Quoting: LinasLife of Ethan Lee. A fan fiction.

- Lee: I ported your game to Linux.
- Dev: Sorry, we are not planning to port the game to Linux because of technical problems.
- Lee: No, I mean I already did it. It works.
- Dev: Well, maybe we should pay somebody to port the game to Linux. I'll keep you updated.
- Lee: I have right here! Look!
- Dev (2 months later): Sorry, the Linux port is cancelled for now. We will consider the possibility again after our next project is done.

This reminds me of a cross-platform Modbus project. Years ago I took the Windows version and gave it a very stupid, but working, file that allowed it to use native libraries for a specific piece of hardware that was it's only blocker to cross-platform on Linux and OSX, not just on Windows, and I thought that was pretty awesome. Sadly the original project was abandoned, so my patches never got considered. Years later some guys come along and fork the project and they're like, "Well, support for this one piece of hardware is all that's blocking cross-platform, so we'll just drop it" and then I find the project and offer to give them the patch.

No takey.

:|

Developer Stupid is a real thing.

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Worked pretty well for me! =D

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I've been thinking that I'll be using a Polaris GPU as my passthrough for a Windows gaming VM. Okay driver support in Windows, and support the other (graphics) team? Sure, why not.

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Quoting: psppwner300UI is quite cluttered and buggy. I can't even connect to a server - it just says "Conecting..." and stays there till I Alt-F4.

Edit: the system requirements for Linux aren't even listed except "Broadband Internet connection"

Usually generating minimum system requirements requires having some test machines around to determine what hardware performs well. In all likelihood their devs compiled it on Linux, checked that it ran on someone's box, and then said "Okay, good enough!"

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Even if it doesn't beat OpenTTD in every way, it looks like it might be good all on its own, and that's enough for me.

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Aren't the MekTek guys involved in this?

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:(

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"Heads up"

HAH. :|

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I'm not gonna care too much until UT4 ships with Vulkan available for Linux. I mean, sure, OpenGL 3 looks okay (last time I checked) and OpenGL "worked", but it'd be nice to see it working properly on Linux with Vulkan.

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Quoting: oldrocker99HOI is an amazing...simulation, I guess. It's just as great as CK2 and EU IV.

It finishes the grand strategy trilogy, too.

Are we forgetting Victoria?

In other news, I find their choice of MacArthur for the American face both hilarious and awesome.

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