Quoting: kuhpunktEmbrace, extend, extinguish?

There's bound to be an Extender Group looming in the background, biding their time to acquire Embracer, and finally an Extinguisher Group that snags the whole bunch just before they declare bankruptcy and go down in flames. (No, wait...)

Anyway, I'm sure it's all a big conspiracy.

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Quoting: tuubiI don't think you've earned the right to use the word. Let's call it summer lite or something.

Haha, nah that's totally winter. I was looking at my thermometer the other night at about 2am and it was down to 10 degrees! Ten! I think we can all agree that's just intolerable ;)

Damn whingers with their fake winters...

Talk to me when you go below -30c.

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Quoting: antisolBloody whinging pommies - 27 degrees is "hot", Lol. That's winter temperatures mate! :tongue:

If that's winter temperatures for you, I don't think you've earned the right to use the word. Let's call it summer lite or something.

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Quoting: GuestIm sad with the new UI. It looks good but i get around 3 fps when scrolling in steam ui on my gtx 1080 (at 4k resolution). This only happens on linux. Its sad to see that valve has ignored this issue for many years. The old UI ran at 144 fps on my computer (fps limit).

Try toggling GPU acceleration in Steam's interface settings if you haven't already. That might help while you wait for a proper fix.

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Quoting: mylkafor how long gaming on linux is a thing and nothing really changed?!?!

Nothing really changed? Are you serious?

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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.

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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