Quoting: DrMcCoyI'm sure Russian translations are very often very very bad.

The worst. For movies, they often voice-over (one speaker, all the roles) instead of just using subtitles. As if Russians couldn't be expected to read.

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Quoting: EhvisWhat I don't get is why they don't limit the cheap versions of the games sold in other countries. For instance, let the cheap Russian version only have the Russian language. Then they'd be instantly useless for the rest of the world.

More market fragmentation, geoblocking and price fixing on questionable border assignments, that's just what we need. And then it turns out you can't play your games in English, because you happen to be on vacation in Russia. Or you can't play or buy them in English at all because you're living in Italy.

Insanely stupid idea.

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Quoting: Comandante oardoAs a former Windows XP user, I want the games (or other software) EASY to install and use: Just click the "install_whatevergameorapp" file and let the GUI do the magic (asking me only things like if I want an icon shotcut on the desktop)...
I don't like terminal commands; they make me travel 20 years to the past, when I was an MS-DOS user/student.

As a former Windows 3.11 user, I want games (or other software) EASY to install and use AND NOT CLUTTER MY SYSTEM WITH ANCIENT LIBRARIES, which won't ever be updated, take up space and are a security risk.

I don't like bundled libraries; they make me travel 20 years to the past, when I was an MS-DOS/Windows 3.11 user.

(other than that, of course you mistake "easy" and "modern" with "GUI", and "difficult" and "ancient" with "commandline". Neither is true).

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Quoting: tmtvl.. but I fear I might need to run a Debian derivative, in which case it probably won't be worth the pain and humiliation.

Yes, I second that, it's always painful to need to run a derivative. But in this case, I can comfort you, Divine Divinity totally runs on vanilla Debian!

*g*

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This is going to be the replacement for my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

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Quoting: SamsaiDoom 4 will not be ported because it's a Bethesda title.

It's a bad regression. Open a bug report. I've got Quake 1,2,3 and 4, and Doom 1, 2 and 3. All for Linux. So Doom 4 not working on Linux must be a bug.

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Quoting: wolfyrionA friend of mine called me that he had a logitech PS3 Wheel to give me for Free because he had no use for it.

I got a scanner from a colleague who had his Windows updated, and the scanner drivers didn't work any more. Plugged it into Linux and it worked, of course without installing drivers or whatever.

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Minecraft feels so much more polished than any of the clones. Which is sad, because there are some that can sustain massively bigger worlds, higher view distance, more entities and still have a better performance than Minecraft.

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Works nicely. I like it.

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7 Days to Die. Since Alpha 14.6 the Linux version is playable again (the broke the shaders in 14.5), although there are some snags:

- It used to be extremely fast in 13.8 to start up, until the main menu appeared. Now it takes minutes (?). From main menu to game it's also slower, but still rather fast.

- There's a bug with tone mapping or bloom or something, making light sources and bright surfaces on Linux _extremely_ bright.

- There's still some weirdness with scavenging. Things that are not very scarce in real life, but extremely so in 7DTD. Like loads of zombie lumberjacks, but chainsaws extremely scarce. Or that you can't find loads of cement in any construction site.

And the good:

- 13.8 had a lot of out-of-memory crashes, these are mostly gone.

- The skill system has been revamped, and I think it's become rather nice.

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