Quoting: 3zekiel

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI read the bit about no longer supporting Mac, and why. Honestly, the MacOS people really are doing their best to make gaming (and quite a bit of other third party software) suck, aren't they?
For some time now the ranking in terms of how well you can game on (desktop OS) has tracked market share, like 1. Windows, 2. MacOS, 3. Linux. Before Valve got involved, it was a steep difference from MacOS to Linux, we just barely had any games. Then for a while it was a much less steep difference, due to Linux improving both in game availability and in stuff like driver support and whatnot.
But now I think we're entering a time when, purely due to the Mac people perforating their feet multiple times, it's going to be 1. Windows, 2. Linux, 3. MacOS. Like honestly, if a Mac user wants to game they'll be better off dual-booting to Linux.

Actually, the move to ARM will only make things worst. Supporting multi architecture when game engines often have a JIT is not fully trivial either (some probably already have some mobile/arm support though).
And with arm switch, kiss goodbye to proper dual booting... Also, system level cross ISA emulation is another game than process level emulation, you need to properly emulate the target arch, and you have the overhead of emulating devices for the target OS. So don't expect awesome performances out of an emulated x86 Linux either, graphics accel is also limited for those scenarios... So yeah, Mac for gaming probably will reduce more than anything, unless apple can make ipad and mac converge fully on that point. Maybe then they can have a chance to keep devs.

To this day I don't understand why people developed games on the Mac, even as far back as the 80s when the mac first came out. I mean I think most of that just ended up being because people had macs with no games and started to code their own, like in the 8bit days. But they've never been known as 'gaming computers' at all.

Anyhow more about the game, it seems that I too had to use the 'useGLFW: False' on Debian Sid, and then the initial building had a bunch of weird flashing tiles. Fun little game so far, ran into some room with some skeletons, but before that there was another broken character with flashing tiles, I killed it, but the skeletons got me!

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Quoting: Alm888

So the Linux version sold approximately 340 copies…

Correction: now it sold 341 copy. :)

Update: 342 :happy:

343!

Ha, this looks like another I should pimp to be ported to the Atari VCS.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: GuestTell me about one game that went worse because of Tencent.
A month ago they bought the Warframe company, are they putting some communist message in it with an update?
Tencent, and chinese companies, can buy a lot of enterprises because China is the best economy, growing like no one. If you don't like it you should change your own governments so you can compete with China, just like they did 50 years ago.
Market socialism is beating liberal capitalism, grow up and deal with it.

From my understanding of that, it comes from China having the highest concentration of rare metals in the world. The ones that are used in all of our electronics. So a mix of luck and technology is what is making their economy boom. Everyone else is just kind of screwed. It is the same sort of thing with oil and the middle east.

It not that they have the highest concentration of rare-earth, is that they don't mind destroying their environment to do it cheaply.

Yeah, I mean I just didn't want to be the one to say it.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: GuestTell me about one game that went worse because of Tencent.
A month ago they bought the Warframe company, are they putting some communist message in it with an update?
Tencent, and chinese companies, can buy a lot of enterprises because China is the best economy, growing like no one. If you don't like it you should change your own governments so you can compete with China, just like they did 50 years ago.
Market socialism is beating liberal capitalism, grow up and deal with it.

From my understanding of that, it comes from China having the highest concentration of rare metals in the world. The ones that are used in all of our electronics. So a mix of luck and technology is what is making their economy boom. Everyone else is just kind of screwed. It is the same sort of thing with oil and the middle east.

I don't think that's the case. For one thing, very few countries ever find that having a ton of raw materials makes their economy boom. It takes an amazing amount of planning and resolve as well as some luck and muscle. Take oil--out of all the countries with a bunch of oil, how many have actually managed to use it to help build a prosperous, broad-based economy? Well, there's Norway. Anyone else?
Most countries with serious resources, foreigners just come and steal them. If they insist that the resources belong to them, their governments get destabilized or they get sanctioned. Or, if they cut some kind of deal with dominant countries to let them keep the stuff, it ends up just distorting their economy so it depends on oil rent and is otherwise totally inefficient and barely there--the Saudi Arabia route. You mentioned the Middle East, but the only country in the Middle East you could even consider calling an economic powerhouse has no oil (Israel). Plus, resource economies are prone to booms and busts. So if China has managed to use the presence of those rare metals to actually build their economy, that in itself points to a kind of acumen found in very few countries.

But also, China's rise started before most of those rare metals became important, so I don't see how they could have been the cause. And I don't think it's reasonable overall to call China a resource-rich country.

Technology, sure--but how did they get the technology? The Chinese government decided it was important to get technology and they, first, insisted on technology transfers as a condition of doing business and, second, built tons and tons of educational institutions. Saying China is doing well because China has technology is kind of like saying China is doing well because China has infrastructure--those kinds of things don't drop from the sky, they built them. My country could too but we're too hypnotized by markets.

The difference between China and the oil countries that were mostly robbed is that China isn't constantly at war with itself. Also they have a huge populous, so once those resources were known to be valuable in the 60s, and with that large work force, they can mine the hell out of everything. I'll have to find the video I saw that was talking about it, as I personally don't really have the knowledge to debate it at all, I just thought it was an interesting bit of information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDwIc-plsYQ [External Link] I mean here's one of many.

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Quoting: Arten

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: PlutonMasterWhat if Valve does the "Linux only" exclusive game?
I think that would be a good treat for Linux gamers.
Or is it a bad idea?

They won't, Gabe has said time and again that doing exlusives is bad for the industry. On the other hand, their games are exclusive to Steam, so there is that. Even just a few initial months on Linux first would/could be a boost. Especially if they did something like what Liam was suggesting, selling a branded Valve USB stick (they already have a mold for the Steam controller dongles) with a LiveCD Linux distro and the game on it! Get bew customers using Steam, Linux and their new game all at once.
Surprised more companies don't do this simple thing, they could package their all popular method of 'exclusive skins and blah' on the USB drive.

There is one more posibility for future :-) WSL. Maybe Valve can make game exclusively for linux, but run it under windows in WSL.

So gross.

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Quoting: GuestTell me about one game that went worse because of Tencent.
A month ago they bought the Warframe company, are they putting some communist message in it with an update?
Tencent, and chinese companies, can buy a lot of enterprises because China is the best economy, growing like no one. If you don't like it you should change your own governments so you can compete with China, just like they did 50 years ago.
Market socialism is beating liberal capitalism, grow up and deal with it.

From my understanding of that, it comes from China having the highest concentration of rare metals in the world. The ones that are used in all of our electronics. So a mix of luck and technology is what is making their economy boom. Everyone else is just kind of screwed. It is the same sort of thing with oil and the middle east.

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Quoting: KohlyKohl

Quoting: fagnerlnThis twilight theme is really beautiful! KDE breaks a bit too much IMO, but I'm for sure will try this with Wayland

Way too many times after updating packages my KDE will break in all sorts of fun ways. I've had this issue for years with every KDE distro and is a bad user experience.

Running tumbleweed since it was released, with kde and I have to say that kde breakage I can count on one hand....

Yeah breakage can happen from the strangest of places. Hell interference from some random thing can cause graphical glitches if you have a noisy sound card or something.

Computers are very complex, so unfortunately when one says "everything is busted!" And another says "everything works here" we can only really go by our own experiences on our own hardware, and try and help out to figure what the problematic one has going on with it where it isn't all shiny like it should be!

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Quoting: JauWe would have to accept a kernel module... I just hope they would only load it with the game then unload it. I don't want to be forced to block it myself then load it → play the game → unload it every time. :dizzy:

But that would require privilege escalation to load the module.

Doing a full on container would be the only decent way. If we could get VirGL to fully pass through the GPU to a VM, it could work that way too.

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I don't mean to troll for sure, and as I haven't used KDE for more than a 'oh, it still requires me to search online how to set things the way I like them to be' it kind of amazes me that they only just added different refresh rates for monitors.

Granted on the one hand, it's kind of annoying when you have two identical monitors that you have to set both of them to the desired setting, but that's how Gnome has done it for quite a few releases. Or is the different refresh rates just on Wayland and Xorg had it before?

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This is again the PERFECT type of game that Atari should chase down to put on the VCS. If they were smart. They would have a team that does just this and starts cutting deals with indie devs especially.

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