I remember following Inkscape development back when it was forked from Sodipodi. Apparently that happened in 2003. I guess I've been a fan for quite a while already. I've used it for everything from UI mockups to illustrations for documentation in my day job as well as for random doodles like my silly little avatar.

And Krita is just a perfect match for our Cintiq.

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Quoting: EikeI really like modesty, but making a 1.0 after what feels after a decade of usefulness seems to be too much for me. (I can't remember what other famous example there was. Was it Gimp? One not so famous would be KDiff3, which I'm using for a decade at least 17 years :O and which never got a 1.0 by its original maintainer.)

Unlike age, a version is just a number. ;)

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Quoting: fagnerlnIt's really awesome, because of it I discovered a big inconvenient, Vulkan uses A LOT of VRAM, I played some games with pretty bad performance and my GPU is good enough to run it, and I noticed that my VRAM was filled up, so I need to turn down some effects to put the game on <4GB range.

I have a 580 4GB, it's like driving a good car with the hand brake applied.

Vulkan doesn't use any more VRAM than any other API. A Vulkan renderer might, but that's up to the developers.

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It's available on GOG Connect [External Link] as well if someone already bought it on Steam.

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Quoting: GuestThey've already removed the necessary files by the looks of it - didn't even give people a warning who might otherwise have had a chance to download and backup everything (assuming it could be run without Steam), or provide an archived copy somewhere.

I can still install the Linux versions of We Were Here and We Were Here Too just fine.
EDIT: First one missing the launch config like Liam says.

By the way, this announcement only shows up in the Steam news feed for the first game. I know their wording makes it pretty clear that the sequel will lose support as well, but is that actually confirmed?

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Quoting: mylka

Quoting: GuestAnyone here who can tell me what they exactly mean with AMD and Intel not supported? I assume that you can still play it but yeah.

this game came out 1yr after steam linux client
linux gaming kinda sucked back then

some older games have this warning like witcher 2, which works for me

MESA based drivers (e.g. "nouveau", "radeonsi") are not currently supported.

shouldnt be a problem today

Ambient occlusion (SSAO) doesn't work properly if set to HDAO on Mesa 20.0.5, but "Standard" seems fine. Otherwise runs perfectly with everything maxed out at 1080p on my hardware, but that's no surprise.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeFlatpack and snap both try to fill up /, so if you have a separate /home, it can cause some issues. I had been testing something in a VM and the flatpak package cache did that to me.

That's true. Flatpak cache directories can really pile up in your /var/tmp/. These are used to enable partial downloads if I've understood correctly. I manually delete them every once in a while, but a simple script or systemd service could take care of that just fine at shutdown/startup.

The packages themselves can be installed either in a system-wide prefix (/var/lib/flatpak on Mint) or per user (under ~/.local/share/flatpak).

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: tuubiHey, wait a minute. What do you mean? Sure, they added support for flatpaks in their software center (mintinstall) alongside the normal deb packages, but beyond that I haven't noticed them recommending, much less pushing them. No flatpaks installed by default, no deb packages removed in favour of flatpaks or anything like that. Am I missing something?

They did choose to support flatpak instead of snap, if that's what you mean.

Just "clean" installing all my computers with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now, so I don't have a screenshot to show you...

But like Ubuntu's "snap" Software Center, Linux Mint's equivalent had both the "regular" package and the "Flatpak" package of many software titles - in most cases, the latter was the current version of <software title> and the "regular" package was an older version (e.g. <software title> as a Debian package would be version 1.x, and the Flatpak package of the same software title would be 2.x).

For various reasons - one of which is that Snaps and Flatpak seem to get updated / upgraded quicker than Debian packages - I prefer to use Snaps and Flatpak... So I replace most of the software on my computer with the Snap / Flatpak version, in addition to installing new software as Snaps / Flatpaks, where ever possible.

I'm sure this was not the case for all Flatpaks under Linux Mint - but I use a fair bit of software, and this was my experience for most of those programs...

Browsing by category in mintinstall seems to list apt packages only, and flatpaks are under their own special category. Searching for packages does list both. All in all, seems like a fairly passive way to "push" flatpaks, and not really comparable to what Canonical/Ubuntu is doing with snaps, IMHO. It's nice that they're there as an option though.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyOther distros do the exact same thing, except with Flatpak - Linux Mint is a perfect example here, and I doubt they're the only ones...

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyI have been running Linux Mint for the last 9-ish months - which pushes Flatpak hard

Hey, wait a minute. What do you mean? Sure, they added support for flatpaks in their software center (mintinstall) alongside the normal deb packages, but beyond that I haven't noticed them recommending, much less pushing them. No flatpaks installed by default, no deb packages removed in favour of flatpaks or anything like that. Am I missing something?

They did choose to support flatpak instead of snap, if that's what you mean.

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Quoting: The_Aquabat

Quoting: armageddon51Currently the 2600 is $174 at Newegg. It is a though choice but the pricing of the 3300X at $120 is pretty much on the spot.

who would be able to buy at those prices?? with supplies chains collapsing, prices have skyrocketed, for example it's practically imposible to find NAVI cards at MSRP.

Prices in the EU don't seem that bad. At least here in Finland the RX5700 XT is cheaper than it was before the pandemic when I bought mine.

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