How disappointing. No Linux version on GOG.

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Never could get the Windows-based demo to work in Linux. I had really wanted to try this one out but I'm not going to buy it sight unseen. Besides, will Steam let you install it on desktop Linux?

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This looks like it could be fun, especially if it sticks to real species instead of made-up ones.

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Ironically, before I discovered that Linux was viable, I had always used ATI GPUs in my gaming rigs. I suspect that a big part of my choice was that ATI was Canadian. Nvidia was the brand hardcore gamers used. That wasn't me.

When I moved to buying used laptops, I had also discovered the wonderful world of Linux. It was much more common to find used laptops from the twenty-teens with Nvidia Optimus GPUs than with AMD. I would have loved to have a laptop with an AMD GPU but I couldn't find anything comparable to the Nvidia options. So, I adapted and now I am an Nvidia user.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guynone of the politicians care if it works or ever will work.

Absolutely. Politicians only care that they appear to be doing something about a perceived problem. All that matters is that they stay in office and continue to collect from the gravy train.

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Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 6.62% +4.29%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 2.59% -3.98%

Anyone else notice that these two numbers combined place Linux Mint 22.x at 9.21%? And that doesn't factor for users still on 22.0 or 22.1.

SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.83% +23.83%
Arch Linux 64 bit 9.07% +9.07%

That places Linux Mint 22 ahead of Arch Linux, in second place. Way to go, Linux Mint!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut individually, they're trying to maximize profit, and there are two basic ways to do that--maximizing revenue, and minimizing expenses. Probably the biggest component of minimizing expenses is not paying workers more than you absolutely have to.

I can confirm this. You know those freelance consultants they bring in to help you make your business more "efficient"? The first thing these so-called "experts" tell you is that wages are the largest and most easily controlled expense of your business. (This is also pushed by books & websites as well.) I dislike the mentality because it treats your employees as if they are resources (like office supplies) instead of unique and valuable individuals contributing to the success of your business. The less you pay your employees, the more turnover you will see. There is a high cost to that as well.

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Never fails. Wait about a week and you will see a hotfix patch come out.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: eggroleI DO blame over consumption.

Sure. Why blame the system when you can blame the ones with no power. You're blaming the addicts, not the pushers. You're blaming the players, not the ones writing and enforcing the rules.

Another way to look at it is that Industrialism needs Consumerism in order to move all the products the factories are manufacturing. Capitalism is just the economic means being used to do this. Are there other ways to distribute Industrialism's production? Certainly, but Capitalism suits the Western elite.

Most of us have been conditioned from early childhood to do our part in keeping this flawed economic system functioning. We are trained to be good, replaceable factory cogs and kept in a perpetual state of childhood through poor education. The goal is to keep us consuming, so that the system keeps functioning and the wealth continues to trickle upwards. It's gotten so bad that we are now actively encouraged to go deeply in debt just to keep this Consumerism ball rolling.

Advertising and propaganda are the primary evils in this system. Thanks to a nephew of Freud, Freud's therapeutic techniques are being employed to manipulate us into being good consumers (and obedient citizens). It encourages this almost child-like tendency @eggrole described of "not long after you purchase something, the newness wears off and you are back to longing for the next thing." The key to breaking out of this system is to avoid the advertising(*). This is why advertising has become so pernicious and can be found almost everywhere. The system that benefits the elite needs the rest of us to consume or it cannot survive. The flipside is that we common folk do not actually need the system to survive or thrive. With a change in mindset, we can manage quite well without it. The propaganda is just designed to manipulate us into believing that Consumerism is the only alternative.

(*) Getting out of debt also helps.

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Pass. The TV series was just a long, badly written commercial targeted at children. I have no desire to relive it.

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