Quoting: lelorrainI started to learn how to play Ancient Cities and Horizon Zero Dawn. Unfortunately both Windows games that do not work on Wine...

I beat Horizon: Zero Dawn on the PS4, such a pretty game. Though now I kind of want to see if it supports my new Super Ultrawide monitor so it'd be even prettier....

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Still somewhat related to Linux, I installed the newly supported SVGA driver in the a0486 core on my MiSTer (which manages all the FPGA magic through Linux). Win95 is still f'ugly after all these years!

But the MiSTer plays many of the arcade games written for it flawlessly and I'm finally able to put my Mayflash F300 to great use!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI loaded up Dying Light again to try out the Hellraid DLC but couldn't even figure out how to get to it...

I finally found how to do it… You have to select "Play" in the main menu, then "Play the campaign", then "Play", and you should be in the tower or at least in the map of the original game where you can go to the tower. Once in the tower there is an arcade machine in a room on the first floor which gives access to Hellraid.

Ha, my save is out in the farm land area. I can't recall if there is a way back.
I promised myself I wouldn't play anytging else until I beat Witcher 2.... eventually I will try this!

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Quoting: ghiumaI play with Conan Exile, it's great in single player too, does anyone know if Ark works well natively? I've read negative opinions...

Is this working through Wine now? It is a fantastic game, but rebooting to Windows annoys me.
Not that I have the disk space under Linux as I am determined to finally beat Witcher 2, plus I have 3 installed.
I loaded up Dying Light again to try out the Hellraid DLC but couldn't even figure out how to get to it... also, I don't rsmember the game being so hard! I beat the main quests, but now am just getting pummeled by an army of the dead bastards!
Got a new Super Ultrawide monitor, so have been testing some stuff out with it. For example, Witcher 2 needed a file hex edited to get support. Fun times!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd I don't even think Ubuntu is considered their 'officially supported' anymore, at least some bridges were burned and they had mentioned wanting to shift to a different one.

Canonical is now burning even more bridges [External Link]. I do think Ubuntu is going away as the informal standard desktop Linux distro, and although this is good in the long term, we'll have to endure the pains of change. I hope whatever distro supercedes it in the future at least is committed to the community.

Wow, finally got around to reading that bug report. 20.04 decided to change so many things, which didn't need to be changed, like shoving standard gnome stuff into snap. For the record, Gnome project very much is part of Flatpak and if you want the 'bleeding edge' version, that's where you get it, not snap...

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd I don't even think Ubuntu is considered their 'officially supported' anymore, at least some bridges were burned and they had mentioned wanting to shift to a different one.

Canonical is now burning even more bridges [External Link]. I do think Ubuntu is going away as the informal standard desktop Linux distro, and although this is good in the long term, we'll have to endure the pains of change. I hope whatever distro supercedes it in the future at least is committed to the community.

I remember when Red Hat was a brash new outfit who wanted to make Linux an easy to use desktop OS. They gradually gave up on the desktop and concentrated on servers and business.

Then for a while Mandrake was the user-friendly desktop Linux, and was kind of based on Red Hat. Although they started doing it when Red Hat was still kind of desktop-oriented. Far as I can tell, they were somewhere in the middle of starting to give up and concentrate on the business side when they went belly up.

Then Ubuntu came along and were the saviours of Desktop Linux. They have now mostly sidelined the desktop and are concentrating on business and servers (these days aka "the cloud"). I'm kind of seeing a trend here. Visionary distros come along committed to the desktop, make a name for themselves, gradually realize there's no money in it and switch to servers and stuff, but lose popularity afterwards because while the money is in servers, the visibility in the Linux community is on the desktop.

Mint is currently the Mandrake to Ubuntu. Time will tell whether they can hang on a bit better than Mandrake did; I certainly hope so, and things seem all right so far.

Pop!OS is interesting because it's tied to hardware. System76 sell desktops, so for them, there is money in the desktop. They could be in it for the long haul. Unless they happen to come up with the next cool hardware widget, sell gajillions of those at inflated prices and start ignoring their computer biz. Ahem.

Mandrake didn't fully disappear, they just kept merging or changing names. Unfortunately that means most people lost track of them. Mandrake and Connectiva merged at some point (ditching the only thing Connectiva was known for (apt4rpm)). That made Mandriva. But then... I think it became an openMandriva? I don't even know.

No, they went under. Yes, it was after they bought/merged with Connectiva for reasons, and changed their name from Mandrake after losing a lawsuit about it. And yeah, there were community efforts to keep going--more than one project took the Mandriva base and continued it; that's open source for you. But the company itself died, pure and simple.
I was upset because I was a long time Mandrake/Mandriva user.

They've died so many times I lost track, but I agree, Mandrake was an excellent distribution back then.
I don't even know if I've ever used Mageia. I should try it and see how VR works. I'm sure I have an extra drive/partition somewhere I can install it on.

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Quoting: oldrocker99NWN multiplayer is very much alive; there are lots of persistent servers.

The cool thing is you can play the Switch and Linux version multiplayer. Can even install mods on it.
There is an 'offical' persistent world installed with it (a Ravenloft one, can't remember the name). But it is perfectly playable on the Linux version too. Though I only got as far as making a character...
Sadly the newer D&D races annoy me, so anytime I see Dragonborn or Tiefling I stop playing... I can't remember if they are included there or not.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd I don't even think Ubuntu is considered their 'officially supported' anymore, at least some bridges were burned and they had mentioned wanting to shift to a different one.

Canonical is now burning even more bridges [External Link]. I do think Ubuntu is going away as the informal standard desktop Linux distro, and although this is good in the long term, we'll have to endure the pains of change. I hope whatever distro supercedes it in the future at least is committed to the community.

I remember when Red Hat was a brash new outfit who wanted to make Linux an easy to use desktop OS. They gradually gave up on the desktop and concentrated on servers and business.

Then for a while Mandrake was the user-friendly desktop Linux, and was kind of based on Red Hat. Although they started doing it when Red Hat was still kind of desktop-oriented. Far as I can tell, they were somewhere in the middle of starting to give up and concentrate on the business side when they went belly up.

Then Ubuntu came along and were the saviours of Desktop Linux. They have now mostly sidelined the desktop and are concentrating on business and servers (these days aka "the cloud"). I'm kind of seeing a trend here. Visionary distros come along committed to the desktop, make a name for themselves, gradually realize there's no money in it and switch to servers and stuff, but lose popularity afterwards because while the money is in servers, the visibility in the Linux community is on the desktop.

Mint is currently the Mandrake to Ubuntu. Time will tell whether they can hang on a bit better than Mandrake did; I certainly hope so, and things seem all right so far.

Pop!OS is interesting because it's tied to hardware. System76 sell desktops, so for them, there is money in the desktop. They could be in it for the long haul. Unless they happen to come up with the next cool hardware widget, sell gajillions of those at inflated prices and start ignoring their computer biz. Ahem.

Mandrake didn't fully disappear, they just kept merging or changing names. Unfortunately that means most people lost track of them. Mandrake and Connectiva merged at some point (ditching the only thing Connectiva was known for (apt4rpm)). That made Mandriva. But then... I think it became an openMandriva? I don't even know.
The only ones still around from the olden days are Debian, SuSE and RedHat. Slackware is still ticking, but I never really hear from people who use it.
I have legitimately used so many Debian derivatives over the years, all of them have failed. Some notable great ones were Storm Linux and Corel Linux (which became Xandros, which was resurrected at some point then faded back into obscurity...) Ubuntu seems to be the longest surviving Debian spawn so far, but I tend to think it was because for a long time they kept more compatible with Debian than their predecessors. It is ALWAYS the case that when the distribution starts packaging their own things that the quality of them suffers and they end up losing users. It is why I repeatedly return to Debian. I always find in other distros that some of their dependencies are completely unnecessary, and cause breakage when you try to remove them.

Anyhow, just kind an side rant about how many distributions I have seen come and go. The ones that have survived have always been the ones that are either extremely stable and versatile (Debian) or have managed to get a foothold in the server space (rhel/cent, Ubuntu, SLES). I really had high hopes for Corel. But then Word stomped on wordperfect, and Corel didn't keep porting over their various other suites and abandoned it. But for the time it came out it was an extremely well polished KDE distribution.

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Quoting: randyl

Quoting: berarmaI would have liked that you started with a supported title like HL:Alyx. It would have been more representative of the state of SteanVR on GNU/Linux.

Besides, add to that, like others said, that you're using an unsupported distro and it seems you're going for the big prize. Yesterday I read Lutris isn't supporting Mint for the issues with Wine games.

I'd like to read the experiences from someone not going so hard on it.

Wait, does Valve VR only support Ubuntu? That would be a terrible marketing decision on their part.

Like all Valve products, Ubuntu is the only "official" supported platform. However, as you can see from this article, Mint works with a bit of foresight, and I can see extensive notes on the ArchWiki [External Link] too, so there's plenty of platforms you can use if you prefer not to go with Ubuntu. You haven't filled in your profile details, so I can't see what distro you do run, but I unless it's Linux From Scratch, I doubt you'll have too many issues making this stuff work.

I've filled in my distro details. Maybe I haven't put them in the right spot? As far I can tell my hardware and distro info are present and the little Fedora logo is next to my name.

I think my confusion came from seeing Linux support on a lot of Valve's site and even in community comments when they really mean Ubuntu. For me, Ubuntu is Linux, but not the other way around.

And I don't even think Ubuntu is considered their 'officially supported' anymore, at least some bridges were burned and they had mentioned wanting to shift to a different one. Funny thing is.. they had listed Ubuntu as requirements simply because when they first released Steam for Linux it was the most popular distribution. Yet they still chose Debian as the base for SteamOS...

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Quoting: T0RMy last unsolved problem is the Camera is working but NOT in steam.

Good Game: A-Tech Cybernetic VR

Have fun and thx for GOL

No one knows why the Index camera does not work in SteamVR yet, and why Valve is not fixing it. You can check the SteamVR bug report [External Link].

Since you and others have been suggesting VR titles, what about a forum post with games and application suggestions for VR?

I've never seen anything that uses the camera yet...

If you want a cool game that works in Linux, play Battlezone! It's amazing in VR.

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