Quoting: slaapliedjeHonest question; what do they do different that would make me want to switch to Mint DE over just Debian? Debian has a much more flexible installer (still one of the best if you need software raid, or anything funky).

Probably nothing that would make you want to switch to Mint DE (or any other kind of Mint). But I don't want flexible or anything funky, I want simple no muss no fuss. And I want all my media to already work, and all that kind of stuff.
As a side note, I don't actually use Cinnamon. I use Mate.

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I don't use it but I'm glad it exists, 'cause if odd things happen with Ubuntu I could end up still able to use Mint thanks to its existence.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: NodFun fact. This game was ported to Linux by Loki in 2000. I am a proud owner of the box set and played it at the time.

Yup. Likewise. Not that I can get it to work these days.

There is a docker container just for launching old loki games here: https://github.com/lutris/asgard/ [External Link]

Although not on the list smac(x) works.

Oh, cool. I should give that a whirl.

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In before someone starts complaining that they haven't added the Australian language. :tongue:

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Quoting: NodFun fact. This game was ported to Linux by Loki in 2000. I am a proud owner of the box set and played it at the time.

Yup. Likewise. Not that I can get it to work these days.

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Also included is in this release is Enhanced Barriers, but there's no games shipping with it so it's not well tested yet.

OK, I don't even know what this is. But I think the mere fact that VKD3D-Proton is supporting things before there are even any games that use them is a pretty good sign. Chasing taillights my ass.

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Gotta hand it to them, sounds like they really went for it trying to get things right.

Hmmm . . . Gordian Quest . . . so it's about solving problems by cutting things in half. :grin:

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Quoting: eldarionA pitty they will work on multiplayer before all single player features.

I don't really care about multiplayer myself, either, but for a feature like that, it is extremely useful from a development perspective to bake it in as close to the beginning as possible, rather than trying to add it in after the fact. That way you don't discover right near the end that you've made some fundamental assumptions early on which make implementation that much more difficult, etc. IMO it's a good idea to be doing it so early.

I suspect having it is also a good way of making sure everything else works even if you don't have the AI working properly, because you can play out full games without the AI.

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Hurrah! I've been wanting something like this forever!
Be worth it just to have mousewheel zoom.

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Quoting: fabertawe

Quoting: EikeThat's what wokeness is all about. The difference is that it nowadays includes people that the Sixties didn't think about (like transgender), and it actually asks for the same rights (like gay marriage). But you can't have equality and fairness without including everybody.

That's not wokeness. Fairness and equality is just basic common sense and decency.

Wokeness is transgender men competing in women's sport and supporters of it screaming you down if you dare to have an opposing view, for example. This is not the place for this discussion though.

The sports thing is just such a marginal bit of bullshit. It is obvious to everyone who isn't a total dupe that this is just people who hate/fear trans coming up with whatever stupid edge case excuse they can scrape up to be bitches about, so they can whip up more general anti-trans feelings, so they can then do the other stuff, like force teachers to rat out trans kids to their parents so they can get beaten up or disowned, and go after libraries for having books that talk about gay or trans issues. And just to be clear, these things are happening now. Not only are books being banned, but where they aren't banned librarians are being threatened by people with guns. Meanwhile the latest anti-woke fad is to pretend teachers are a bunch of evil conspirators who are all busy fiendishly trying to turn kids trans because . . . well, there's never a "because" for these things, apparently teachers all just got into the profession because they're eeeevil. The end game is to take things back to the old days where it was just illegal with jail terms to be caught not being straight.

I mean sure, people can pretend to themselves that for them it's just about the kids' sports, like anyone gives a damn about that, but they have to know deep down that in backing the people whipping up the hysteria, that's the overall agenda they're backing. They just don't want to face themselves--don't have the guts to straight up be bigots and own the evil. I almost respect that less than the ones foaming at the mouth.

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