This is very sweet. I hope it all works out.

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Quoting: johndoeAgain some people here are bashing against someone they DON'T KNOW.
Is Tim Sweeney someones uncle etc. here??? I don't think so.

In fact, I'm much more likely to bash people I don't know than people I do. Such people are generally public figures who speak publicly and do actions which have wide impact. Very often, this gives perfectly adequate basis for bashing. I've never met Benito Mussolini, but I'm pretty sure I'm not wild about the man. So no, I'm not planning to limit all my criticisms to my uncles.

Quoting: johndoeEven his tweets might not be from himself.

People always tend (ME included) to interpret things into something that wasn't said.
I mean... when someone says his favourite color is PINK, it does not immediately mean he/she is gay.
It "might" be so, but you "really" don't know.

Yes, there is uncertainty in the world. This is not a sufficient reason to never form a judgement.

Quoting: johndoeYes, Tim Sweeney made "exclusive" deals with developers/publishers and what now? Did he force them to do it? NO. So, is he evil? No.

You do realize that the main reason people don't like exclusives is about their impact on consumers, not developers, right? So developers not being coerced has nothing to do with whether Sweeney is evil. Completely off topic.

Quoting: johndoeSaying bullshit about someone you don't know because it does't make you comfortable is a waste of time and leads only to another game client which will never be released for Linux - thank you.

Instead we should at least try to convince people to support us and not whinge around.

It is vanishingly unlikely that Tim Sweeney is reading this comment section or that, if he did, he would base moneymaking decisions on it. Your scenario where we say unpleasant things about Tim Sweeney and then although he'd been planning on giving us all a free pony that doesn't materialize because we weren't nice to him, is not a picture of reality.
Look, if you want to say it's not nice to say bad things about people, just say that. All your attempts to put topspin on it are not making sense.

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I'm with Liam on this: Clearly Linux sales of games are very low, so it's a bloody good thing game engines like Unity support us and make the barrier to making a Linux version pretty much equally low.
And I definitely think that the developer's assessment was forthright, but fair enough. Interesting note about Linux users tending to have more unusual hardware configurations. Makes sense, really.

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You know, I didn't even read the article. This guy doesn't say the same thing two days running and most of it is meaningless. If there's nothing at stake no doubt he'll say faintly praise Linux. If for some reason he ends up thinking he can make a big bundle with Linux, maybe he'll support it--but only for that specific money-making case and in as closed a way as he can. For the rest, there'll be lip service if we're lucky, and with luck no big bad-publicity moves like actually yanking Unreal support. But (whatever he might have been once) he's basically an untrustworthy corporate stuffed shirt with an instinct for closed and predatory.

So I don't give a damn what he has to say.

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The title looks redundant but it actually isn't. I can envision sequels like "Space Rabbits at Sea" or "Space Rabbits: European Vacation".

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Been playing mostly Helium Rain. Just expanding my little empire of space stations, one supplying the next; I like the sort of interlocking scheme of how stations producing one thing use the output of stations producing another thing. And there's something meditative about watching the auto-docker smoothly move your ship through asteroid fields with a ringed planet majestic in the near distance.
I kind of like the fact that combat can happen either with or without you, since a few experiments with the skirmish mode have demonstrated to me that I am hopeless at it, so I'm just gonna let my powerful fleet speak for itself hopefully.

When I get a bit bored with Helium Rain I've been switching to a bit of Stellaris and Civ: Beyond Earth. Both happen much faster on my new not-ancient computer, so that's a treat.

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Something about the initial views of the spacecraft in the trailer made me flash on Sunless Skies. I guess the boxy shape was a lot like Sunless Skies' little locomotive thingie.

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Quoting: scaineGreat guide though. Thanks for this - the gifs tell the story better than words ever can. It's nice to have a guide on a Linux technology that doesn't need you to open a bash shell!

I always use shell commands when I want to help somebody, as it's the most reproducible way and the easiest to tell. It's great to have it visible though for cases where you know how it will look like - as in the Steam client.

While I agree that the shell is a phenomenal way to get things done, we still have to keep in mind that even the more savvy Windows user initially find it very off-putting. It's also not good practice to copy/paste random commands into a terminal before knowing what the commands actually do.

Define "good practice". There is a risk in doing so, yes, but it's usually OK. And if you're looking at relative costs, those costs mainly come down to costs of time. It would take me far less time to restore my system from scratch after something I copy/pasted borked it up, than to learn what all the stuff means. And I'd only have to restore my system from scratch if the thing I copy/pasted actually borked up my system, which it generally doesn't, whereas I'd have to learn what all the stuff means every time I copy/pasted something (as long as it was about a different sort of problem each time, which is likely).
So blind copy/pasting of stuff from reasonably reputable forums is almost certainly less costly on average than learning what the stuff means first every time.

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Quoting: NanobangCall me cynical, and paint me jade, but coming so close on the heels of their recent 32 bit lib faux pas, this feels a lot like a bone being tossed to gamers---a welcome, meaty bone, yes, but a bone nonetheless.

You're cynical. And probably jaded. (You asked me to call you that, I do try to oblige)
Neither of those things necessarily makes you wrong, however.

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One implication of this is particularly happy for me: Presumably, Mint will piggyback on this so there may be newer drivers on Mint too.
Oh, except I just got a new computer and decided to go AMD, and my laptop has Intel. So, I guess it doesn't actually matter to me at all. But in general, not just Ubuntu but also Ubuntu derivatives may well be improved by this, so that's a Good Thing.

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