Quoting: BeamboomI'm sorry I haven't participated in the nomination process, but nobody nominated We Happy Few in the anticipated category??

Other than that, I really think that category is a sad sight, it demonstrates a glaring lack of major releases to Linux. There's pretty much just indie titles again, with an exception for a rather old title, Tomb Raider.

Compare the overall best title selection for 2015 to the one for 2016. IMHO, it has already happened.

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Quoting: g000hIn terms of exposure to Linux, this old neighbour had an old laptop with a broken Windows install on it (Windows 95 or XP, I can't remember). I offered to fix it for him, by installing Linux. He happily engaged with Linux - browsing, emailing, OpenOffice for working on documents and spreadsheets, making Skype calls and messages. He wasn't really used to Windows, and took up Linux with very limited computer skills - and managed okay with it.

IMHO, Linux is very suitable for people with nearly no computer knowledge. Of course, they cannot fix/administrate it. But they cannot fix Windows either when it's broken.

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Quoting: crt0megaThis and "WTFs/min" should be web-standards!

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We have this hanging in our software development open plan office! :D

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Quoting: Mountain ManI didn't much care for the demo -- it struck me as a starkly humorless take on Portal -- but Croteam's Linux support is almost without peer, and I'm tempted to buy this game for that reason alone.

While Portal is more humorous than Talos Principle, in my humble opinion the latter is the better puzzle game.

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Quoting: adamhmAlso here's a key for Hard West that needs to be used ASAP as it will expire today if it isn't used.

I tried it five minutes after you posted, but it seems someone was fast in redeeming and slow in saying thank you...
Anyway, thanks for the offer!

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I stopped playing Divinity due to the §$"§$! Rock-paper-scissors system. :-(
I hope the second part (if it gets ported) doesn't have that?

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Quoting: HoriThis has been going for 10 years. 10 years and none of their skilled engineers noticed? I find it kinda hard to believe that. They either did not care enough about finding the problem, or they tried to hide it.

It's not like there's a huge open door (like Apple had some weeks ago with their root logins). People have invented an extremely clever way to expolit hardware features (and yes, I could hardly call them bugs). I'm a software developer myself and I had no idea how they would tunnel data from the predictive execution branch (which is not going to save any data were it can be read) through to legitimate code. This cache data tunneling is so sophisticated and I didn't even yet look how they manage to delay the memory exception...

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Quoting: SamsaiObviously cache was a mistake.

Everything beyond 80386 was...! :D

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Quoting: SamsaiI am not an expert but from what I gathered the issue is that after code has been speculatively executed the result is stored in the cache even if the CPU guessed wrong and ran the wrong code, not to mention code that it didn't even have privileges to run.

AFAICT, it's not stored in the cache, but by accessing some memory, this is loaded into the cache, and by checking afterwards how fast you can access the same meory (memory you're allowed to read), you can tunnel data through from the illegitimate code to legitimate code. (Nice technique that is...) Even if you would flush all cache touched by speculatively executed code, you probably could do it the other way around: Prefetch into cache, make speculative execution, and if the data vanishes from cache, you've got information from the dark side.

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Quoting: BrisseAnd yes of course you could make a chip completely immune. Just get rid of speculative execution, as that's what these attacks exploit. That will come at a performance cost however.

Of course, with 90's architecture, you can... ;)

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