Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: ValsoInstead of remastering it, they should have made more stories. Remastering the game won't make it more interesting.

Did you even read the article? They aren't remastering the game. A fan is doing that.

I did, ofc. It doesn't say anywhere that a fan is doing it. In fact, this line "Tyler McVicker, known for doing the Valve News Network" suggests it's Valve doing the remaster.

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Instead of remastering it, they should have made more stories. Remastering the game won't make it more interesting.

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Quoting: scainethat's just a Linux issue

Mmm, yes and no. It's an AMD issue and also a DRIVER issue but NOT a hardware issue. And no, I'm not a "fan" of any of the companies, I just use whatever works best and faster. For over 10 years I used about 12 different AMD cards - back when I was a Windows user. There's a lot I can say about AMD but they all had one thing in common: too hot and too slow, all AMD failed at AA and AF + the R-series had a bad driver, constantly crashing. Since 2015 (when I migrated to linux) I'm with nvidia and all of the problems I ever had with AMD cards disappeared, including the crashing driver. I also don't have to look at games' requirements anymore - I just run and play them. :D The ONLY 2 AMD cards from those times that I ever owned that performed better than any nvidia were Radeon 9550 with a missing fan and later - HD6670.

As for the nvidia security issues, I'm pretty sure that for these issues to work there must be certain conditions met (just like with many of the linux kernel sec. issues), so I for one have nothing to worry about.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyJust for the record, I use Mint and I've never had any problems with any of that stuff. F'rinstance, Steam installs from the Software Manager with a click. Maybe if you can't even remember the last time you had anything to do with a debian based system, and have never used Mint ever, you should consider your opinions on the subject might lack authority or relevance and, you know, not give them.

Steam installs with a click but that installs only Steam - not the relevant libraries needed for gaming, those you have to install manually. Sure, Steam has some libs of its own but there are other packages you need for general gaming, not just in Steam, such as vulkan-icd-loader, for starters. Besides, Mint is just slightly modified Ubuntu, so whatever applies for Ubuntu also applies for Mint in 95% of the cases. After nearly 4 years of using Mint I can state that with a high degree of certainty - 95% of the problems fixes came from searching in askubuntu.
I even had a favorite kernel version - 4.13.0-45, which I still keep somewhere on Google Drive. :)

My experience with Mint ends with 18.3 but somehow I doubt that they've made many changes regarding gaming since then.

The fact that both need an enema in order to run a game + the fact that out of nowhere it constantly had broken packages were the reasons I abandoned Mint forever. I'm watching a movie, then at some point there's a message on top of the movie saying that there are broken packages and that I should fix them. That's not a normal behavior for an OS. If there's anything Mint is good for, it's to make an inexperienced linux user, who until recently was a Windows user, go back to the safety of Windows bc Windows doesn't need an enema to run a game and it doesn't get broken packages out of nowhere. When I was that inexperienced user I had exactly the same thoughts several times but fortunately I had a very patient friend to help me deal with all of the Mint problems, so that I didn't have to go back to Windows. :)

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470.57.02 may fix some issues and bring DLSS but first it has bugs (my video card stays 15 degrees higher than usual in idle mode than it does with 465.31) and secondly, three digits for the version means it's a beta driver. No beta driver supports Nvidia Encoding also known as H265 NVENC which I use very often with Handbrake. There's an easy way to spot nvidia's fallacy regarding that driver - run handbrake and make it convert a large video file (for instance H264) with H265 NVENC. If the CPU goes to 100% whereas the video card keeps its normal idle temperature, that means the driver in question doesn't support NVENC. NVENC means that conversion is processed by both CPU and GPU, but mostly by the GPU.
To me the unavailability of NVENC is a deal breaker.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: ValsoYou would have saved the most of the troubles you had, if you had used Arch instead of Mint. Ubuntu, Mint and Debian need an enema in order to make them run any game, not just the VR.

You're skating awfully close to this (excellent) GOL rule:

Distribution wars that have plagued the Linux community are not welcome here. Bans will occur for people who engage in them or talk down to anyone for their choice.

You can find a link to the rules above the comment box.

Also, you're commenting on a year-old article about problems that by all accounts have since been solved. Just in case you didn't notice.

It wasn't my intention to start any war. I used Mint for almost 4 years, so what I said was based on my experience with it.

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You would have saved the most of the troubles you had, if you had used Arch instead of Mint. Ubuntu, Mint and Debian need an enema in order to make them run any game, not just the VR. All of the missing libraries you show on the screenshot in the article are available and installed by default in Arch - I didn't even know I had them until I manually searched for them.

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