Quoting: razing32Hmm not sure what you mean . Don't we have a tone of open source games from Wesnoth to Glest , from Nexuiz to OpenArena. Warzone2100 , Freecol , Freeciv etc, etc.

Mainly I mean something new that doesn't look like it's from the 2000's (Whatever last decade is called.) or even 90ies. Let's dream: Something like the next Fallout.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkStill though, my point is, the assets aren't strictly required. Someone could create their own.

(Of course, everybody is free to do with his time what he wants, but...)
I wonder if something more exciting could be created putting all the energy into a modern full-featured fully open game. Or if we lack the creative power. (I certainly do.)

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I always got mixed feelings with recreating stuff we already have, just in open source, which doesn't even result in something completely open as it still needs the assets. I mean, of course it's impressive, but...

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Quoting: nIQnutnSR2 is very bad port, unplayable for me.
It was in a bundle, so I won't complain.

I really hope Agents of Mayhem will be available on Linux.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/304530 [External Link]

It seems they don't want to talk about it yet:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/304530/discussions/0/208684375407420405/#c208684375409381112 [External Link]

... but I do like this one. :)
http://steamcommunity.com/app/304530/discussions/0/208684375407420405/#c133262738419512556 [External Link]

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Quoting: BdMdesigNOn GOG its free, too.

... and they offer a money back guarantee! ;)

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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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