Quoting: Eike

Quoting: dibzNice that they did this. For a little while I was helping with the AGS engine for Luxtorpeda, but more or less stopped working on it at the time due to struggling with making the build environment work properly on my machine.

I offer a Wadjet Eye game (of their choice) for the person who makes all Wadjet Eye games work with such an environment.

The last build I did worked for all the Wadjet eye games I owned at the time, which wasn't all of them. Luxtorpeda's build process was changing quite frequently at the time so I have my doubts it even still works under whatever the current builds are.

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Nice that they did this. For a little while I was helping with the AGS engine for Luxtorpeda, but more or less stopped working on it at the time due to struggling with making the build environment work properly on my machine.

It was extremely tedious, combined with the fact that quite a few games were paired to specific AGS versions that simply wouldn't work properly on anything but their build. Often these builds were customized to a degree, either their steam integration or some effect/plugin/etc they added; Especially when you consider those games would work perfect in Wine/Steam Proton out of the box. Strangely, some Wadjet Eye games had native linux builds at like Humblebundle (which I knew because I owned them) that never appeared on Steam.

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This stuff always confuses me, it's hardly unique to this but doesn't it sometimes seem like one step forward two steps back?

Desk real estate, the type of tasks you use your computer/screen for, portability all matter and make a huge difference in the decision. The problem I tend to see, and this is absolutely my circle/work/things like that, is people often just aren't using their critical thinking skills or want the latest shiny without really considering what it's for.

Assuming a person has the space and the ability to make the decision, often times multiple screens make WAY more sense then single giant screens, but it's also out of style, so way too often I see people use these "solutions" to problems they created themselves. You see this trend with window managers as well, some of them obviously target single-screens with dual or more being an afterthought.

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Quoting: foobrew

Quoting: Purple Library Guy. . . OK, never really forgave Gnome 3 for being what it was rather than an improved Gnome 2 . . .

This. This is when I switched to Xfce and have I've lived happily ever after.

Thirded.

Gnome3 is literally why I decided to try Xfce after generally being happy with Gnome2 for years, and I haven't looked back. At the time I chose XFCE over Cinnamon over some teething issues re: multi screen support, and I simply preferred XFCE over MATE. I remember describing my impressions of Xfce to myself as "A better Gnome2 then Gnome2 ever was."

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Quoting: GuestHonest question - why would I want to use this over Firefox or Chrome, especially on Linux? It seems an odd choice to port over.

I would think whatever shared profile Edge provides if you're in the MS ecosystem I should think. Or maybe someone just prefers it as "their" browser, who I assume exist (probably).

Quoting: HoriGuys I've just realised:
Netflix in 4k on browsers is only available for Edge... does this mean we can finally watch Netflix in 4K on Linux?

I doubt it. Afaik this is also related to a DRM requirement, I could be wrong but I was under the impression that 4K content from Netflix requires a higher level of DRM then widevine and the linux kernel support (the kernel is brought up in this context due to Trusted Path). It's nice that they allow the lower quality version of the content at least, unlike providers like Peacock that just have the higher DRM requirement across the board (and thus do not work in linux).

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:heart: XFCE. My only real complaint is how strict they are regarding full screen window focus, in particular if you fullscreen something on one monitor -- such as a youtube video -- and click elsewhere; Any panels on that display will go above your window.

I tracked down a bug report/request for this once and it turns out it was intentional due to some standard (FreeDesktop maybe? I don't recall) XFCE follows. The good news is in the same thread a patch was provided for the desired behaviour -- which I still use today (though I've had to adjust the patch over time for newer XFCE versions).

Aside from that minor annoyance, XFCE is still the best desktop environment I've ever used.

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While this doesn't work for me, I'm glad it exists. The retroarch guys definitely follow a particular mindset, while I won't call it wrong-headed since everyone has their own opinions, it doesn't mesh well with me. On several occasions I've tried to properly set up six+ button controllers, like a real sega saturn pad, and figuring I must be doing it wrong for it to be so difficult I googled it... and after reading similar opinions and what the retroarch people thought of them, I just use something else.

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August is pretty soon. Hopefully they're doing this to prevent any sort of gruelling crunch time, in which case I fully support the decision. If they're trying to optimize the crunch in their gruelling crunch time, then I wish they'd push back the release date instead though.

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I prefer to look at it as Proton being a slower approach to taking down walls, and as soft encouragement to developers and publishers -- they may not have proper linux builds, but they may also actively choose supporting libraries and technologies that "don't not" support Proton/Linux. It honestly seems to me most compatibility problems tend to fall under those 3rd party gotchas, some 3rd party library or anti-cheat technology not part of the base game engine that ultimately breaks their Linux compatibility. First baby steps that imply consideration for Linux, it'll help developer opinions of Linux if they can "support" it with simple early consideration like that; and it'll help adoption if the games "play" while on Linux without any googling or fixes first. As that userbase grows, well, so does people that would want a Linux build!

And lets be honest, half the problem with linux adoption is "Windows people who tried it 10 years ago w/ their energy-drink inspired keyboard and unsupported wireless drivers who googled an incorrect blog entry before writing their own incorrect blog entry about how to support something and now take every chance they get to rag on Linux in some unrelated social media post comment thread" mindset.

The good news is every time Microsoft or Apple force an unpleasant change people tend to re-evaluate their options, which I can imagine only helps. Even my wife, who absolutely loathes change in her technology, asked me about putting Linux on her laptop after she was first introduced to Windows 10.

Will that idea work out in the end? Maybe, maybe not. I certainly know some of my friends/peers have had renewed or initial interest in Linux lately.

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I would love to win a copy!

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