Quoting: rustybroomhandleWill it work? Well, publishers are phenomenally stupid. They will happily develop for e.g. Stadia because it's a "new" platform pushed by a big company. But if you say "Linux" they hide under a table. My guess is that when Valve is ready to start rolling out Steam Machines v2, they will hardly even mention Linux in any marketing, but rather push it as some great new thing they invented between lattes.

That is because platforms like Stadia gives free marketing to the publishers worth tons of money, meanwhile them doing a Linux version will not give them free TV ads or a free spot at some gaming convention.

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Quoting: ShabbyX"Their own browser", <meme of crying cat with thumbs up, titled Chromium developers>

Also, windows calc on Linux? Why would you want that piece of garbage when the basic calc on Linux is so much better!

I like galculator myself.

But I think the windowx calc thing was done for no other reason than they could. Actually reading their blog on the matter (what heresy!) it was for proof of concept - a small, simple application like that is easier to prove fundamentals with.

Does galculator skip spaces? For some reason the Gnome Calculater since a few versions back decided that numbers like "1 000 000" was invalid, something that it just handled like 1000000 before, which makes it a pain in the ass to use for me since I have to do a lot of manual calculations from company prospectus and they all use space as separators for some reason.

Copy & paste into the scientific view looks to strip the whitespace, but not in paper mode.
The only other thing I can think of is to feed things through something that strips whitespace between two numericals. Still a pain, but less prone to typos maybe.

Thanks, well it was worth to ask, I guess I really have to download the source of Gnome Calculator and fix whatever mess they created :).

Funny anecdote with clipboards (come to think about it due to your solution of "feed thins through something") was that I once had to debug an application that wrote html files from data feeds and there where a problem in where news articles sometimes where missing. It turned out that the application writer couldn't figure out how to properly word wrap the text so his solution where to do a copy paste via the clipboard to a hidden text box with the correct dimensions and then copy+paste back the result after, so when people happened to work on the same machine as the application was running on and did copy+ṕaste the contents of the clipboard could end up in those html outputs...

Oh I hope that ended up on the daily worse-than-failure.

well that dev was a special creature, in the newseditor for our news team he had one error message bar that simple showed "call your on duty priest" :-)

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Quoting: brokkrI went from skeptical to shoulder shrugging to kinda pissed off again.

I figured I'd get out ahead and create a Microsoft account for it. Turns out the email already had a MS account. Reset password, fine. The I'm told that the account had violated the service agreement. Please give us your phone number. You know what? No. I don't think I want to give you my phone number to play a game I bought.

An MS account is not a big deal but it is a deal because of the inevitable BS. If facebook linking VR headsets to facebook accounts is a deal, then so is this.

Exactly this is the major problem, I already have one MS account to keep using Visual Studio updated at work for the rare windows builds that we do and it's a constant pain to maintain it.

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Quoting: ShabbyX"Their own browser", <meme of crying cat with thumbs up, titled Chromium developers>

Also, windows calc on Linux? Why would you want that piece of garbage when the basic calc on Linux is so much better!

I like galculator myself.

But I think the windowx calc thing was done for no other reason than they could. Actually reading their blog on the matter (what heresy!) it was for proof of concept - a small, simple application like that is easier to prove fundamentals with.

Does galculator skip spaces? For some reason the Gnome Calculater since a few versions back decided that numbers like "1 000 000" was invalid, something that it just handled like 1000000 before, which makes it a pain in the ass to use for me since I have to do a lot of manual calculations from company prospectus and they all use space as separators for some reason.

Copy & paste into the scientific view looks to strip the whitespace, but not in paper mode.
The only other thing I can think of is to feed things through something that strips whitespace between two numericals. Still a pain, but less prone to typos maybe.

Thanks, well it was worth to ask, I guess I really have to download the source of Gnome Calculator and fix whatever mess they created :).

Funny anecdote with clipboards (come to think about it due to your solution of "feed thins through something") was that I once had to debug an application that wrote html files from data feeds and there where a problem in where news articles sometimes where missing. It turned out that the application writer couldn't figure out how to properly word wrap the text so his solution where to do a copy paste via the clipboard to a hidden text box with the correct dimensions and then copy+paste back the result after, so when people happened to work on the same machine as the application was running on and did copy+ṕaste the contents of the clipboard could end up in those html outputs...

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Quoting: PhlebiacBack when M$ was actively trying to kill Netscape, there were versions of Internet Explorer for Solaris, HP-UX, etc. It does make you wonder what their motives are this time around. Maybe it's as simple as "we recommend using Edge to access Office 365" even on Linux. As long as they still support / don't actively sabotage it for other browsers, that isn't a terrible motive. Not that I would choose to use any of it.

The answer with Microsoft (and any large corporation for that matter) is control. Not having their own browser on Linux when Linux makes it big means that they would lose control any enterprise user that where running Linux instead of Windows.

And part of that control is to provide support for certain functions in things like Office 365.

The huge money maker for Microsoft have always been their other software (Office in particular) and not Windows itself, Windows have more been there to lock the customers in to their range of softwares (if you have invested in Windows why not also invest in other MS software, especially since it plays much nicer with other MS solutions like AD and so on), but now with the web becoming "the OS" for many many users they are of course desperate to somehow maintain control or rather still be relevant.

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Quoting: ShabbyX"Their own browser", <meme of crying cat with thumbs up, titled Chromium developers>

Also, windows calc on Linux? Why would you want that piece of garbage when the basic calc on Linux is so much better!

I like galculator myself.

But I think the windowx calc thing was done for no other reason than they could. Actually reading their blog on the matter (what heresy!) it was for proof of concept - a small, simple application like that is easier to prove fundamentals with.

Does galculator skip spaces? For some reason the Gnome Calculater since a few versions back decided that numbers like "1 000 000" was invalid, something that it just handled like 1000000 before, which makes it a pain in the ass to use for me since I have to do a lot of manual calculations from company prospectus and they all use space as separators for some reason.

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New patch today with a notice that the Linux bugs will be fixed in a later patch so they are working on it. Meanwhile whatever you do don't ever go into the steam discussion pages for this game, it's full of vile and ignorant people for some reason (didn't know that there existed such a large group of Frictional Games haters out there).

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Quoting: GuestFrictional and their history of Linux support

their Linux support was always just a guy who does the porting.
The engine probably was using OpenGL from the beginning, otherwise we woudln't have seen the support at all.
They've most likely tweaked and hacked on it but haven't fleshed out the bugs yet.

There was interview [External Link] (spoiler heavy, especially for the older games) where it was mentioned that engine is inherited from SOMA. It was big benefit as they could do better reviews of things they were working on. They really care about that games that they develop are scary and that's harder to prove with few solid low polygon objects.

All of their games 'inherit' the same engine AFAIU

Depends on how you defined it, Penumbra was using the HL1 engine, Amnesia the HL2 and Soma the HL3 that Amnesia Rebirth also uses. Don't know how close the different versions are though, the code for HL1 and HL2 is available on their forum and github for anyone wanting to see the differences.

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Quoting: whizseComplete mess :cry:

It uses legacy OpenGL features, but seems to use a core context. Needs to be run with MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.6COMPAT, and even then you get errors like these:

Overriding using 4.2COMPAT does the trick too (this should probably be the option for r600 driver). Anyway, overriding the version definitely does the trick, the game seems to work fine using Ubuntu default Mesa version (20.0.8) and I didn't detect stuttering (but I didn't play a lot tbh).

Thanks, 4.2COMPAT seems to have fixed the game for me aswell (RC480 mesa 20.2.1) where 4.6COMPAT was just as broken as the original.

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Quoting: tuubiI grew up with a Commodore 64, then an Amiga 500, but I don't understand why anyone would yearn to return to the beige years of computing. These were great systems back in the day, but they were no beauties.

That said, I do know a few people who'd be all over these.

Blasphemy ;-), computers back then had personality, now they are all just one size fits all midi towers.

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