Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeMost don't understand that the most popular distributions are, at their core, Debian systems though.

It seem I am one of the few who never got the hang of anything Debian or Ubuntu. Dunno exactly why tho ^^"

'Cause you never tried Mint! :tongue:

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Quoting: TermyAnother reason to put your money where your mouth is and support Linux-supporting devs instead of devs that don't care. (Personally, official support for proton is fine too)

So you're suggesting we should stop buying games at all, then? As if that would help anything...!

That's obviously not what they're suggesting.

It's not what they intended to suggest, but is it not really, in practise? When you think about it?

The list of major developers supporting Linux today is... Practically non-existing. There's *no* games that I want to play being released the last year that's pushed by a Linux supporting developer. And I'm not here to play Tux Cart and tiny retro indies for the coming years.

So yes - in *reality* that's the suggestion. And my point is of course that this suggestion is meaningless. If we don't purchase the games from devs that don't care, they won't even notice. The *only* consequence is that we won't be experiencing those games.

Tastes differ. I mean, I have a bias towards buying games that are native over using Proton, but it's fairly mild. And yet, so far I've only actually bought ONE game with the intent to play it on Proton (So far, it doesn't work).
Thing is that I happen to be mostly into strategy games or games like Shadowrun with turn-based combat, and Linux is pretty well supplied with that kind of stuff. If your taste is AAA stuff, then yeah, I expect Linux native seems like much more of a wasteland.

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So the news here is . . . they've branded it?

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Humans. Do. Not. Work. As. Batteries.
That was by far the stupidest thing about The Matrix . . . or at least, the biggest stupid thing. Shouting out to it is just a bad idea. Let the concept die.

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Quoting: KeyrockI'll believe it when I see it. Good AI is one of the most difficult things to properly implement.

Yeah. And then when you succeed, they take over civilization and enslave us all. AI is just a PITA no matter what.

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What I'd like is a tab to manage megastructures. When I have a big sprawling empire I sometimes sort of lose track of them.
I've also been having a silly management problem with war . . . I keep getting to a point where I've already grabbed all the enemy territory I can find, but they won't give up because I missed a couple of systems and/or planets, so I have to look and look to figure out what I have to nab to end the thing. It would be nice if, where it tells me I have penalties to get a surrender because I haven't occupied systems or planets, it would also tell me just what systems and planets those are.
Right now I'm in a war where I finally realized that the missing systems were occupied by someone else they're at war with, but the game won't let me grab those systems because I'm not at war with the people doing the occupying. It's starting to look like I'm going to have to start another war just to finish this one.

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Quoting: TheRiddickUnfortunately the don't support games that don't support Linux argument has never worked, and in fact has wholly backfired on the Linux gaming community as developers get even colder towards Linux in general.

Of course it's never worked, we're like 1% of the market. There is nothing we can do as Linux gamers that would "work". But the idea that preferentially buying Linux native games has been counterproductive is utterly silly. Really, think about what you're saying here--it seems to translate to "If only the 1% of the market that is Linux gamers had refrained from buying Linux native games, we'd have a much better Linux gaming scene!!!" Uh, sure, that makes sense.

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Quoting: CatKillerIt's just visiting Netflix with Steam's built-in browser and adding a bookmark.

For you and me sure, but users will expect something similar to a android app. So you can expect someone to built an electron app with a shinny N icon on it (or maybe a flatpak), which in practice it's the same thing :tongue:

The demo units they gave to journalists already had the bookmark made.

Well that's a good thing, then.

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Quoting: TermyAnother reason to put your money where your mouth is and support Linux-supporting devs instead of devs that don't care. (Personally, official support for proton is fine too)

To be fair, even Linux native clients are not guaranteed to run forever.

True, although . . . isn't there supposed to be this Runtime Container thing now to reduce problems of the OS moving on? (I want a Runtime Container for my old Loki Alpha Centauri)

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Quoting: BielFPsJokes apart, I understand that most users don't know nor care about the system it's running inside deck, only if the games are running and if they can install third party apps on it (Netflix/spotify/whatever).

That last bit is one question mark I still have about this device, actually.
Well, I mean, it's a PC--obviously in general, in the abstract, you can install third party apps (and OSes!) on it. But I'm talking, certain popular third-party things like Netflix, with an absolute minimum of effort, in ways that are downright user-subservient.

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