Quoting: GuestPortal was based on what a modder did (correct me if i am wrong).

Not quite. It started life as a student project on a custom engine (I forget the original title), and Gabe Newell was so impressed that he hired the team straight out of college to develop Portal.

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Quoting: ison111What a bunch of crap.
Even if it is just the producer doing it was Ion Maiden really even that big of a game?
I just don't understand the logic here, there is no way they were ever going to make that much money off a lawsuit like this right? At least nothing that a big music producer should consider significant.
And they're definitely not picking up any new fans by doing it either. If anything they'd lose some.

It just seems so random. But whatever, I won't pretend I understand all the ridiculous nuances of the business world.

I'm glad to see them just moving past it though.
It's nice when at least one party in a dispute can be civil about things.

Copyrights and IPs must be vigorously protected, or they can be forfeited by default. That's just how the law works.

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Quoting: ShmerlThe first name was better, but whatever.

Of course it was, but they were sued by the managers of the band Iron Maiden because of the similarity (and to be fair, the developers did openly admit at one point that they chose the name as a pun based on the band, so they really didn't have a leg to stand on). I don't know why they didn't go with something like "Metal Maiden" instead.

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Quoting: GuestBut you know... have you considered debian?

Debian and Manjora are the two I'm leaning towards if I were to change.

If you've narrowed it down to two options, the only thing left to do is try both. if you want proprietary drivers remember to select it in the grub boot menu for manjaro's installation iso/usb/cd. Just so you won't have to install it manually later (although they do make installing it manually quite easy, you have to do it through the manjaro settings mangaer/mhwd rather than just installing the package via the package manager)

Sounds a bit like Kubuntu where you install your graphics card drivers through the system settings panel rather than apt or Muon.

Anyway, the biggest obstacle at this point is simply a lack of time.

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Quoting: GuestBut you know... have you considered debian?

Debian and Manjora are the two I'm leaning towards if I were to change.

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At this point, what is the best Ubuntu alternative?

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Quoting: subIt's a personal thing.
Feel free to hate me for this, but I never liked Ubuntu being considered *THE* desktop Linux distribution - long before the Mir and Unity troubles, btw.

With the latest move(s) I had high hopes that this might finally change in favour of sth. better.

Ubuntu has always had the goal of being an easy to use, easy to maintain Linux distro that "just works", and to that end, they have greatly succeeded, and most people who use Ubuntu and its variants don't know or care about the behind-the-scenes politics.

I suppose the question is, what other distros offer Ubuntu's "it just works" ease of use but without the "political" downsides?

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Quoting: ShmerlI'd classify it as too little, too late. Trust is pretty much gone. And I doubt anyone would recommend Ubuntu for gaming after this.

I guess we'll have to wait for Valve to land on a new "recommended" distro.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAny word on performance improvements? The game has always run like a pig on Linux once you start to open up the map a little bit.

Just Linux, or does it simply run like a pig?

Nintendo Switch performance is pretty solid. I've not played it on any other system.

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Any word on performance improvements? The game has always run like a pig on Linux once you start to open up the map a little bit.

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