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Quoting: clatterfordslimNever been a fan of Dolphin, like Nautilus it's too locked down. So whenever trying a new OS, I install Nemo.

KDE Manjaro and Nemo fan here as well, but I haven't installed Nemo in a few years because I seem to remember installing Nemo feeling like it was also installing half of Mint to get it to work. Is that still the case?

And really, why install half of Mint when you could just install Mint? :tongue:

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Well, no doubt the laptop is very nice. I'm not sold by the marketing, though--all that breathless stuff about multitasking. Studies suggest that people aren't as good at multitasking as they think they are, and that switching tasks has a cognitive and time cost, so you're better off concentrating on one thing for a while.

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Looking at the trailer, I guess it's not HIGH-res, but it's not exactly pixel art either, or cartoony. To me it's a pleasant, fairly realistic look, just with a sort of relaxing "soft" texture to things.

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Quoting: devlandGreat news but it seems from the graphs that they're biased towards Linux themselves. The numbers float around 5 and 6% yet the bars do not reflect that. I remember back when nvidia pulled this trick to showcase some performance boost people got really angry.

The bars chop off at 85% (you can see the "85%" at the bottom), because otherwise they'd either be way too tall or it would be hard to make out the relevant bits. True, the result is a bit "gee-whiz graph" looking, but I think the labelling is so prominent that it's in no way misleading.

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Well, the last MOO 1 clone I ran across was still in kickstarter; I supported it, have an in-development version, but it's kind of stalled out at "more or less playable but not really finished". So, maybe a finished one . . . but then, I don't really care that much about the graphics, so aside from that is there anything in this that says I should be playing it instead of just firing up MOO 1 itself?

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I'm sorry, but an OGRE is not a rendering engine, it's a massive war machine capable of shrugging off multiple tac-nuke hits and keeping on coming. Lovely little tabletop game that was; I used to have the original microgame version.

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Quoting: a0kamiSo that'd mean (roughly) we were over 200k penguins online at the same time ? 😳

I'd make it nearly 300k.

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Quoting: [LinuxImo we should temper expectations. And unless something PERFECTLY works across multiple distros and hardware writing 'Works with Proton' is extremely misleading and setting up new users for failure.

The key "new users" in the current context will be the new Steam Deck users . . . and if a game works on any distro/hardware combination we can be pretty sure it will work on the Steam Deck--in some cases games may work on the Steam Deck and no other Linux setup.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleValve is making a huge mistake though trusting game developers/publishers to just enable anticheat for Proton on their games. I still think hardly any of them will bother. Does not matter how easy Valve makes it.

Yeah, at this point I'm not so much hoping for hidden work on Proton to be suddenly released before the Deck comes out as I am hoping for behind-the-scenes bribing and strongarming of key anti-cheat users to bloody well enable Linux before the Deck comes out.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaHowever, it's not going to change the fact that Ubuntu is just not suited for gaming just from the way it's designed. Gaming, particularly on Linux, benefits immensely from having the latest kernel and the latest drivers. Neither of which can be done in Ubuntu without workarounds and PPAs, which I don't think should be relied on.

I dunno. Seems to me there has to be a middle road between "no current software available" and "use the Aur which potentially pulls in bleeding edge bloody everything all the time with no guidance so you've got near infinite chances to break stuff".
I mean, just how many packages are we talking about keeping up to the latest? If you've got a full time staffer for gaming-related stuff, it should be workable for them to maintain a small meta-package of latest gaming stuff, which could be in the official repo or even visible in the update tool. One thing to install, one thing to revert if it causes problems. Then you could have what you needed for gaming without opening up a can of Aur.

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