Without going into too many details my main suspicion here is that Nintendo obtained logs from discord that exposed the development team of some illegal activities -there's been some leaks of such if you know the right corners to find them, I will reiterate that these are merely leaks and therefore speculation not evidence- and used them to strong arm them into this settlement. This to me makes even more sense with consideration that the original lawsuit filing was very vague about any specific person(s) involved only really naming the parent company and the online handle of one member of their team.

Again this is all speculation, but if true it should be a warning to everyone to just not even entertain the idea of piracy. Companies can and will find out and they will prosecute and (especially in the recent cases with Nintendo) the final judgement will be a strong one.

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Quoting: poiuzThey use less checks in the Wine version. This is what I'd call different anti-cheat. Just because it's the same software doesn't mean it's the same code running. Especially in the context of its domain (preventing cheats), what's running in Wine is, according to the developers, a worse version.

It's like the Linux kernel: It's always the same software but based on the build (or in case of specialised builds even the system it is running on) it behaves differently (e.g. missing drivers). Up to the point to which the versions may be incompatible (e.g. Android vs GNU/Linux).

Well thanks for explaining that to me, but this is exactly what I was alluding to. To you the same software isn't the same software if it's been changed, but to Pengling the same software-but-changed is the same software. And frankly I'd side with Pengling because what they explained in that quote doesn't sound like some repository fork, but rather just changing flags to off (again I'm going purely off that quote, if that's not what they actually did I have no point of reference for that).

And if you have problems agreeing on that kind of term I'd warn you that you probably don't agree with others on terms such as "rude" or "exasperated". And at this point it really doesn't matter who is using the words right, you're still going to be wasting your time arguing over semantics.

And frankly if you find it more important to be precise and correct than to be polite or take the high ground and apologize (even if you don't think you did something rude) you're kinda showing yourself to be rude, and this is why people are calling you rude.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: PenglingThey were using the same anti-cheat and allowing it through Wine before. This is mentioned in the article.

No, they were not. That's mentioned in the previous article.

We can probably say a final goodbye to Roblox on Linux with Wine soon

Additionally, we had to disable many antitamper checks to make Hyperion run on Wine.

Perhaps there's a bit of pedantry/semantics in what I'm about to say, but frankly that's the importance of it anyway.

"we had to disable many antitamper checks to make Hyperion run on wine" actually (I'll be honest that I didn't read the article nor do I care to) that sentence in and of itself does not disprove Pengling's statment about using the same anti-cheat and allowing it through wine. In fact it lines up with what he's saying.

Saying they had to disable functions to make it run on wine actually implies it's the same anticheat (again I dont know if Hyperion is the same software they were using before, just going off your specific quote), and furthermore shows they had to do things to allow it to work with wine which is further in line with what Pengling states.

Now to my point about the importance of semantics, I suspect that your definition of "same anti-cheat" is probably different than Penglings, otherwise you wouldn't have use a quote that actually supports their statement in order to counter their statement. Given how your previous discussion went, as well, I'd suggest coming to equal terms with others on what you specifically mean with each term because otherwise you end up in meaningless discussion that will come to no resolution other than frustration.

Discussion is unproductive if the people involved cannot agree on the definitions of the core terms being discussed.

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I dislike Geoff for many reasons and this is just another reason. He's actually in a position where he could (at least for his very large corner) create a definition of it and yet when he's put on the spot he basically just says every game is an indie game.

So why bother having the category if the term has no definition? Also, frankly, looking at the nominees for each category I see that TGA continue to be kinda a joke.

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Quoting: PenglingDo the wireless ones require firmware updates, and if so, can those be done on Linux? :unsure:

I personally connect mine to my phone and use their android app to update your firmware, but I imagine you could use fwupd/fwupdmgr as it has worked for pretty much every 8bitdo controller ever.

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I'd say if you're looking at these be prepared to get them returned or replaced. While I love the ergonomics of my 2.4/blutooth ultimate controller, and love the hall effect sticks, I and others have had serious issues with them. Some people just can't get them to work randomly, some can't get them to connect, mine constantly gets disconnected when using 2.4ghz connection.

Idk how much of this is QA, or if it's bad firmware/software, just be aware that these aren't as plug-n-play reliable as most of 8bitdo's other controllers (of which I'm a huge fan of).

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Now that I take a closer look at things I think they still have more work decluttering. 3 separate rows of dropdown menus seems silly to me; I've always hated this kind of clutter in prominent windoze apps personally.
!why you need all these menus [External Link]

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Definitely looks better (and certainly more up to date icon/themewise)
Many things are way easier to navigate by the simple nature of better organization and removal of excess.
There's still some redundancies (e.i. the dropdown menu for library contains links for collection and downloads, which already have buttons.)

I still have occasional rendering issues, but it's far less than it used to be (I suspect this is gpu dependent) and big picture mode is still laggy and crackly on nvidia cards as well (although perhaps less so).

Overall I'd say they still have more work to do, but they're certainly in the right direction!

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I like to call them "Enemy Hell". The word "horde" is too often thrown around in the video game industry for my likings.

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: InhaleOblivionAnyone of us who has used Linux for years prior to the advances of gaming understands why those of us who are lifelong gamers have two PC builds.

Another lifelong gamer here, exclusively desktop gaming on Linux since almost 20 years.
I can still remember that moment when I realized the only reason I kept starting up my Windows partition was to install updates. Nuked it from orbit, never looked back. Not once.

Another, another, lifelong gamer and I switched exclusively and permanently shortly after win8.1. no dual booting, no second machine. Windows isn't worth installing for personal use, period. There are so many great games that can be played on Linux (one way or another) that there's just no justification, and given the consistent trend of AAA games being absolute trash I don't bother getting incompatible multiplayer games just to play with friends because they all end up hating the game after a couple weeks anyway (and I end up being the only one not wasting $60+ on the garbage!).

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