There is an important piece of information missing regarding Ubuntu: People should imho only use LTS versions. The non-LTS versions are horribly unstable (bordering being completely unusable), and will only lead to frustration.

My personal recommendation would still be Debian Stable. Apart from the installation process (Debian has by far the superior installer) it's like Ubuntu, but a lot more stable. And I really mean _a lot_ more stable.

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The new textures naturally raise the question if they managed to fix the texture quality setting issue that prevented Linux users from selecting any texture resolution other than "medium"...

Edit: This is the bug I'm talking about: https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/24306 [External Link]

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There is one thing I am often wondering about:
If the game has working OpenGL rendering support, why even invest the extra amount of work to maintain Direct3D rendering?
If multi-platform support is known to be a requirement right from the start, why even bother implementing Direct3D support?

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I've been playing it for a few hours today.
The game itself is great, but it's still a bit buggy. For instance, resting over the winter only works properly if you start it during December. If you start it during January or February, you're resting a whole year...
Some events also don't seem to have proper prerequisites set up, like playing the lute at a tavern, which triggers also if you don't even own a lute.

But yeah, the game has something for it. Great mood, and captivating gameplay. Despite it being a completely different genre, it reminds me of Crusader Kings, with the events telling the story.
I can definitely recommend this game, hoping that the developer irons out the few bugs.

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This looks rather interesting!
Bought.

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I think the Gauls should just have been called Celts.

Would have better fitted the Hallstatt Culture, which, while it also reached Gaul, was by far not limited to that region. Hallstatt itself is considered to be on the border between "western Hallstatt culture" and "eastern Hallstatt culture", and is already located quite a bit east of Gaul...

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The "galaxy wide city builder" reminded me of Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside [External Link], which was basically that: A city builder where you could colonize many, many planets, and if so inclined, build up cities on each of them manually.

After watching the video it is quite clear that this project is different though - reminds me more of Terraria to be honest.

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I wouldn't consider Bevy similar to Godot, except that both are open source.

Edit: I should probably elaborate: Godot is Object Oriented, while Bevy is ECS.

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Quoting: GuestI love XFCE too. Do they plan on fixing the tearing issue ?

Are you talking about video tearing in Firefox on AMD graphics cards?
There's a workaround that gets rid of it: Desktop Compositing. It can be enabled in the "Advanced window manager tweaks" settings.
However it comes at a price, namely drastically increased memory consumption (resolution dependent - on 1920x1080 it's about 200 MB more) and slightly higher GPU load. Normally I don't use compositing, because the trade-off between eye-candy and memory usage just isn't worth it imho... Switching it on is just a checkbox, so I only enable it when I want to watch a longer video in the browser.

(I don't really know what causes the tearing, but I've noticed that it only happens to me in Firefox. Neither VLC nor mplayer have any tearing on my machine, so it might be the video output API used. I've set VLC and mplayer both to use VDPAU.)

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I've been playing a bit of Spiritfarer, a bit of Children of Morta, and just one more turn of Civ 6...

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