Dammit, I haven't had time to game at all (except regularly scheduled paper&pencil over Zoom) this week. Right now I am just about to go squash a ton of blackberries so I can make jelly.

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Quoting: no_information_hereFrom the video, it looks like an interesting little economic flow game. I am not sure how the cynical "rip them off" part actually fits unless it is written in to the story really well.

I can see maybe the devs were worried about the audience and thought by mocking "The Man" they would have broader appeal?

Worked on me.
The Man is well worth mocking. I liked the asterisk after the title, leading you to the little disclaimer at the bottom.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd I don't even think Ubuntu is considered their 'officially supported' anymore, at least some bridges were burned and they had mentioned wanting to shift to a different one.

Canonical is now burning even more bridges. I do think Ubuntu is going away as the informal standard desktop Linux distro, and although this is good in the long term, we'll have to endure the pains of change. I hope whatever distro supercedes it in the future at least is committed to the community.

I remember when Red Hat was a brash new outfit who wanted to make Linux an easy to use desktop OS. They gradually gave up on the desktop and concentrated on servers and business.

Then for a while Mandrake was the user-friendly desktop Linux, and was kind of based on Red Hat. Although they started doing it when Red Hat was still kind of desktop-oriented. Far as I can tell, they were somewhere in the middle of starting to give up and concentrate on the business side when they went belly up.

Then Ubuntu came along and were the saviours of Desktop Linux. They have now mostly sidelined the desktop and are concentrating on business and servers (these days aka "the cloud"). I'm kind of seeing a trend here. Visionary distros come along committed to the desktop, make a name for themselves, gradually realize there's no money in it and switch to servers and stuff, but lose popularity afterwards because while the money is in servers, the visibility in the Linux community is on the desktop.

Mint is currently the Mandrake to Ubuntu. Time will tell whether they can hang on a bit better than Mandrake did; I certainly hope so, and things seem all right so far.

Pop!OS is interesting because it's tied to hardware. System76 sell desktops, so for them, there is money in the desktop. They could be in it for the long haul. Unless they happen to come up with the next cool hardware widget, sell gajillions of those at inflated prices and start ignoring their computer biz. Ahem.

Mandrake didn't fully disappear, they just kept merging or changing names. Unfortunately that means most people lost track of them. Mandrake and Connectiva merged at some point (ditching the only thing Connectiva was known for (apt4rpm)). That made Mandriva. But then... I think it became an openMandriva? I don't even know.

No, they went under. Yes, it was after they bought/merged with Connectiva for reasons, and changed their name from Mandrake after losing a lawsuit about it. And yeah, there were community efforts to keep going--more than one project took the Mandriva base and continued it; that's open source for you. But the company itself died, pure and simple.
I was upset because I was a long time Mandrake/Mandriva user.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd I don't even think Ubuntu is considered their 'officially supported' anymore, at least some bridges were burned and they had mentioned wanting to shift to a different one.

Canonical is now burning even more bridges. I do think Ubuntu is going away as the informal standard desktop Linux distro, and although this is good in the long term, we'll have to endure the pains of change. I hope whatever distro supercedes it in the future at least is committed to the community.

I remember when Red Hat was a brash new outfit who wanted to make Linux an easy to use desktop OS. They gradually gave up on the desktop and concentrated on servers and business.

Then for a while Mandrake was the user-friendly desktop Linux, and was kind of based on Red Hat. Although they started doing it when Red Hat was still kind of desktop-oriented. Far as I can tell, they were somewhere in the middle of starting to give up and concentrate on the business side when they went belly up.

Then Ubuntu came along and were the saviours of Desktop Linux. They have now mostly sidelined the desktop and are concentrating on business and servers (these days aka "the cloud"). I'm kind of seeing a trend here. Visionary distros come along committed to the desktop, make a name for themselves, gradually realize there's no money in it and switch to servers and stuff, but lose popularity afterwards because while the money is in servers, the visibility in the Linux community is on the desktop.

Mint is currently the Mandrake to Ubuntu. Time will tell whether they can hang on a bit better than Mandrake did; I certainly hope so, and things seem all right so far.

Pop!OS is interesting because it's tied to hardware. System76 sell desktops, so for them, there is money in the desktop. They could be in it for the long haul. Unless they happen to come up with the next cool hardware widget, sell gajillions of those at inflated prices and start ignoring their computer biz. Ahem.

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Quoting: GryxxNow i have to ask difficult question:
I'm looking for distro that:
1. Is fully compatible with Ubuntu in terms of gaming (mainly Robocraft, i do not want to use flatpak)
2. Has fresh packages (KDE, kernel, Mesa, Wine, Lutris being major ones)
3. Does integrate well with KDE
4. I would like something as close as possible to rolling relase

That is a difficult question. Don't think there's any such thing, especially when you add in that last bit.

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Quoting: barotto

Quoting: x_wingThere is a third player. VIA still owns the rights to produce x86 arch CPUs but (afaik) those rights are not transferable by companies purchase and the last CPU I heard from them was released circa 2007 so I really doubt that we will see a new real contender in the x86 market any time soon (Intel will simply not allow it).

Zhaoxin, a joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai Municipal Government, is developing new x86-64 CPUs.
Their performance is abysmal, and they are for the chinese market, but still...

If the Chinese get serious about local production of such things, they could back that until it gets somewhere. The Chinese understand industrial policy. And they are becoming increasingly wary of letting the US control any technological chokepoints that could disrupt their economy.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatthis game make me remember of a Gary Larson cartoon

Oh, yeah . . . I loved that "The requested content cannot be loaded" cartoon.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Nice article, I've been interested in VR for a while, the issue though is that it seems way too focused solely around Steam on Linux. Has anyone actually tried playing games on VR without Steam?

This may ruffle some feathers but I don't like Steam and having to depend on such a platform to run VR isn't my cup of tea. I would welcome any suggestions for a "game client agnostic" method.

This isn't an article about VR on Linux in general. It's an article about trying out specifically Valve's VR hardware. It would be weird to do that while carefully avoiding Steam. Especially in an article by someone who describes themselves as wanting to avoid hassle and have stuff just work.

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Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: dvdAs for support, all is really needed is that they figure out a base set of (external) libraries they want/need to support. And steam/gog provides them that already, so even them targeting ancient library versions are not a problem anymore.

To my mind every single dev/publisher that figured out that steam can ship their version of libraries and that it is enough to support one distribution to satisfy 99% of linux gamers has done a good enough job. This has nothing to do with how many desktop environments and how many "linux" distro flavours are out there.

99% seems a bit optimistic, if we look at the GOL statistics (assuming of course that those statistics are representative)

Not the point being made. He's not saying nobody uses other distros. He's saying that by and large those other distros, if their users are likely to have the faintest interest in gaming, will ensure that the Steam approach will work on their distro. So game developers code to Steam's de facto standard of what libraries to use and such, distros make sure that works, 99% of Linux gamers find games work. Thus, functionally not fragmentation.
Note that I don't know if this is true, I'm just trying to make sure you're not talking past each other.

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Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: SolarwingTried to play final fantasy 5 using steamplay but still the fonts don't show properly yet. So I played my guitar instead.

There's more to life than videogames. Not much worth speaking of, but definitely more.

There are things worth speaking of, but since a gentleman never tells . . .

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