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Quoting: voxHaven't heard about any problems with akonadi, but heard and suffered enough through baloo`s BS. Many people suggest turning it off, deleting it and like physically scraping it from the hard drive with a rusty knife - just to be sure. So be advised about it. It "works" on my system, but sometimes it doesn't when you need it. Some people say, that it never actually works, despite being very busy all the time.

I have had personal experience with Baloo as well, disabling it is definitely recommended until they fix it (if they haven't already), although I don't even notice any downside to disabling it.

It certainly helps if you need to search files or some text occasionally, especially given it's integration in the system. Blocking it everywhere except couple of folders should fix most of the issues I assume. But then again, this project is a meme already and there will be always doubt about it's ability to do it's job. As I've said before: it works for me [for now, sorta. It appears working... I think].

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Quoting: legluondunetHow is KDE plasma behavior today? Is it enough stable for a daily use and gaming ? How is it resources consuming ? I prefer light DE and keep resources for gaming.

At least on X11, as long as you disable akonadi, Plasma should be lighter than XFCE and much more so than Gnome. I use it daily for work and gaming, plenty stable. Even if you use NVIDIA and it crashes stuff as is usually does, the workspace should handle it gracefully

Haven't heard about any problems with akonadi, but heard and suffered enough through baloo`s BS. Many people suggest turning it off, deleting it and like physically scraping it from the hard drive with a rusty knife - just to be sure. So be advised about it. It "works" on my system, but sometimes it doesn't when you need it. Some people say, that it never actually works, despite being very busy all the time.

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Quoting: legluondunetHow is KDE plasma behavior today? Is it enough stable for a daily use and gaming ? How is it resources consuming ? I prefer light DE and keep resources for gaming.

No problems at all in the past year, I would say. I even avoided some problems on a latest major release by postponing system updates. Performance was always good, can't complain. It should be noted, however, that I live in a world where nothing else exists, or I prefer to think so. GNOME 3 and 4 is a HERESY. Other DE's don't support Wayland. Tilable desktops are too raw and experimental for me. It's very hard to compare linux experiences, because it's all very different and customized. I have a >10 years old PC if that helps, if you want to gauge performance that way.

Edit: there's a page dedicated to the problems of wayland adoption (just in case) here [External Link].

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Quoting: Deleted_UserIs there a reason why this game is covered here, other than it looks nice? I mean as far as i can see there is no native linux version planned, it is not based on an open sourced engine, etc.
What makes this game special?

Although I buy native first and there should be a good reason for me to buy non-native game usually, I like the broadened coverage here.
There`s a tag for the native games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/category/Native_Linux and you can filter news by it.

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Unity canceled itself as far as I'm concerned

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt looks like features are starting to creep in that, if I understand correctly, use Wayland to do things you couldn't do in X. Like, can X do per-monitor brightness?

Proper freesync support was already implemented in wayland for some time. In multi-monitor setups specifically if I remember correctly. In X even if you have identical monitors, you can't have freesync working.

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Oh wow. I thought I would never see this cracked gem reimplemented. What a time to be alive! Despite it being somewhat experimental and janky, I have some of the fondest memories about it. The last game by Peter Molyneaux that I've played. I never even heard about a Fable for a million years and then I don't see his handwriting there. An RPG? What? Was it any good? Then he went completely off the rails seemingly, what a shame.

Somehow Bullfrog Productions were in the business of making groundbreaking games from the start and Peter was very lucky with the people that went to work for him. Did you know that Demis Hassabis started as a level designer in Syndicate, then went to be a lead programmer in Theme Park, then he designed the AI in Black & White, made Evil Genius and then went to create a DeepMind? - an AI startup that started to beat starcrafters and fold proteins, making a serious advance in the scientific avant-garde (and online ass-whooping)

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For those of you wondering what separates Myst-likes from any other point-and-click adventures:
1) First person viewpoint
2) No actions except for some default action on click (no licking, kicking, talking etc that you should pick and activate)
3) No inventory (except for holding one page in the first game)
4) AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - not obvious puzzles. They can be hard or easy, but it's not obvious at the start what are you seeing, how those mechanisms connect, what is the puzzle exactly... You can press some button and have no idea what it activated and where. Same can be said about the story - it's always in medias res, little to no context, you're just there and should do stuff. What stuff? How? Go figure it all out.
So, Talos Principle for example is not Myst-like, because all the puzzles are separated into rooms and the mechanic of the puzzles is obvious pretty much from the start.

Is this one really a Myst-like? Because I've seen and played some even bad and low-budget ones, but I can't say that I know of any really successful game in this genre by some other studio. I tried Quern, but it was not really a Myst-like to the extent to draw me in. I see inventory here and some other viewpoints and that's okay, but I suspect that it's not what we think it is.
J.U.L.I.A. Among the Stars has 3 or 5 different chapters in it and one of the chapters has this first-person view mechanic. Marvelous game, but not a Myst-like still :)

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This game has never clicked for me for some reason. I liked Vampire Survivors despite my early skepticism. And I just loved Boneraiser Minions for it's more action-oriented twists and builds/combos. This one felt unimaginably bland. Any suggestions, has the game matured or changed in the last half a year?

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Looks very good and I wish them luck. Played their previous game and it was ok. Will not buy, though, because of Ubisoft.

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