Quoting: razing32And once again i have to differ to people that use GOG.
I use Steam for convenience and proton but stories like these make me realize that when push comes to shove its best to have a backup copy of your game.

This is why torrent sites are also kind of like an internet backup archive for games you have once purchased, taken away from you, or lost and you can still get them. And why shouldn't you? You have purcahsed! It belongs to you even though these types of removes happen.

Hey, Night School Studio! You are making absolutely NO SENSE whatsoever. What is the matter with you :huh:

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI tried playing these with a controller again (on my Switch). Literally unplayable.

Steam Deck has touchpads which makes also these types of games a treat. Nevermind adventure games, etc :smile:

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Oh a Twitch category! Nice, but millions of people can't follow Deadlock on Twitch because Twitch have decided to limit the amount of games to follow as category. They haven't even indicated what exactly the limit of games is that you can follow as category.

You can only quit following games through Twitch mobile app and then add new ones. Dropping even 20 games won't do anything on desktop/browser [External Link]

Basically Twitch is a one big headache in so many aspects nowadays and they don't seem to care at all because they're ultra rich and there is no real alternative if YouTube is not counted. Kick is in such infancy its even worst than Twitch.

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Fixes for EA launcher very important because that (and other useless launchers) are often the only problem getting a game going also on other operating systems. Why can't we just get rid of these additional launcher launchers....

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleWill anyone be referring to these as "boomer racers"?

Sure why not. It's a fun term :grin:

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It's a calm OK presentation but did he say the boot process is 2 minutes? Shouldn't he probably have said the initial setup process is 2 minutes or something along those lines? Or is the actual BOOT as long as 2 minutes!? :huh:

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What's the situation in Plasma desktop for VRR?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Fester_MuddOn the positive note, possibly AI will help reach Linux port initially for the devs to start with. AI could help towards total platform freedom? Exclusiveness is not of this day and age at all.

I dunno. Do you think that's the kind of thing it would be good at? I can see that kind of thing getting automated, at least partially, with normal software*, but I'm not sure that the stuff we've been calling "AI" would do it well. Because, like, porting strikes me as one of these fiddly things where the details all have to be done right, whereas "AI" seems to be better at broad strokes, "mushy" kind of output.

*Arguably it already is--SDL2, for instance.

Yeah, to start with. Then the devs could process with little less work to fix the parts that the AI didn't quite interpret so well. It's possible that many times devs don't think to do a Linux port as they assume it would be very, very difficult. Using AI as a tool to show those kind of devs it's not by pushing a button in the very beginning, then taking a look at it and "finishing it"... This just immediately popped to my mind out of nowhere. AI sure CAN BE a great tool. Here, maybe, maybe not! We'll see! :happy:

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Valve could start collaborating with Canonical for the snap package. Also with who creates the flatpak mutually. These packaging formats are the present and future of Linux app packaging.

AppImage is just not it: they don't integrate with the system, don't have an automatic update by default and they need to be made executable manually (this is already too much for normal users).

This is not that much of a Canonical or a Ubuntu issue though as this same could happen easily with flatpak.

Flatpak cannot handle CLI and server side stuff for the record but snaps can. That said we have managed to narrow the packaging methods kinda to only 2. Snap and flatpak it is. Kind of like MSI and EXE in Windows world, i suppose.

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On the positive note, possibly AI will help reach Linux port initially for the devs to start with. AI could help towards total platform freedom? Exclusiveness is not of this day and age at all.

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