Quoting: Purple Library GuyThinking of big mistakes, that linked website is designed in such a way that if I hit the "+" button enough to make the print pleasantly comfortable to my eyes, the column with the actual text disappears, swallowed by the sidebars. :grin:

If you use Firefox, have you tried Reader mode? Hit the page icon at the right of the address bar, or Ctrl+Alt+R. I think Chrome/Chromium has a similar feature as well.

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Quoting: KuduzkehpanTransgaming with (proton wine cedega qemu etc..) is not the real gaming way in linux and shouldn't be.
but transgaming boosting linux popularity more than any other stuff on linux too.
İts a double agent thing as Trending "proton compatible" trick by game developers. Build for windows but earny money from linux users just because Linux users found a way to run that software on their linux system.
and still transgaming is just like rolling dice. For example i got new AMDGPU now lutris games not working anymore. But Steam proton works like a charm.

Please don't try to coin TransGaming—the name of the (ex-)company—as a generic term for this. I realise some generic term might be needed but this is not it.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualYou can get up to 5 years of next-day business repair, anywhere in the world. Dell will come to you even if you are on holiday, to your hotel, to repair your laptop for you. No other manufacturer offers you this that I am aware of; they always want you to send your laptop in, if not ship it via post, wait 2-4 weeks, and more than likely they'll be unable to repair it because they stopped producing those parts months or years ago.

As someone who's had a tech come in at short notice and replace the motherboard of my laptop on my kitchen table back when I was still running my own little business from home, I'm with you on this one. Definitely worth it if you can't make a living without the laptop.

That said, next business day on-site support is available from most of the big business brands. Dell, HP and Lenovo for sure. Price and quality of support might differ though. And they don't usually cover anything outside of their business ranges of products.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySounds pretty good!
Um,

Mint now uses IPP (Driverless Printing and Scanning)

Anyone know what the implications of that are? Is it good news? Bad?

If you've got a relatively modern USB printer or a network printer from the last couple of decades, it should be detected automatically and Just Work™. If it doesn't, you can restore the old behaviour by simply removing a couple of packages.

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Quoting: itscalledrealityIs the Gecko engine the same as the Mozilla Firefox Gecko or do they just share the same name?

It's the same engine.

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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

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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.

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

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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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