From that list, I own around 10% of the games, and probably have not heard about 40% of the others, and not interested in the rest. It's becoming easier for people like me xD

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I couldn't resist myself and got a few. But probably won't be able to play them until Feb or so:

Shadow Tactics - Blades of the Shogun: Aiko's choice: I loved the original, the expansions looks great and mimimi deserve the purchase of the game for having a Linux build anyway.

A Plague Tale: Innocence: I've heard wonders about the story, and for £8 is a bargain.

Psychonauts 2: I did say I would buy it in GOG when Linux was released. But... sometimes one needs to eat its own words.

Banner Saga 3: To continue the game with the choices from the first 2 games.

The Witcher 3: To complete the collection in GOG and Steam.


Only one native, and the rest in Proton though :(

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Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone. Hope you're all safe, enjoying some good Linux (Proton included) games, and why not, even some good company.

Thanks for doing such a great job, you know who you are, for creating such a cool little corner on the internet, and allowing me in it!

Here wishing a much better 2022 for everyone!

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Probably my only native game of the year is Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I did spend several dozen hours to Dragon Ball: Kakarot and Cyberpunk, though. Very good games.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: ArehandoroThe design is directly from 1989.

For us that where around in 1989, they did not look anything like this. They looked like this:

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That slight bend that this one and all modern mouse have is from 1996, first mouse with a scroll wheel also came out 1996 (because it was the same one):

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My intention wasn't being historically accurate, but thanks anyway :)

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The design is directly from 1989.

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SteamOS is the only one losing weight in December.

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Will be my Christmas present :D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ArehandoroNo, it doesn't. Cloud providers need to have their equipment constantly on, with redundancy, capacity for demand surges, UPS systems, industrial cooling... and all this replicated throughout all their data centres to cater audiences around the world.

Why would you want to have more PCs running than what the customers of the next say 20 seconds would need? And even if double the customers log in, have them wait for one boot, it's not like it still takes 5 minutes nowadays... I don't have numbers, but usually an industrial solution to satisfy 100 needs is cheaper than 100 individual ones.

For a variety of reasons:

1. Because powering a server on requires more than 20s. The server needs to initialize, load all the components, and the software that later on the customers will use. The only way to provide a seamless experience is having the equipment on. Of course, this is at the data centre level, not the application level. The app should be agnostic to this.

2. Because economically speaking, you wouldn't buy hardware that is going to be turned off. You calculate your usage, customers, etc, and when the total usage going beyond x% you buy more.

3. Data centre equipment is meant to be on. I know of countless cases where a server had been turned on for ages, working fine, and the moment it got shut down for maintenance, never came back to life again.

4. Monitoring and alerting will fire every time one goes up/down, or will require extra work to make sure there are no faux alarms.

On what way is cheaper? For me to have a 16cpu, 64GB RAM server* nothing is cheaper than owning it myself. It's also powered on only when I need it, saving energy too.

* By server, in my case, anything with those requirements will do. Nothing to do with the monstrosities ran in the cloud like EPYC or Threadripper.

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Quoting: kokoko3kand on a side note this benefits environment too.

No, it doesn't. Cloud providers need to have their equipment constantly on, with redundancy, capacity for demand surges, UPS systems, industrial cooling... and all this replicated throughout all their data centres to cater audiences around the world.

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