I have heard of ZaReason, and rather liked them. I bought a ZaReason laptop once. It was good. Not good enough to stick in my mind and make me rave, but I haven't had any laptops like that. Good enough for me not to be able to remember anything being wrong with it. When I was looking online for Linux laptops and wanting something more on the light and portable than the power monster end, I tended to find the ZaReason offerings looked more workable than the System76 ones. They were also more flexible in terms of what distro they'd put on a computer than System76--where System76 was, until they started rolling their own, always Ubuntu or nothin', from ZaReason I could actually get a computer with Mint (among other possibilities) preinstalled if I wanted. Not that it's hard to install myself, but it was just a nice feeling, you know?

So I'm sad they're gone.

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Quoting: jarhead_hEPIC doesn't care about us at all. Actually it could be interpretted as worse than that because like most AAA devs EPIC discourages Linux use specifically because the company does not want to hire people to support it. It's cheaper for them just to to tell us to dual boot. My guess is that this was for Stadia and that Google is somehow paying for it.

This is the kind of reason I'm interested in Stadia's existence even though I have zero interest in and some concerns about streamed gaming. It makes Google want Linux game development to be a smooth easy thing.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGotta say it feels weird to me to see someone say they "acquired" something that's open source. I know what they mean, but my instincts yell "It's open source, it belongs to everyone!"

It's freely available to everyone, but it belongs to the author. The distinction means that while a particular license applies to any releases, the author (or rather if all authors/contributors agree) can at their discretion transfer ownership (with all that entails) and/or change the license.

Wouldn't be able to stop people from forking from the pre-license-change version.

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Gotta say it feels weird to me to see someone say they "acquired" something that's open source. I know what they mean, but my instincts yell "It's open source, it belongs to everyone!"

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That's rather good. Must say I'm a bit surprised.

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Good to see. That's actually somewhat the kind of laptop I buy--I do gaming at my desktop normally, so there's not much point going hog wild on the laptop.

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I dunno. I feel like things are getting too elaborate when you need a whole platform just to play Uno.

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"Egad, Holmes, my multi-touch gestures are working without a hitch! What is this operating system?"
"Elementary, my dear Watson!"

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Looks interesting. But the question burning in my mind is--on the GoL main page, the pic by this article shows Park Place, and I'm just wondering, if you get Boardwalk too can you put hotels on them?

The voice-over in the video is trying too hard. We're headed for the supernatural vixen version of William Shatner school of acting, here.

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Quoting: denyasisThe GIS import seems really interesting. Imagine levels based off real world locations. Could be really neat for strategy and FPS and builder games and others.

I can imagine it might be particularly handy for the military/industry simulations whizse mentions.

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