Quoting: HoriIt'd be nice if we could use it straight from Steam as a compatibility layer (like Proton).
I think OpenMW can be used this way for Morrowind, IF i'm not mistaken (which I might be)

Not to say it'd be great to have one for San Andreas. The Steam version is pretty buggy unfortunately, so a new engine would be most welcome and probably even better than the retail version.

Brings back memories of trying to play San Andreas at roughly 15fps on my sub-par PC back in 2006.

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It requires libglfw3 3.3 min.; while Debian (which I'm currently using, after random nvidia-related f*ckups with Arch that I got fed up with) still has 3.2.1 as of now. I'm too lazy to build glfw3 from source, but I'm really curious as to how this works -- especially the VC port.

Another challenge, of course, is to muster enough energy to get up & pick the GTA CDs from the shelf, copy the contents, etc.

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Quoting: damarrinI'm way past the mechanical/RGB keyboard stage. Uncomfortable to write on, tacky to look at. I wish them luck and many customers. :-)

RGB is tasteless & annoying as hell, sure; but I strongly disagree that mechanical keyboards are 'uncomfortable' in general. Quite the contrary, actually.

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Quoting: JanneSize looks perfect. I wonder what switches they use. I'm partial to Topre myself but I guess they're using Cherry or some other maker.

It sounds like the switches will be user swappable; so I'd expect the default models to be customizable as well.

I've been longing for a mechanical keyboard since my Unicomp died on me last year; but good ones are really expensive & usually don't even ship where I live. This Sys76 keyboard is sure to be on the expensive side as well — though I have to say I really like that they're using a solid aluminum chassis.

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Quoting: LinasRunning Linux on Apple hardware has always been a quirky endeavor. Every time I try it, there's something uniquely non-stadard and almost compatible, but not quite. Then it would randomly forget which drive is a boot drive, mess up NVRAM, or something else to ruin the day.

In my experience it is just not worth the hassle.

I have Linux running on Apple hardware and it still amazes me how different the experience is depending on the distribution used.

Even something like Ubuntu vs KDE Neon which in theory should be the same somehow isn't.

The particular model also makes a huge difference. I have the notorious 'mid-2007 Mac Mini' that almost drove me mad before I figured out how to install Linux on it -- nowadays it has Debian 10 64 bit on it (& is very useful); but the only way I know how to install it is to start from a patched bootloader & a 32bit Ubuntu 14-something, then upgrade that Ubuntu to a more recent 64 bit version, then use debootstrap to sneakily (?!) place Debian on the disk.

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Quoting: kaimanI simply won't buy any of their computers any more. And software wise, things went basically downhill after OSX 10.6.

So yeah, guess there's an argument for getting Linux to run, after all :-).

Yeah I bailed after 10.8; and never looked back. Though the one thing that I sort of do miss from OS X is the ease with which you could make applications message one another, tap into each other's objects, etc. using AppleScript, or even Automator. I've been trying to learn some dbus messaging lately; and the lack of documentation — not to mention the half-assed way in which applications implement its resources (*if at all*) drive me crazy.

I wasn't aware that this new initiative was entirely a matter of reverse engineering, though. That's disheartening, to be honest.

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Don't the 'original rights holders' get a cut whenever something with the 'lotr' or 'mad max' trademark gets sold? Why would they want the licenses to expire? So they could resell it to someone else at a higher price?

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Quoting: IzaicToo bad it doesn't support Wayland now that Xorg is abandoned.

Speaking of Wayland, I found out about this Openbox clone the other day:
https://github.com/johanmalm/labwc [External Link]

Another Openbox clone project does exist, but this one has already come pretty far.

-- and not just Openbox; replacement projects for xmonad & dwm also exist; and there's a pretty exciting compiz clone in the works too (wayfire). These are all based on wl-roots. So I'm cautiously optimistic that the XFCE team can come up with something similar reasonably soon. 4.16 already deprecated GTK2; so that's one hurdle cleared.

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Sounds great.

(I have to confess the "Mel" game was a bit of a disappointment for me — it wasn't really the 'difficulty'; it was rather the fact that a number of solutions involved subtly breaking the rules the way a speedrunner would, like finding that precise pixel that would allow an otherwise impossible jump, etc. Not the most elegant examples of forcing the player to 'think outside the box'. Make it 'difficult' given the existing rules of the game world; expecting the player to guess (more like brute force) the precise way in which you've bent the rules doesn't really foster creative thinking.)

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Quoting: ageresBatman Arkham games are on GOG now.

Nice. Though I have to say, the non-discounted prices are a little steep.

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