Life of Ethan Lee. A fan fiction.

- Lee: I ported your game to Linux.
- Dev: Sorry, we are not planning to port the game to Linux because of technical problems.
- Lee: No, I mean I already did it. It works.
- Dev: Well, maybe we should pay somebody to port the game to Linux. I'll keep you updated.
- Lee: I have right here! Look!
- Dev (2 months later): Sorry, the Linux port is cancelled for now. We will consider the possibility again after our next project is done.

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I am fairly skeptical when it comes to "Wine ports", but for a euro I decided to give it a shot. Performance on NVIDIA Quadro K1100M is around 30 FPS at 1980x1080, which is playable, but not great by any stretch for a game from 2009. So far I have not noticed any problems that would indicate that it is not a native port. Though Wine developers deserve more credit for that than anybody else.

Regarding the game itself, the voice acting is hilariously bad. Everybody sound like robots. Especially your own character. "I do not have sufficient time. Resistance is futile." Yeah, I see why they would not want to invest in a proper native port.

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Even if it powerful enough to run games, what exactly could you run on it? A few open-source games maybe. Gaming on ARM CPU on Linux is so niche that it's not even quantifiable. A low power i386 CPU would have made this way more useful.

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Quoting: tuubiQt is what I'd pick for commercial projects (for several practical reasons), but GTK is what I actually like using for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.

I like the layout model of GTK better. Works very well for scalable layouts that work on multiple window sizes, and different font sizes. In Qt it felt more like you need to be aware of this stuff to do it properly. Just my personal (and quite a bit dated) experience.

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Want to blow everything up?

Why yes please, I'd love to. ;)

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Quoting: WorMzyBecause gtk3 is a broken pile of crap, and I refuse to have it on my system. ;)

That is not exactly an argument. But anyway... GTK3 has a better drawing model, multiple backends (like Wayland), touch events, CSS-based theme engine.

In a simple analogy, GTK2 is like HTML4 and GTK3 is like HTML5.

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Makes an already impressive gadget even more useful. Very cool.

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Man, there's some weird stuff out there. If it weren't for Linux, I'd still think that FPS, RTS, and racing were all there is for game genres.

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Pretty badass play, Liam. That episode where you took all of those guys down at the ladder was sweet. :)

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Quoting: TemplateRWhat is the difference between SDL and X11?

SDL in an abstraction layer with multiple backends. It provides access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware. X11 is a windowing system that functions as a backend for SDL, but also can be used directly. They are moving away from using X11 directly to SDL abstraction, which allows it to work on other backends such as Wayland.

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