely useful if you want or need to get the most out of your computer, but I'm sure most people have better things to do with their time.

Emphasis mine. Yep, this was the point :smile:

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Quoting: GuestI can understand that warpinator is cross platform, but not the answer that the point is to avoid the terminal for simple guides.

Why?

Terminal can simplify complex and simple tasks, and this is an excellent example.
The sooner the people will understand that, the sooner we can progress instead of involve into dumbness (no offense).

So as long as you're explaining to me about the command line, let me explain to you something about rhetoric: An insult doesn't actually stop being one just from saying "no offense" after.

There are certainly cases where the command line is the quickest and simplest way to accomplish a complex task. But you sound like one of those people who gets hot under the collar about nobody understanding how to do simple maintenance on their cars, failing to understand that lots of people don't bloody want to do simple maintenance on their cars.

The thing is that for many things, the command line is only quicker and simpler if you already are familiar and comfortable with it. Not because it is difficult to copy/paste a command, but because if you don't know the command line well, after you've done that you aren't sure if it worked, or what to do next. And because for any given problem, there are often various different command-line solutions proposed, and if you don't already know the command line you don't know what the difference is. The command line is occasionally useful for almost anyone, but frequently useful only if you're willing to spend a bunch of time and effort up front becoming a person for which it is useful. And if you are not someone who uses a computer for a lot of advanced stuff, this is not an effective investment of time.

So, you're simply wrong. It would not be a good thing or represent "progress" if everyone used the command line all the time. It would be a net drain on most people's time, with a heavy investment at the front end that was never fully paid off later. You don't understand that because you aren't thinking past your personal use-case, in which the up-front investment is paid off. But this is not true of most people, and it is short-sighted to try to impose what's optimum for you onto others without bothering to think about whether their situation might be different.

In addition to this excellent comment, I would like to add that there would be way less people using smartphones, consoles, cars, and whatnot, if they had to resort to command line to use them (and this comes from someone who launched a lot of games as run"mygame" on an Amstrad CPC as a young kid)

When it comes to command line usage in a standard consumer environment, Linux IS the exception ; everything else has a nice GUI to guide the user.

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Warpinator is also available the official Manjaro repository (don't know for Arch, btw).

Going to give it a try, it may be easier that Remmina to transfer files within VMs :smile:

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+1 for Elex, I enjoyed the game during all of my 3 playthroughs (Elex II is of course on my wishlist)
But then again, I know I tend to have a little something for games that are "out of tracks"...

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: raptor85You missed the absolute best part about pipewire over just using pulse + jack...built in rtkit support! The low latency passthrough means there's FINALLY a solution other than alsa+jack on a realtime kernel for pro audio setups on linux.

Now what we need is the equivalent audio project like Blender is for 3D. There are a few really good audio programs for Linux, but there could be better ones.

Bitwig ? (not open source though)

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Quoting: drmothFor anyone using multichannel 5.1 or 7.1 HDMI audio like I do, Pipewire is useless. Multi-channel surround audio is awesome, and much nicer than using headphones.
I have a 7.1 surround system that's driven by an audio receiver. Pipewire fails to deliver multi-channel audio through Proton games (I believe native should work), and given that most Linux games are being run through Proton this is a deal-breaker.

The gitlab issue is here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/876 [External Link]

EDIT: It appears a solution may have been found at the end of the thread.

I had the opposite issue, my 6-ins/6-outs soundcard being considered as 5.1 with Pulseaudio, and having all audio in being merge into input 1, and all audio out being merged into outputs 1/2.

Switching to Pipewire fixed the issues with inputs output being mixed, without even having to resort to make unnecessary cabling with Cadence/Catia :smile:

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Ah, Unreal Tournament... One of the first game I played on PC, I remember spending hours on the demo.
A great game :smile:

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