Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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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Quoting: Purple Library Guy[...]

So. Here's Valve, trying to break the cycle. [...]

It seems that Microsoft is also trying to break the cycle, seeing the increasing number of people being p*ssed off by Windows 11 (like I was with Windows 10) :tongue:

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VERIFIED: 14 games (7.29%)
PLAYABLE: 14 games (7.29%)
UNSUPPORTED: 1 games (0.52%)
UNKNOWN: 163 games (84.9%)

The unsupported game being For Honor, and I think it was just when I tried the demo. Speaking of which, demos seems to be included as well, but some of them were installed just to find out if the game could run on Linux.

Also, some of the "unknown" games are native games, such as Albion Online, Carrion, Children of Morta, Don't Starve, Pine, etc.

Fun fact: Slay the Spire is only Playable, but not Verified, I wonder what's wrong, since I believe it was released on the Switch

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Looks like quicker wrist pain :grin:

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Quoting: ElectricPrismEverybody keep up on exercise and personal wellness, we need to function in order to help those that need us.

^Exactly this.

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