Quoting: TrainDocI understand the frustrations with a lack of amd gpus in high end laptops but I feel like one of a few who very pragmatically concedes that nvidia makes the best gpus you might be able to buy.

At all price points?
I feel like if it's that cut and dried, shouldn't AMD have been forced to drop their GPU business long ago?

Maybe AMD just don't make cards that are good for laptops? Because one can certainly get desktop computers with AMD graphics cards, yes? I mean, I have one, it must be possible. And it's well known that AMD graphics cards are popular among the Linux community. Which implies, again from a pragmatic perspective, that if you are a company like System76 making computers preloaded with Linux for use by Linux users, that you could sell many units of a laptop set up with the brand of card that your market tend to want.
Something must be stopping all these computers-for-Linux companies from selling what their target market want to buy, and I really find myself wondering what. I don't think it can be that they think NVidia cards are just better--if their buyers disagree, one would think they'd follow the money and give the buyers what they want. I figure it must be either that there just aren't any AMD cards that are workable in laptops, or they're not really making laptops from scratch but rather kind of rebranding and tweaking laptops from some manufacturer that doesn't make their stuff for Linux particularly, and it's the broader industry that isn't making laptops with AMD GPUs.

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Hmmm . . . I can see Liam's point here, but I also have a bit of trouble with aspects of it. So, first, I want to draw a distinction between being interested in something and being in favour of it. If, as a wild for instance totally not provoked by a recent movie, there was a huge asteroid soon going to strike the earth, I'd be interested, to say the least. I'd want to know. I might have comments on the subject. I would not be pro-asteroid. I would feel it unreasonable if a moderator told me that if I didn't have anything good to say about the asteroid, I should stay away from news about it because I was clearly not interested.

A second distinction I'd like to point out is the distinction between people saying the site should not cover news about games that only run in Proton, and people saying they would prefer that those games ran natively. I certainly agree that Liam can cover whatever he wants. Further, it's clear that games running on Proton do allow you to game on Linux, and from a strategic point of view Proton is clearly important, for better, worse or both, to gaming on Linux. So, news about Proton, and games that run on it, is clearly news about Gaming on Linux, and I think it's absolutely reasonable for Liam to shut people up who want to tell him not to cover such.

But that is not the same as saying "I wish this game also ran natively" or "I think Proton is in the end going to prove a net negative to gaming on Linux". I don't think those are actually unreasonable things to say, and I think you can be interested in Proton and Proton coverage and still want to say them. To be clear, I don't say them because I think the first one is too obvious to bother saying, and the second I think is probably not the case, but there's nothing wrong with saying them.

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The Terraria people seem nice.

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Quoting: AnzaIf they work with ScummVM, then Roberta [External Link] could work too. That way they more or less look like native games and can be launched from Steam. I don't know if there's packaged version of Roberta somewhere, which would make the installation easier.

Maybe not as such, but that "Proton-Up QT" thing Liam mentions in the article apparently also acts as an installer for Roberta; also Luxtorpeda and Boxtron.

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Say, talking of VR . . . does anyone happen to know how much of a difference it would be likely to make if you were using VR and had in effect just one eye?

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: BeamboomI find some of those whitelisted as downright *weird* that they've spent time on testing. Looks so ridiculously random.

They've got unpublished test results. The initial batches of published test results were just to test the store interface, with limited numbers in case it didn't work. I expect they wanted a range of ways that the testing failed so that they tested each part of the interface.

Ah, that makes sense. Gotta say, I too was first thinking, "Oh, if they've tested thousands that's great! Hang on, if they've only got sixty to show for it, that's really bad!"
But yeah, probably it's not like that. I hope.

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: BeamboomI've actually never felt Sony were much against Linux at all. Keep in mind that on their PS3 they even allowed Linux to be installed as "otherOS".

They sold the PS3 with Linux support in order to save on import tax, because it technically can be imported as "home computing device", instead of "gaming console". That's literally the only reason why they did that. Not because they "love Linux" or something.

Ooh, I didn't know about that!

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo the title is "Vampire Survivors". So, are you a vampire trying to survive a zombie apocalypse, or just a person trying to survive vampires?

The latter.

Awww.

I've seen fiction about the other thing. It's actually pretty tough for a vampire in the zombie apocalypse, not so much because the zombies are that much of a threat to you, but the buggers are undrinkable. So you have to try to preserve the humans--if you don't, you'll starve. And if you don't have many humans available, and the zombies push you to a lot of powerhungry vampire stunts, you could find yourself forced to drain people dead, and that's a downward spiral.
On the other hand, the humans don't like or trust you, so you have problems from that side too. All in all, I think it could make for a fun game.

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So the title is "Vampire Survivors". So, are you a vampire trying to survive a zombie apocalypse, or just a person trying to survive vampires?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: syylkOTOH, we could say that 15% of titles cannot work on Linux whatsoever.

Which doesn't sound good.

Sounds pretty damn great to me. It would have been 85% not that long ago.

And two of those are because of anti-cheat. Which means they could be enabled easily enough. That leaves only 5% actually not able to run on Linux. That's startling!
Really, fast-backward just 5 years and how many current games ran decently on Wine?

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