The painting in the hint is "Pandemonium" by John Martin [External Link]; it's a scene from Paradise Lost, which the quote also points towards.

I can't think of what this might be a hint towards. There's an early access game with the title "Angels Fall First". [link to steam page [External Link]]

Other than that, I don't think it's Doom 2016. Doom 2016's Hell is a parallel dimension that doesn't contain much by way of Christian imagery. I mean, the original Dooms had a little bit of it; but I don't remember seeing any inverted crosses or the like in Doom 2016.

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What's also fun to see, is that it's being built with the open source Godot Engine.

I'm sure they're using some ImageMagick tools for their assets as well.

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As to real Linux on 'smart' devices, there also exist projects such as these:
https://www.linux.com/blog/elc-open-iot/2018/1/linux-smartphone-market-heats-pitalk-gemini-pda-and-eelo [External Link]

Pi Talk's kickstarter page [External Link]

zerophone [External Link]

The pitalk appears to have started reaching backers. I also remember people posting fully home made systems with GSM hats etc. on adafruit, from a couple of years back. This is precisely the kind of 'smartphone' I'd like to have; until then, I'm perfectly fine with not owning one.

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Quoting: EikeWell, at least we have the 99th "retro inspired" whatever, don't we? :'(

Yeah, but this one's probably 'inspired by' such retro titles as this: https://youtu.be/-Bd1tKfPr6s [External Link]

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: KallestofelesThe developer behind DXVK probably has a ton of great job offers in his mailbox already I imagine. :P ^_^

im quite sure he is already hired, if not he is just insane :) working 24/7 on it. commits every day, active in the github issues and in discord. Can't be that he is doing this all just for fun :)

Wasn't there some speculation that they're employed by Valve, or AMD, or somesuch?

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Quoting: MayeulCI' ve done such setups in the past, it works quite well: PXE serves the kernel (&initramfs) trough tftp, the root filesystem is mounted trough NFS.

Thanks, this gives me something to go on.

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Quoting: tuubiI can be a dick, but (hopefully) only to people who know my twisted sense of humour and take it as a joke.

The guy in this video, on the other hand, is a dick indiscriminately:

'People think that I'm this do-gooder; they don't realize that I do it because it's fun' [External Link]

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I wonder where they bought their assets from.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: devnullIt's more common then you think. There's a reason NVIDIA actively tries to prevent such installs.

Why would they care enough to do that? Do you mean that they don't actively support them?

IIRC, nvidia supports that feature only on their 'pro' models (the Quadro, etc.). The reason why it takes a convoluted hack is that consumer models hide the necessary info, which is by design on nvidia's part.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: wvstolzingSorry about the wildly off-topic post, though. Slightly more on topic: 'cyber cafe's were huge in Turkey in the early 00s; I had Starcraft-addicted cousins who practically lived in those places. They're all but extinct nowadays though.

Your cousins are all but extinct? Condolences, my dear chap!

Thanks, I appreciate it. Not many people understand that when I say 'early 00s', I mean 'early Cretaceous (late Mesozoic)'. Here's a group picture we had taken, back in happier days:



I'm on the far left... The only one who survived. :'(

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