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Hellshots Golf is basically Doom Golf and it's somewhat amusing
14 Jan 2019 at 9:25 pm UTC

Quoting: dpanterDooM DoOM doOm DOMM MOO DOOM! This is madness, moar!
DooM DodododooM! DoooM DodooooM! (lyrics of D_DOOM.mus)

The FOSS game engine 'Godot Engine' has a very exciting 2019 planned for features
14 Jan 2019 at 1:45 pm UTC

Sadly these modern engines don't have good old BSP/brushes/sectors/patches/other options to create solid geometry it editor, so you need to create separate 3D models in Blender or import existing ones even for simple geometry.

Steam Play recently hit 500 Windows games rated as Platinum on ProtonDB
11 Jan 2019 at 3:31 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: x_wing... native ports ... Feral ...
Are Feral ports really much more native than playing using Proton?

What even more developers think of Valve's Steam Play
26 Sep 2018 at 11:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI have a question about Steam Play... Contrary to most native games that ask the system to suspend compositing to improve performance (kwin supports this), I have to do it manually with WINE/Steam Play/Proton apps. I guess they will eventually implement this feature, but does any of you have a workaround ? I find it a bit annoying to have to set a rule for each game or to have to disable compositing by hand.

(as you know, kwin doesn't disable compositing for all fullscreen apps but for apps that request it)
I assigned compositing toggle to hotkey as a workaround.

Valve have updated the Beta of Steam Play which fixes VR games, fullscreen improvements and more
8 Sep 2018 at 5:59 pm UTC

Quoting: spacemonkeyIs it possible to install the Windows version of a game that has a native Linux version? Since the VR should work better I would like to try Everspace. But only the Windows version of Everspace supports VR (the Linux version does not). So, is there a way to install the Windows version and use Steam Play?
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5638 [External Link]

What are you playing this weekend?
2 Sep 2018 at 11:35 am UTC

Quoting: ageres
Quoting: axredneck
Quoting: ageresStalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it.
If you haven't finished/played it then you'd better play with OGSE mod.
I tried it, and it crashes when I start a new game.
Yes it's hard to install properly. Sadly i don't remember how i fixed this crash...

What are you playing this weekend?
1 Sep 2018 at 5:00 pm UTC

GZDoom with some mods as always. I still have many wads to play.
Quoting: ageresStalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it.
If you haven't finished/played it then you'd better play with OGSE mod.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
31 Aug 2018 at 10:42 pm UTC

Quoting: tonRYes, I'd seen severals on extensions.gnome.org. But, I research severals forums especially Ubuntu-related one, sometimes the extension may break the whole OS. I really don't want to take the risk.

Nowadays, I'm value stability. I'd no longer have enough free time to fix my computers like when I was 12-19/20, that's why I use Ubuntu. But, even Ubuntu also sometimes unstable nowadays, I don't know which distros I'll adopt next...
For me Arch is more stable than Ubuntu was when i used it.
edit: also if you need stable DE you can use XFCE.

Valve have rolled out Steam Play into the stable Linux Steam Client, along with touch controls for Steam Link
30 Aug 2018 at 7:16 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: YaumeisterIs there anyway to force Steam to download the Windows version of a game (911 Operator), rather than a broken and now unsupported Linux version?

I tried to do this via SteamCMD, which I managed to force download it, but as soon as I launch the Steam Client, it does an update and download the Linux version.
issue #5638 [External Link]

Life is Strange 2 officially revealed with a new trailer
20 Aug 2018 at 10:09 pm UTC

According to this trailer Life Is Strange 1 is still better.