Quoting: emphy

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's nice that they're putting out powerful Linux laptops.
But, could somebody maybe do a wimpy Linux laptop? That's more what I'm in the market for.

Pinebook-pro may be what you're looking for:

https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/

Arm, huh? That might actually be even more wimpy than I had in mind. But it might be a great replacement for my wife's Chromebook (which still fundamentally works fine, but Google have decided to make it gradually unusable by ceasing all updates).

I can't tell from the website what Linux it has on it, if any. I wouldn't be up for too much fiddling, especially for something my wife would be using.

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It's nice that they're putting out powerful Linux laptops.
But, could somebody maybe do a wimpy Linux laptop? That's more what I'm in the market for.

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Quoting: NanobangIt's amusingly ironic to see Microsoft in the position of trying to adapt to a Linux device for a change. Or it would be if the whole thing weren't DOA---dead on arrival.

That part's just amusing.

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For a game that seems to be full of combat, the trailer has a very relaxed feel.

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QuoteNot me of course, you would never find me laughing at the ability to give yourself the middle finger in a mirror.

Certainly not! Perish the thought.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI could be wrong, of course; I'm not prescient, and don't particularly care either way. But that's how the situation reads to me. I don't think the obstacle to widespread adoption is "more people need to have a good VR experience", I think it's "VR needs to become (comparably) as convenient as sitting down at my computer and using the keyboard and mouse".

This is probably why most SF that features widespread VR envisions the VR as something that you sort of plug into and interact with on a direct brain-to-whatever interface, with no walking around in a space or waving your arms around or turning your physical body.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaineSo... is Proton experimental now based on Proton 8, or is it still at 7? I'm not sure how I'd check?

Edit - Based on this, it looks like it's still v7.

As mentioned, there will be an Experimental update later this week :)

Ah, but will it be a solid Experimental update or just an experimental Experimental update?

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Quoting: scaineI'd love to get into these games, but the AI just does my head in. Rimworld, Prison Architect, Oxygen Not Included, Rise to Ruins, man I've tried a lot of these, and they all have one problem - I'm not a very good god. Every single time, I get to some stage of the gameplay and I need one thing done immediately, or the colony will fail. One thing, or you all die. Stop what you're doing, and do this one thing. The thing is priority 9, chopping trees is priority 1. Why are you still chopping trees? And... you're dead. And that guy inside, cooking? He's dead. That clone running out of oxygen over there? Yep, dead.

I don't get why AI in these games is so frustrating. But it is, so I kind of gave up on them.

I have little experience of this kind of game, but I just played a little bit of The Wandering Village and I've been having exactly this kind of problem.
Which is a pity, because otherwise I'm enjoying it--I kind of like the big lummox dinosaur-ish thing your village is on the back of as it lumbers along, and I like the issues raised by the fact that the village is moving through terrain which can be useful or dangerous and you have to worry about the health and feeding of your source of mobility. But the whole bit where you can't just tell the villagers to work on THAT, that thing I want done now, is definitely a pain.

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But, but . . . ! This can't be real, I have it on good authority that the existence of Proton means no game studio will ever again be interested in native Linux development!

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Quoting: pbSettling Iceland sounds pretty boring tbh.

Gets exciting if you try to eat certain Icelandic food . . .
"Hey Bjorn, how did the shark's liver taste?"
Bjorn (dies)
"Hmmm . . . Olaf, I think ve better ferment it a few more months and try again!"

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