Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedjeOne could assume they've done the math of 'everyone with VR will want this, and it'll probably drive sales for new VR buyers' I'm sure they understand that it's worth it to just force people into the new age of gaming.

Anyone remember when we thought this could happen with Linux...?

Here is the difference 1) they refused to release any exclusive games for Linux. 2) They sell their own hardware (that apparently everyone who bought it is getting a free copy of Half-Life: Alyx.

The port of Steam to Linux for most people is just an 'also runs on...' and they just stick with Windows. We all know the truth of the matter is that Valve/Gabe didn't want to be locked out potentially of being able to sell games on Windows. With various attempts like Windows S, it seems he may (eventually) be correct in those assumptions. Now of course the question is, why doesn't CD Projekt also see that as a possibility, and properly port the GOG stuff to Linux?

I think it is absurd though that Valve haven't announced Linux support for HL: Alyx. "We Support Linux!" "Well, maybe not THIS time, or yet..."

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Quoting: richipWhat's the best VR device that is stably and completed supported on Linux these days? (cost not being a factor) And how well is that device actually supported? (e.g. stability and are the features of the hardware being completely taken advantage of). I've been ready to pull the trigger on a set since the original HTC Vive was announced to support Linux (unfortunately they backpedalled on that)

I have the Vive, Vive Pro and Index. All of them work on Linux. I was having an issue with the two Vives due to having G-Sync monitors, but they say they fixed it. I haven't tested it since my Index is currently hooked up to my system.

But with Proton, there are quite a few games that just work out of the box on it too. I haven't tried in a while, but need to check out No Man's Sky and Elite: Dangerous again under Linux. They are both amazing in VR.

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Quoting: m-svoI believe they will port it to classic display eventually saying VR did not provide enough revenue.

Considering they have sales figures at least for the Index, and there have been several methods of guessing how many Oculus and Vive owners are out there. One could assume they've done the math of 'everyone with VR will want this, and it'll probably drive sales for new VR buyers' I'm sure they understand that it's worth it to just force people into the new age of gaming.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: skinnyrafPity that there is no "budget" VR option that runs under Linux. Not only a stronger PC is needed than for VR under Windows, but lower spec headsets are Windows-only.

I think the most budget VR on Linux is right now is picking up the original Vive second hand? I think that would be the cheapest, unless I am mistaken but apart from Vive, Pro and Index and I don't think any others work with SteamVR + Linux.

Yeah, pretty sure that's the case, and it sounds like they finally fixed the bug with the Pro where if you had a G-Sync monitor, it would cause screen tearing. Weirdly the Index didn't have the same issue.

VR support in Linux is actually pretty decent, I just wish the performance was on par with Windows for the stuff I need to run under Proton (like Elite Dangerous, which is roughly 90 FPS less in performance, last time I tried.... getting about time I try again.)

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Quoting: wytrabbitTo all the people last year who immediately assumed inXile being acquired by Microsoft meant the end of their Linux ports, you should try to keep an open mind next time.

Huh, well considering they were already making Wasteland 3 for Linux when MS bought them, the fact they said they were still going to release Wasteland 3 for Linux, has ZERO effect on whether or not any future games they're going to work on after the acquisition is going to support Linux.

So, that possibility is still very strong. We knew this game was still coming out for us. Here's the problem, their last few games were all backed via kickstarter, when their fans could say they wanted Linux support. Look how long it still took BD4 to come out, and that's only because Brian is an upstanding developer! But now that MS is going to be funding the games, I'll still say I'll be shocked if we get support.

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Ha, I think it was the 5.3 kernel that had a regression for my Thinkpad's trackpoint/touchpad as well. I think they had tweaked a lot of input code.

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Quoting: slapinEverybody these days seems to talk to voices in their head when it comes to copyright, minorities, free speech, etc. I think something very bad will happen very soon. YT is useful platform if you want to vblog or showcase your own stuff though, but they tend to hit that direction too, as too many want to feed on what you do and new regulations are invented so they can. The reasons to this are quite well explained in Fahrenheit 451, read that, this might not be all bad thing. The more people communicate the more conflict arise and some people gain much more than others as the result, and as it is much easier to prohibit what is not liked, everything gets prohibited as for everything you can find some group of people who want to prohibit that thing. Same goes for social norms. As for copyright, there are huge players at stake, as huge media companies who have huge presence in governments, regulations, law making organs, who own all music in the world. Musicians have to sell their music for living and they lose all rights to it and all of that gets into bulk merchants hands who used to sell it for money. Internet broke their business model of 1000% profits and they intensified their government and law making efforts to increase their profits back and their greed is infinite, so unless something happens, new and new copyright regulations of Internet will come to guarantee profits. As they finish with piracy they will enforce $/munute payment scheme and go much farther (I have to listen to these ideas again and again as I worked close to media companies), they draw sums of billions of dollars daily stolen from them and that should stop. Nobody really cares for recipient comfort these days, only company profits which matters.

There are more and more articles out there now about how Netflix and some othe streaming services have lowered the amount of piracy a lot. And then the different mega corps all decided they wanted a slice of that pie, and have all started their own, but because of that, people don't want to subscribe to 15 different services for their shows they want to see, and now people are returning to piracy.
Right now I think the only company that 'gets it' is Amazon, where you can sort of just plug in and choose which channels to subscribe to. My only complaint there is that they should mostly be less. Like CBS All Access should be like 3 USD a month, HBO/Showtime/Cinemax maybe 6. If they did that more people would just subscribe and forget about it. They are not like MMOs, so why they feel they should have MMO subscription models alludes me..

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: nateI already use four browsers (Chromium, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome). I really do not need a fifth. Sorry, M$. =P

Opera was my go to webkit browser until they were bought by some Chinese company. At which point who knows what's included in the binary :P

I tend to only use Firefox or Epiphany, with the random Chromium when some sites haven't updated their ciphers, which Firefox frowns upon and no longer work with. I'm forced to at the moment due to some necessary appliance crap. Please everyone, update your stuff to work with modern ciphers. Thank you.

Second time I've seen someone talking about ciphers. What's a cipher? (well, in this context; I know the base meaning of the word)

As Eike stated. When you set up your webserver with SSL, you can choose which level of SSL (at this point everyone should probably be using TLS 1.3, and on the other level of it, eliminate RC4 ciphers. TLS1.3 should be faster and more secure than previous versions. But I bet a large portion of the internet is still using TLS1.0. Hopefully no one is using SSLv2/3 anymore...

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Quoting: nateI already use four browsers (Chromium, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome). I really do not need a fifth. Sorry, M$. =P

Opera was my go to webkit browser until they were bought by some Chinese company. At which point who knows what's included in the binary :P

I tend to only use Firefox or Epiphany, with the random Chromium when some sites haven't updated their ciphers, which Firefox frowns upon and no longer work with. I'm forced to at the moment due to some necessary appliance crap. Please everyone, update your stuff to work with modern ciphers. Thank you.

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Weird, thought I'd picked up Shadow already, but apparently I did not. Sickeningly the Definitive Edition said it was normally 109 bucks! But since it was just released for Linux/Mac, it was on sale, so got the full thing for 60 bucks... that's nuts for a game that is a year or so old, it didn't seem any of the extras were all that great anyhow?

Granted, I still haven't completed Rise of the Tomb Raider... But glad it came out for Linux!

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