Quoting: salamanderrakeI hope with everything in my heart that Facepunch studio goes under.

Dafuq is wrong with you?

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Quoting: qptain NemoI didn't know about Notepadqq. I switched from Notepad++ to Kate personally and I'm happy with it, but your mileage may vary because I don't really want much out of my editor other than syntax highlighting and split views.

Sorry about your software issues. Wine improves all the time, I hope you'll get what you need! Getting my music software work was really important, no, vital to me.

Yeah, Notepadqq tries to emulate Notepad++. It's a really good editor and I recommend you give it a shot, but truth be told - nothing holds candle to Notepad++.

And yes - there is a lot of stuff that anchors me to Windows, professional software being at the top of the list. Still, I manage two Ubuntu servers, so that surely counts for daily usage :D.

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I know it's not gaming related, but my biggest pain with Wine is that I cannot run my graphical software with it. Unfortunately both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer use some fringe DX10 library and the DXVK Dev has straight out said he has no interest in working on it as virtually no games use it. So I keep checking Wine releases, hoping to see Serif software is finally working with it. I can get by with Notepadqq instead of Notepad++, for the most part Libre Office can replace MS office, I can run OneDrive sync with some effort and I don't do nearly enough video editing to be crying over Vegas Pro not working on Linux, but dammit I need my image editing software. Rant over :D.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere's a difference. Mentally lazy means you could think, but you choose not to bother. It's a moral, not an intellectual failing. Which apparently holds true again in your reply.

Somebody get the fire extinguisher - I've been torched by all these sick burns *sarcasm*. I'd rather I end this before it gets personal and Liam has to intervene. Good day to you.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunIf we let the purists have their way, Linux would have no GUI. Nobody is forcing you to play Windows games on Linux. I believe in the utilitarian approach - if it works then it's good. Liam should probably add some filter on the home page, so the "no tux, no bucks crowd" can only read about native games and then all will be happy. For too long the Linux community has been held back by having to cater to OS hardliners and their politics. The more Linux can do - the better.

OK, I have no problem with the article, but this is just nonsense. It's intentional nonsense actually--the writer is clearly trying to conflate two groups (people who like command lines and FLOSS people) in order to smear one of them. So, what Aristotle would call false rhetoric, a sophist trick, and what moderns would call dishonest bullshit.
In any case the truth is pretty much the opposite--had there been some way to just emulate the Windows desktop, and the anti-purists had their way, Linux would have no GUI of its own. And then every time Windows changed its GUI, the Linux one would have broken. And then Windows would have regularly made little changes to its GUI that were just enough to fuck us over. It would have been oh so pragmatic.

There is actual practicality in the world, but when people parade their practicality or pragmatism as against ideology or politics, they are generally being neither practical nor pragmatic. Nearly everything that is practically good about Linux is a result of the politics behind Linux--Free, open source, indeed copylefted software and its philosophy. If it were not for that, Linux would phone home, and/or it would be a walled garden, and/or it would get warped to work with only the maker's hardware, and/or it would spy on you, and/or it would come with masses of preinstalled spyware, nagware and general annoyingware, et cetera et cetera. It wouldn't be adaptable or fixable or have spawned the Beowulf cluster or run on Raspberri Pis. Proprietary Linux would not be Linux and would not be nearly as practically, pragmatically useful. That's why all the proprietary Unixes died.

It is foolish and impractical to forget the practical importance of the politics underlying Linux. That's how you lose what we have. So-called pragmatists of this sort are not being pragmatic, just too mentally lazy to think about the implications of their stance, so they go with what's easiest today.

"Mentally lazy"? Fancy way of calling me stupid. And you even used bold text! Hope you didn't hyperventilate too much.

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If we let the purists have their way, Linux would have no GUI. Nobody is forcing you to play Windows games on Linux. I believe in the utilitarian approach - if it works then it's good. Liam should probably add some filter on the home page, so the "no tux, no bucks crowd" can only read about native games and then all will be happy. For too long the Linux community has been held back by having to cater to OS hardliners and their politics. The more Linux can do - the better.

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Quoting: TheRiddickJust amazes me how a restrictive as all hell proprietary API can even exist this day and age, clearly Microsoft are tossing money around in order to incentives companies!

It's not as simple as that. While not my area of expertise, I've seen load of comments from developers as to why they choose DX over OpenGL/Vulkan. For one it boils down to previous experience and just being used to working with a specific set of libraries. Also, it seems Microsoft offers both excellent documentation and support. Now imagine this has been going on for, say, a decade while OpenGL was just trailing along. Then comes Vulkan and devs are probably like: "Yeah, really cool, but we're doing pretty fine with DX, here".

I can't blame them. It's the same reason I'm stuck with Windows - I make Wordpress websites for a living (among other things). I use raster and vector editing software a lot, even though not for particularly advanced stuff. Part of the reason I don't use GIMP is lack of certain features, but the other part is how different its interface and hotkeys are from Photoshop. I'm used to Photoshop - both as features and as hotkeys. When I use PS my workflow is fluent enough and I do whatever I want fast. I'm clumsy and slow with GIMP. So I don't use it. Then I discoverед Affinity Photo, half an year back, which does 90% of what Photoshop does, at the same quality level, for a fraction of the price. And it has almost the same interface and almost the same hotkeys - instant sell. Been happy with it ever since.

So to wrap the long post up - even if GIMP manages to catch up to PS and Affinity in terms of features, I'd still be hesitant to use it. I have my workflow and I don't want to change it - it works for me. In the end that's what counts most - how you get the best results the fastest. I'm positive it's similar with a lot of developers. It's not about hating on open source or not wanting to learn new things, but time is a finite resource.

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Quoting: MohandevirOh sweet! Is it controller friendly? For couch gaming, something like this would be pretty nice.

Yup. The beta branch has had controller support for months. Sadly most people wouldn't look at anything that isn't Lutris, because apparently choice is only good when it comes to your OS ;).

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Quoting: razing32What ? No pun this time Liam :P ?

I kind of prefer it that way, tbh.

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Does it give any tangible performance improvements? I've known about it for a while, but never actually used it.

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