The way that Squad has handled KSP's early access is the model all early access should follow. I don't know if there are any other game developers as open and involved in their community as they are. I've put well over 150 hours into it and had a blast. I have not really played it in a while, as I kinda got burnt out on it. When they finally release 1.0 I'll probably sit down and throw another 150 hours at it.

Quoting: torhamI wonder why this game is not listed as DRM Free on Humble Store. I'd probably buy if I was sure that it is DRM Free. I don't consider anonymous stats as DRM, though it would be a nice touch if it could be disabled.

I agree, it phoning home stats is not DRM.. It is an "in development" game after all so they kind of need that info. The first time you run the game it asks you if you want to send them info. You CAN turn it off if you like. As for steam purchased copies you can run the game without steam even running at all so it's about as DRM free as it gets I think. I log out of everything so that I am sitting at tty1 and launch it in it's own X instance.

EDIT* Oh yea, the thumbnail for this article on the main page... good job ;)

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I'm honestly not sure what I just watched lol. Kinda like lave said, purely narrative type games are not usually my thing, I tend to want some kinda tool to bash things skulls in or a gun. BUT! something in that video has made me a bit excited for it. Maybe it's the bioshock-esque atmosphere and tone, which is brought to life by some of the people who actually created the awesome bioshock universe. Definitely keeping an eye on this!

EDIT* on a side note... where are people finding out about linux games? I come here for that info, and if I'm possibly going to try and contribute to the site here, I'm going to need to expand where I find things.. since it's obviously too late if it's already here ;)

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Quoting: Apopas

Quoting: EKRboiIts one of the main reasons I have never made an acct on Phoronix.. too many idiots over there.

And too many great guys with deep knowledge of technology. Who cares for the idiots?

I didn't say I don't read the site or that I don't scroll the comments from time to time, but I have 0 desire to get involved in the comment section of the articles over there. Too much "sh*tMD", NvidiaSux", "Screw Michael, he sux" "OMFG KILL Poettering, HES KILLING LINUX".. that's the crap I'm talking about, the "type" of crap that has Liam "leaving" us. I'm not talking about the content of the articles, and I actually like Michael from what I "know" of him.

EDIT* I hope to see Liam pop his head in and comment with us. This whole thing took me by COMPLETE surprise.. I had no idea he was catching crap from trolls that I had never even heard of.

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Holy WTF... Glad things are going to continue. I am also glad that I didn't even know who those linux game cast fools, or their website were in the first place. Sad Liam will be leaving, he always seemed like a stand up guy. Read a post from the systemd guy (Lennart Poettering)yesterday (phoronix) that some seem to love to really hate. Between that and what i've read today I am a little bit sick I think. It's really gross. The "inner" OSS community is a nasty little bunch, I like the way an article Liam posted on twitter put it.. "vagina repellants" lol

Ill try to help out! I'll hop on IRC this evening and lurk for a while and try to get an idea of where things are going. I DO NOT want to see this site go ANYWHERE, it has quickly become one of my favorite places, and I even REALLY like most of you from what I have gathered in my short time here. Sure some of us may feel and express ourselves differently.. but what I liked is that at the end of the post, it was like a fresh slate with the next one. If I and person X had it out over something dumb for sh*ts n giggles in one thread.. we could completely be on the same page in the next with no grudge from the previous. That's how it needs to stay IMO. When things get childish it sucks the fun out of it. Its one of the main reasons I have never made an acct on Phoronix.. too many idiots over there.

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Trine 2 ran great! So I assume this one will as well when it makes it to us. This seems to be far to much "mobile-ish" cutesy game for me, but my gf may really enjoy it, so maybe ill pick it up for her when it comes to linux.

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There is something about it that piques my interest but historically I struggle to keep interested in point and click adventures. It looks very pretty. Would love to see a GOL cast of this to get a good idea of it. I've added it to my wish list to track it.

Quoting: Segata SanshiroThis looks excellent! Love the idea of a sci-fi adventure game, it's perfect for the genre.

I've added it to my wish list and I'll pick it up once I finish a couple more adventure games which I haven't played yet.

The Studio seems to be from the Czech Republic - I'm almost considering missing it out in GOL World Tour because there are just so many great games coming out from the country that it would have to be like 3 pages long. Has to be the highest game-to-population ratio of anywhere in the world!

Love your world tour articles, keep up the good work and it's completely understandable that you can't include every dev from every country.

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I honestly have not figure out what is eating my "extra" ram, there seems to be about 300mb I can't exactly account for. I don't use a display manager so when I boot it, it goes right to tty1 and it's usually sitting at right around 300mb used. I have 8gb (bios report 8192mb) but linux shows only 7901mb so maybe that is what makes up the difference since that's 289mb differenc. My hardware must be reserving it for something. I know my motherboard has a hardware iommu and I'm pretty sure it reserves 64mb, but not sure what might be reserving the rest. Onboard sound possibly?

Right now, in OB, after firefox (390mb), X is the next largest ram user at 63mb and openbox is using 42mb. Plus the terminal I'm running HTOP in is eating 50mb. the rest is normal low ram system processes.

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spiffy simple OB session you have there :)

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Quoting: EKRboiThe first reason is resources.

Ok, OpenBox uses less resources, but have you noticed an actual difference while gaming?

I figured it might have had something to do with your triple monitor setup too :). I’m surprised it doesn’t work with Xfce but whatever, I’m not planning to use multiple monitors any time soon.

It seems that I get less random "stutters" while playing. Which is really mainly in more modern demanding games. I account it to less things in the background to randomly grab the cpu's attention. It's not like I'm running out of RAM with 8gb on any linux game or any win game that works in wine. My cards are pretty dated to be pushing 3 monitors in games the way I do, and even with an fx-8350 running the show it's still not the best processor for multi card setups so I just try to give it everything I've got ;).

Technically I can swap out XFCE's xfwm for openbox and get the same effect with my monitors for gaming without ever leaving the XFCE session by doing "openbox --replace" and just swap back to xfwm by doing "xfwm4 --replace" when I was done.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: EKRboiI use XFCE for "computing" and I shut that down and xinit openbox all by itself (plus nitrogen for a background) to play games.

Why do you do that?

2 reasons, but only one pertains to most. The first reason is resources. When I am gaming I don't need a whole desktop environment running wasting system resources. I want to give my games all the horse power my rig has. With my fairly customized (5 conkys, guake and cairo-dock)XFCE desktop there are a bunch of things running eating cpu cycles and RAM. RAM usage with nothing but the desktop sits around 800-900mb and there are about 190 processes running.

Openbox is not a DE, it's just a very light weight window manager. When you start it for the first time you may think somethings broken. It's not. All you will get is a black screen and a small no frills app menu when you right click anywhere on the desktop. On my system with just openbox running, the whole system is using about 380mb of ram and about 40 less processes(150) than XFCE, XFCE is a damn light weight DE so I can only imagine the usage of something like KDE or Unity.

You can then add your own dock apps, taskbar etc to it if you wanted to basically build your own customized environment, but I leave it basically a blank slate. Most of the commonly needed apps and even games I have mapped to key combinations so no dock/launcher needed. It's kinda funny though I feel like I spend more time in openbox than XFCE these days, and not just because of games, I'm just use to my key combos and edit most configs at the config file level these days anyways. So other than my XFCE desktop being "pretty" I don't really have a need for all of its "advanced" features anymore. But that's a discussion for another day.

TL;DR Openbox is extremely light and fast.

The second reason is due to my multiple monitors(3) and that many games will refuse to go fullscreen across all of them at once in most DEs/WMs. They will only see a single 1920x1080 monitor and just wont go higher(bigger?). The way openbox handles per monitor boundaries I can manipulate it in a way to force it to see nothing but one big 5760x1080 monitor forcing those games to work basically. Like I said this one doesn't really pertain to many. Though I highly suggest 3 monitor gaming to anyone who can manage it and I would be glad to assist anyone who goes down that path, it certainly doesn't "just work" in linux.

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Quoting: EikeI wonder what "building one's own Steam Machine" actually means.
I've got a Linux only PC, will continue to have it, will be replacing parts.
Maybe someday I'll buy a Steam Controller - does my PC get a Steam Machine by attaching it?
Or by installing SteamOS?
Or does it take both?
Or does it have to be built especially for that?
Or must it reside in the living room to qualify?
My best guess would be Steam Controller and SteamOS. (On the other hand they said that a Steam Machine may run Windows...)

I think you're over thinking it. If it's a PC that runs the SteamOS distro, then it's a "Steam Machine" IMO. Doesn't matter if you use a steam/PS/Xbox controller or a KB and mouse. Doesn't matter if you buy it or build it. Not 100% positive but I'm Pretty sure ALL retail steam machines will come with SteamOS. But obviously it's just a PC so you can always install win on it if you want, and I can imagine some of the companies will offer it as an option. The second there is not a SteamOS distro installed on it though it's no longer a Steam Machine, it's just a "pretty" console looking PC. But that's just my opinion of course.

If it's a PC that runs any distro other than steamOS and is used for gaming then it's just a Tux Powered Gaming PC™ ;)

Which is why I ticked "no" to buying a steam machine when I did the survey. I build all of my PC's and I wont be running SteamOS on any of them. I may have a "SteamOS session" installed on my Arch powered HTPC at some point but I wouldn't call it a steam machine.

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