Obviously Liam is bias because Ubuntu is from the UK /s Just kidding buddy :tongue:

My pre-click instinct told me the answer could be SteamOS as it's the heavy hitter and is the obvious one lifting us up as a serious platform.

I really hope Fedora closes the gap, they are doing a Raspberry Pi release, but I think some of their strict adherence to FOSS and making it harder to get mp3 codecs and other "absolutely proprietary" stuff do cost them the lead.

Its hard for me to get behind Canonical when I feel www.killedbygoogle.com style vibes -- but hell, for the ultranoob they're hard to beat as they hit all the marks for that demographic.

Edit: I think GOL and other Linux sites need to supplant top Google search results for "Best Gaming Distros" -- these nobodies who could get no shits about linux get to fill the internet with their spam and bad advice -- we should have a coordinated effort to supplant them to protect noobs from their idiocy.

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@GeoGalvanic -- exactly, delete and insert are essential to programmers and vim users. I use home/end pgup pgdown all the time too though I admit their naming schema is confusing as to their function -- "First" and "Last" or "Beginning" and "End" would be more appropriate -- certainly pressing the "Home" key on a Linux computer doesn't open the "~/" "$HOME" directory.

At a second glance tthe pause/play doesn't have a mute or volume either so it feels incomplete if you are going to have those functions.

Fair point on having a tweaked hand and using the R Shift

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I like this. I do feel that the space bar should be broken up and include [ tab ] next to it as it essentially is 4 spaces. (Does anyone use their right thumb on the spacebar anyways? It's like "R Shift" it gets used 1/100th as much as one would think)

The layout isn't my thing (nav cluster) but at least they are being innovative and trying something new. I really do wish southpaw would catch on with a left hand nav cluster and optional numpad.

Once you break down the location of the symbols it really doesn't make much sense either besides being grandfathered in.

http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ [External Link]

I wouldn't mind seeing the FOSS community innovate in the keyboard space, the Planet 6 keyboard with the split layout and centered trackball concept is really neat too.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=76149.0 [External Link]

!Planet 6 Keyboard [External Link]

The traditional keyboard layout could use some improvements now that we are unshackling from the legacy since so many people have switched to touch keebs.

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The thumbnail really reminds me of the Dahir Insaat fruit helicopter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FwDMzIbZrg&t=50s [External Link]

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If only Nintendo was smart enough to take consumer interest in their products and convert it into money.

You know... like Valve when they took HL2 Mod Remake of HL1 Black MESA [External Link] and literally brought it on to their store, sold it and reinvested the money into making it better.

I havent played a Nintendo game or purchased a Nintendo console in many years -- their IP should have "grown" with me/us as we got older -- and they didn't.

They really are out of touch with their market and have thrown out 30 -50 year old manchilds with disposable income able to buy $2,000 Graphics Cards to cater exclusively to 12 year olds.

Their fiscal market logic makes ZERO cents.

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Awesome, this increases the reach of these games as they can be played on more devices with lower specs.

I wonder if you could run this with box86 and play on Raspberry Pi 4 or other devices not originally intended for gaming.

It does make a big difference having the extra frames especially with FPS and fast moving games.

Since Black MESA is HL2 it would be really cool to get Vulkan imported into Black Mesa too.

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https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/protonup-qt [External Link]

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This would be cool to try StarCraft on Rasberry Pi 4

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Quoting: spacemonkeyIf bit off topic, but could anyone get Halo MCC co-op working within a LAN? I tried it last week with someone on a Windows laptop and we could never find each-other.

I remember having that same issue months ago, memory is fuzzy -- can you work-around it by using the Steam Friends list and right click your friend and try "Join Game" bypassing the game method? Are you both using EAC on or EAC off?

You used to be able to join servers from the browser here too:

https://halobase.net/ [External Link]

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New “Super Easy” difficulty for campaign.

Promising to hear. As a noob I couldn't figure this game out at all -- I probably still would have trouble since it's so different mechanically from anything I've ever played.

Add “LOD Distance” Graphics option, to adjust texture sharpness at distance (defaults to “High”).

Did they upgrade the Textures? Lots of people have success with AI upscale, If they added a toggle between "old school" and "new" it could visually be very distinct and look really good.

Add Flatpak builds (for Linux).

This is always really good, sometimes the repo version of FOSS games like 0ad is broke -- I've had to use Flatpak to workaround these kinds of issues often enough.

Support for bidirectional text using fribidi.
Improve Cobra AI yet again (balances against defensive / system research when 1v1 on high oil maps).
Show the rank a unit will have if it were produced next.
Add console message when limits change.
Update campaign balance (and fixes) for: Alpha 2, Alpha 6, later Beta missions, Beta-end, Gamma 2.
+ Lots of bug fixes and multiplayer balancing changes.

I'm new to the series but I would love to see this grow and become a staple of FOSS gaming in the same way Julius and Augustus have done an amazing job on bringing Caesar III to 2022 or OpenRCT2.

My radar is on full sweep for good RTS, It's a shame Stargus didn't get fleshed out and revisioned more -- it would have been a stomper. Good to see people giving love to their favorite series.

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