In case anyone was confused as I was, Outlaws is a '97 LucasArts shooter, and is a Western totally unrelated to Star Wars.

The upcoming Ubisoft AAA extravaganza is not running on the Dark Forces engine. That would be silly.

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I gave this a try the other day. The (very long) tutorial seems like it could be fun, but iirc it doesn't include a server browser so I gave up on actually joining a match.

I'm personally not a huge fan of backpack/storage management in shooters, and the default grenade hotkeys are pretty crazy (I think they were J K and L for the different types?)

Clearly a lot of effort has gone into the game, though and I'm glad to see it!

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Oh gosh. I'm a (mediocre)arcade and bullet hell fan. Just watching the trailer makes my brain feel frustrated in unfamiliar ways. But it seems like it'd be a blast once it "clicks"!

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Quoting: randylI think saying that Elementary and Gnome are for "those users" is absolutely the wrong mindset if they want to be the mainstream option like Windows or Mac OS.

Totally agree. GNOME and Elementary is the last thing I'd want to give a casual end-user coming from Windows. Familiarity will always trump clean design for people who use software as an appliance. KDE is pretty much in that sweet spot, but for a couple settings and the odd bugs. The amount of small bugs quashed in the last year or so has been staggering, though.

Don't give your grandma GNOME people, please... For your own good!

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[quote=CatKiller]part of KDE's UI guidelines.. is that an option is only worth having if it's worth having on by default. /quote]

I'm sure that's absolutely not a KDE guideline. That sounds like GNOME. I've never heard that saying for the ~3 years I've been following KDE.

The opposite philosophy is truer. "Simple by default, powerful when needed." Now, do all KDE apps follow that mantra? Not really.
That's part of trying to enforce a vision with an OSS suite. Only so much you can do if you're not the maintainer.

For example, Kate is a mess of buttons by default. They're all opt-out, but they should be opt-in. There's a great notepad program in there, but it's overwhelmed by unnecessary options upon install.
Kate was just replaced with Kwrite as the default notepad app. Coincidence? Absolutely not.

Robust programs can be streamlined. Streamlined programs can't be robust.

KDE is the only DE right now trying to make something modernized and pretty, without neutering customization and functionality. There are more edge-cases, but it's the only way to get something truly worthy of a daily driver for anyone, imo.

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