Quoting: Beamboom... But will they get Mac support? I thought they did not use vulkan but something else they made themselves? I thought that was the entire problem with Mac and gaming nowadays?

A good question, although my answer would tend to be: Don't care. Mac's walled garden can go fertilize itself.

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Quoting: SalvatosI don’t feel thrilled about owning something others don’t

I do, but it's perhaps the opposite of fear of missing out. I like, when I have the money, getting things made by local craftspeople, tailors or whatnot that are specifically for me and to my personal weird tastes. So like, I find nice purple fabric and get shirts made from it--they cost a bit more but they last forever and they're just how I want. I have a very sturdy leather belt which is dyed purple and tooled with celtic knotwork, with a cool bronze buckle I picked up somewhere in France. Nobody else in the world has it; it's my belt. Stuff like that. I feel like everyone should be able to have their own personal cool stuff in their own personal style, rather than having to worry about "missing out" on some homogenized stuff that everyone is doing.

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So far, I like everything I've heard about this expansion (and the free stuff going with it) except for the basic problem that I hate federations. Partly I'm not big on them because the whole concept doesn't really grab me--I'm pleased enough to have peaceful empires that get along with other empires well diplomatically, but actually moorging together in a federation just doesn't please me at some level.
Plus I find the mechanics annoying, and maybe this will help with that because some of the specific federation rules look interesting, but I mean . . . any time I'm in a federation and get in a war, the federation fleets I've had to donate to wander around doing nothing useful, so they're a dead loss. And I can't remember but I'm pretty sure it's another one of those diplomatic things that kills my Influence, which means I can be in a federation or expand my territory quickly but I can't do both. (I've gotten way more wary about trade and research deals too; you can just cripple your expansion if you're not careful)

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If I were on the fence, maybe. I'm not currently on the fence though. Not that I'm against VR--I can see the appeal, and there are certain kinds of game that could be really amazing in VR . . . like, swordfighting simulators say. It's just too far down on my list of demands on my money and time for one game to sway my decision.

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Quoting: elmapuloh, no, here we go again.

i got when the government of my country (and many others) said it would use free software and the project to promote linux.
if failed, the distro chosen by oems sucked most of the time, most people replaced the default distro with an pirated version of windows and the name, linux, was burned by the bad experiences that people had with those crapy distros.

i got excited with netbooks (one laptop per children) thinking linux would finally take off
if failed

i got excited with android
its a sucess, but it dont matter from an gamer point of view (gatcha "isnt" gaming) , from the desktop point of view (as the games, many productivy apps didnt came to linux desktop) and many peopl consider android more closed than windows.
i got excited with chromeOS...
it didnt run regular linux softwares for years, and it couldnt get mainstream adoption.

i got excited with when valve anounced the steam machines,they delayed... i got my hype frozen to the point that i got anxienty problems, steam machines floped, failed to gain traction.
i got excite with might n9 and that it was coming to linux, floped (bad game)
i got excite with yooka laylee, floped (bad game)
i got excite with Blood Stained, linux version canceled (and the game is good, sigh, i'm soo excited for the game i cant play)
i got excite with we happy feel, linux version canceled and looks like the game was bad
not to mention, street fighter 5, witcher 3, darksiders...
i got excited with HTML5...
most of the flash aplications (and games) didnt got ported and lets be honest, triple A games wont be ported, google failed once with NaCl, and trying to push webGl, webGL2, webAssembly, didnt solved this issue

i got excited with stadia,come on!

So you're saying we can use you getting excited as a sign to know we shouldn't get excited?

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Well, I can see doing a gradual approach. But it actually makes me unable to buy their service--I don't own a cell phone so I can't use their app to buy anything. Mind you, I can't claim it lost them a sale because there was no way I was going for this anyway.

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Is it just me or has there been an odd amount of stuff relating to fabric the last day or two? Flax, Woven, a "clothformer" . . .

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Quoting: edothis would be good if performance were the same on dxvk and w10. But there is a noticeable performance drop. It doesnt matter in small games, but in big games like gta5 you need every bit of performance you can get

That would be a relevant objection if the alternative were the game developers rewriting their games from scratch to run on Linux. But more likely the alternative is hit-or-miss Proton, which is unlikely to have less performance drop and would be significantly less reliable.

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I love the line "Remarkably unsafe test chambers".

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Quoting: TheRiddickThe Chinese market should really push to get their citizens all moving to Linux and off windows machines for PC gaming, this would motivate EPIC Games to at least support Linux on their store platform and maybe encourage more Linux gamers over to the open-source side of life. (well mostly).

I used to think that would happen. I used to think the Chinese government would want to start moving to Linux to stop the Americans from spying on them via Windows back doors. I have gradually come to the conclusion that the Chinese government by now probably has their own deal with MS, and they mind the Americans spying on their people less than they mind the prospect of Linux making it harder for the Chinese government themselves to spy on their people. So the Chinese will move towards Linux only if the China-US tensions get a lot harsher.
Betcha the Chinese armed forces use a lot of Linux, though.

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