Quoting: GuestPersonally, I don't like the steam controller. Badly shaped for my hands, feels like poor construction quality, and needs additional userspace utilities to use it (unlike my other controllers).
I much prefer the Logitech F710.

My story exactly. I really like the idea of the Steam Controller. It just feels impossible to use ergonomically, and the various noises drive me crazy. I kinda feel bad about this because I got it as a gift from a friend, and then had to go and buy another Logitech gamepad anyway.

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Quoting: AciD

Quoting: NanobangAfter 4 decades of touch-typing on QWERTY keyboards I'll never be able to type on anything else. I'll certainly never be able to type on anything as singularly arranged as the System 76 keyboard shown above.

Well, I can tell you that the brain is a marvelous machine, since I already touch-typed on Azerty before, and while it took me about 3 months to regain (and surpass) my previous wpm speed on the Dvorak layout, this absolutely does not mean you forget how to touch-type with your previous layout.
This only happens with Homer Simpson ;)
When you learn to drive, do you forget how to ride a bike ? Well same thing with keyboard layouts !

I takes me months to adjust to a new laptop keyboard with an ever so slightly different QWERTY layout. Just like it takes me ages to get comfortable with a new game controller. In any case, I just don't see the point in relearning to type. I'm sure you can type faster with your fancy keyboard, but I'm perfectly fine with that. :)

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Quoting: PinguinoSo, are they just going to ignore Rapture Rejects exists?

This might still be the first ever C&H video game when it's out. Early Access doesn't count. ;)

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Quoting: soulsourceI can fully recommend Last Word. The story is captivating, and the battles are mostly entertaining, although the "war of attrition" that occurs frequently in battles is a bit boring.

I bought and refunded the game because I was so disappointed in the battle mechanic. I really liked the idea as written in the blurb, but I didn't enjoy the implementation.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe search stuff is fine for things whose name you remember. But, the stuff whose name I remember I mostly don't start from the menu, I start from a launcher--either a launcher I stuck on a taskbar or a launcher I leave sitting on the screen somewhere

If it works anything like the search function on MATE (and I believe it does), you don't have to remember the exact name. I can hit Win then "word processor" and AbiWord, FocusWriter and LibreOffice Writer all come up, and only one of those even has "word" in the name.

I bet most of these make use of the GenericName, Name, Exec and Comment fields of the freedesktop.org standard [External Link] .desktop entries. Or the localized versions of these fields where available. At least that's how Xfce's Whisker Menu seems to do it.

Oh and Xfce is obviously the best desktop environment for the best people.

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Quoting: Creak

Quoting: aokamiI'm going to upgrade my FX-8350 for a Ryzen 7 Gen 2 as well, haha.
Would you go with a X570 motherboard ?

I'm unsure about that.. clearly PCIe 4.0 is the future, but X570 adds yet another (cheap?) fan and thus yet another possible source of noise. Since I don't do video editing, I know I won't need the extra bandwidth PCIe 4.0 offers. So in the end, I'm torn. I guess it will eventually depend on the price of these motherboards too.

I saved quite a lot of money when I went for the X470 instead a few months ago. Don't know if the price difference is still quite as high. I decided that using that cash to buy faster RAM instead was more practical.

I have to admit remembering a couple of chipset fans with noisy bearings from the olden times might have factored into my decision. Even if these modern ones are likely to be less crappy.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: GuestSince RDNA2 will support Ray Tracing does that mean we can use it in games like Quake 2 RTX or Metro Exodus or would those games need to be patched to work with AMD?

Good question, considering Nvidia did the work.

Depends on whether AMD adds support for Nvidia's VK_NV_ray_tracing Vulkan extension (somehow I doubt it), or rather the upcoming standard one being worked on by the Vulkan Ray Tracing TSG. The latest info I found is that the group is "fairly far along in the process". A few details about the design can be found on pages 27-30 of these SIGGRAPH presentation slides [External Link] from last year.

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As a fan of adventure games, platformers and silly humour, I don't think I can go wrong with this one. Looking forward to Cheese's article.

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Quoting: EikeI beta tested it and it worked all fine.
One library was used that was not available on my system, but they removed the dependency.

Any comments on what we can expect from the game? Is it fun?

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Quoting: chr

Quoting: buckysrevengeJon Oliver did a piece on India's president and how disturbing the situation is getting, if you are interested: https://youtu.be/qVIXUhZ2AWs [External Link]

I wanted to share this [External Link] about John Oliver. The tl;dr and/or a better title would be "Last Week Tonight Is Wrongly Classified By Its Host In Order To Dodge Responsibility But Is Also Still Entertaining And Informative Even If It Sometimes Misses The Full Context Of The Sociopolitical Phenomenon It Chooses To Discuss Or Gets Some Things Wrong Out Of Assumed Good Faith And Here's Why"

I didn't watch your video (I tend to shy away from random youtube links), but does it have any relevance to this particular John Oliver piece?

Also, I think John Oliver is brilliant, but comedians shouldn't be anyone's primary source of news. Of course, social media is even worse.

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