Quoting: elmapul" Their contributions to MESA mean that we get better compatibility and performance out of Intel and AMD GPUs on Linux. "
he mean AMD GPU, APU or both?

From a driver code point of view, I do not see the need to distinguish between these things. APUs are also GPUs for all intents and purposes.

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Quoting: scaine...I no longer have to worry about my drivers (they update automatically as part of my system, ...

To be fair, this is also true of Windows (10) these days but it is often out of date compared to direct from the vendor.

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Quoting: scainelike every CoC out there, to ensure that you get plenty of opportunity to change your ways. To encourage you to be respectful.

At the risk of sounding contrarian, I would rather be in a place where people can be disrespectful yet honest with each other and with themselves than in a place which polices what they can say. Even if it is uncomfortable. Although I understand why such an atmosphere wouldn't be for everyone.

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I like a man of principle. But if that is how he feels, doesn't he realize he is just "letting them win" by giving up?

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And so the cancer begins to spread...

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Quoting: DuncAnd I think that's where the bizarre practice of, as I mentioned, putting the entire legal department before the voice talent or coders came in: back in the days when teams were smaller, they had to include everyone down to the office cleaner to pad the thing out to a reasonable movie-style length, and it became a habit.

I remember that on a lot of my older games they would often fill pages with "Special thanks to friends & family:", "Dedicated to such and such" and to every other party with almost no involvement in making the game. It was charming, actually.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Dunc

when I finish a game, I like to watch the credits rolling

I don't. It's 2018. Scrollbars have been a thing since at least the mid-'80s. Why do we have to sit through twenty minutes of advertising executives and lawyers before we get to see who voiced the main character? And then blink and miss it?

Games aren't movies. Is it really beyond the wit of developers to put the credits into the main menu structure, and split up the various departments so we can go straight to the part we're interested in?

As I noted, this game has both - rolling credits at the end, which I enjoy, and the option of viewing them at any time, complete with scrollbar. And the rolling credits can be skipped at any time too, so everyone wins.

I suspect that enjoying the rolling credits is an old man trait. I grew up with a distinct lack of scrollbars in my life. I didn't really encounter them until Linux and X Windows in the early 90's, then later on Mac Classics. You got used to sitting through the credits and acknowledging who was behind what you just watched. It actually pisses me off no end that Netflix consigns them to a thumbnail while forcing the next episode in your face. I know I'm overreacting, but it feels hella disrespectful to me.

And as for "games aren't movies", we can agree on those three words I suppose, but I think you're oversimplifying. Games (well, some games) have every much a right to proudly rolling credits as a good film. If you'd poured several years of your life into making something you're proud of, maybe you'd feel differently about rolling credits. They're the theatre equivalent of taking a bow at the end of the performance.

And if you don't feel like sitting through that, most games allow Esc to exit and you can just look up the credits online to see specifics.

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Quoting: elmapulthey should add an icon to compatible games...
but i'm not sure if the steamOS icon is the right icon to use.

Tux should be brought back for Linux compatible games while Steamplay icon remains for translation layer games.

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hmm my itch client is "Up to date" but it still looks the same as before. Did it not reach their bintray repo yet?

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Quoting: dodrianI wonder if we should be talking about gaming on linux in a slightly different way.

The platform really is in an incredible place at the moment - especially as the writer mentions only ten years ago we mostly had penguin-themed games to play (not that I didn't enjoy many hours of bobsledding in Tux Racer!). There's now so much to choose from!

If you want to be a gamer on linux in the sense that you want to use linux and find games you like, there's really no reason not to switch. Pretty much every genre is represented, with many games of each, and even some AAA games at comparable performance. Wine will take care of almost any classic titles if you want that nostalgia factor.

If you want to be a gamer in the sense of being on the <i>cutting edge</i> and keeping up with the latest trends and technologies in gaming, then maybe Linux isn't for you, or not as your main gaming OS. If you want access to <i>specific</i> titles, it can be problematic, and even when there are ports, they're often late by a month or two, which also applies for updates and DLC to those games. I get that for some people this is a really important part of their hobby, and in this instance Linux doesn't work for them.

Instead, what I try and share with people about Linux is the <i>freedom</i> it offers - I'm in full control of what's on my computer, and it's never going to do anything like what the author mentions and force an update at an inconvenient time (and if for some reason any distro tries that, you can all but guarantee there will be a fork that doesn't within days). That freedom includes so much software and many games to choose from that I'll never feel like there's something I can't do, or a type of game that I can't play with my computer.

While I'm grateful for Wine, and Steam Play, and their associated technologies, sometimes I think focusing on them (the "Brutal Truths" ) holds us back from talking about what the platform really has to offer. What do y'all think?

EDIT: This post isn't really directly in response to the linked article, but something I've been mulling over for a while brought to the forefront of my mind after reading it.

I always bring up freedom and security first. In fact, I don't sell it on what Linux does do, but what it doesn't do.

Linux does not backdoor its disk encryption.

Linux does not forcibly impose system changes.

Linux does not gather massive amounts of telemetry data.

Linux does not censor apps from its repositories.

Linux does not have a universal backdoor.

etc, etc

I wouldn't care if only ten crummy games ever existed for Linux, I would still choose it as my gaming platform because I refuse to let proprietary software make me it's bitch.

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