Quoting: DamonLinuxPLAgain no crossplatform multi? So... again game not for me... Sorry Feral, I can't buy not fully working port...

It's not Feral's fault. It's because the game on Windows uses proprietary math libraries that are not available for Linux, so it's literally impossible to create cross platform play between Windows and Linux, at least until developers stop using those proprietary libraries.

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Quoting: shawnsterpAre all these Total War games they keep pumping out actually different? I have a couple but I gotta admit I haven't really gotten around to playing them.

That's what I keep wondering. I have Empire: Total War, and Total War: Warhammer, and they are virtually identical in terms of gameplay.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI didn't say they're making decisions against *their own* best interests; it's that they keep making decisions that screw consumers, and get away with it.

Which brings us back to what I said about most Mac users either not knowing or not caring about what changes are being made under the hood as long they can still open Safari and iTunes.

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Quoting: wvstolzing'Crazy' is an understatement for how Apple's been abusing 'forced obsolescence' these past few years.

... and I can't fathom how their Mac (MacBook at least) sales are still on the rise. Haven't enough people discovered that a forced, arbitrary update can render their software unusable overnight?

I think for the typical Mac user, these changes are unnoticeable. After all, you don't need OpenGL to check Facebook, surf the web, and run Microsoft Office. As long as college hipsters can still run Safari and iTunes, what do they care what changes are made under the hood? And the Adobe suite, which I suspect is used by the majority of Apple's professional consumers, has been Metal compatible for at least 2-years.

We might think they're making dumb decisions, but Apple didn't become the richest company in the world by being stupid.

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I'm still not sure what makes this different than any other Total War game. They all seem to be essentially "re-skins" of previous games, with the possible exception of Total Warhammer which added flying units, heroes, and magic to the mix.

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Quoting: tonRWarning: tonR harping about Linux/FOSS mobile devices again!

Well, nuff said. Mobile devices/Smartphone is right here and right now. It's no longer "the future". Apple shows they willing to throw away (not so) "open platform" Mac for (totally) "close platform" iOS. So, it is time for Linux/FOSS community to seriously R&D-ing on mobile devices. If not, our (not so distant) future generations might never know what is meaning of open platform.

And no, Android is NOT our viable future. I don't think "cocktail license" OS should become our future platform.

I've heard it said that the personal computer being an open platform was purely an accident partly because IBM didn't recognize the importance of controlling the software market, and partly because Bill Gates screwed them when he pulled out of OS/2 and released Windows 95 a short time later. Numerous companies have been attempting to "fix" that miscalculation ever since because an open platform is a threat to any company that wants to control their customers' spending habits, which is pretty much every tech company in existence today.

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Quoting: JanAs a developer, if you also plan to release on iOS (which is the biggest mobile gaming platform) you have to support Metal anyway.

Pretty sure Android dwarfs iOS in that arena.

At least according to this source, Android sits above 80% of the market while iOS is less than 20%:

https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os [External Link]

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Quoting: EhvisA lot (if not most) professional software still uses OpenGL (older compatibility stuff even). Seems like a harsh move to kill that off. I'm sure Laminar Research of X-Plane won't be amused either.

Laminar are big Mac guys -- it's their development platform -- and have been planning to support Metal for a long time, at least since 2015, that is if they haven't added support already. I haven't really kept up with X-Plane news.

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Quoting: minkiuThe only software that has no alternative is After Effects, it's not like other software could achieve similar results, it's how damn easy they make it to achieve that result (plus there is a heck ton of plugins).

I don't know if I'd call After Effects "damn easy" (ha ha!), but I understand what you're saying. I'm definitely a lot more familiar with Premier since I use it almost daily on the job.

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Quoting: Ne0

Quoting: ulysses768What specific Adobe product would you like to see on Linux? Photoshop?

Premiere (Video editing)

For image editing, we already have GIMP & Krita

For video work, Premiere and After Effects are hard to beat. I just hate Adobe's subscription model. I know there are several video editing suites for Linux, such as Cinelerra and kdenlive, but I don't have enough experience with any of them to say if they're a good alternative to Premiere.

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