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When should i386 support for Ubuntu end? Help Canonical decide
29 Jun 2016 at 11:43 am UTC

Quoting: boltronicsRemind me again why we still have i386? Oh yeah, because of the original EeePC ...
... which I use about once every week ;). But I'm running Debian on it. In fact, I run Debian everywhere except on my cellphone.

Buy games from G2A? You should just stop already, tinyBuild lost out on approx $450K of sales
21 Jun 2016 at 6:23 am UTC

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.

Buy games from G2A? You should just stop already, tinyBuild lost out on approx $450K of sales
21 Jun 2016 at 6:14 am UTC Likes: 2

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.

Game porter Ethan Lee on packaging games for Linux
19 Jun 2016 at 11:09 am UTC Likes: 1

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).

What have you been playing on Linux recently and what do you think about it?
5 Jun 2016 at 6:31 pm UTC

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*

The handheld Linux computer Pyra is available for pre-order
26 May 2016 at 7:33 am UTC Likes: 1

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

Feral Interactive are teasing another new Linux & Mac port with a new clue
24 May 2016 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 8

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.

Linux & Steam running on the PS4 playing Bastion is impressive
23 May 2016 at 9:16 am UTC Likes: 1

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.

Minetest, the open source sandbox game inspired by InfiniMiner & Minecraft has a major new version
21 May 2016 at 8:59 am UTC

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.