Quoting: LinasWhile 20G minimum for an installed Windows 10 system may be somewhat true-ish, in practical terms is complete nonsense. I had updates fail on Windows 10 because I only had 40G of free space. The thing needed at least 60G to successfully complete!

I am sure there will be people who will figure out how to cram Windows into Steam Deck, but that's not going to be standard practice, that I am sure of.

Haha, I had bought some dual-boot tablet with windows and Android on it. Sure enough, you cannot update Windows without more storage.

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Quoting: t3gHaving access to the AUR in Manjaro is handy as I have leveraged these packages for gaming:

AntiMicroX
Arx Liberatis
Devilution X
DosBox Staging
System76 keyboard configurator for Launch
libstrangle
MangoHud
vkbasalt

I am guessing that means you have the Launch keyboard? How is it? I thought it seemed a bit pricey for what it is... and no ten key...

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Foundry VTT has the most official, Unofficial GURPS stuff for it, so that is why I bought it. Plus it is a hell of a lot cheaper than Fantasy Grounds.

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Quoting: mty

Quoting: slaapliedje

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Quoting: slaapliedjemost RTS games are pretty much a carbon copy of Dune II with different graphics slapped on

That should be taken as a compliment, to be as good as Dune II. ;-)

Agreed! I don't know why it gets everyone riled up. They always come back with every FPS is just reskinned Doom. Ignoring the fact that engines keep getting better and better to be able to habdle more realistic graphics.

Well, come on that's almost right. Just almost all FPS games are downgrades from doom and that's why I only play gzdoom ;)

Ha, and now you can play Doom on just about anything!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9fQw1W22i8

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The only game of theirs I currently have seem to be Blue Flamingo... which weirdly is also the only game they have released that was Windows only. Beautiful game that I have not played much. Their art style is amazing.

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Quoting: adolson

Quoting: slaapliedje

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Quoting: adolsonI loved this game. Bought it for Xbox, then later for GameCube, and even the [kinda crappy] GameBoy Advance port. Will buy it at some point for Linux, too.

Sadly, I think the second one only came out on the PS2. Good thing I put a hard drive in mine :P

It was on Xbox for sure. I didn't like it as much as the first game, personally, but that was then. Maybe my opinion would have changed since then, I dunno.

Oh, I may just ignore the Xbox's existence, as it's made by Microsoft. :P

Just noticed your reply, sorry for the late response!

That's fair.

I had already been messing with Linux by the time the Xbox released, and I deleted my final Windows partition in 2002 (I get my 20-year chip next summer!). I was mostly a Linux gamer back then (as well as my old consoles, SNES and TG-16), though we had real slim pickings with only LGP, Loki, icculus, Epic, and id really doing anything games-wise. I was as anti-Microsoft as they come...

However, a friend convinced me to get a [second-hand, pre-modded] Xbox by showing me the [open-source] Xbox Media Player (this was before the rename to XBMC, and now Kodi) running on his, streaming movies over his LAN. The price was right. Majority of my time with it was playing movies and TV shows on it, but a handful of [also preowned] games, too.

Anyhow. If my friend had showed me XBMP on a PS2, I would have bought that instead. Or a GameCube, or whatever. Just happened to be a Microsoft product. Oh well. It was a great media player at the time. Controller sucked for gaming, though. (And to this day I don't have a single Windows computer in my home, and I intend to keep it that way!)

My hatred for MS started before my love of Linux. Mainly started as I wanted to be a writer for a long time, needed a word processor, and at the time for Windows 95 the cheapest one I could find was Microsoft Home Essentials for 100, that included Word... a month later, Office 97 released, and they offered ZERO upgrade support from Home Essentials... swore to give them no money since then, and have for the most part succeeded (some controllers, and that is it.)

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Quoting: adolson

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: adolsonI loved this game. Bought it for Xbox, then later for GameCube, and even the [kinda crappy] GameBoy Advance port. Will buy it at some point for Linux, too.

Sadly, I think the second one only came out on the PS2. Good thing I put a hard drive in mine :P

It was on Xbox for sure. I didn't like it as much as the first game, personally, but that was then. Maybe my opinion would have changed since then, I dunno.

Oh, I may just ignore the Xbox's existence, as it's made by Microsoft. :P

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: slaapliedjeBut I think 21.04 came with 5.15. Updated to 21.10, and I think it still uses 5.15.

Linux 5.15 is the current stable kernel release and it only came out on the 31st of October. 21.04 had Linux 5.11 according to distrowatch.

I'm guessing they had a new image installed when it shipped. But it definitely had 5.15.

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: CatKiller

QuoteWith this release you're getting Kernel 5.4, a packaging base of Ubuntu 20.04

That seems really weird. Most Ubuntu 20.04 users are going to be on 5.11 already because of Hardware Enablement. If you're going to go through the effort to make a new downstream release based on that, why wouldn't you pick up the newer supported kernel from upstream?

That kernel has been causing quite a few annoyances on my xubuntu install, from touchpad drivers stopping to function up to an 10sec shutdown time increase.

I've been able to fix everything, but it's adding up to the annoyances (snap, slow software manager, sleep problems, etc) the more recent so-called lts release has been adding on a system what was doing fine in 18.04. Funnily enough, linux mint, based on the same ubuntu version, has none of those problems.

Well, could be worse... Ordered a System76 Pangolin. Booted it up, and it came with Pop_OS! 21.04 (21.10 came out while it was in transit). Well the initial setup prompted for a username and password... and the keyboard didn't work. The only key I could get to do anything was Fn+F2, which would turn off the LCD...

Hooked up a USB keyboard to type that in, then after a reboot it worked fine. Very odd!

But I think 21.04 came with 5.15. Updated to 21.10, and I think it still uses 5.15.

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Quoting: adolsonI loved this game. Bought it for Xbox, then later for GameCube, and even the [kinda crappy] GameBoy Advance port. Will buy it at some point for Linux, too.

Sadly, I think the second one only came out on the PS2. Good thing I put a hard drive in mine :P

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