> I have plenty of Native Linux games that no LONGER work native out the box but swap proton on and works great.. also have TONS of native ports that run MUCH better in proton then native..

This is why linux native gaming fucking sucks and has done for a long while. Who knows if glibc will break it. Who knows if the distro you run will change how things are compiled and break something obscure. Who knows if the compiler version change will do the same.

Linux on desktop/gaming needs a single source. Not the absurd amounts of random shitty distros and ways of building them with different compile flags, libc versions, kernel and driver versions held back or whatever.

Been on Linux for 25 years and I've grown to dislike it a lot :( Absolutely over the drama of packaging and no flatpak is not the answer, it's just a further abstraction of the same issues and brings *more* bloat.

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Soundtrack sounds like its from Cyriak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY)

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This looks like something you could raise Cenobites with.

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Seriously!?!?

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Yeah, I don't fall for cinematic trailers anymore. Show the gameplay or I'm not interested.

It's on the Steam page.

Game looks great. Reminds me a little of a sci-fi movie "The Shimmer"

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XBox layout can bite my arse. Honestly wondering if that's a forced thing by MS now.

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Oh dear.. This looks like a very deep time sink for me.

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Quoting: melkemindIt seems like they are trying to do this, but like you said, there are probably companies that would have difficulty switching without major changes in their processes. Even if the government mandated it, they'd still have to get companies to implemented, which may be costly.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-releases-its-first-open-source-computer-operating-system-2023-07-06/ [External Link]

The thing is, if the government mandated it, it would get the hell done. Case in point is how rapidly they cleaned up their environment in many many areas. Shanghai and Shenzhen for example were super smoggy, polluted as hell - go outside and you could taste it. Factories dumping waste in streams and so on. I visited Shanghai this year and it was amazing clear and fresh, has been for a while now. From what I was told by various folks there the governments pretty much closed factories permanently if they didn't achieve goals within a certain timeframe.

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Quoting: ShabbyXPretty sure in the last minute it'll get pulled. Just after a reminder from microsoft that they'll ruin them if they don't.

While Microsoft very well might make such a threat, I doubt Lenovo would cave to them. Microsoft is an American company with lots of ties to the American government and military, and Lenovo is Chinese company with similar ties to the Chinese government, which is about to be on the receiving of new trade war tactics. They might very well be looking for a chance to stick it to Microsoft. By comparison, Valve is American but relatively neutral.

This little fact is why it still boggles my mind that so much of China is still very very heavily reliant on MS. Usually it comes down to apps, such as factories etc might need a particular app, but there is really nothing stopping a mass migration if they all wanted to or it was even mandated - plenty of big opportunity to jump in with similar apps with first class linux support.

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Quoting: kuhpunktI don't know. Turok is such a weird franchise. Why did it ever get "big"?

It was one of the first FPS I can remember on the N64... but eh.

I remember when it came out originally, it was big because of the graphics but was otherwise a boring game with the close fog and spaced out enemy encounters to keep things from getting too sluggish.

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