So we get a broken product again? I mean single player is cool and all but one of the mayor selling points here is Co-op, isn't it? So how about say 50% discount for mac and Linux till we get the full game?
Sorry inXile this is not even aimed specifically at you, but this kind of treatment is getting rather old.
I hope direct connect is the OS agnostic option? Then there would at least be some light in the distance.

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Quoting: GuerrillaI wish we could disable that new(ish) "what's new" where it shows game updates for your games. I might not be remembering the exact name of it exactly, but you can only "show less" updates for games with no option for "don't show me anything."

Have a look into this file ~/.steam/steamui/css/libraryroot.css
If you want your changes to stick (till the next steamclient update at least) you need to add -noverifyfiles to your steamlauncher otherwise it is overwritten every time you start Steam

edit: Seems they moved the relevant entries for the news section to
~/.steam/steamui/css/5.css
with the last update.

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Quoting: M@GOidIndeed. Since I am stuck with 8GB of RAM, I also notice the Steam Client is eating a awful lot of RAM for a game manager, over 500MB. Making it Chromium-based caused that.

If you are ok with 'small mode' you could use 'steam steam://open/minigameslist [External Link] -no-browser %u' to launch Steam. It get's rid of all the webhelper processes that the new 'small mode' keeps running in the background and has lower memory consumption.
Downside is if you change back to the normal you have to do it manually by launching without these parameters and then using the steams menu: view->large mode (if someone knows a launch parameter to trigger 'large mode' a hint would be appreciated ;-) )

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Very nice!

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Way to many options and unclear categorys for fast navigation. The idea is good but the execution makes it not very useful. They would get a much better result in terms of discoverability if they made the browsing experience faster again and decluttered the UI.

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Slightly off-topic question before I bother to reinstall: Did we get fully modeled gunner positions on aircrafts with the vulkan update or is that still dx11 exclusive?

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Good for them! It's really a cool title and deserves some attention.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Schattenspiegel

So that all sounds pretty reasonable, some nice games coming to Google's Linux-powered streaming service Stadia. Where did it go wrong then? Well, they're currently enjoying a serious round of bad press and Stadia ended up trending all across Twitter, and not for positive reasons.

The problem was Alex Hutchinson, who according to their Twitter bio was the "Creative Director for Google Stadia" that tweeted out these thoughts:

Who's twitter bio? Stadias or Hutchinsons?

Honestly, it's feeling like you're jumping in here to cause a fuss. The context there is perfectly clear, the person is named and then I used a possessive pronoun to show the twitter account in question belongs to them.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPor just write they

That is what I did and what people are taking issue with.

If people choose to keep arguing over pronouns, we will lock the comments to clean things up and remove the people who keep doing it. Stop it. Arguments over it are not permitted, please read the rules. If something is unclear, use the corrections report function we made specifically for issues like this. There's a dedicated box for corrections below the article, and a dedicated button also on the comments box so you can use either. Thank you.

Sorry to hear you feel that way. You may have noticed that I originally used the correction box to avoid causing a fuss with remark about that, but since other readers stubbled over the same thing, I tied to explain the problem in more detail, in order to avoid confusion in the future. Should have stayed with the original idea of keeping it out of public comments. Apologies for that.
Nevertheless, if multiple people are having a problems understanding the meaning of your articles lately, then maybe you want to entertain the thought, that you did not express yourself as clearly as you thought.

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Quoting: minfaer

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: minfaerBtw, the article confuses me. It sounds like Hutchinson tweeted this by himself, but then keeps using 'they' as if it was his studio's (or some groups) stance. Which is it?

Hutchinson did tweet directly, not from a studio account. Perhaps you're tripping up on singular they [External Link]? Don't know, hard to tell, as you didn't point out the parts confusing you. When talking about a person, using "they" is just pretty normal here.

Thanks for claryfing, that was indeed what tripped me up. Non-native speaker here :huh:

You were understandably confused. Using the pronoun they for a singular person is a new trend and not what anyone was taught in English.

If you read the article you will find that the problem people are having here is not the existence of singular-they, but the way it is used in the aforementioned. The article starts by using they/them for the company Google. It then already starts to muddy the waters a bit by making it unclear if the next usages refer to Google or Stadia, but in the context of the article that seems somewhat neglectable. And the it starts to get ambiguous by throwing the singular-they into the mix in reference to Alex Hutchinson:

So that all sounds pretty reasonable, some nice games coming to Google's Linux-powered streaming service Stadia. Where did it go wrong then? Well, they're currently enjoying a serious round of bad press and Stadia ended up trending all across Twitter, and not for positive reasons.

The problem was Alex Hutchinson, who according to their Twitter bio was the "Creative Director for Google Stadia" that tweeted out these thoughts:

Who's twitter bio? Stadias or Hutchinsons?

Quoting: Liam DaweNot exactly a good look, coming from a person who works for a currently not exactly popular service streaming games. Even worse when they posted these up with what their Twitter bio said they were.

Again, who's? The 'currently not exactly popular service streaming games' or the 'person'?
And the list goes on.
Nothing wrong with the idea behind the singular-they, but you simply can not use it (without further definition) in situations where it conflicts with the plural-they if you want to share information.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle1. Port Azure management tools run on Linux as well as WSL
2. Port core MS applications and services to Linux
3. Release MS Enterprise Linux focused on system administration
4. Keep porting MS applications to Linux
5. Launch MS Linux for regular users
6. Roll out above on dedicated small devices
7. Replace MS Windows with MS Linux entirely
8. Lay off loads of people
9. Profit

Insert:
4.b ) try to secretly push the snapstore to become THE standard software distribution method on Linux
c ) acquire Canonical or at least the snapstore to become the gatekeeper for all Linux software distribution

;-)

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