Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: legluondunetDebian and Debian-like distributions are not, to my experience, the best Linux distribution for gaming, their packages are not enough often updated and lack libraries dependencies. Arch and Aur are the way to follow for Linux gamers, SteamOS is ARCH based.
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.

Depends on your gaming. For heavy gaming with graphics-heavy AAA-type stuff, I expect you're right. I play mostly indie games that don't require either really heavy resource use or twitch reflexes (so I don't worry about frame rates). For light games like that, none of this stuff matters much, so just "whatever makes the nicest desktop" is also fine for the gaming.

Things that can actually make a difference, like the latest graphics drivers and kernels, are easily available for Mint, Ubuntu and pretty much any other mainstream distro. So Mint is perfectly fine even for heavy AAA-type stuff.

The "library dependencies" bit is a non-sequitur. No commercial game depends on bleeding edge libraries.

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Quoting: Liam Dawea seriously janky RPG called Arcanum

It wasn't that bad for the time. Near contemporaries like Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment were just as janky, if not in exactly the same way.

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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: tuubiIf the world were sane and software patents were not a thing, none of this would be necessary.

I'll take 20 year patents over life+95 years copyright any day of the week. Also I do think there's at least some level of creativity involved in making software, so I don't think the 'software is discovered, not invented' thing holds water. That said I'll agree that patent trolls and defensive patents are clear signs that the patent system could do with improvement. I just don't know how you would improve it without causing patent offices to need entire legions of employees to be able to do their job properly.

The real harm software patents do to innovation and healthy competition is too serious to ignore. Software patents need to go and patent trolls need to find a new grift. FSFE [External Link] has a decently concise write-up on the subject, although it could be better.

But sure, if someone thinks of a system that makes software patents actually beneficial to society at large, bring them back. Keeping them around until that happens does more harm than good.

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If the world were sane and software patents were not a thing, none of this would be necessary.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe amount of time required to research addons and configure Kodi is too much of a entry barrier. I would rather save my time and throw money at something to save me my time. I would even buy Kodi Plus or something if it meant a system that went toe to toe with SmartTV functions without the nonsense in a FOSSy way. It's totally okay to sell FOSS @Kodi. (Eg: Redhat, Ubuntu, Linux Autos, etc..)

Since I found Plex and now Jellyfin, I have no use for Kodi anymore. My experience is the same as yours, a lot of configuration and plugins and the controls are bit hard.

I have to agree. I like Kodi, but Jellyfin has been a breeze in comparison. The WebOS client on my LG OLED can be a bit fussy with some file formats, but otherwise it just works.

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Quoting: dpanterA couple of really good games in the mix, your call if the 300+ € savings was worth 20 bucks.

Your math is faulty. You only saved money on the games you'd have bought anyway, and only if you'd have spent more than that 20 bucks on them. But I suppose it doesn't matter if you're happy with the purchase.

Personally I don't see why I'd ever buy one of these "mystery" bundles.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismNow that HB is a subsidiary of IGN, does anyone remember who HB's copycats and lookalikes were?

I would prefer to keep an eye on the Indie and side market. HB is kindof like going to the mall.

I don't know if GMG ever did any bundles
https://greenmangaming.com [External Link]

I might have been thinking of Fanatical (Bundle Stars), looks like SS is 17.99 there at the moment
https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/system-shock [External Link]

There was the one that shut down. And there might have been another one, help me out if anyone remembers.

IndieGala maybe? That one's still around.

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Not the kind of game I usually buy, it looks silly and fun. I'd like to enter.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: The ArticleI imagine most of you gaming are likely at least on the 560 series

I rolled back from Linux Mint 22 because I felt it was too early for it to take over from LM 21.3 as a gaming platform.

Did your problems have something to do with your Nvidia hardware? Or did the switch to pipewire mess with your audio somehow? I haven't noticed any regressions myself.

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Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylayYou probably already had its dependencies downloaded and built.

I downloaded the LACT 0.6.0 source tarball, ran `rustup update` (I haven't touched rust in a long while), installed libgtk-4-dev and blueprint-compiler (the only dependencies I was missing) with apt and ran "make". I'm pretty sure that was a full build. In fact, I extremely rarely install anything from source on this machine.

I'm obviously not disputing that Rust can be slower to compile than C. Worth it in my opinion as a developer, but I see how that can annoy users of source based distros.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylaySadly its written in rust so it takes forever to compile on my computer, even with my cpu with 24 threads

Took less than a minute for me on my eight cores. I suppose that's pretty long but not quite forever.

Just for reference, it took 3 minutes 41 seconds to build on my 5950X (16 core).

That's weird. According to benchmarks, your CPU should be slightly faster than my 9700x at compiling software. Maybe it's got something to do with how the arch package is set up?

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