Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: STiATI'm using Nvidia and decided I will just buy it once it's confirmed running. I have no doubts it will, most games running on deck do actually run on Nvidia.

And seriously, playing a cat in a survival game? Couldn't be a cooler setting. An almost perfect hunter with night vision in a survival game...

I mean the feline is the world's greatest murderer.

Well, mustelids (weasels, wolverines) I think are in the running there. Really, the world has a lot of really expert murderers.

The dragonfly laughs at all the furry amateurs.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Mountain ManGames bought in Linux and played in Proton are logged in Steam as a Linux sale, so people refusing to buy any game that requires Proton are, at least theoretically, directly harming Linux.

So if I choose to buy a native Linux game instead of a Windows game, how exactly am I harming Linux? Please explain. Nothing theoretical about this, it happens regularly.

It reduces the number of Linux sales for certain titles, which tells those developers that they were right to not support Linux directly. That's the exact opposite of what we want.

So let me get this straight: If a developer actually puts out a Linux native game that I'm interested in, I should definitely not buy it. Instead, I should buy some Windows game in the hopes that the developer might notice us and maybe support Linux in the future.

Do you perhaps see how this might confuse a simple penguin? Seems almost backwards, to put it mildly. To me it's pretty clear that buying a Windows game does less to help Linux gaming than actually buying Linux games.

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Quoting: Mountain ManGames bought in Linux and played in Proton are logged in Steam as a Linux sale, so people refusing to buy any game that requires Proton are, at least theoretically, directly harming Linux.

So if I choose to buy a native Linux game instead of a Windows game, how exactly am I harming Linux? Please explain. Nothing theoretical about this, it happens regularly.

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Quoting: Frawo

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: GuestWindows only, shame... When i saw the trailer it looked like a nice game.

Why is it a shame?

Are you asking that because you don't know the person's answer or because you do know and you're waiting for their reply so you can give them a hard time?
Proton is great, but I don't think there's any point to razzing people for preferring Linux native.

While I would also prefer a native Linux version, I think it is a bit unfair to blame developers for not releasing one. We need to get over this native/non-native thingy. They even showed their commitment by ensuring their game is Deck verified.

Asking for a native version is one thing, blaming developers for not having one is another.

I didn't take it as blaming. Maybe something closer to my own reaction to articles like this: "Seems like an interesting game, but there's a couple hundred native Linux games on my wishlist and those will always take priority."

In fact, looking at said wishlist and how it hasn't fallen under 150 entries in years, I'm in no danger of ever running out of native games to buy and play, so I really don't mind rewarding devs for being Tux-friendly. Still, sometimes I can't help feeling a bit disappointed when a new entry in my GOL RSS feed piques my interest, but the article turns out to be about a title that doesn't support Linux. Hence the "shame".

And to be clear, I have nothing against the tech. If a dev commits to support Wine/Proton as a first class target platform (as in, my support requests and bug reports won't be outright refused or punted down to a lower priority when I tell them I'm playing on Linux), I'm fine with that.

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Quoting: 14I am against the cultural trend of pom poms for everything, and if you are against something, be silent. That is dangerous.

There's nothing dangerous about a Linux gaming site disallowing inflammatory, non-gaming related topics of discussion, if only to keep the community welcoming and inclusive. No need for the drama. Surely we can agree that you're not owed a platform and/or an audience whenever and wherever you decide to voice an opinion.

If you feel like your cause is just and important, by all means, protest and discuss to your heart's content, but please find a more suitable venue for it. Maybe one of the gazillion political discussion platforms out there, or your local pub.

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🤍🤎🧡🫀🎔💓💕💖💗 Happy Birthday GOL. 💘💙💚💛💜💝💞💟

Still the only gaming community worth my time, even if life has kept me away from games lately. I'll be back though, sooner or later.

Quoting: GroganI'd give you a thumbs up emoji, :thumbsup: if there was one :-)

You can! But you'll have to resort to unicode symbols: 👍

Spoiler, click me

Either copy-paste from a character map application like gucharmap, or "simply" type ctrl+shift+u, then 1f44d and hit enter.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: ShmerlColor syncing reminds SailfishOS ambience idea. Cool concept and it's nice to see.

Waiting for Debian testing to finally get Qt 5.15.4 to be able to switch to the KDE Wayland session and avoid that nasty monitor sleep bug.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qtbase-opensource-src [External Link]

Man, I wish I could have enjoyed owning a SailfishOS device... I really miss being able to use my N9 or even N900.... now that 3G is essentially dead.

Sailfish OS [External Link] works fine for me on my Sony Xperia 10, with official support from Jolla. But unless you're in "the countries of the European Union, UK, Norway [or] Switzerland", you're out of luck.

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Quoting: Free_gamer

Quoting: tuubiIs there a good use case for exclusive full screen these days besides working around DE/compositor quirks? I tend to always pick borderless window if it's available. I haven't seen a downside yet on my system.

Frankly, I can't think of one, quite the opposite to be honest. I can remember back in the day (2005-2010) it was way worse than nowadays, because games would pretty much always change the resolution of the screen, alt-tab was not possible, when the game crashed the screen resolution stayed at the wrong resolution, etc. Back in the day I used to launch games in their own X11 session/server because of these issues.

Borderless fullscreen windows pretty much fixed all of these issues and I can't think of a game where I don't use borderless when it's available.

Yeah I remember the old days as well. That's why I qualified my question with "these days".

Quoting: Free_gamerIt's only strange in the case of this game, because they mention exclusive fullscreen in the options, but it's not available.

Sounds strange indeed.

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Quoting: Free_gamerBut yeah, it's strange that they don't offer real fullscreen (only borderless and window), but I'm not sure if that happened with the latest update or if the release version also already had that issue.

Is there a good use case for exclusive full screen these days besides working around DE/compositor quirks? I tend to always pick borderless window if it's available. I haven't seen a downside yet on my system.

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Quoting: PublicNuisance

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PublicNuisanceNo privacy kill switches; no Coreboot support; looks like closed source firmware required on the GPU and wifi. If I was getting a new laptop i'd spend the extra money and get a Librem 14 or if I was spending the same/less i'd get suped up T440P from Vikings. I can see the appeal if wanting an AMD CPU/GPU is a dealbreaker for you but seems like a lot to give up on the privacy/security front.

A lot of people gave up on privacy long ago. I know I pretty much have; I can either spend a ton of time being obsessed with it and still probably not really succeed, or I can accept that the only reason there probably isn't anyone who knows that much about my really private stuff is that nobody cares, but all the information I generate that has any use for targeted advertising is applied in ten seconds flat and that's just how it's gonna be until the revolution comes.

Be the change you want to see. If you don't care about privacy then that's one thing but if one does care; does nothing to achieve what privacy they can; and then complains how they have none; then they get no sympathy from me.

I don't do nearly all that I can, but I do several things that I find convenient enough: I've never had social media accounts; I avoid devices, operating systems and services by google/amazon/apple/microsoft/insert-megacorp-here; I prefer local and self-hosted software to alternatives in the cloud; I block ads and most cookies; and so on. None of that costs me much time really. In fact, in some cases it saves me a lot of it. And I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything important or even interesting.

I have no desire to fake my death, wrap myself in tinfoil and go live in a cave, but I don't think that's a reason to give up on my privacy completely.

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