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Now it's back again…confusing but good for us to get more games.

I can't seem to find A Hat in Time on their website now. I hope it really is coming this time!

It does seem to have disappeared.....

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Quoting: razing32Stalker was a great game back in the day.
I was happy when I got a PC that could run it.
That said as others pointed out , not sure this will survive with this grey area license. I hope it does but I expect it will not.

devilutionX (diablo) claims to work on linux now but the compile instructions are strange and I didn't get it to work in the 10 minutes or so I tried. https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX [External Link]

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Quoting: KristianVirtual Programming is still a thing?

I've been wondering about them. I had just about given up on them. This game finally being released is positive, hopefully some new linux games will show up on their in development page. They have brought us a lot of good games, Bioshock Infinite, The Saints Row games, the Overlords, Dirt Showdown, Spec Ops the Line and the Witcher 2. Unfortunately the big titles faded and the last few haven't been as high profile. I'm hoping for a comeback, the more game companies with Linux skills the better it is for Linux gaming. With the exception of the Witcher 2, which they did eventually fix, they have done a great job.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyUrgh, tell me about it. At my library we got a new system for all our info, and it's in the bloody cloud. So where it used to be if we checked out a book the reaction was instant, because the database was in the buiding, now there's a couple seconds lag on every single action because we're in Vancouver and the server is in bloody Toronto. It's also browser based, and the people who wrote it cunningly set it up so that if you open a new tab to do two things at once with it, your actions on the two tabs write to both or something so it corrupts your data. So we can't do that. And it breaks if you use browser controls like the reload or back button, you have to use their little "back" control instead, which varies its position depending how the browser is laying out the page. Has all the disadvantages of a web app but few of the advantages. But, you know, web apps and the cloud are fashionable. Gah.

One agency I translate for uses a Web-based translation interface. It's great because I don't need to pay hundreds for a license to a proprietary program that only runs on Windows. It sucks because for three hours today I couldn't get any work done while the server constantly threw up 502s or logged me out of my session. And I can't ever have two files opened at once in different tabs or computers because oh boy that is way beyond the Cloud's capabilities apparently.

Making OS agnostic services is a plus for browser based apps, it's really annoying though when they use a browser interface and still find a way to make it not work on Linux.

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Quoting: mylka

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: m2mg2

Quoting: mylkamaybe microsoft knows, that the desktop market is shrinking. mobilphones are the future and ms has no chance against android and apple. not tomorrow of course, but can you imagine what phones can do in 10 years? 10yrs agao we played snakes and now fortnite. in 10yrs we may have a complete office PC on our phones and tablets
even we gamers are a very small market compared to consoles. PS4 has way more sellings than pc games. so who needs a desktop OS in 10yrs?

cloud is the future. maybe cloudgaming and servers have linux. all you need is a tablet and a bluetooth gamepad to play cyberpunk... or a switch and you can play everywhere
even smart tvs could handle streaming. you don't even need a console anymore

Cloud is just a catch phrase. It is nothing new, just extending your local network into the internet. Offloading your management and hardware overhead by sacrificing security. I'm constantly amazed by how much worse the breaches keep getting while simultaneously the push for the cloud, the very thing enabling these massive breaches, keeps getting pushed harder. I had a vendor that was quoting a job for me say, "yeah but they're really getting better with the cloud security". Um, no they're not, not really. The breaches are still getting bigger and bigger. The guys keeping their LAN's local and secure keep sitting back laughing at all the breaches, until the executives force "the cloud" down their throats. Then they sit back and wait for the walls to cave in.

The cloud is great for things that need to be on the internet (internet services) and horrible for things that don't.

Urgh, tell me about it. At my library we got a new system for all our info, and it's in the bloody cloud. So where it used to be if we checked out a book the reaction was instant, because the database was in the buiding, now there's a couple seconds lag on every single action because we're in Vancouver and the server is in bloody Toronto. It's also browser based, and the people who wrote it cunningly set it up so that if you open a new tab to do two things at once with it, your actions on the two tabs write to both or something so it corrupts your data. So we can't do that. And it breaks if you use browser controls like the reload or back button, you have to use their little "back" control instead, which varies its position depending how the browser is laying out the page. Has all the disadvantages of a web app but few of the advantages. But, you know, web apps and the cloud are fashionable. Gah.

i dont think so, if i watch kids today. they dont care about PC/laptops anymore. they browse the web with their phone, they watch netflix with their phones, they listen to music with their phones, they play games on their phones

Quoting: m2mg2

Quoting: mylkamaybe microsoft knows, that the desktop market is shrinking. mobilphones are the future and ms has no chance against android and apple. not tomorrow of course, but can you imagine what phones can do in 10 years? 10yrs agao we played snakes and now fortnite. in 10yrs we may have a complete office PC on our phones and tablets
even we gamers are a very small market compared to consoles. PS4 has way more sellings than pc games. so who needs a desktop OS in 10yrs?

cloud is the future. maybe cloudgaming and servers have linux. all you need is a tablet and a bluetooth gamepad to play cyberpunk... or a switch and you can play everywhere
even smart tvs could handle streaming. you don't even need a console anymore

Cloud is just a catch phrase. It is nothing new, just extending your local network into the internet. Offloading your management and hardware overhead by sacrificing security. I'm constantly amazed by how much worse the breaches keep getting while simultaneously the push for the cloud, the very thing enabling these massive breaches, keeps getting pushed harder. I had a vendor that was quoting a job for me say, "yeah but they're really getting better with the cloud security". Um, no they're not, not really. The breaches are still getting bigger and bigger. The guys keeping their LAN's local and secure keep sitting back laughing at all the breaches, until the executives force "the cloud" down their throats. Then they sit back and wait for the walls to cave in.

The cloud is great for things that need to be on the internet (internet services) and horrible for things that don't.

if you worried about that, then your account here isnt save, your amazon account isnt save, your netflix account isnt save... both have your credit card number
you accually shouldnt be on the internet at all, because "they" track you and send you ads and malware
do you have a phone? google or apple knows where you are, where you have been and even where you going

you have to trust these things, to make your work/life easier. i almost dont even use office anymore. i use "google documents". thats more than enough for my purpose and i have all my files on every device

could it be unsave? Yes
do i have very important stuff there? NO
the same thing with your vendor. what would they lose, if someone hacks into it? do they get private stuff, or "just" bills, bank balance and adresses

You're right most accounts aren't safe. That is why I don't put information in them I really don't want compromised. I have very few accounts which actually have my card info, and I monitor my cards often for that reason. You don't have to trust everything, you pick and choose what you want to trust. Trusting something because people say you should while logic and real world instances indicate you shouldn't isn't very wise. The "cloud", AKA the internet, isn't going anywhere but at some point I see people that are really serious about security keeping large parts of their infrastructure local.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: m2mg2

Quoting: mylkamaybe microsoft knows, that the desktop market is shrinking. mobilphones are the future and ms has no chance against android and apple. not tomorrow of course, but can you imagine what phones can do in 10 years? 10yrs agao we played snakes and now fortnite. in 10yrs we may have a complete office PC on our phones and tablets
even we gamers are a very small market compared to consoles. PS4 has way more sellings than pc games. so who needs a desktop OS in 10yrs?

cloud is the future. maybe cloudgaming and servers have linux. all you need is a tablet and a bluetooth gamepad to play cyberpunk... or a switch and you can play everywhere
even smart tvs could handle streaming. you don't even need a console anymore

Cloud is just a catch phrase. It is nothing new, just extending your local network into the internet. Offloading your management and hardware overhead by sacrificing security. I'm constantly amazed by how much worse the breaches keep getting while simultaneously the push for the cloud, the very thing enabling these massive breaches, keeps getting pushed harder. I had a vendor that was quoting a job for me say, "yeah but they're really getting better with the cloud security". Um, no they're not, not really. The breaches are still getting bigger and bigger. The guys keeping their LAN's local and secure keep sitting back laughing at all the breaches, until the executives force "the cloud" down their throats. Then they sit back and wait for the walls to cave in.

The cloud is great for things that need to be on the internet (internet services) and horrible for things that don't.

Urgh, tell me about it. At my library we got a new system for all our info, and it's in the bloody cloud. So where it used to be if we checked out a book the reaction was instant, because the database was in the buiding, now there's a couple seconds lag on every single action because we're in Vancouver and the server is in bloody Toronto. It's also browser based, and the people who wrote it cunningly set it up so that if you open a new tab to do two things at once with it, your actions on the two tabs write to both or something so it corrupts your data. So we can't do that. And it breaks if you use browser controls like the reload or back button, you have to use their little "back" control instead, which varies its position depending how the browser is laying out the page. Has all the disadvantages of a web app but few of the advantages. But, you know, web apps and the cloud are fashionable. Gah.

That is another huge issue. Browser features aren't stable. All this rolling release stuff means you can't depend on anything working a certain way. If you are going to do something in the browser, you better make sure the devs are updating constantly to support current browser versions. If they aren't be prepared for constant breakage or accept using a browser version many versions out of date, maybe you can get by by constantly fiddling with the settings after updates.

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Quoting: mylkamaybe microsoft knows, that the desktop market is shrinking. mobilphones are the future and ms has no chance against android and apple. not tomorrow of course, but can you imagine what phones can do in 10 years? 10yrs agao we played snakes and now fortnite. in 10yrs we may have a complete office PC on our phones and tablets
even we gamers are a very small market compared to consoles. PS4 has way more sellings than pc games. so who needs a desktop OS in 10yrs?

cloud is the future. maybe cloudgaming and servers have linux. all you need is a tablet and a bluetooth gamepad to play cyberpunk... or a switch and you can play everywhere
even smart tvs could handle streaming. you don't even need a console anymore

Cloud is just a catch phrase. It is nothing new, just extending your local network into the internet. Offloading your management and hardware overhead by sacrificing security. I'm constantly amazed by how much worse the breaches keep getting while simultaneously the push for the cloud, the very thing enabling these massive breaches, keeps getting pushed harder. I had a vendor that was quoting a job for me say, "yeah but they're really getting better with the cloud security". Um, no they're not, not really. The breaches are still getting bigger and bigger. The guys keeping their LAN's local and secure keep sitting back laughing at all the breaches, until the executives force "the cloud" down their throats. Then they sit back and wait for the walls to cave in.

The cloud is great for things that need to be on the internet (internet services) and horrible for things that don't.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboySo in other words, if you're not a Sam & Max fan, it's actually a pretty small list.

I'm on Fedora 28, and I really think that has helped me in this case because it's a royal pain to set up Fedora for proprietary drivers, and those are the only drivers worth using with a newer NVIDIA card.

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/ [External Link]

I'm running 396.54.06, pretty much just because why not? This guide only has to be followed once. Once you've blacklisted and removed Noveau changing to newer NVIDIA drivers is easy. You really should be familiar with VIM to do so, though. I don't know how this translates to a debian based distro like Mint or Ubuntu because I know that they both handle graphics drivers in the gui.

Recommend this : https://www.openvim.com/ [External Link]

https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/ [External Link]

The only recent time I had to compile a Nvidia driver was on a system that with GTX 465. The newest drivers don't support the card, the 340 driver was the only version I could find in the repo. I had to download the 390.87 driver from Nvidia so I could get vulkan support

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: FredO

Quoting: Guesthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxgACrsM-Yo&t=511s

i tested this on the older drivers but will test again on the new drivers.only downside is i have a gtx 970,i no longer have a 980ti.

What happened to your 980ti? My one literally went up in smoke after just 3 years of use. Very disappointing.

i had to sell mine needed the money,thankfully i had a 970 laying around.

A few years back we had three Nvidia's in a row that died within 3 years. Two got replaced once under warranty so it was really 5. One other had a fan go out, that I replaced myself. I almost swore off Nvidia all together, but the next ones were good. I've got a 465 running that is about 5 years old and my 980 is I think a little over 3.

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Quoting: johndoe

Quoting: RussianNeuroMancer

Quoting: johndoeWhats the outcome?

Outcome described in bugreport. This bug is unrelated to DDX, issue occur on lower lewel.

Ehhh, this Artikel/Blog is from 2016.
I also remember having some troubles with modesetting years ago and setting up dual-screen with it.
But these problems do not apply anymore.
With Debian Stretch (stock Xorg 1.19.2 and stock 4.9.x kernel) there should be not problems.

And to be honest I think that a Linux user should be able/learn to compile a newer Xorg server - it's really easy.
Linux gives the user ALL freedom which Windows does NOT.
This is my opinion - nothing more.

My Xorg and Kernel versions both are much newer than that. 1.19.6 and 4.17

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