Quoting: ageres!https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1w1fYE-iRb2iv-7St5gYLw00i6y3N3H36 [External Link]
Guess what game this is.

Skyrim.

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I pulled the trigger on this one yesterday. I love being able to play this - on Linux - with K&M controls. I'm a bit nervous about the upcoming games in MCC working on day 1, but even if they don't, the 4 that are currently available do! At $10 USD each on average I can't complain!

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Holy poop that's impressive!

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(with all due respect to bidinou - this isn't personal :D )

Quoting: bidinouYeah, RA is pretty complicated to set up but...

This is functionally equivalent to saying that it's a piece of unusable crap out of the box. And it is. I've been using it on my PS3 and an old computer I had laying around for quite a while, and it takes a pretty deep dive into filesystems and a truckload of patience to make it usable.

Oh god, the hours I've spent...

I guess my point is that you shouldn't have to celebrate finding your ROMS, or having an Escape key not crash the whole works when pressed, or a dozen other little paper cuts that seem designed to annoy (anybody else got emulator cores that don't work at all? (and yes, I DO have my bios files in the proper directory - the cores are simply non-functional and aren't ready for prime time)).

I understand that getting all this to work under a single framework is a logistical nightmare. Mad props to the team for getting this running at all, frankly. But it's still a bloody mess, full stop. It's every bit as friendly as a rusty hammer, and almost as good at hard-locking your system when things go wrong.

How wrong?

Load a core/game combo Retroarch doesn't like and watch as your controls simply cease to respond. Through trial, error, blood, sweat, and tears, I've managed to prune away the unusable from the good, but things had no business being this obtuse. The thing, at present, gets in its own way far, far too often, and I can't recommend it for someone new to the circus.

That said, when it does something well, it does it very well. But you will be forgiven if you run out of patience before you reach the promised land.

TL;DR Use Mednafen (and other individual emulators) and you'll cry less.

I apologize for nothing, and await your vitriol.

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Quoting: HoriSorry but if it runs on Firefox and Chrome/Chromium then I'd say that it's your browser's fault. I literally never heard of a "Falkon" browser.

It's a new-ish KDE browser built on QT. The information is just a Google search away, actually.

https://www.falkon.org/ [External Link]

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Oi, that fire button looks like it's going to suck. It seems too low-profile to be comfortable, but maybe the pictures don't do it justice.

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Quoting: appetrosyanI keep wondering, why is Nvidia, being an aggressively competitive and For profit company dishing out better drivers than the pro-FOSS AMD?

I'm not an expert, but I would say they do that to provide a superior experience to the competition so they can sell more hardware.

That compatibility and ease of use is why I use Nvidia, and I suspect I'm not alone. But you do you. ^_^

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Quoting: razing32If people keep playing on Winblows and Android , they endanger nothing. (pricks)

I don't know... to peel Minecraft away from Linux would require that they kill the Java dependency. A way to do that would be to rewrite the code in some other language that doesn't support our OS (such as C#). The only problem with this is they'd be setting the community on fire when they did so. All the mods and various bolt-on enhancements would just stop working, and that would essentially kill the game that they paid Notch so much money for. I believe that community is what keeps Minecraft relevant. That community following, or rather the lack of it, is also why other clones of it aren't as successful.

Of course, this isn't all sunshine and roses. Minecraft will go away one day. I don't know when, but I do believe I know how. Eventually the ROI on maintaining the game will dwindle to the point that it is no longer reasonable or profitable to maintain it. Interest will wane, and new subscribers won't be able to keep the game afloat financially. On that day, whoever owns the Minecraft IP will either try to sell it off or just pull the plug. Long live Minecraft.

TL;DR - I don't think they're crazy enough to mess with Minecraft in a way that hurts Linux users because it would hurt everyone else too. At least not while the IP is still so lucrative.

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Well phooey... this is segfaulting when I try to launch. Is this happening to anyone else?

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Quoting: t3gThis series is kinda garbage, with the original being the better game. I have no interest in the sequel (even when I played the original), so not having on GNU/Linux is fine with me.

Wait, the original is the better game? "Follow Connor" and unskippable cutscenes in the game where you're not even the main character?

Jesus H. Trump ... I don't think we need this thing after all.

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