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Latest Comments by tmtvl
What have you been playing recently and how is it?
12 Aug 2016 at 2:02 pm UTC

Quoting: ShmerlWhat do you think about the endings? I like the game, but it feels they didn't work on the endings enough. Feels they were cut short of thoroughly explaining what happened.
I'll let you know when I get there. So far though, I've been thinking that I'll need to play through again, because I keep feeling like I missed something. As though I skipped over a dialogue that had some background info I need.

What have you been playing recently and how is it?
11 Aug 2016 at 9:07 pm UTC

Dex: Amazing atmosphere, decent writing, pretty good game feel. Kinda reminds me of the old SNES Shadowrun game.

XCOM: Enemy Within: This game is broken. I've tried both under OpenSUSE TW and under Mint 18; whenever I finish my first mission (I'm not doing the tutorial) it crashes when I return to base. I installed Windows 10 on an older PC I have and it worked fine on there, so I just imported that save and continued under TW (and about a dozen missions later I'm not getting any crashes). I've let Feral know, so we'll see.
Apart from that, it's as much fun as always.

Slime Rancher updated, hits 300K sales and I asked the developer about their Linux support
5 Aug 2016 at 11:18 am UTC

Even when the full release comes out, Linux is gonna be a very small fraction of sales, and probably not worth it.
Way I see it you support Linux for the ideology, not for profit margins.

Linux desktop marketshare has grown for three consecutive months
3 Aug 2016 at 11:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Grim85Don't give newbies arch, when an untested package breaks it they are going to blame "Linux" and go back Windows.
Not if they don't upgrade their boxes.

Quoting: "neowiz73"I guess 2016 may in fact be the "year of the linux desktop"
2012 was the year of the Linux desktop (Ubuntu 12.04 was so good). But 2016 may be the year we make the Linux desktop great again.

Latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux has grown, by a tiny amount (updated)
2 Aug 2016 at 12:29 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: CreakThere are 349 "vanilla" Ubuntu, but KDE is first in the DE's list. Considering the distributions stats, we should have Unity on top, then a fight between KDE and GNOME.
What about people who installed plain Ubuntu and afterwards installed the superior Plasma DE themselves?

User Stats Page updated again, come check out the refresh stats and new distro graph
1 Aug 2016 at 12:19 am UTC

Aw, so few geekos. Well, I guess it makes sense that gamers tend more towards the *buntu side of Linux, as that's what Steam and GoG recommend.

Epic Games founder thinks Microsoft will essentially break Steam in later versions of Windows 10
26 Jul 2016 at 9:27 pm UTC Likes: 7

People will stop using the term "PC" to mean "Windows", as soon as people stop using the term "Linux" to mean "GNU/Linux".

I still say Linux, so it might take a while.

Mojang working on new launcher for Minecraft, Linux might not see support
26 Jul 2016 at 9:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: meracoIs this even legal?
Er, yes. I mean, why wouldn't it be? It's their game, they're free to do whatever they want with it.

Anyway... good thing there are a bunch of alternatives, though some of them might need a bit more work on the game feel.

Life is Strange released for Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts and a port report included
21 Jul 2016 at 10:42 pm UTC

The game is pretty decent until the ending.

I know that there've been plenty of games with happy good endings, and occasionally a bit more of a downer can't hurt, but seriously.

If you want a downer ending done well, play Persona 3. LIS doesn't manage the same quality of writing.

At least, in my opinion.