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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: 14If I was developing a game, I would think about it honestly. No cut for early launch period, and then smaller cut than Steam takes after that.

Yes, but a smaller cut of what? How much visibility and how many sales would you give up on by limiting yourself to a single storefront? Would you sell >30% more copies on Steam in the first year?

Hard to say, but we can't simplify the problem by assuming that all the stores are equal and interchangeable. You might just end up with a bigger piece of a significantly smaller pie.

I get that. But I also get that some content creators may want Steam to have less grip on the market so that Epic's terms are more attractive in the short-term as well as strategically.

I will again point out Audible. I buy audio books on Libro.fm for DRM-free but also for matter of principle against Audible's author profits terms. What if zero authors were willing to sell on Libro.fm? There would be no threat to Audible. I would be a hypocrite to say game developers should only go for maximum profits (Steam) but authors should avoid Audible.

Even though Steam treats me better than Epic store, I understand how difficult it is for other companies to take bites out of the monopoly. That is my main point, and it applies to any company that has an iron market grip, whether I like them (Valve) or not (Audible).

Sure. I'm no fan of monopolies either. That's part of the reason I buy games on GOG and Itch as well. But EGS with their anti-consumer exclusivity deals and complete lack of Linux support isn't gaining my custom any time soon. In general, you don't fix a less-than-perfect status quo by supporting a blatantly worse outsider.

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Quoting: ShmerlSo far it's not free on GOG and itch.io, but I suppose the developer just didn't get to changing that yet:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/helium_rain [External Link]
https://deimos-games.itch.io/helium-rain [External Link]

I guess you missed the last sentence of the article:

They both go free to play on September 1st.

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Quoting: 14If I was developing a game, I would think about it honestly. No cut for early launch period, and then smaller cut than Steam takes after that.

Yes, but a smaller cut of what? How much visibility and how many sales would you give up on by limiting yourself to a single storefront? Would you sell >30% more copies on Steam in the first year?

Hard to say, but we can't simplify the problem by assuming that all the stores are equal and interchangeable. You might just end up with a bigger piece of a significantly smaller pie.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: EikeMy line is not yours to judge, Liam. I'm not religious about it (I do buy games to run under Proton for my children e.g.), but I personally did not install Linux to run exes and dlls, and that's a reasonable line, just as others are.

Well, we all judge and debate each other, it’s part of why we have comments after all 😜, I just find it an odd stance to have really. As if it truly matters what’s running behind it.

I will just stop engaging in these native vs proton comments if i can help it 😂. I just want people to have fun with games, on Linux, but this repeating “would get if native” is tiresome to see repeatedly so often when people can literally click a button and play it. ✌️

Be fair Liam. You had the same Linux-only stance for a good while. You've obviously given up on that and that's fine, but you don't need to act so condescending towards the minority here who still like to support Linux games exclusively. It doesn't hurt anyone.

I only buy native simply because I can't possibly buy and play every interesting game out there anyway. Giving my cash to developers who make the effort to support Linux gives me the warm fuzzies, so that's as good a rule as any to follow. Even with 99% native games on my wishlist, I never seem to be able to keep it to a reasonable size anyway. More than 200 Linux native games on it right at this moment, and that's just the Steam wishlist.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: tuubiI don't know about him, but I like a separate home partition simply because it makes reinstalling or dual booting distributions a bit simpler. I don't do either of these often, but still.

am i him ? okay then :grin:

I was referring to Purple Library Guy, as my response was to a question that was asked of him.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: 14Save yourself the headache and use a single partition layout next time. The benefits of multiple partitions on the same disk are not worth it.

I don't mess with much, but I do very much like to keep a separate /home partition.

What are you gaining from that? When you copy to a new drive, do you do it at block level or something? Are you using different mount options? Different filesystem? I'm curious why you like it very much, enough to have to manage a synthetic size limitation.

I don't know about him, but I like a separate home partition simply because it makes reinstalling or dual booting distributions a bit simpler. I don't do either of these often, but still.

Your big downside is a non-issue if you can allocate more than the bare minimum for your root partition in the first place. There's nothing to manage, unless you worry about potentially wasting a few gigs of drive space.

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Quoting: LoftyThe problem i have had consistently across mint installs and different hardware is that the Boot partition fills really quickly when i added the custom kernal. This means i have to manually clear out older entries (try not to do the wrong one by mistake). It keeps happening and all i have done is choose the same upgrade option as is available to everyone else.
It's a pain, it's pretty unprofessional to have to do this on a distro that promotes ease of use..

The update manager's configuration dialog has a "Remove obsolete kernels and dependencies" setting. It's been there for a good while.

Quoting: LoftySo i don't advise my from experience adding custom kernals to linux mint. Not only that the kernals are not LTS anyway and your then potentially creating the same problem when the next big upgrade occurs and the upgraded kernals fills up the boot along side your previous manually upgraded kernal etc...

The "custom" kernel I'm using is a metapackage that depends on the last two versions of the actual kernel image, so it only keeps one fallback kernel installed. If you're curious, it's Xanmod's [External Link] stable mainline. Has been serving me well for a couple of years now.

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Quoting: staywithmeWhat's stopping anyone from installing the 6.2 kernel on current LM (21.2)? The option's right there in Mint's update manager!

Nothing's stopping anyone from installing it. In fact, I'm always running the latest stable kernel (6.4.10 currently) on Mint and setting that up only took a couple of minutes. No need to touch the terminal even.

The point is to have an installation image that works on your brand new hardware. That's all. You can't exactly get into the update manager if the live USB doesn't even start.

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Quoting: GuppyBut weather it was the 'server-open' or the difference in the minor 535 version that was the reason I've no clue ( nor honestly the inclination to find out :P )

As far as I understand (also not inclined to spend time looking this up as I have no Nvidia hardware), the "headless" server variant gives you the bits needed for GPGPU/compute stuff but it doesn't install a full graphics driver. So it's just a special package for servers without displays.

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Quoting: GuppyI'm still pondering buying the game.. but it nvidia 525.125.06 high enough to play the game? Mint has yet to update past that version :(

Mint doesn't update them at all. They come from the base Ubuntu repositories. Although I just checked, and 535.86.05 is right there. The Mint driver manager GUI (mintdrivers) should let you switch to the newer version.

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