Quoting: sigz

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: sigzI don't understand why we still build keyboards with staggered keys... Orthogonal columns/rows is the best way to make modern keyboards, the legacy disposition must disappear.

Because some of us don't want to learn to touch type again after decades of using staggered ones? The advantages are mostly academic with full size keyboards anyway.

One size does not fit all.

There is no learning curve for that...

No reward either.

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Quoting: ValsoSteam installs with a click but that installs only Steam - not the relevant libraries needed for gaming, those you have to install manually.

The package brings in all of its own direct dependencies. Game developers are responsible for their own dependencies and testing, and that's how it's supposed to be. If a native game on Steam needs you to manually install something on a supported distribution, that warrants a bug report to the developer. Or are you saying the Steam package should depend on every single library some game or app on Steam might want to make use of as well?

Quoting: ValsoWhen I was that inexperienced user I had exactly the same thoughts several times but fortunately I had a very patient friend to help me deal with all of the Mint problems, so that I didn't have to go back to Windows. :)

I'm pretty sure you'd have had the same amount of trouble on any distribution due to your inexperience. Unless you assume those four years taught you nothing about Linux and you'd have had no trouble at all on Arch (as it was years ago) as a newbie.

In the past, there have been a bunch of games that needed workarounds on Arch but ran perfectly out of the box on Ubuntu (and Mint), often due to developers only testing on Ubuntu's latest LTS as recommended by Valve among others. Dying Light comes to mind as an example.

Things have been getting better though, and I don't see these kinds of discussions and articles as often these days.

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Quoting: sigzI don't understand why we still build keyboards with staggered keys... Orthogonal columns/rows is the best way to make modern keyboards, the legacy disposition must disappear.

Because some of us don't want to learn to touch type again after decades of using staggered ones? The advantages are mostly academic with full size keyboards anyway.

One size does not fit all.

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Quoting: ValsoYou would have saved the most of the troubles you had, if you had used Arch instead of Mint. Ubuntu, Mint and Debian need an enema in order to make them run any game, not just the VR.

You're skating awfully close to this (excellent) GOL rule:

Distribution wars that have plagued the Linux community are not welcome here. Bans will occur for people who engage in them or talk down to anyone for their choice.

You can find a link to the rules above the comment box.

Also, you're commenting on a year-old article about problems that by all accounts have since been solved. Just in case you didn't notice.

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Quoting: TcheyI’m not fond of goffy games, or the ones based on half broken physics.

One of the best "open survival crafting" game i’ve played (not in time played or depth etc but in my memory, it left an deep positive impact), is actually a really weird one : Wrong World (via Proton).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/664750/Wrongworld/ [External Link]

At first i almost forced myself to try it, but i quickly felt in love with the many ideas and discoveries. It’s weird, but seriously well done.

I recognize the name. Wrongworld was originally supposed to get a Linux release, and Liam wrote several articles about it.

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Quoting: ExpalphalogSteam frequently does those sales where you get something for every $X that you spend. Usually, it's a trading card, which I immediately sell for a few cents, which translates to less money spent.

That's pretty much every steam sale these days, this one included. You get a card per $10 / 8.40 € spent, I think. But considering you won't net more than maybe 0.05 € for selling one, you won't be saving much.

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More than 100 games on my wishlist currently on sale, but I'll try my best to resist. I really need to play the ones I've already bought. My pile of shame is getting out of hand. Buying things just because they're cheap isn't wise.

Maybe I'll grab just one or two.

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Quoting: GuestI'd still recommend Mint for new users and I check what's new from time to time but even with my really old PC Mint feels a bit too "limited" and so does every other Ubuntu based distro, I just can't go back to deal with PPAs when there's a better option.

I spent my first few years on Linux running distributions like Gentoo, manually compiling kernels and other software, fiddling with and learning the ins and outs of the system. And I loved it.

These days I just want a distro that lets me get on with things, doesn't require much maintenance, and works in a way that I find intuitive out of the box. Mint does a good job of hitting my sweet spot, both for gaming and for work.

Naturally we've all got our preferences and priorities. There's a distro for everyone but there's no distro to rule them all. Use whatever you find interesting and/or practical, but don't go around telling people that their choice is wrong. Unless they run something other than Linux, of course. :tongue:

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Quoting: PalancaProton is unstoppable.

When Linux will be on all PC, Proton will die.

At that point it'll still serve a purpose, enabling people to play their old Windows games that never got ported.

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I don't think I'm going to get much mileage out of Bulky on Mint Xfce. Thunar's mass renamer is pretty great.

Also, Ubuntu's 5.8 HWE kernels should be available out of the box in addition to the very conservative defaults. Just install them in the kernel manager. And gamers on AMD or Intel hardware who want to go with something more recent (like me) will find multiple easy ways to access the latest kernels. Xanmod's packages have served me well there.

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