Assuming it actually makes it to market, this seems like a nice set top box type device, but there is little besides style to set it apart from an ITX based system you could build yourself, and to justify its price/performance ratio. I doubt that's going to be enough. We'll see. I'd love to be wrong.

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I haven't gone through Tower of Time yet, though I consider it in the 'must play' section of my back catalog. I'll have to try and get through it before this game comes out.

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A company becoming a public corporation is pretty much never a good thing for its customers. This is especially the case for non mainstream customers. It's like when Snapple (at the time a regional fruit drink company in the U.S.) was bought up by a large corporation: No more strawberry lemonade. This is beside the fact that private businesses are as moral as their management, while public corporations gradually become as moral as their bank accounts.

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This looks interesting enough to me that I picked it up. I'm not sure exactly when I'll get to it, but I picked it up (though it's enough my type of game so that it might be fairly soon).

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For whatever reason, my brothers and I never got into Team Fortress 2, and still tended to play Team Fortress Classic even after 2 came out. Of course, now it's been a while since we played either of them.

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I've been playing Supraland, though not playing as much this week because of other things going on. It's a game I probably would not have bought if it didn't have a native Linux version, but which I am now forced to play through Proton as the Linux version quit working, and never worked as well as running through Proton anyway (which I discovered only after I bought the game).

I've also been playing a bit of A Short Hike, which is nice for a bit of low stress game play.

Edit: Someone I know was also strongly recommending I try Oxygen Not Included, though if I do, I will probably wait to catch it on sale (it is also in my "Players like you love this game" list on Steam).

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunOnce again, I read the comments on something "controversial" like cloud gaming and remember why we can't have nice things on Linux...

Well, I'm just calling things as I see them, not making a complete judgement on whether or not they should be taken advantage of. Though I don't feel that DRM games on Steam are exactly one hundred percent owned by me (in fact, inability to transfer a game to someone else is also an argument against "ownership" of your copy) I do still play games on Steam. As an example of a positive for playing a game on Steam, it's much more likely to be maintained well enough to continue working on newer versions of Linux (without me going to great lengths to seek out old dependencies) than downloads that I got years ago from Humble Bundle, of which I may have a copy that I do clearly own, but have trouble using.

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Quoting: Grazen

Quoting: DribbleondoYou own games you purchase via stadia.

You *own* the games as much on Stadia as you do on Steam - in fact the licenses are similar across Steam / PlayStation / Xbox etcetera. People in the Linux community seem to be confused about what "owning" a game means... users are licensing games... big difference. The fact that you can't store every game that you license locally on Stadia is a different issue - but then I don't store every game I license via Steam or any other platform locally either. TO do so would be a tad... anal.

Your ownership of any game that you need to be connected to an Internet service to run is questionable. That includes streaming services and things like Steam DRM (some games on Steam don't use DRM, so they are different).

Also, that you are "licensing" all copyrighted material and don't "own" your copy is a legal fiction created by software publishers and audio/visual media producers. The concept is not supported by copyright law, but they are trying to get the legal system to buy into the fiction. They have succeeded to a limited extent, but every case you hear that supports the right of first sale [External Link] illustrates that according to copyright law you do indeed own your copy of a copyrighted work.

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I picked this up during the recent 'Tiny Teams Festival.' I haven't played it much yet, but it seems like a stress free time passer.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAs someone who has worked in the professional video production world for over two-decades, I can say with some authority that Kdenlive is a very power and professional level video editing tool that easily rivals alternatives like Avid and Premier.

Really? I'm no true professional but I've edited a lot of videos as a freelancer, once even edited a series broadcast on national television here in my country. So I have *some* background.

And I have to say, after Bitwig (daw) and Steam came to Linux the the one area left where I really miss the Windows alternatives is on video editing. Especially Sony Vegas, who ended up being my tool of choice. The workflow is just so very much better, and the tools/plugins so much more powerful and intuitive.

For example, I haven't found a way to apply effects (colour correction etc) on the entire video channel - only on the individual clips! I would guess it IS possible, but god damn how well they've hidden it. Or how to apply compression and EQ on the audio master bus? These things are *basic* features!

And especially larger projects with several channels of video and sound are so much more efficient and stable on the other editing suites, they run so much smoother. The stuttering and lags are way too prominent on KDEnlive - it really struggle at times. A wonder it doesn't crash more often, really!

But yes, KDEnlive is the solution for me too on Linux, cause the alternatives are so remarkably much worse. So here's hoping they get closer up to par with this new version!

I don't have anything like the experience you do, but the one other open source editor that I've found to be worth trying is Olive [External Link], even though its developers still consider it alpha software. It seems like it plays back better and crashes less than anything based on MLT (like Kdenlive, which seems to be the best of MLT based editors).

Of course, there is always the non-open option of DaVinci Resolve, but I haven't actually tried that.

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