Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: shawnsterp

Quoting: DuncSo in the last few years, we've had ... Phoenix Point (which is really X-Com), System Shock....

Wait, I was unaware that we have either one of these games. What am I missing? Heck, I'm still "waiting" for Into The Breach!

Well, okay, they haven't actually been released. But you know what I mean. Remakes and long-delayed sequels seem to be all the rage.

You missed Descent, Ultima Underworld (Would love to see the whole Ultima series redone, a lot of them have in Neverwinter Nights). Oh, and Baldur's Gate III is being made as well.

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Quoting: Ases

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's been working really well for me, though newer Proton has had some regressions apparently (like Arizona Sunshine no longer working)

You can go to BETAS tab in Properties and select the arizonasunshine_1_5 branch as a temporary workaround.
I just played it yesterday.

Awesome, I'll give it a shot. Wanted to try it out with the Knuckes... erm Index controllers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4EMgQgUz0 [External Link]

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Ha, yeah I used the front facing camera on the Vive, but haven't used it at all on the Vive Pro or Index. I'll have to test that out.

It's been working really well for me, though newer Proton has had some regressions apparently (like Arizona Sunshine no longer working)

Also Hotdogs, Horseshoes and Hand grenades don't detect the controllers under Linux.

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Was going to say, I could play them on my Amiga or on the Genesis. Sometimes it really is great to have the old systems laying around.

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Hellblade in VR is amazing, I should try it out in Linux and see how it runs.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: orochi_kyo

Quoting: subBut we're losing momentum.
And it doesn't feel right currently.

A thing most Linux users are ignoring mostly on purpose, but Linux is not going nowhere, until the casual user may use a Linux distro as they do use Windows, with details like right-clicking on an executable file and creating a desktop shortcut or right clicking your desktop and accessing your monitor settings or formatting a Usb drive from the file browser, everything with a single click.

I love my low resource consumption Linux distro but

Well there's your problem, innit? Use a non-low-resource-consumption Linux distro if you want ease of use. Lots of people are into XFCE and such, but they're more bare-bones and that's how it is.
It has never occurred to me to go find an executable file if I want a desktop shortcut--I right-click the menu entry or drag it from the menu entry to (the desktop, my toolbar). But yeah, I suppose that would be a good feature. And I do kind of like the idea of USB formatting from the file browser.
For the rest, I work on Windows at work and Linux at home, and I don't notice much difference. There's plenty of stuff on Windows I need to hunt through menus for. The biggest difference I notice is that on a Linux using Mate, if I plug in a USB (which I generally do because I want to use it for something) it automatically brings up a file manager window with the contents of the USB and puts an icon for the USB on my desktop, so I can do something with it immediately. On Windows, nothing much happens except usually it gives me a message falsely claiming there's something wrong with my USB and I should let Windows "fix" it; experience tells me that if I fail to ignore this message, if I let Windows try to fix my USB, it will get screwed up. So then to actually do anything with the USB I plugged in I end up clicking on some random folder to bring up a file manager window so I can scroll down among the many drives and things we have at work until I find the USB and click on it. This happens a lot more often than formatting a USB or changing my screen settings. Overall, ease-of-use-wise, I'll take Mint over Windows . . . and that's despite the fact that at work, all the management of the OS is being done by our mostly competent Systems people (so I can ignore update issues and such), whereas on Linux I'm doing it, and I am in no way a mostly competent Systems person.

In Nautilus / Gnome Files you can right click and format a USB stick. Not sure what DE being used that is 'low resource' but we have tons of resources on our PCs these days, so unless you're still running a pentium 3 or something, use something with more features :)

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: slaapliedjeWeird, what hardware are you using there that xorg didn't automatically set up your drivers?

It's VirtualBox.

Quoting: slaapliedjemain point was, Yast is more like a control panel, vs just a package manager like Synaptic.

So, they just combined a control panel and a package manager. I still don't see why someone could dislike Yast.

Make sure you install the virtualbox drivers.

Because Yast overwrites all of your config files. Some config files have far more options than Yast or any GUI could possibly add in, so if you try to customize something, then load up Yast, it'll likely override your customization.

This is why I dislike Yast, pretty sure I said as such in the original post I was talking about.

I'm a Debian person, though I do have a drive set up in triple boot with Arch and Windows 10.

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Ha, what the heck is a Zelda-lite? Isn't Zelda pretty light as it is, which is why we have the action adventure genre of games, since it didn't fit into RPGs, and the Adventure game genre used to be assigned to the King's Quest type games.

Maybe I am just getting old...

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