Quoting: MohandevirWhat is a typical use case for "Windows manager only"?

Tiling window managers, like i3, awesome, bspwm, or xmonad if you're a sadist.

I wish the PS4 controller was higher up, it's a really good controller. And I despise the Microsoft one (I still remember that original Xbox one, holy shit was that bad).

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Quoting: tmtvlJust use an up-to-date distro, like Arch or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

These days I argue that openSUSE is better than Arch; it's well tested, uses openQA for verification, uses a much better packagemanager (which is very fast, and better than yum too), properly splits out debugging symbols/languages/source/includes, and is backed by a company and people that produce an enterprise grade Linux.

Arch is for ricers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Quoting: Crazy Penguin

Quoting: fabry92finally no java gg

What is wrong with Java? ;P

Everything! Maven build systems are atrocious to use. Java uses so much freaking boiler-plate it's not funny. The god-forsaken org/junk/random/otherstuff/more forced directory layout is the biggest fucking pain in the arse possible..

Okay, that's all I've got. The language itself is okay-ish. And the garbage collector is wicked fast! I just really despise most of the build systems around, like npm, gradle, maven etc.

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Don't forget Virtual Programming! I've sunk so, sooooo many hours in to Dirt: Showdown, and it runs wickedly well too.

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Fuck me sideways... Some of the replies here. Self-rightous and arrogance are not virtues, people.

Quoting: Kimyriellewe just have to face the reality that larger studios won't change their development processes for us 1%. You call them parasites, I call them catalysts.

without them, Linux gaming will never become a mainstream thing in the first place. By porting AAA games, Feral and Aspyr are paving the road for others to follow.

You need a critical mass to get a platform recognized as a gaming platform. Porting houses are giving us that.

Why did I chop out and bold these points by Kimyrielle? Because they are spot on and quite important things that all the nay-sayers are missing.

And how many AAA games do we have without Aspyr, Feral, and VP? Sweet fuck all, that's how many. These companies are doi g us a massive service in one of the very few ways possible in regards to business sense and market size. They are helping to build the critical mass we desperately need to be seen as a viable market by more of the larger developers and publishers. Until developers actually consider all three PC operating systems at once from the start of their development cycle, this is what we have, and I am super thankful to these people.

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My i3 6100 seems to run on par with most i5 CPU, except if I'm compiling large programs but even then it's not that far off. Pretty sure it'll run this fine, it runs all the other ports very well.

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Quoting: chomwittthe battles are three dimensional.
The game seems too promising to mee .

My only argument is breaking the playable space in zones.
That's kind of a downer.
I mean space is one and united. Do we want to have 'roads' in space?

Cool.

More likely that's a logistics based thing. For example let's say we have x amount of space expressed by numbers. In a computer this would likely be a floating point number, and computers can only handle a certain size depending on architecture - not only that, but mathematical operations on these floating point numbers reduce the accuracy over time and size; this is why games like minecraft have their worlds split in to zones/chunks.

It could also be to do with data management too - an *infinitely* large play area with all its intricacies is going to generate a lot of data to compute; this will lead to slow downs. I'd be interested in what happens at borders between these zones, likely an object just translates from one zone to the other.

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Are those actual three dimensional battles I'm seeing, or pseudo?

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: minj:rolleyes:

Game level designers are not the sort of people to get platform news from, Liam.

You need engine devs for that. Or porters.

Why is some guy who hauls baggage supposed to know what's going on? ;)

If I was working at a game developer, I would still expect a level designer to at least know the platforms it was being released on, I mean why wouldn't they know unless the company is tight lipped to employees about such things?

They keep their level designers/makers chained to desks in the cellar and uninformed. I thought you knew this?

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