Quoting: TheSHEEEPEpic just has the better deals for developers.

My hope is that Valve will wake up from its slumber and starts giving developers better deals as well. A cut lower than the absurd 30% would be a very good start.

Concerning the game at hand, it does suck for Feral I imagine, but I was never interested in the "Saga" series to begin with. Too limited in scope.

If that is your wish than be prepared for the outcomes. Valve takes 30% (as most other stores) and then reinvest that money into developing their platform, but also help with developing games, for example by providing debugging tools, and even more so, they specifically help Linux gaming, for example by hiring developers working on graphics drivers. What do you think will be cut first if Valve cuts down their income?

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Quoting: einherjar2. in this niche, you represent another niche: "Must be Linux" AND "must be DRM free on GOG"

--> be thankful, that there is a well made Linux port and buy on steam would be my recommendation.
If the majority of Linuxgamers would act like you, there would just be even less (or nearly no) games for Linux.

And whom has to "shame" and why?

For me it is more about the utter hypocrisy of GOG, claiming to be all about being DRM-free, while developing a client for their platform that only supports operating systems that wouldn't even know how to spell DRM-free.
So, to answer your question, if anybody should be ashamed, it is GOG for the reasons I just described.

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As long as they are treating Linux users as second class customers I won't frequent their shop. They want my money they have to give me the same service they give anybody else.

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I don't get it. The trailer looks like turn-based combat, the Steam page says real-time combat. Liam, please enlighten me!

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Jupiter Hell. Great game, needs a lot of tuning and more content, but I expected that, it is Early Access after all. But even in this early state a great game and the Vulkan renderer is rock solid.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Mountain ManAt this point, what is the best Ubuntu alternative?

Depends on what you're after. I left Ubuntu after they forced too many UI decisions I didn't like, so Mint was a natural choice for me. Similar look and feel to good old Ubuntu + Gnome.

Debian Testing is also a good choice. It's basically the same system under the hood, so it's not even that much of a change. And Debian Testing is a rolling distribution with packages that are fairly up-to-date. And if you need bleeding edge, there is Debian Unstable. And even Experimental if you are really adventurous. :)

The biggest difference is that Debian is much less opinionated than Ubuntu, Mint, and other derivatives. They don't have the Debian desktop experience, but rather ship upstream packages. So you get vanilla GNOME, vanilla KDE, etc. with minimal branding from Debian.

Debian Testing doesn't security updates in a timely manner. Experimental is not a branch of the ditro you can install, it is only a bunch of packages that you can install (preferably on a Sid system) if you dare to do so.
I personally would either go for Stable (if you can live with outdated packages and/or need the stability of package versions), or Sid/Unstable with apt-listbugs installed and a look at Debian forums for possible problems before updating the system.

What about Debian Stable + backports repo? I believe it provides everything you need for gaming, the only issue I have is outdated Firefox, and Firefox Snap looks so ugly on Debian Stable I even made a bug report.

If mesa is in the backports repository, and it seems to be, that that should work, yes. Totally forgot about backports.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Mountain ManAt this point, what is the best Ubuntu alternative?

Depends on what you're after. I left Ubuntu after they forced too many UI decisions I didn't like, so Mint was a natural choice for me. Similar look and feel to good old Ubuntu + Gnome.

Debian Testing is also a good choice. It's basically the same system under the hood, so it's not even that much of a change. And Debian Testing is a rolling distribution with packages that are fairly up-to-date. And if you need bleeding edge, there is Debian Unstable. And even Experimental if you are really adventurous. :)

The biggest difference is that Debian is much less opinionated than Ubuntu, Mint, and other derivatives. They don't have the Debian desktop experience, but rather ship upstream packages. So you get vanilla GNOME, vanilla KDE, etc. with minimal branding from Debian.

Debian Testing doesn't security updates in a timely manner. Experimental is not a branch of the ditro you can install, it is only a bunch of packages that you can install (preferably on a Sid system) if you dare to do so.
I personally would either go for Stable (if you can live with outdated packages and/or need the stability of package versions), or Sid/Unstable with apt-listbugs installed and a look at Debian forums for possible problems before updating the system.

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Quoting: EikeBTW, what would have been the problem with Ubuntu Studio?

Many VST-plugins for use with DAWs are only usable running on Wine.

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Quoting: GuestI can see why they want to remove 32 bit libs because it's a ton of work.

But a ton of work for whom? They still get the majority of their packages directly from Debian, throwing a patch on one or the other package and just compile. If Debian still supports newer versions of 32 bit libraries, how much work is there really to be done for canonical?

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I seriously would like to know how much of a burden maintaining 32 bit libraries there really is for Canonical. After all, they are still getting most of their packages directly from Debian and just recompile them, IIRC, and Debian isn't dropping support for newer versions.

Anyways, I wanted to wait updating my gaming system from 16.04 until 20.04 was released, seems to me that it rather will be Buster then.

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