Quoting: Kuduzkehpan

it's perfectly possible for open source software to succeed under capitalism; as you say, we know this because plenty of it does.

OSS cant be monopoly. it may be tool for monopoly.

Just in case you've misunderstood, monopolies are not desirable in capitalistic economies. Sure, one of the big problems of the system is it depends on competition to keep the market healthy, while every one of these competitors strive to beat their competition, in effect striving to attain a monopoly of their market.

The system obviously doesn't benefit the society itself -- meaning the people the society consists of -- without strict rules and state oversight, because it is not in the financial interest of uncaring companies to be satisfied with balance and stability. It's all about unlimited growth, which is just as absurd as it sounds.

I'd argue there's no economic system currently around that's any better though, because all of them tend to be based on flawed, simplistic models of societies where the human element and other critical factors are almost completely ignored. This goes for capitalism as well.

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Quoting: JJNovaI'm thinking SwiftPaw has ties to Full Bright.

What? :D

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Quoting: calfrettuubi, with all due respect you are way off base here. To clarify, you are absolutely correct. Now throw all that logic out and insert the human factor. We are talking about market share here, and billions of users don't care about fair comparisons or specifics. They only care about one thing: does this object do what I want it to do?

Hey, you're the one forgetting the human factor. Namely the fact that we're not a homogeneous group with the same values, priorities and preferences. For me personally market share is secondary. I just want as many people, communities and businesses as possible to discover the joys of using a sane, secure operating system and taking control of their computers. Oh and games are fun too I guess.

Oh, of course a large market share would bring a lot of AAA games and software to our platform. I get why some of you/us are not quite as happy with Linux as I am, but hey, human factor and all that.

Quoting: KuduzkehpanAnd if communism evil so the ideas of it too as linux.

Seems like people on both sides of the fence keep mixing up communism and socialism, capitalism and democracy, and propagate the delusion that any of this is about good and evil. Linux is equally great for communists and capitalists alike. And for us who don't much care for either.

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Quoting: De1m0sI know all that. But this is just one example. And i do live with it. But no matter why things don't run as they should; you can't sell that to the common user.

Therein lies the rub: There's no reason why Windows games should run perfectly on Linux. That's just unreasonable to expect and says nothing about how hard or easy Linux is for the common user. I do get that you're frustrated, but your blame is misplaced.

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A steam key for the game is on sale for 4.99 € on Bundle Stars [External Link] for a few hours if anyone's interested. I'm not a fan of the store, but it should be legit.

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Quoting: De1m0sAnd this is the part, where i can understand, that for this time now, Linux is not for the common people.

Please read what you just wrote and report back when you understand how ridiculous your example is. :D

In case you need help with that, the "koku-xinput" you mentioned is an external patch for Wine, which means your problem is with a Windows game on Linux. Now please go judge Windows by the same rules. Try to run a Linux game on Windows and tell us how well that goes for you. Getting controllers to work might very well be the least of your problems.

As far as Wine's xinput support is concerned, it is under development but still unfinished. If compiling Wine with external patches seems hard -- and that's perfectly understandable -- you'll just have to do like the rest of those normal users you mentioned and wait for that support to be finished and released into builds you can simply install using your package manager.

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Quoting: GuestWe have to accept that words, symbols change meanings over history. Some people indeed hide behind *social justice* (especially on social media), to preach (bad word, couldn't find better, sorry) about the things they don't like.

If a group misuses a term, giving it a negative spin, that doesn't mean the meaning has changed for anyone else. A quick search provides this definition [External Link] of social justice:

Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.

Please provide a non-biased alternative definition if you can. Oh wait, nevermind that. Could we not talk about games on Linux instead?

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I bought this game as a present to my nephew when he was just a bit too young to actually enjoy it. I ended up basically playing it for him while he watched. A decent metroidvania-style platformer, well worth playing.

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Quoting: EikeIt's available for Linux, but as they've got launch problems on SteamOS, they didn't yet mark it as such:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/343860/discussions/0/1458455461499293622/ [External Link]

(Didn't see that in the article. If I didn't just miss it, it should be added.)

Right below the trailer:

Note: The game does not have a SteamOS/Linux icon on Steam, but it can be downloaded and played it’s just not advertised yet. The game has some technical issue with SteamOS directly, which is preventing it being listed. See more info on that here.

Reading between the lines is a useful skill, but there's something to be said for reading the actual lines as well. :P

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It's been on my wishlist for a day or two already. I've always been a sucker for comedy adventure.

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