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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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Guest... I've always been leery of linking my Steam account with others. Call me paranoid; 99.8% of the time it probably is.

I totally get your point, I feel the same, but for Paradox, I can make an exception. :wink:

This said, it seems there is a problem somewhere in the email process... Can't get the SteamGuard pin email, when I try to connect to my account. It seems it's getting lost somewhere and my email is not the issue, I tested it. Guess I'll try later.

As a workaround, you could try enabling two factor authentication (Steam Guard) and using the mobile app for this. You can just disable it afterwards.

EDIT: Well I guess you've already enabled 2FA, but the mobile app is still an option.

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Quoting: GuestWhy another account :-( I will skip this then... and I don't like these additional launchers anyway.

This one is just for the website. The DLC will be added to your Steam account.

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I already had my account set up (must have been quite a while as I don't even remember setting up that account) and Steam account linked (public profile), but I only see Stellaris in my games list on the Paradox account. I do own Cities: Skylines on Steam, and Battletech as well. I wonder if there's a problem?

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI annoy them because I disagree with them, won't back down from my views (or pretend to) prefer honest and direct words instead of buttering up or keeping my mouth shut if I disagree with anyone and call them out on their shenanigans.

I disagree. I mean, your needlessly argumentative tone is probably part of it, but they're not annoyed because you're "honest". They probably do disagree with you about them being weak minded whiners though. I don't know about you but people don't usually enjoy being talked down to.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI'd bet my other kidney that if I showed 100% the same kind of tone and behavior and everything else - but actually agreed with them on whatever the topic, they would not have taken even closely that much of an issue with it.

Well yeah, if you didn't insult them they probably wouldn't have found you nearly as annoying. Funny thing, that. They probably would have pointed out personal attacks towards someone though, judging by their past behaviour.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPJust look at all the jabs thrown at "gamers" in the posts - none of which were any better or worse than mine.

Any quotes? Worst I saw was some generic criticism of certain very visible aspects of what people call "gamer culture", and someone saying they don't want to be associated with that group. No personal insults or anything. Whereas your insults were quite personal.

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: tuubiYour smarter-than-thou attitude and talk of bubbles might hold some merit if these people weren't simply blocking some random dude with an abrasive manner on a forum. It just does not matter. They have better things to do. It's like walking away from an obnoxious loudmouth in a pub. He/she doesn't necessarily deserve an audience.

Eh, the majority of things I comment on an article is on-topic and not related to any poster. As it was in this thread, before the usual subjects got oh-so-attacked by my small remark calling out their "online people mean!" whining.

They complain about something, you don't agree, so you complain about them with an insult-cherry on top. Who won?

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: tuubiNow, if they were getting all their news exclusively from sources they happen to agree with, that would be an actual problem.

That's pretty much a given with people like that.

People like what? People who get annoyed if you insult them? Or just people you disagree with?

Quoting: TheSHEEEPOf course, it is always excused with "not worth my time" - the easy way out if you run out of arguments or never had any to begin with.

Internet arguments are mostly a waste of time. Hard to argue against that. A proper, productive discussion is one thing, but those are very rare and easy to spot early on. And they rarely involve insults.

Then there's entertaining banter, but that usually only happens between people who don't actually dislike each other. Anything that's neither entertaining nor productive is probably not worth your time.

I doubt anybody bothered reading all that, but in case someone got this far: I don't mind calling myself a gamer, for the same reason Eike does it. But it's almost exclusively as part of "Linux gamer". I also call myself a coder and a slacker. My wife occasionally calls me other things that end in "r", but I'd rather not repeat those here. :whistle:

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPOr, if that fails, block people for disagreeing with them. Yet another thing I'd never do.

Have you considered that maybe they block you because they find you annoying, not because they disagree with you? How is blocking a source of irritation a negative thing, if that's all you are to them?

Your smarter-than-thou attitude and talk of bubbles might hold some merit if these people weren't simply blocking some random dude with an abrasive manner on a forum. It just does not matter. They have better things to do. It's like walking away from an obnoxious loudmouth in a pub. He/she doesn't necessarily deserve an audience.

Now, if they were getting all their news exclusively from sources they happen to agree with, that would be an actual problem.

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