Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor people without big budgets, you can actually be limited in what you can use your computer for just because you don't want to buy (or bloody rent!) the software and you don't know there's another way.

Don't forget about piracy. Most Windows users I know don't care about legality and just pirate whatever they can for their home PCs. Not sure how much this experience can be generalized though.

You have a point.

Well anyway, 4% is nice.

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Trailer opening was cute.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn Mac, I suspect open source software is quite hard to run.

In general, it's a lot easier than Windows because it has a lot of the same libraries as Linux due to its *BSD heritage.

I was thinking more along the lines of just a bit of a pain to install because of Apple walled garden stuff, not so much not working or anything.

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Quoting: Guest> A number that is getting steadily
> harder for developers of all kinds
> to ignore.

On the other side, it seems we can grow even without all of them :)

Well, one thing I've increasingly noticed about Linux is the software ecosystem is for a lot of things actually pretty decent now . . . and free, and available right in the distro's software centre thingie. On Mac, I suspect open source software is quite hard to run. And on Windows you can do it, but you have to be aware of it and go searching for each individual piece. So on both, there's a tendency to just go with the expensive stuff which these days is often crappy subscription services. For people without big budgets, you can actually be limited in what you can use your computer for just because you don't want to buy (or bloody rent!) the software and you don't know there's another way. On Linux, if I suddenly find that I need to do Z, I may look on the menus and find that something for Z is already installed, but if not I go to the distro's software centre thingie and type in a search term and download and now I can do Z.

So although it's technically true that the Windows software ecosystem is still bigger and for some use-cases better, functionally for a lot of people it's probably the other way around. That wasn't true back in the 2000s.

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"Metal Slug 4" . . . OK, why were there four games about a slug made of metal? I guess it's a sort of interesting superhero concept, like Earthworm Jim, but four games? :wink:

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Quoting: PyreticOnce again, I am asking online multiplayer games to offer couch coop :(

Tastes differ I guess. I don't care how "Wild West" the game is, I don't want a chicken coop on my couch. :tongue:

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Does temporal anti-aliasing smooth out the flow of time? I hadn't noticed time being jerky, but if someone was having that problem I could see it being amazingly useful.

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I did a take when the guy was swimming underwater with his hat still staying firmly on his head.

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Awesome people! Jolly good show.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualIf Ubisoft won't enable anti-cheat support for Proton for Siege even when it's seemingly done for them, I don't have much hope for these EA games using an unsupported anti-cheat.

I don't think the anti-cheat problem will ever be solved for Linux.

Well, not without cheating.
I mean, the cheaters beat that stuff, so I don't see why there couldn't be a Wine mod that would do the same. Just not officially.

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