!GMTK Jam 2024 engine popularity [External Link]
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GMTK Jam charts back to 2020 [External Link]

Godot is now a Bulwark. I doubt Unity is going to do anything to earn back all the good will they lost.

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I really want to turn this on for all the boss fights in Diablo IV. I always think, how the fsck did I die. Then I remember, I suck at video games and I'm just going to see my self do something dumb and basically killing myself over and over. Glad the feature is there for everyone else.

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Quoting: sarmadIs the Mono project still needed now that .NET itself supports Linux?

Mono is open source for the legacy .Net SDK. So, Mono is just needed for older applications. As you are indicating, the newer .Net already supports Linux and Mono doesn't support it.

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Quoting: MarlockQuick question: what system has a copy of grub installed (not by windows, because it's never used by windows) but doesn't have linux so it's ok to replace/block grub?

Any system.

Please elaborate

You can point Grub at any kernel to load. Haiku, Redox, whatever. LILO was popular back in the day. Nothing is stopping anybody from getting rid of Grub and switching boot loaders. You can even point one boot loader at another boot loader. That's how most people dual boot Windows. Grub loads, then start WinLoader, then WinLoader starts onekernel.

I had the most success keeping Windows on a separate drive where it could do whatever it wanted with the boot sector, and then grub on the primary drive would simply hand off to WinLoader on the secondary drive. Installing Linux and Windows on the same drive was a bit like playing Russian roulette. You never knew when Windows would break things.

Really this is the only way to avoid the MSFT hassle. Here is a Gaming thread for HD2 with a guide on how to dual boot Linux and the author's recommendation is to have two drives, install one OS to each drive.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/553850/discussions/2/7599331177361006128/?tscn=1724068733 [External Link]

Setup each OS with only one drive connected at a time. Then after that, use the UEFI boot manager to select which drive you want to boot from. I mean seriously after twenty years, MSFT is still randomly blasting the boot records. This guys solution is basically a silver bullet for Linux newbies. Side note, he barely speaks English and single handily converted more people to Linux in one gaming thread than I have in twenty years. Seriously I'm not sore about it at all, hahahaha.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismYou know how some people backup the header of encrypted disks:
 
sudo cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/<your-disk-luks> --header-backup-file luks2-header-backup-$(date -I)

If somebody wants a project make a interface equivalent to Etcher that optionally backs up the MBR + Linux / Windows boot partitions.

Then next time Windows fucks this up. ( Which they have been for decades and we haven't done anything about it. ) A person can load a Live USB, create a new backup in the broken state and run the Restore tool to revert the changes to before Microsoft screwed the pooch.

Who knows maybe what I'm imagining already exists, there's a lot of fine people out there who do amazing work all the time on our apps.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair [External Link]

Honestly I don't know how well it works. I haven't dual booted for close to twenty years and this tool didn't exist then as far as I know. At that time, all you had to do was live boot off a CD and chroot to your Linux partition, then rerun your boot loader install command, and it was all back to normal. It's a minor inconvenience for seasoned Linux users, but newbies immediately think Linux sucks and doesn't work. Obviously MSFT's intention. I don't remember a time that updating Windows didn't rewrite the MBR.

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This is another important factor. Hours played is something I look at to determine if I would even read a review. If they let me filter for reviews by Steam Deck players, this will be really helpful.

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Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: Highball

Quoting: MarlockQuick question: what system has a copy of grub installed (not by windows, because it's never used by windows) but doesn't have linux so it's ok to replace/block grub?

Any system.

Please elaborate

You can point Grub at any kernel to load. Haiku, Redox, whatever. LILO was popular back in the day. Nothing is stopping anybody from getting rid of Grub and switching boot loaders. You can even point one boot loader at another boot loader. That's how most people dual boot Windows. Grub loads, then start WinLoader, then WinLoader starts onekernel.

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Quoting: MarlockQuick question: what system has a copy of grub installed (not by windows, because it's never used by windows) but doesn't have linux so it's ok to replace/block grub?

Any system.

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I'm sure this "bug fix" is just a lead up to a AzureLinux expanding to Desktop as well. Soon it will be an Office365 option and eventually a Windows userland on top of the Linux kernel. People think MSFT's endgame is to have WSL steal developers back to Windows. If MSFT can put a WinLinux userland in the cloud, it will save them billions on compute time.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAs far as Microsoft is concerned, this isn't a bug, it's a feature.

Correction... As far as Microsoft is concerned, this is Linux's fault.

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