Quoting: DMJCThe most important part of Freespace 2 is FRED2 the mission editor. QTFred is busting open the future of Freespace2 by bringing FRED2 to Mac and Linux. There's an important lesson for FLOSS game developers in Freespace2's success. Tools matter. Access to modding tools, access to rigging tools and story creation tools are important to keep your game relevant. Freespace 2 would have died years ago if it hadn't had FRED2 and the DMTools pack.

Seriously. Wish that the Neverwinter Nights tools had been released for Linux by Bioware all those years ago.

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Quoting: scaineYeah, that was their "little joke" at the time - the user is an unfixable security vulnerability. Why are devs? Just... why? They can absolutely get in the bin with that attitude.

This has annoyed me all over again, so I'll spitefully not bother trying KDE after all. :grin:

Oh Kome on sKain, what's the problem with a little joke? :wink:

For the most part I don't interact with any of the K-commands directly that I know of. I tend to stick with xterm rather than their console FWIW.

I've been using Tilix for so long now, that Konsole and gnome-terminal seem last century...
Anyhow, just trying to give KDE an honest try. Wonder how long I'll be able to deal with it until I switch again. Usually lasts about a week ha.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNow if I can just figure out how to get it running full screen in 3840x1200@144hz!

Why would you need to run this on 144Hz? Dang I'm not even capable to get this running on 60 at a full HD screen, and enjoy it without any doubt on 30-40 Hz.
First/White world problems are fascinating, and terrifying at the same time.

Thumbs up for the game, I love the atmosphere. Loads of fun playing it with friends.

Not sure why you'd say it that way. Also 144hz is the refresh rate, not necessarily the frame rate, though the two often get confused. Also, more about the resolution than the frequency, but my desktop natively runs at the 3840x1200@144hz, so if I'm going to load up a game, I prefer it take advantage of my screen.

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Quoting: scaine2. Dolphin and Kate can't be run as sudo. I get the reasons why they did this, but absolutely screw any DE or app which takes the law into its own hands.

Out of curiosity, is it allowed at least under Wayland?

I wouldn't think so. But I ran into the 'no kate as sudo' issue yesterday as I was trying to edit the mirrorlist on garuda linux as the installer kept messing up something. Vim wasn't installed, Nano wasn't installed... tried kate, but it wouldn't let me open it with sudo... talk about annoying.

Finally managed to get something working.

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Quoting: scaineI might have to give this another shot. Two things put me off last time:

1. The shoe-horning of the letter K into just about everything. On the few occasions Gnome devs do the same with G (e.g. gThumb), it annoys me there too. But in KDE, it's like a game of "every app is a bad pun". Thank goodness for Dolphin. Maybe others will help buck the trend.

2. Dolphin and Kate can't be run as sudo. I get the reasons why they did this, but absolutely screw any DE or app which takes the law into its own hands.

In the grand scheme of things, neither are show stoppers, but there were enough other paper cuts 18 months ago to put me off overall (one of which was that I used an Nvidia GPU). So yeah, ding ding, round 2, hopefully.

But I'll probably try Budgie too which might be a better fit for me.

Yeah I'm trying to like KDE again, but I'll probably return to Gnome again. There is usually something that irritates me just enough in KDE that I won't use it for a year or two to see if they've fixed it. Beyond the stability issues I've ran into so far, I'll say Garuda is pretty decent. Though I'm getting the feeling that much like most 'based on' distributions, I may end up going back to a strictly Arch Linux install, as it was nice and stable, until I didn't keep it updated for a while.. :P Last time I tried booting into it, things were crashing all over the place, and I had to chroot from my Debian install to get it updated.

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I decided over the weekend to swap out my aging Arch Linux install (I've had it for years, and only boot to it occasionally, as it's now 'slow' since it is on a spinning drive) with a SSD and Garuda Linux. I decided to also give KDE a try, and went with their 'Dragonized' version.

Well, I'm hoping the instability was due to having some old KDE config files sitting around, but it would randomly just crash (the Latte dock) and the video playing through Firefox would stop, while the audio kept going. So I wasn't very impressed. I think after I did a reboot this morning, maybe it's working better, but I'll probably do a review on it soon (a mix of Garuda Linux and KDE).

I'm usually a Gnome guy and not used to the dock causing issues like this for sure. But wobbly windows do make me smile still ha!

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Now if I can just figure out how to get it running full screen in 3840x1200@144hz!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHrm. We're doing a bit of retro gaming lately, AD&D first edition style. So the map on Roll20 is something the GM drew with a pencil on graph paper and scanned, to give that old school touch. Kind of a different direction from this . . .
(All the corridors are exactly 10' wide :grin:)

Got to love all the 10' wide corridors, like anyone would ever build like that, as that's a rather wide hallway...

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Quoting: gojulDebian stable with backports works also extremely well, you should give it a bet (especially since Ubuntu is Debian-based although now it's very different from Debian due to its bloat.

Sounds like Bullseye is moving along nicely and will become stable in the next few months, so there is that.

Though that usually means the unstable branch will earn it's name. It's usually in that transition from Testing -> Stable where unstable gets the flood of experimental packages into it.

Fun story about that was the recent libgcrypt vulnerability, which for some reason people had flagged Debian as being vulnerable, even though they had A) already patched the version in experimental, and B) who would grab such a library from experimental anyhow?

Either way, Debian is a fantastic Distribution for just about anything, gaming included. You just need to know the secret sauce to setting it up.

 
dpkg --add-architecture i386

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Liam DaweAnd again, I don't subscribe to the thought that everything needs to "do us a favour" or contribute to Linux in some way. We are the only platform where this comes up. It's an option.

Be careful. This is the Internet, and you're being far too sensible. You're not supposed to be reasonable, sensible, and correct.

...but damn I'd like to link to your statement there in every Stadia thread. In neon. With UV-reactive paint. And a choir lining a red carpet. With dancers. Fire dancers.

Ha, I mean it's up to Liam on what he reports about.

To me, and only my opinion, reporting about Stadia gaming is sort of akin to reporting about Android gaming. They both use Linux somewhere in the stack, and in all actuality you could even play Android games on a Linux desktop easier than you can Stadia games (if you're anti-chrome). Then again I guess if you're anti-chrome you can't play with Geforce Now either. I haven't looked at Stadia's requirements, but Geforce Now doesn't even list Linux as supported at all, just says it works with Windows and MacOS, but it does work in Linux (tested it briefly on the AtariVCS, where I don't think it actually worked with the game pads, but did with keyboard / mouse).

I'll admit, I'm just bitter that things pop up on Stadia and not on desktop Linux, and it feels far too often that companies will take the flexibility and freedom and power of Linux, and then try as hard as they can to not give back. Which is kind of the whole spirit of the GPL. Does that make sense? To me it's the same thing as all those games where they are perfectly happy to make their server available to run on Linux systems, but refuse to port the client over so we can have an open operating system to enjoy the full game.

It's not really Stadia's (or Google's) responsibility to bring those games to GNU/Linux desktop though. Google does do a substantial amount of open source projects (not gone through the licenses to determine how "open", but that's an exercise for the reader, see here: https://opensource.google/projects/explore/featured [External Link]) but it's simply not as visible on a desktop because that's not their business area.

I think what's happening is that Stadia is making it more apparent to the wider GNU/Linux desktop user base something that I've been saying for quite a long time: there's no technical reason stopping companies from releasing GNU/Linux versions of their games. Even id software never did that in an officially supported manner. Even though Doom 2016 needed to modify about 2 files to produce a fully working GNU/Linux version, Bethesda (or zenimax, or microsoft, or whoever owns it now) never bothered.

Yeah, I don't think it is their responsibility, that is on the developers of the game to do so. I just feel Stadia is another platform, unrelated to desktop Linux gaming, it is browser gaming.
But it feels like Stadia should / could be a stepping stone for developers to release their games on Desktop Linux, it is that this hasn't happened that I find annoying.

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