I wonder how one can tell free to keep from free for some days offers on Steam...

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Quoting: MasterSleortJoking aside (for some other joking...) Now we have to come up with excuses as to why they haven't leaked it yet. It could be that they want to be sure that Feral can actually deliver. Imagine they went out and announced The Witcher 3 for Linux again and then failed to deliver once again. Better to keep it a UFO at Feral and let it disappear in the hopefully very unlikable event that it (whatever it is) could not be ported to Linux.

That gave me an idea: Feral is giving hints so widely interpretable in their radar so that they can relate them to another game if the current port doesn't work out. :D

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Quoting: Ardje

Quoting: tuubiThe PPA method is still safer and simpler. Only consider using Nvidia's installer if you actually have problems with the PPA packages.

Indeed, repairing your distro after using nvidia's installer really isn't worth it.
There is a reason I always liked ATI's distribution, because it always had a "build deb package", and it had a kernel source module package, so you can build the kernel binary module next to the kernel binary on your compilation rig, and leave all dkms stuff off your system.
The few times I used nvidia's installer, I always regretted it later.

Nvidia driver works all fine with DKMS e. g. on Debian.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GrimfistBecause there is one thing that Unity 7 did absolutly right compared to ALL other Linux DE's out there, in times where 16:9 widescreens are the norm, vertical screen space is very precious compared to horizontal screen space. Having a monstrous launcher bar at the bottom is just bad UX design when you can have it at the left side of the screen, preserving precious vertical screen space and using the available but only 80% or so used horizontal screen space. And delivering such a good out of the box experience is what drives Ubuntu.

Really, ALL? So let's see, here I am using Mate, and I guess that thing on the right hand edge of my screen can't be a taskbar with a bunch of launchers on it because apparently ALL the Linux DEs other than Unity don't do that.

Just clicked on the lower right hand of my KDE desktop and dragged the "Screen border" thingy to any side, and...
taskbar goes and stays there.

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Quoting: lvlarkMy $0.03 on the vertical/horizontal taskbar:

$0.01: Having little use of horizontal screen space is a mistake of applications/websites (thankfully not GOL).

I wonder what you're referring to, here. For good reasons, lines are not printed too wide for at least centuries now - and so does GoL:

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: EikeThey pay, then port, then sell.

They pay? That's the reverse of what I'd expect. But I guess it's up to how they agree to share the profit.

It waa the same for me when I read it first. AFAIK, afterwards the whole money goes to Feral. But this way, they get the whole risk as well...

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Quoting: ShmerlYou mean right to distribute (in their store)? Either way, my point was, they are paid by those who own the game in some form, either as percentage of sales, or some fixed amount.

But they aren't. They pay, then port, then sell. Not only at their store, all Linux Steam (and other) sales are theirs as well (minus the store's sharr). That's why it's even more important to get the sales numbers for the right system - it's what directly pays their dinner.

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Quoting: ZodiacMentorAs for what this is, I'm pretty sure it's Shadow Warrior (1 or 2),

Erm, isn't the first one already ported and has been part of some Humble Bundle?

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Quoting: ShmerlWhy would that matter? They are paid by the company which owns the game. That company decides.

No. They are paying for the code and the right to port and publish.

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Quoting: SkarjakComplaining about fragmentation is completely ridiculous. The whole point of free software is that people are given the freedom to make their own versions and share them.

I once read (might have been on GoL) that it would be a good idea to have a non-fragmented base (like Kernel, base tools, X, Wayland, ...), but a wide variety of user applications.

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