Garry Newman is a software developer who makes money from his own intellectual property, so he gets it, and it's refreshing to see his perspective on intellectual property theft as opposed to the usual weeping and gnashing of teeth we get from people.

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Why?

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Quoting: mattaraxia

Quoting: Mountain ManWhy do people keep poking the bear? It's not like Nintendo is going to suddenly say, "Fine, you win. We will stop attempting to protect our intellectual property rights."

Yes, why do people keep doing what's right in the face of an idiotic legal system. Silly protesters with their values. We'll never understand. When the deck's stacked against you, just roll over immediately, that's what I say.

Yes, let's just ignore all laws we don't like or find inconvenient. Anarchy always works out the best for everybody.

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Why do people keep poking the bear? It's not like Nintendo is going to suddenly say, "Fine, you win. We will stop attempting to protect our intellectual property rights."

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I can remember the early days when there was only a handful of native Linux games in Steam. How far we've come.

The only thing that bothers me is that Linux gaming is essentially synonymous with Steam. I was really hoping that other developers would be inspired by Valve to support Linux directly, but it has been left to Valve to do all the heavy lifting, and as much as I appreciate what they have done for Linux gaming, it makes me nervous having all the eggs in one basket, as the saying goes.

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This is exactly why I have never and will never support Kickstarter or any other crowdfunding platform, including Steam's early access: developers are free to break their promises after taking your money, and there's nothing the consumer can do about it.

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Fair warning: Dragon Age Inquisition requires you to use the EA launcher.

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Quoting: DrakkerArgh... More of those ugly wasteful LEDs.

But how are you going to know it's a gaming device if it doesn't have the LEDs?

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: Mountain ManI have never, in over two decades of using Linux, had a problem with updating a distro from a desktop terminal.

Not a GNOME user then? :tongue:

I've almost always used KDE. I used xfce for a bit at one point, and some other super minimalist desktop environment that I've forgotten the name of (it was so minimal that I had to do things like manually edit a text file to add items to its equivalent of the Start menu), but the majority of my Linux experience has been KDE.

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Quoting: Luke_Nukemsoooo.... folks are still updating distros live via a terminal in desktop and expecting things to be smooth every time?

Y'all should at least switch to a TTY to update, that way if you stomp the desktop your update will at least finish.

This, plus the need to restart various services is why an update-reboot (such as in fedora) is good.

I have never, in over two decades of using Linux, had a problem with updating a distro from a desktop terminal.

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