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11 years ago this month GOL was created, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux
2 Jul 2020 at 2:10 am UTC
2 Jul 2020 at 2:10 am UTC
Happy Birthday GOL!!
(also, for my fellow Canucks, happy Canada Day!)
(also, for my fellow Canucks, happy Canada Day!)
Shallow Space development resumes, moved to Godot Engine
30 Jun 2020 at 7:05 am UTC Likes: 3
30 Jun 2020 at 7:05 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: scainebitter neckbeardsI take your general point, but I do want to say that I find the whole "neckbeards" schtick annoying. Connecting a whole constellation of negative qualities to the concept of not being interested in certain kinds of grooming just strikes me as really superficial and saying something weird about a culture that makes us feel like this is a natural kind of insult.
Cadmus is a new Linux UI for managing microphone noise suppression
29 Jun 2020 at 10:55 pm UTC
29 Jun 2020 at 10:55 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestI think someone has to say it, and it may as well be me.But the question is, did he get it from hammer space?
....hammer time.
Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is out with better NVIDIA Optimus support, fractional scaling
29 Jun 2020 at 10:39 pm UTC
Not that there's anything wrong with the command line. It's powerful, useful for those it's useful for, and I'm glad it's there. But probably anyone for whom the length of the command is the main feature shouldn't actually be using it.
29 Jun 2020 at 10:39 pm UTC
Quoting: DefaultX-odflatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeI use GUIs. If I wanted to fiddle with command lines, instead of Mint I'd use Debian or Arch or, I dunno, does Slackware still exist?
snap install libreoffice
who would win?
Not that there's anything wrong with the command line. It's powerful, useful for those it's useful for, and I'm glad it's there. But probably anyone for whom the length of the command is the main feature shouldn't actually be using it.
Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is out with better NVIDIA Optimus support, fractional scaling
29 Jun 2020 at 3:57 am UTC Likes: 2
Every. Damn. Time.
I have begun to think that Microsoft has some PR company on call whose job it is to browse for such articles and go in there with a sock puppet or two and recycle old anti-Linux propaganda while pretending to be sympathetic.
29 Jun 2020 at 3:57 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThe Mint 20 Cinnamon is ideal for former Windows 7 users... Specially if They use the right tweak [External Link]I have noticed that every time I see an article relating to Linux as a general use desktop that might interest Windows users, somebody always comes along in its comments claiming to be a Windows user who has spent time recently, recently mind you, switching to or trying to switch to Linux, and they always claim software has to be installed from the command line etc. etc. in Linux.
Every. Damn. Time.
I have begun to think that Microsoft has some PR company on call whose job it is to browse for such articles and go in there with a sock puppet or two and recycle old anti-Linux propaganda while pretending to be sympathetic.
Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is out with better NVIDIA Optimus support, fractional scaling
28 Jun 2020 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 2
28 Jun 2020 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 2
This discussion has reminded me to have a quick look at themes; switched to Mint-y-dark-purple (to nobody's surprise). I don't love it, like some others here I don't like the flat look, but it's fine until a better purple thing comes along. :grin:
Supraland stops supporting Linux shortly after leaving GOG entirely
28 Jun 2020 at 5:55 pm UTC
But if what you like is AAA games, and very few such are released for Linux, you are missing out a lot more if you refuse to play games not released for Linux. And pub acquaintances are nice to have, and it's probably not fun to go from having some of those to not having any. And even with friends who are relatively close . . . if a major thing you bond over is gaming, giving up playing anything they play would be like having a long distance relationship: You don't see each other as much, you don't have as much to talk about, you grow apart. So for people who aren't me, I can see that stance costing much more.
28 Jun 2020 at 5:55 pm UTC
Quoting: Alm888I dunno. That argument's fine for me . . . the style of game I like to play isn't usually AAA anyway, and Linux has indeed lots of good indies, more than I could ever play. I basically lose nothing by playing only native games.Quoting: LinuxwarperDo you think porting Hollow Knight to Linux is as costly as porting Cyberpunk?Regardless of the cost, if "Linux Gamers" are buying your Windows game you as a developer shall not waste your time and manpower on an unnecessary port. All those who purchase Windows games have all the rights to consider themselves "Linux Gamers", but for all intents and purposes they are Windows® gamers (even better, actually: they are unsupported Windows gamers :) ). And writing "+1 for Linux" in the forum threads means nothing.
Quoting: LinuxwarperRed Dead and Cyberpunk will never come to Linux even if gamers on the platform decide to not buy them either.As I see it, this is "Red Dead" and "Cyborg & Punk" problems, not mine. No one has an unlimited amount of funds (and more importantly, time), so money and time invested in a Windows® game (that "will never come to Linux") is a money and time wasted. All of this money and time could be invested into Linux games instead. So, if some "AAA game" is not gonna be ported to Linux, just ignore it and play Linux games.
At the end of the day, all games, even the "AAA masterpieces" are just entertainment and not necessary to live.
Even the "But all of my friends are playing this game!" argument is rather weak. Surely, a friendship will not be broken if one to skip some games (and if it will… Well, is it really a friendship, or just a "pub acquaintance"?).
But if what you like is AAA games, and very few such are released for Linux, you are missing out a lot more if you refuse to play games not released for Linux. And pub acquaintances are nice to have, and it's probably not fun to go from having some of those to not having any. And even with friends who are relatively close . . . if a major thing you bond over is gaming, giving up playing anything they play would be like having a long distance relationship: You don't see each other as much, you don't have as much to talk about, you grow apart. So for people who aren't me, I can see that stance costing much more.
Supraland stops supporting Linux shortly after leaving GOG entirely
28 Jun 2020 at 12:14 am UTC
28 Jun 2020 at 12:14 am UTC
Quoting: Whitewolfe80That problem is of course proton has become the clutch we all rely on for games on linux.Speak for yourself. I've never used it. Not because I'm virtuous, mind you, just because most games I ever play are from Paradox and the rest are ones I read about here.
Civilization VI has a big June 2020 update with restored cross-play
27 Jun 2020 at 12:01 am UTC
27 Jun 2020 at 12:01 am UTC
Red Death, huh? Everyone got their Masque?
Valve moves on from OpenVR, goes all-in with OpenXR for SteamVR
26 Jun 2020 at 8:17 am UTC Likes: 2
26 Jun 2020 at 8:17 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: mike456I'll get a HP Reverb G2 in fall and hope it will work also on Ubuntu/X-Plane. OpenXR sounds good but if it's also needing Monado...oh well.
Quoting: Liam DaweI've seen you ask this before so I'll answer: no they are not using Monado and Monado still has a long way to go. If they do end up using it, you can be sure it will see an article.
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