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Latest Comments by fraghopper
What Have You Been Playing Recently, And What Do You Think About It?
24 Aug 2015 at 7:11 pm UTC

Shadowrun Hong Kong and Bioshock Infinite.

Shadowrun is a great series, I'm enjoying every moment of every playthrough. Every generation should have a truly stellar RPG and I feel like Shadowrun, at least in terms of atmosphere and lore and sheer fun, is outstanding.

Bioshock Infinite is another solid Bioshock game. What more is there to say? Playing a Bioshock game on Linux is sublime.

Next in queue is Morder.

DiRT Showdown Released For Linux Thanks To Virtual Programming, Some Thoughts
18 Aug 2015 at 4:19 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: ElectricPrism
Quoting: Linas
Quoting: aristoriasit is really sad to see the linux world completely focus on nvidia/intel.
We already have an intel monopoly and the same will happen with nvidia.
Everybody has some kind of responsibility, especially reporters - free or not.
Why? Free enterprise! Just saying ...
AMD brought this on themselves. I used to be an AMD user, both CPU and GPU. But with every release fglrx driver was getting worse and worse. Crashing, not being able to change screen brightness. Then they dropped the card from the driver altogether while the open source driver had no 3D support yet. That was the last straw -- my next machine was Intel / NVIDIA.
My suggestion to you - go sell your AMD on ebay or local and buy a nVidia card if you want the "best" linux gaming experience. It's sad, and it's not the way it should be - but it's the way it is right now. Maybe the future will be different - that's up to AMD, in the meantime I won't suffer from their bad choices.
Yep, this is what the free market looks like. Consumers reward companies that do what they want. The reason Linux users use Nvidia is because Nvidia reliably provides quality drivers. If AMD wants Linux users to buy AMD GPUs, then AMD needs to prove that they are going to support Linux as a first-class OS.

And frankly they have a lot to prove at this point. I've been burned by AMD GPUs way too often to switch to them at the first sign of interest.

Fallout 4 And Steam Machine Release Dates A Coincidence? Yes, Probably.
15 Jun 2015 at 9:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

It is an obvious sign that Fallout 4 will be a SteamOS exclusive. :-P

Valve Finally Have A Proper Refund Policy For Steam
2 Jun 2015 at 10:05 pm UTC

Good-bye, Dead Island. It was nice playing for the three hours that you worked.

Steam Replaces The Linux Tux Logo With SteamOS
1 Jun 2015 at 8:32 pm UTC

I'm fine with this. It's not the brand I care about, it's the platform.

Logitech F310 Gamepad Review On Linux
18 May 2015 at 11:16 pm UTC

I have a Logitech F310 and have found it just as good as Liam does in this article. On some games, it requires no configuration, and on others I use https://github.com/Ryochan7/antimicro [External Link] to interpret and convert the signals for me. All of this works really well even on games that I play in WINE. I have nothing bad to say about this controller, and highly recommend it.

In terms of getting it to work, I had no trouble. I use the xboxdrv driver on Slackware Linux. Works great.