I'm waiting for Civ 6 Complete before I buy another Civ 6 copy. I really don't care for their strategy of releasing a base game that feels unfinished. I'm not that desperate to play their games so as to buy the base game @ $60 and every DLC as it comes out, I can wait.

We'll see if it's truly "Complete" but I have a feeling it's not.

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Quoting: elmapulworse than that, some people are already installing windows on it to get acess to more games. if most people do that, then supporting it will be useless to increase our marketshare

We've come full circle guys. Imagine, people who want to use Windows have to start from a device shipped with Linux XD. So funny.

I've been on the fence about this device for a while and set low-expectations imagining it would never come to fruition. But seeing as how they will be launching with some retailers like BestBuy, GameStop, etc... that's off to a good start. I guess I'll see you all in about 2 weeks to see what the verdict is from the Linux Sphere.

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Imagine we could do for GIMP what has been done for Blender, what an amazing thing that would be.

In a world with Adobe SaaS I could imagine many rich companies throwing some coin at the FOSS Sauce to save money in the future.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThis goes to my wishlist. I have always wanted to buy some of these games but haven't because that was before Proton existed. I have a massive nostalgia over it's predecessor by 7th Level G-NOME originally for Windows 98.

My only contemplation is whether this one is the one or not. I would like something that's full controller support at least, and I haven't checked out the competition in a while either. Not sure if it improved.

Just curious: you know that "Proton" is just wine, right? Some extra patches, and DXVK added, but still just wine. While DXVK was the missing piece for good performance on DX11 titles, even that existed before "Proton".
Or is it more of a case that you didn't because of wanting Steam integration?

I've been using WINE since the early 00s to play StarCraft BroodWar, Counter Strike 1.6, etc...

You have to understand people have sociological economic / behavioral reasons behind the things they do. Just because I "COULD" throw some money to buy some CD or DVD in the early 00s and then spend 5-10 hours dicking around trying to figure out the right conditions to make it work -- doesn't meant I would.

Even today, Games that run fine on Proton sometimes don't run fine when downloaded via GOG and ran on WINE.

The older I get the more I have to try to make my time count for something so if I solve a problem, I document the process and share it and move on -- sometimes becoming the benefactor in the future of my past self.

Quoting: GuestI'm only curious, repeated because text cannot convey tone of voice.

If the game controls are similar to Mechwarrior Online (and they should be, MW5 is basically that with some AI instead of other players from what I can tell) a controller may work, but isn't designed for that. MW:Online is free though, I can recommend playing that to get a feel for things.

Right on, thanks for the input. I think the game I was really interested in but couldn't remember was Heavy Gear Assault [External Link] but after the initial negative reviews and steep entry price with no demo I was turned off.

Then BattleTech [External Link] looked super interesting but then was turn based.

Then I was sortof interested in Titanfall 2 [External Link] but because EA is the publisher it just makes me feel dirty and like I'd be investing my time into something only to have the feeling that EA will somehow ruin it in the near future, plus if any other launchers are involved It's just a automatic NO.

The only reason I buy computer games is because I appreciate how lazy Steam lets me be -- little to no Administration, it's always up to date, no screwing around with installers, etc... That's what I am giving my money for, "It just works" and "requires little to no work" just some [Tux Bux$].

I've long said that if the computer market ever splits up into multiple stores piracy come easily back with a vengeance. Some of these greedy companies greed trying to lessen Steam's cut could EASILY undermine their ability to sell games on PC at all. One of many reasons I advocate for Steam's Dominance (with a little exception for GOG cuz the no DRM thing is worth throwing money at too)

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This goes to my wishlist. I have always wanted to buy some of these games but haven't because that was before Proton existed. I have a massive nostalgia over it's predecessor by 7th Level G-NOME originally for Windows 98.

My only contemplation is whether this one is the one or not. I would like something that's full controller support at least, and I haven't checked out the competition in a while either. Not sure if it improved.

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Quoting: Julius

Quoting: omer666I really hope some day they will get to the beta stage, it's such a great effort.

Not sure if joking or not. It has been what other projects call "stable" for years. It's just bad marketing :(

Not at all!
Yes it's "stable," but not really feature-complete yet, and I think that's why they label it as "alpha".

Agree. Serious bug testers who get out a fine tooth comb, analyze & compile a list and compare to similar style games like say Age of Empires II Definitive Edition are not going to come up empty handed.

Granted credit where credit is due, Alpha 24 ended up being a MASSIVE improvement (3 years work).

I do think it's very close to graduating to Beta 1 -- I imagine it's fairly feature complete, but I could understand going from the number #25 to #1 feels a little wrong. Maybe they could just skip and make it Beta #25/#26 I dunno.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ElectricPrismHow and where do I open a steam:// URL -- I can't seem to navigate to the area where I can manually enter the location.

Just in your browser, and if your desktop is setup correctly it will open it inside Steam and you get a Console tab along the big main navigation bar.

That makes sense -- I was able to enter the link into LibreWolf and it used a sort of xdg-open to pass it off to steam. Thank You.

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How and where do I open a steam:// URL -- I can't seem to navigate to the area where I can manually enter the location.

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Quoting: AkonadyLinux users are willing to pay thousand upon thousand of money on games (closed source) but doesn't want to buy a proper OS and want open source software :dizzy:

Half true. Being a Linux user is a status symbol to me. I buy $600-$1000 GPUs for many years to be able to get good FPS on Linux, then MESA, AMDGPU, DXVK, Proton kick ass and get us into good shape, etc...

Then I donate money to Krita, GIMP, EFF and other foundations meanwhile companies dump millions in donations into Blender, Godot, and so on.

In essence you could say I spend THOUSANDS of dollars to _NOT_ use WINDOWS -- badly made blackbox shit os. And I'd do it all again.

Hell I threw a thousand at Valve just to buy a Index when I'm not a VR person, and I plan do the same thing when their new Hand Hand Game Console or 2021/2022 Steam Console comes out with over 7K native games or 44K games including ROMS, Proton, etc...

We use Linux because it's __BETTER__

So what did everyone buy this sale? Not sure I need much I have a backlog of like ~500 Steam Games I'd like to play.

Oh and I also have donated and thrown money at FOSS games in dev like 0AD because it's nice to have someone buy you a pizza once in a while and makes those games even more kickass for @all

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Quoting: KithopThankfully, IRC (and Matrix and Mastodon listed in the article) are open enough that you can just cut ties and say 'screw it, we're doing our own!', like the Libera.Chat team is doing.

Any mention of them on Freenode gets you booted, and yeah:
It's happening (Matrix) [External Link]
to lots [External Link]
of people [External Link]

Also, for anyone using the 'main' matrix.org homeserver, they're working on proper IRC bridging:
Bridge libera.chat #1324 [External Link]

After reading those and the comments in this thread I'm so done with private networks. You get 10 years into something, and then all of a sudden something changes and the next thing you know you have people breathing down your neck with unreasonable requirements.

To me Federated seems like the only sane way forward. I hope this leads to the rise in Matrix, Mastodon, PixelFed and other Federated networks like Email.

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