I legit love Conan Exiles, probably the funnest game I've played in years, and the way the story line is something you actually have to find and discover as you travel around rather than force fed to you through linear story telling is fantastic.

My question is; how similar to Conan is this game? I need to play it some, I guess. Now that I'm done with work for the week, I'll give it a try (though don't want to be too distracted from Alyx).

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Quoting: TheRiddickWhats WinRT support related to? that anything to do with kwinRT?

When I see RT I think either Real Time, or Rock Tit... pretty sure it's the first one in this case?

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Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: NanobangI might be interested in this down the line, but what kind of money are we talking about here? I've done a cursory once-over their site and found not even a mention of them wanting money.

LinuxGSM is just a tool you use to automate self-hosting wherever you want.

What threw me was your use of the word 'cheaply' where you wrote, '...interested in hosting your own cheaply ...', since cheaply means that it costs money, just not very much money. What were you referring to?

To host your own somewhere, at a low cost, using the LinuxGSM tooling.

Is it a sign of my age that I think LinuxGSM should be a project about making a cell phone run with Linux? ;P

For those who don't want to look into the details (and it took me a second to see where the cost was and what LinuxGSM really does)...
Basically it's a script that helps keep your server up to date and running. The cost seems to be their partnership with GameServerApp.com, which has a dashboard for managing some things, or just seeing traffic, etc.

Does that sound about right? Otherwise you can host your server wherever, whether on Linode, AWS, your house, etc.

Every once in a while I get a hankering to host a game server. Then no one joins it, so I stop hosting it.

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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.

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Mono engine updated to version 6.0.0, with DirectX support.

Wonder if this will help Launchbox work again. Newer versions seem to be busted.

Did anyone else think the Wine logo in the picture looked like a mask? Now I want a penguin mask.

The Mask: new fashion accessory of the 2020s...

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Quoting: Liam DaweHardware is absolutely not here. Steam Machines were the only thing that came close, and they spectacularly failed. VCS does not count, as it's using a special brand and not normal Linux like SteamOS was.

And 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.

Ah, you're talking the difference between something you pluck off the shelf and can play on Linux with Steam/Lutris, vs I buy/build a box and put Linux on it and play.

Or would you consider System79 selling laptops/desktop systems with Linux pre-installed with Pop_OS good enough? The hardware is certainly here in that regard. Can you buy a system sitting next to the Playstation and Xbox? Nah. The VCS is going to be as close as we're going to get for a long time, unless Valve makes a second attempt at a Steam Machine, and for them to do it RIGHT is it will HAVE to come from Valve, not have multiple versions of it, and be a nice machine.

I think they should just make a deal with Atari and get Steam within the AtariOS and get more controller support added to the system. Hell, if the PC-Mode app would work correctly, and we could get a new SteamOS sold on a m.2 SSD or a pre-installed model option, it'd work well enough. Would just need another icon in Steam. A little Fuji on the supported systems, with any game that the system actually matches minimum requirements on.

So yeah while it's perfectly possible to build a system, or buy a system and properly do Linux gaming on it like I've done for many years, we don't have a settop box with Steam BPM (or RetroArch/Emulation Station) that you can buy just straight off the bat... oh actually there are some..

https://www.amazon.com/Fightstick-Trackball-Controller-Raspberry-Preloaded/dp/B08MFG7J1K [External Link]

This has a Raspberry Pi loaded up with Linux and some Atari games. I didn't get this version as I already have several RPis and just wanted the arcade stick. But even the reviews on Youtube show that it's not an out of the box experience and you have to configure the stick for the emulators. Missed opportunity for a nice Turnkey solution.

I am just hoping somehow the AtariVCS will get some <-> Linux ports (meaning some that are on Steam for Linux will be released there, and some, like Ato will get a linux release as it's now already ported to the Atari VCS.)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, I'm convinced Stadia had done absolutely nothing for Linux gaming as a whole. And only teases us with 'but they're Linux ports!' but they're not running on $my_favorite_distribution_locally. So really still have no interest in it. And with Google slaying it's own developers for it and spreading their ashes upon their users... well, most of us saw that coming.

It never was supposed to do anything. It's just another tool in the shed, to play games on Linux.

The only thing that will push Linux itself higher is hardware, I've said it for years and I will continue to say it. Stadia being supported on Linux is better than not.

But the hardware is already here. Seems to me someone pointed out that Metro Exodus was just using dxvk on Stadia? So where they basically just wrapping it and not running natively?

Has there been any games yet released for Stadia that will now run on Desktop Linux?

Now if we get Ato on Linux at least we can say the AtariVCS will have helped Linux gaming, as it now has a port of that game, but I only see it listed for Windows in Steam.

Sure, maybe some future titles from the studios releasing games for Stadia will come out for Desktop Linux, but until then, I will stand by that Google isn't doing us any favors here.

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Yeah, I'm convinced Stadia had done absolutely nothing for Linux gaming as a whole. And only teases us with 'but they're Linux ports!' but they're not running on $my_favorite_distribution_locally. So really still have no interest in it. And with Google slaying it's own developers for it and spreading their ashes upon their users... well, most of us saw that coming.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI can imagine a downside to that kind of effort to retain your privacy: Somewhere in an NSA database, your record has a flag saying "One of THOSE people who want privacy--keep an eye on". :tongue:

That's pretty funny, and I'll pay that...

All joking aside, I find that certain ISPs / telcos have restricted performance for or actively block VPN connections (or at least what they think are VPN connections)... Though depending on which particular access point I happen to be using, this doesn't always work.

Then there's the geo-blocking thing... Some online stores and payment systems actively block certain IP addresses (which occasionally includes that of my VPN), a small number of websites are not available unless I'm using an Australian access point, etc.

Content which is available online seems to vary slightly depending on what VPN access point I'm actively using, too - and no, I'm not just talking about "that" stuff (though "that" stuff is probably the best example here!)... Sometimes stuff that you or I would consider fairly innocent will be seemingly blocked in a certain country - I've seen this on occasion recently, whilst using certain access points in Europe to look-up content as innocent as news articles.

Aside from using "that" stuff as an example here, content relating to privacy and / or freedom-of-speech is one of the best examples on different content being available via different VPN connections... Quite often, the differences between two countries can be "like night and day" (I'm not just talking about the obvious countries, such as Russia, either).

The upside is that most of these issues can be easily worked around, usually by doing something as simple as changing the access point to something else (e.g. I usually change my access point to one in Australia when I want to make a purchase online).

The thing is, ISPs generally can track where you're going, but not what data you're passing to them (unless they use SSL decrypting proxies, which if they are they should die in a fire). On the other hand every freaking site you go to wants to install cookies on your computer. Google won't even remove theirs in Incognito mode in Chrome...
They're the ones who'll continually sell your data. Pretty sure Amazon just wants to hoard it for themselves, and Facebook definitely shares it. I used to have a phone number on my account 'for recovery only' yet android caller ID apps would display my Facebook name and not my name when I'd call people even that had my phone number in their contacts...
Privacy is definitely something that should have started to be addressed back in '95 when the web first started gaining traction. Us old people remember using aliases on Bulletin Board Systems, and I still can't fathom why or when really that changed. One would think that would have always been the case, some form of anonymity should be allowed in a place with all sorts of predators (The Internet can be a scary place).

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I bought this, installed it, started making a character, sadly got bored or distracted by something else and left it for now. But then got sucked later into playing Half-Life: Alyx finally. It did seem like it'd be sweet to play though.

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