Anybody knows why not V and VII? They only like even numbers? :D

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I don't know what people wrote to CD Project Red so they turned away from Linux.
I just hope it won't be the case here again...

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If it tries to force you to play something you don't want to, you can still use the steam_appid.txt trick [External Link].

*edit* Hm, didn't work for me though.
*edit2* Ah, starting from command line. Actually reading stuff is helpful so many times...!

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I wonder if they're not giving away too much with two hours...

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Quoting: furaxhornyxI do not fully agree with the "you can still easily mount your physical drives [...]", since I recently change a dead hard drive and it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to mount it to /games and have it recognized after a reboot...

You don't even need to fiddle with config files (like /etc/fstab), there's tools for it in the KDE system settings or as Gnome "discs" (not 100% sure about the name). So, I still think it's easy to mimic what Windows does if you find it superior.

Quoting: furaxhornyxStill, you can also mount drives or partitions in Windows as folders, too, so you are not limited to 26 mounted drives either.

Yes, some decades after Unix/Linux, Windows did adopt the possibility AFAIR. (Probably not because drive letters are better, BTW.) But if you're happier with letters, you're still stuck with 26 of them.

Quoting: furaxhornyxAlso, If I want to make a backup of my system "/", I am not sure if all my "/home" and "/games" content will be copied too (resulting in a huge backup file, I guess). With letters for separate partitions, I find it easier.

If you want to make a backup, you need to know what you want to copy and where that is. Which is even harder on a modern Windows. Did you know that Windows merges directories "behind the curtain" and shows them as a single one to you? How would you copy that and restore it a similar way?

Quoting: furaxhornyxUnless you have a specific "program X" in mind, I do not know know of any program which configuration is stored in the registry ? Usually the files are within the program folder directly, or in My documents folder (equivalent to /home).

I don't have statistics here, but I think many programs store stuff in the registry. You can try with a handful if you like and search for their name in the registry. You might be surprised... But when you say "usually the files are within the program folder directly, or in My documents folder (equivalent to /home)" - how is this less scattered than /etc/?

Quoting: furaxhornyxI still have some program that I used in the late 90s, made for Windows 98, that I can still use without reinstalling anything, and despite changing / reinstalling / changing Windows version (and hard drives) over the years. And if you really need the registry part, it can be exported quite easily.

If you know that it exists in the first place, if it actually is a single place, ... Hardly easier than copying /etc/Xapp, is it?

Quoting: furaxhornyxSo, in all fairness, I am not sure as how those different behaviours qualify as issues on the Windows side.

Please don't take it personally, but to me it seems more a matter of "I don't know how to"/"I'm not accustomed to it" - which is all ok, but not really Linux' fault. (Neither yours, everybody was new to everything at some point of time.)

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Quoting: TiixxelIt's great to see that they won, especially because they even got permissions for all of the other patents.

... and not only them if I don't get it wrong!

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Not everything is better on Linux, but IMHO, the points you mention are.

Quoting: furaxhornyxBut, how is Windows drive letters system bad ? It help keeping things tidy (when I install a game, I want to install it on my SSD drive, but when I am downloading, say, a Linux iso, I want to have it on my big capacity hard drive). On Linux, I struggle trying to get games installed on the right physical disks.

On Linux, everything is reachable from a single point, "/". On Windows, it's not. You seem to see that as an advantage, but what if the drive letters are used up? (Yes, I've been at least close to this.) You still can easily mount your physical drives or partitions under /B/, /C/, etc in Linux if you want to... But you've got infinite possibilities - not 26.

Quoting: furaxhornyxAbout the registry (that I never have had to use in years of using Windows, it is only required for very specific tweaks), how is that worse than tinkering with conf files scattered everywhere ?

Could you please copy me your configuration of program X? It's complicated and I really like the way you did it. Well it's scattered over places in the registry (which AFAIR is in several physical files). It's under /etc/Xapp on Linux, copy the file and fine. You want to make a backup of your whole system configuration? cp --recursive /etc /somewhereelse. (That was how I moved from 32 bit to 64 bit Linux back in the days.) How do you do that with the registry? I don't know. Additionally, configuration files are a thing on Windows, too, they're just scattered around the place. (Yes, Linux user configuration files do not all follow the standard either.)

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I remember a Linux developer left them, heading towards Stadia. I hope they've got plenty of Linux enthusiasts...

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(I skipped this thread because I thought it would be going south for sure, finding an interesting discussion when coming back days later. Thumbs up.)

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: EikeI heard games were even cheaper on school yards, which was an important reason for kids to prefer them over consoles as well... ;)

About the price of an empty cassette if you had a double deck?

It was floppy discs for the computers that were far spread here in Germany (mainly Commodore 64), but yes, that kind of price. :D

(I had an MSX and was exchanging games via mail. The letter kind of mail, you know... :) )

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