Thanks, this has been something really annoying to me for a while now :)

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Nice, Aspyr is starting off on the right foot for us this year :) I was starting to wonder if they were even doing Linux ports anymore. Apparently they are :)

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Nice, not that I was worried about anything, but this was a very encouraging read! :)

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Works great here on the latest stable Manjaro :)

I'm using a Steam Controller.
I didn't notice any mouse issues.
I'm on a dual monitor setup on a laptop and didn't have any issues.

Thanks again!

Edit: I made a recording of my gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YE02JcPvPk [External Link]

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Thanks Dark Duo devs! :) Hey that's alliteration :D

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I'm happy for the Mesa developers, like Marek, who now have a good reason to make these sweeping improvements, and also something to test the changes with.

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: natewardawgI have some family coming soon from the US. Does anyone have experience getting a packed up desktop computer as luggage on a plane? Sounds a little bit risky to me. Thanks!

A large case with all the parts installed is too risky for luggage that's checked-in (the one that goes to the baggage compartment on a conveyor belt); that luggage gets tossed around like crazy, so something's bound to come loose and hit and grind against everything else in the case.

Someone could take the case as carry-on luggage, and take it inside with themselves into the cabin. But then that uses up the hand luggage allowance. Also the case might not be all that much safer in the overhead lockers; and it wouldn't fit under the seat in front.

I think the best option is to get the parts separately, and distribute the individual boxes to your backpack, and the checked-in luggage. I did this a couple of years ago on a flight from Chicago, with a layover at London Heathrow. In Chicago, I asked a TSA (security) person whether I needed to take anything out of my bag (which had the motherboard, ram sticks, the processor, and a graphics card in their original boxes; everything else [power source, cooler, extra fans; *no case*] was in my checked-in luggage) and he said no. The bag went through the xray, but then they set it aside for an additional manual check. The person doing the check had no idea what the electronics were, but luckily she didn't ask me to 'turn anything on'. At Heathrow, I took the electronics out onto a tray just as I'd do with a laptop; and went through security like that; no problems there.

So it's possible to do; but it's a bit of work for the person carrying the items. Then you could just get a case in your city, and install everything yourself.

Thanks for the advice. So it really sounds like the best thing for me to do is just go with my gut and get a computer from here. There's a nice shop down the road that seems to know what they're doing and builds custom boxes. Granted, the UEFI will either be in Spanish or most likely Chinese, but I've found my way through one of those before, haha :D

Sorry System76, maybe next time :)

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Quoting: sarmadWow, 1000$ for shipping! There are companies that can open a POBox for you in the states and then re-ship whatever it receives to you overseas. I would check some of those, maybe you get reasonable prices with those instead.

I own a System76 Oryx Pro, and it's been great for gaming and for my work as well. Really worth the price.

Thanks for the advice, I'll keep it in mind. Do you know of a name of one of these companies? I wouldn't need a PO Box, I have friends and family I could initially send it to.

I have a Bonobo Extreme that I bought about 2-3 years ago and, while it has served it's purpose, it's already quite outdated. I'm really shooting for a desktop this time that I can actually swap out the parts in it. I've never been much of a laptop person and got this one more out of necessity (for traveling) instead of want. I have some large projects and want to also have a ZFS raid setup to avoid data corruption (like I've had a lot of in this computer). While there's space for two drives in this laptop I found out the hard way with this laptop that it's a very bad idea to put two spinning hard drives in it. I have lost two drives now due to heating issues since both drives are right next to each other and there's no ventilation there. Both drives were hitting 55 to 60 degrees Celsius. I'm pretty sure this is what caused the massive data corruption in one and completely burnt out another. I now just have one SSD and use an external drive for larger data.

Thanks for the advice! :)

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I've been following this game for I think over 8 years now, and I agree, more co-op and single player are really needed. This game is super polished, but I think they've burnt way too much time on polish and need to stop focusing on that as much and start balancing their time out with a lot more content, then go back and polish those things up once they're done. I'm not saying not to polish those things a little, but just not quite as much.

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Go System76!

It would be really nice to see AMD drivers get up to snuff and then see some AMD GPU options in System76 machines. Seeing some benchmarks already, I'm sure Vulkan will really help this a lot. It will probably be the default API in Unity3D builds starting in March when 5.6 releases.

As a side note, I was about to buy a new $2000 System76 machine about a month ago, but since I live in Peru I found out at checkout that the shipping was almost $1000 on top of that. Maybe once I move back to the States or find some less expensive way of getting the computer here I'll pick one up. If anyone has any experience getting something like this to another country much cheaper I would love to hear it! :)

I have some family coming soon from the US. Does anyone have experience getting a packed up desktop computer as luggage on a plane? Sounds a little bit risky to me. Thanks!

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