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Wasteland 3 now available on Linux from inXile Entertainment
18 Dec 2020 at 9:53 am UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: damarrinYou realise it’s the EU screwing us, not anyone else?
I call it taxes, not screwing. They're doing thing for us with the money. But I don't think this is the place to discuss this.

Quoting: damarrinThe price in Europe includes VAT, prices in the US don’t. There’s no VAT on digital purchases in the US. There is VAT on physical ones, but prices are always quoted without it and it’s added at payment time only if the company you’re buying from has business presence in the state you’re in.
At least in Germany, law protects us from such behaviour. Suddenly showing VAT later in the order process is illegal (for private customers), so we're always shown full price from the beginning.
dvd said we were getting screwed on prices, that’s what my reply was referring to.

As for the rest of what you’ve written, I don’t know what you’re trying to say? It’s probably illegal everywhere in the eu.

Wasteland 3 now available on Linux from inXile Entertainment
18 Dec 2020 at 9:14 am UTC

You realise it’s the EU screwing us, not anyone else?

The price in Europe includes VAT, prices in the US don’t. There’s no VAT on digital purchases in the US. There is VAT on physical ones, but prices are always quoted without it and it’s added at payment time only if the company you’re buying from has business presence in the state you’re in.

Plus, their tax is something like 7%, depending on state, not 15%+ like in Europe.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
13 Dec 2020 at 6:45 am UTC

Quoting: ageres
Quoting: damarrinI disagree, it’s much better than 16:9.
Better in what? In videogames you get either a truncated image, or black borders on top and bottom. All videos are 16:9 now, so black borders again. When just using an OS and applications, there isn't much significant difference between 16:9 and 16:10.
Why so aggressive? No one is taking your precious 16:9 screens away. I prefer 16:10 and that is that.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 Dec 2020 at 5:28 pm UTC

Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: damarrinI wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(
Dells have 16:10 screens.
That is nice. I was talking about Linux only hardware vendors, however. All these 13, 14, 15 inch laptops they sell have 1080p screens.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 Dec 2020 at 5:26 pm UTC

Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: damarrinAnd the 1080p nonsense in 13-14-15" screens is baffling. Linux has no functional fractional scaling and those screens should not exist.
Care to elaborate? I have a 13.3" display with full HD resolution. Works perfectly ok.
Oh, I’m sure it works ok. What else should I elaborate on? Stuff is too small, that all there is to it.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 Dec 2020 at 5:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ageres
Quoting: damarrinI wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(
Why? It's the worst ratio ever. I'm glad that it died.
I disagree, it’s much better than 16:9.

Quoting: damarrinthose screens should not exist.
Why? The resolution is too high? Or too low? I have a laptop with an 11" screen and use no scaling at all.
Too high and too low all at the same time. Boggles the mind, I know.

I’m sitting in front of a 15” 1080p screen right now and it’s just about passable, but going lower makes the system unusable.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 Dec 2020 at 10:18 am UTC Likes: 1

I wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(

And the 1080p nonsense in 13-14-15" screens is baffling. Linux has no functional fractional scaling and those screens should not exist.

Valve expand Steam Input to support more of the PS5 DualSense Controller
21 Nov 2020 at 1:48 pm UTC

Can't say, I use Dualshock 4s over bluetooth all the time and I don't have any problems.

Cyberpunk 2077 confirmed for Stadia on November 19
16 Oct 2020 at 1:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

I think CDP may have been neutral towards Linux before the Witcher 2 fiasco, but I think they’re hostile now.

Cyberpunk 2077 confirmed for Stadia on November 19
16 Oct 2020 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 6

CDP only made the Stadia version because Google paid them to do that. It's my opinion ofc, but it's clear as day that's the case.

Begging anyone to release anything on Linux, especially a Linux-hostile company such as CDP, is completely counter productive. They (we?) now have Proton which will support Cyberpunk sooner or later and they'll gladly take our money. Most likely, they won't even notice that money swamped with all the actual Windows customers as they will be.

We need market share. That's the only thing that matters.