Quoting: slaapliedjeYou know what would be hilarious? If WSL2

I can't take that acronym seriously. I always imagine it being involved in a Winnie the Pooh story, like "Where the WSL2 Wasn't [External Link]".

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Hm. So does that mean nothing can kill you until 7:57?

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Quoting: dziadulewiczFinland fought against impossible odds for all of Nordic countries really..

aaann kicked ass seriously!! read and saw pics about something called Raatetier battle,,

That's Battle of Raate Road, in -30 degrees celsius. The casualties for USSR were... Well, in a lack of a better word: substantial. I hear the historians talk about The Miracle of Winter War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raate_Road [External Link]

It occurs to me that, ironically, learning that expensive lesson may have helped prepare the USSR to beat the Nazis in their winter campaigns against them.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI have no idea what you’re trying to say here. If people don’t want to see something: I don’t really care? 🤷‍♂️ people don’t have to click every article they’re not interested in.

Indeed. And surely you don't have to pay attention to every comment you're not interested in. Sauce for the goose and all that.

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Quoting: F.UltraSo until that changes (aka when we get enough market share) I'll rather take a well working game in Proton over a half-hearted native port that quickly gets abandonware.

I'm not sure if we have any actual statistics about that, so my anecdotes would be as good as anyone's. I would like to note that nearly all my Steam games are native and work fine. And I've only tried a few games with Proton or Wine, and have usually had trouble getting them to work, or just failed. Maybe there's something about my setup that doesn't work well with Proton, I dunno.
Mind you, it's true that my old Loki Alpha Centauri doesn't work, while I did recently get a Windows version that does run on Wine, although I have to do something weird every time.

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Quoting: Liam DaweJust seems weird to me at this point to complain about a developer not doing a port, for reasons already explained a hundred times by now. Plus, I don't see how a port existing actually changes anything for Linux as a platform.

In practice today, it probably doesn't. In the longer term, having all your games written for a platform controlled by a company that doesn't like you is likely to be less good than having your games written for your own platform. I'm not sure Microsoft can create enough pain for Proton by making changes to DirectX or whatever to create big problems for Linux gaming. And I'm certainly not sure they can do it without causing problems for Windows users and developers as well. But I'm not sure they can't, either, and I'm not at all sure they won't at some point try if Linux gains enough market share to feel like a threat.

As a strategic thinker, I value native games and I have not seen any argument against that applies to my reasons for valuing them. (As a strategic thinker, I value Proton too. Quite a lot, actually. But both things are valuable. Proton is valuable for driving Linux adoption, native Linux software is valuable for making it a robust platform that can stay adopted even when under attack)

Quoting: Liam DaweMy main point is: this argument and the complaints have been done to death. It's boring and slightly annoying to see this native argument brought up constantly, when the same arguments get repeated by a few - most people don't care, because they just want to play games.

Oh, c'mon Liam. Everything anyone says in the comments has to be interesting to you? I know it's your site, but dash it all--what do you tell people (and rightly so) when they bitch about some article not being what they want to see on the site?

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I wonder how different things might have been for Norway if someone had knocked off that bastard Quisling before things got started.

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I notice with approval that both companies have purple options. I'd say JSaux's transparent purple is slightly cooler than the other one.

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It's funny, part of the Tetris resemblance is actually pointless from a gameplay perspective. I mean, as far as I can tell it doesn't matter much what shape the things are coming down because they just turn into sand on contact, so they could just be blobs (narrower and taller or wider and flatter) coming down and it would work the same. But they use the Tetris shapes just for the evocation of Tetris-ness.

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Whenever I see "Call of Duty" I think "Doll of Cutie". Kind of changes the ambience . . .

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