Flávio:

The thing is that I don’t really have time to setup things from scratch so I like to use distros that does most of the work for me and I just need to configure basic things for my workflow.

Also Flávio:

The ones I used the most were . . . Slackware and Gentoo

:grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Marlock"spark a debate" is not necessarily bad for Valve either, quite the contrary!

As they say, "No publicity is bad publicity".

They do say so, but it's not true.
Ever seen somebody smoking a Strand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_(cigarette) [External Link]

That was interesting. Go figure.

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Quoting: BlistoAlso note that the ANV MR hasn't been merged yet. It's been sitting for 9 months.

The Aggressive Nano Virus Mega Replicator? I can see why they'd hesitate to merge that. :grin:

No, seriously, what's an ANV MR?

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Quoting: matiaslavikThis is why I think software rendering is the future of gaming.
You should all start playing some DOOM and Wolfenstein3D again, to prepare for the change that is to come :grin:

At some time ago, I was surprised by Euclideon [External Link] technology, it was running on CPU alone and had really detailed models, but they never really prepared it for gaming (you can see some experiment on their site). Now we have Unreal Engine 5, which has similar level of detail with GPU and doesn't really need that beast of a card to run it. So I think we are on the good track, when even older GPUs could be able to run the newest games in future, because it will be more on smart usage of resources in the engine than on the brute force of GPU.

What was that shriek of horror I just heard?
Oh, a hardware manufacturer.

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Quoting: Penglingsince the cost of living was so high back then

. . . unlike now, of course . . .

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, so first we take over the consoles, THEN we take over the desktop?

Somehow it feels like nailing Al Capone for tax evasion. Which is to say, seems kind of weird and sideways, but if it works . . .

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Anyway, it's very sweet that it's developed with love.

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Quoting: Marlock"spark a debate" is not necessarily bad for Valve either, quite the contrary!

As they say, "No publicity is bad publicity".

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Quoting: Philadelphus*Good for game balance, but somewhat artificial-feeling; I like the Fallen Empires for the same reason, adding an element of "you weren't the first" into the game and making the galaxy feel like it has history.

Totally agreed. I love that feeling when I meet a Fallen Empire and think, "You smug old bastards think you're soooo superior, don't you? One of these days, boy . . ."

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I've never interacted with the primitives very much. Generally I just watch them pretty hands-off, let them do their thing, and most of them are still in the bronze age or whatever by the time I'm the pre-eminent galactic power. I've tended to be democratic nice guys, and there was usually a faction or two I could appease with hands-off policies for some Influence. On the other hand, and in my current play-through, I eat them. Not much interaction there either.

But, that's all the more reason it could be good to have new stuff making them interesting.

I'm not sure about cloaking. It's a cool tech, but I've never been sure how much the AI pays attention to where my fleets are, so I can't tell if hiding my fleets would make much difference . . . on the other hand, if it would let me explore for anomalies in the space of people who have closed their borders, that could be sweet! Or nowadays, if it would let me boost my intel level on other civilizations by sending in cloaked scouts.

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