Quoting: TheRiddickYeah so they don't want to update to the latest EAC SDK which would offer them better protection against cheaters.. Instead they prefer to use older versions which basically do nothing to stop cheating....

If I had to guess I would say that the dev that implemented the EAC SDK last time is no longer on the team an no one knows how it works, or EAC have some really horrible upgrade paths (never used it so cannot say).

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Quoting: toorAlso, when people are forced to use Linux in some countries, like in Germany or in France for police or administration, the workers are usually not happy about it from what I heard, Linux was and still is built on a non-mainstream philosophy which is… tech passionate and open source.

AFAIK those not happy workers only existed in a few places in the LiMUX project and it was way overblown by the Microsoft proponents, the switch back to Windows was political (the new Mayor promised to get Microsoft to move their German HQ to Munich, which they did) and was not due to any real objections by the workers.

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Quoting: GuestJust being preinstalled on machines is not enough. It needs to be preinstalled on the brands that people actually buy (Acer, Asus, HP etc), available in the stores people actually buy from (Argos, PC World, Currys etc) and priced comparatively or cheaper than the Windows variants.

As Nate says in his blog post, linux desktop marketing should be focused on hardware OEMs rather than end users.

Problem is that this won't happen without a new "Canonical from 2004" coming from nowhere and greasing the wheels. Our problem with the big OEMs is that we cannot offer them anything, Microsoft gives them extremely cheap licenses so that they can sell their computers with a rebate, not to mention the amount of bloatware that they put on from Norton and Symantec for a real kickback.

Given the OEMs a free license to Mint and a free version of LibreOffice is not really giving the OEMs what they want :) hence why when they have sold Linux preinstalled, it has always been on their cheaper hardware as the budget choice.

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Quoting: tamodolo- It needs to keep backward compatibylity! Linux cannot break software because you update a lib that dropped legacy support.

This point is seriously a library developers problem, and users should force them to solve this, not Linux. The way Windows solves it (and how "modern Linux distributions" like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage) solves it are just plain awful with bloat and hidden security exploits waiting to happen.

The only lib that I know of that takes this seriously is glibc, they version every function when the ABI/API changes and keep deprecated functions hidden but versioned so that the old applications that linked to them still works. This way an application written for an old glibc still works with a brand new glibc.

Moving this burden over to distro maintainers would increase their workload exponentially, but for the libs devs it would be just to manage backwards compatibility for the one libs they already maintain and in worst case scenarios they could instead of holding on to much old bloat just write a wrapper from the old to the new, e.g SDL should have done this when they moved from SDL1 to SDL2.

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Quoting: F.UltraWow that is a lot of memory mappings. I assume that Windows doesn't limit this or have a higher default, the default on Linux is 65535.

A lot is relative. For Star Citizen the value is upped to 16 million. :grin:

Honestly, it feels a lot like the max open files where the default remained extremely low even though it was completely not necessary for current generation computers.

Well there are a lot of default limits in Linux to prevent things like fork bombing, comes from being a multi-user system at heart.

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Quoting: tom34DayZ is crashing on my PC at loading screen:

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ARMA 3 is working for me.

I'm not able to get DayZ working either. :(

You stuck on loading screen too?

I found this while searching around and it may help you so I figured I would share.

"I was able to get it working by running this command:
​sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=1048576

To make it permanent:
echo 'vm.max_map_count=1048576' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/vm.max_map_count.conf

Taken from https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/r86ziz/more_battleye_titles_for_proton_on_linux/hn6lxzm/ [External Link]

Game now loads and plays fine when started with the second launch option."

Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3899 [External Link]

Wow that is a lot of memory mappings. I assume that Windows doesn't limit this or have a higher default, the default on Linux is 65535.

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Quoting: elmapulthat make things... interesting.
google is struggling to sell stadia, so steam is quite important for chromebook gamers, google will have to work harder on making sure steam work flawless on chromebooks (aka, make sure their sandbox for linux native apps dont have any major flaw) if they want to enter the operating system market.

Now imagine if Stadia would have gotten the publishers to publish the native Linux version of the games running on Stadia how much easier it would be for Google to have some games on their Chromebooks right now :-)

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Quoting: BlooAlien"Less hostile" in the way that Windows users have been "less hostile" to people like me? Harassing, trolling, stalking, making endless hateful comments, using every stereotypical insult in the book? That sorta "less hostile"? So sick and tired of being labeled as "toxic" literally just because I use Linux when most of my life I've actively gone out of my way to help people with computer issues regardless of which operating system they chose to use, yet it's literally never labeled as "toxic" to literally stalk me (or other Linux users) across multiple forums to endlessly harass us, because we're "a minority group" among computer users.

Just makes me positively sick that people will endlessly harass a group (or an individual) in the most hateful fashion, but then when some folks in that group finally start to get sick of the abuse enough to speak up about it, they're "toxic" for not just shutting up and accepting their abuse and begging for more. Funny how they're always suddenly all polite and your best friend in the world when their computer's all broken though… Y'know, when they think they can take advantage of you as their "free tech-support guy".

Yes that is one of the problems of being a minority, you are always judges by a completely different standard. And even if all of us here acts nice and friendly, all it takes is for one random asshole on reddit to write something bad and "the entire X community is toxic and garbage".

Another problem of course is that it does not help to lash out, as a minority there is very little one can do to win but there are many, many ways that one can do to loose.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis won't happen.
But, wouldn't it be cool if this were installed on the Steam Deck by default, Valve could get some of the developers of these games to put them up for sale on Steam (just ones that work pretty well), and the games kind-of-automatically used this the way Windows games use Proton, or at least it could be picked as an option like Boxtron? Maybe with a game-view option that would let you look through just PS3 games if you wanted?

Doesn't RPCS3 require a copy of a real PS3 firmware/bios thingy like the PS1 and PS2 ones? That would be a huge show stopper right there.

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Quoting: F.UltraI think that we all should just calm down a bit here. This is not Ubisoft making any form of statement, this is just some poor sod working as a support rep at Ubisoft trying to answer a request in a friendly way. This rep have zero insight into what Ubisoft are planning to do or not to do, so all he/she can do that doesn't sound negative is to say "well why don't you all write down that you want it and then I could send that list upwards".

Ubisoft have 19000+ employees, there are probably max 40 of them that have any knowledge of their direction and support reps are way way down on the ladder.

Who's not calm? You wanna know the worse way to de-escalate a problem? Tell people that are not calm to calm down. It's what not to do 101 when trying to de-escalate a problem. Good thing is, nobody seems overly upset here, just some people with passionate views.

With calm I mean that people are making far to much out of this, I'm not talking about people being upset. I'm talking about some people being perhaps a bit to exited over something that means exactly zero. This is not Ubisoft saying anything.

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