Quoting: Eike

Quoting: a0kamiOnce again, shoutout to Valve team for bringing their games on Linux as early as 2013!

So Half-Life is on Linux for more than half of its live!?!

DUNNNNNNNNNN dunnnn DUNNNNNNNNN du-du-dun dunnn (guy with a valve in his eye staring at you)

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This is tangentially related, but Rockstar formerly *broke* dxvk support for GTA IV *on windows* in an update. With the same update, (not sure if due to the same changes, but still) proton performance under Linux also tanked.

Forcing dxvk on windows on GTA IV had finally rendered the game playable at a consistent framerate for me, but now it's back to its stuttery state; and I won't even bother trying it under proton. I wonder if it'll ever get fixed, such a disgrace of a pc 'port'.

Quoting: BlackBloodRumJust play the original version(s) with the community HD patches, they're better.

Yeah that's absolutely true, though I believe they've already pulled a George Lucas on the trilogy, and delisted the original versions on digital platforms. I'm glad I got mine in boxed releases back in the day -- the only original boxes I currently own.

This YT channel has some detailed guides as to applying mods: https://www.youtube.com/@TJGM [External Link]

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Yeah, this triggered the right sort of response from me as well, as a C64 kid.

The trailer did look kind of familiar though; then the youtube video suggestions at the end of the trailer did show the links I vaguely remembered seeing earlier:

Tech demo of the engine, by the same devs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJmOQcLgB8 [External Link]

There's a ~2yr. old free demo on steam using the same engine:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2128440/Enclosure_3D/ [External Link]

Those are more in an AGI Sierra style, though.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThis version comes with GIMP3, GIMP2 is removed.

Yeah that's a little surprising; it's the release candidate for now, since v. 3 isn't officially out yet.
AFAICT, 'Version 3 RC 1' is mentioned only in the splash screen too; elsewhere the package is cited as gimp-2:2.99.19^20241011giteddaa13ad5-1.fc41.x86_64

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Quoting: dziadulewicz

Quoting: Fester_MuddVideo playback don't work! In any of the mainstream sites i tried. I recall this has been an issue with Fedora a long time :huh:

If things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..

Indeed. It's an absolute shitshow. It is mandatory to use terminal and somehow *know* commands and what else. You are expected to just *know* there is this thing called RPMFusion (that you have to manually enable, and from where to start with, also a mystery as not any website or link is given). The installer doesn't express any of this. You also need to install additional codecs.

Fedora doesn't ship patented media codecs by default as for example Ubuntu and Linux Mint do.

It is beyond any normally thinking user *why there are no couple of simple boxes to tick* during install to achieve this totally basic functionality to watch videos.

So basically a new comer "can't watch YouTube, Dlive and Twitch on Linux" OOTB if you happen to choose Fedora as a first distro.

... by the way, rpmfusion has had a repo for Fedora 41 for a while now, but the mesa-{va,vdpau}-drivers-freeworld packages are currently broken on it; so hardware acceleration on Firefox currently doesn't work.

EDIT: the mesa-*-freeworld packages are all updated now.

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Re: DNF 5, just as a heads up, if anyone keeps getting this warning message after updating a package:
Running trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet: glibc-common-0:2.40-3.fc41.x86_64warning: posix.fork(): .fork(), .exec(), .wait() and .redirect2null() are deprecated, use rpm.spawn() or rpm.execute() instead

That's a known bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2291869 [External Link]

AFAICT, as packages eventually get built with the newer version of rpm, the warnings should go away.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualbut to even get the file path to display in Finder you need to head to the command line.

View -> Show Path Bar displays the file path just above the status bar.

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Quoting: rcritVolts schmolts, V is for Victory! Or something.

Are you sure it's not V for this instead:

Spoiler, click me

[CW: could be disgusting for some]
scene from 1983 tv show ... [External Link]

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I have to confess, though; I was unconvinced till I saw this highly informative graph:



Allocate & retire has never been wider; incredible.

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Quoting: EhvisWith all those (new) fans of original Doom, I wonder how many people know what it was like to play Doom originally.

I remember trying to play it on keyboard only -- this was before WASD+mouse became the standard control scheme, though you could set up a mouse + keyboard configuration in Doom -- and failing miserably. I don't think I was able to progress beyond the first 3 levels back in the day.

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