Maybe they could now go open source.

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Quoting: Lachu„we saw the Phil Spencer of Xbox had access too and commented on Halo, Age of Empires and xCloud working nicely.”

Mueeehhhhh ... !
So MS test these games on modified Arch Linux?

This would be awesome, but I doubt they used Arch Linux. They probably reinstalled to Windows.

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Quoting: elistoCopyright need to be removed from existence.

I agree. But we should still honest author rights (Developer studio rights) for the game, but when the game is no longer officially supported, the code should be made open and the license should be changed to free software license automatically. This is what every software should do, not only games.

If company no longer supports the software, please give it to public, it will either die, if it's not popular or it will be supported by community.

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Quoting: Zlopez

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Quoting: bepopProton is better than half-assed ports. I'm looking at you Total War Warhammer II :<

Curious, what do you find so bad about that port?

Performance is worse than running it with Proton and WAY worse than running it on Windows (3900x + 1080ti). Delayed patches and no multiplayer with Windows. It's a joke

Hm, I didn't saw any performance issues on my AMD RX 590. The multiplayer itself should be fixed in newer Feral ports, let's hope that the fixes from Total War: Rome Remastered get in the TW: Warhammer 3.

About the patches and DLC, I heard from few that they are running the game in Proton especially because of this, but I'm not kind of guy, who needs everything ASAP, so it's OK for me to wait a few more months. I would say that in this case the issue will be most likely on CA side, they probably don't give Feral much till released for windows version.

If you don't have a point of reference (Windows version running on Windows) you may think that there are no performance issues...

Let me rephrase it, I didn't noticed any performance issues on Linux, maybe looking at the Windows version side by side beside the Linux native version I would notice something. But for me it's playable and I have fun with it. Not much else matters to me.

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Quoting: bepop

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: bepopProton is better than half-assed ports. I'm looking at you Total War Warhammer II :<

Curious, what do you find so bad about that port?

Performance is worse than running it with Proton and WAY worse than running it on Windows (3900x + 1080ti). Delayed patches and no multiplayer with Windows. It's a joke

Hm, I didn't saw any performance issues on my AMD RX 590. The multiplayer itself should be fixed in newer Feral ports, let's hope that the fixes from Total War: Rome Remastered get in the TW: Warhammer 3.

About the patches and DLC, I heard from few that they are running the game in Proton especially because of this, but I'm not kind of guy, who needs everything ASAP, so it's OK for me to wait a few more months. I would say that in this case the issue will be most likely on CA side, they probably don't give Feral much till released for windows version.

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I'm glad that Feral will port the TW: Warhammer 3. This makes me so happy :-)

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I'm using vertical mouse for a few years and it took me some time to get used to it, especially in FPS games, but now I wouldn't go for anything else.

I recently got myself Logitech MX Vertical, because wireless mouse is better fit for my ergonomic solution and it's a really good mouse. It fits my hand almost perfectly and I didn't had any issue with it for the last few months.

And the pain I had in my wrist from using the standard mouse for long times is gone now :-)

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Quoting: ZlopezI'm personally running an ostree distribution...

Update your PC distro specs and join the Silverblue GoL masterrace my dude

I didn't know there is a Silverblue in PC distro specs. I will update it :-D

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Quoting: bepopProton is better than half-assed ports. I'm looking at you Total War Warhammer II :<

Hm, I'm playing native version of TW: Warhammer 2 (around 200 hours) and besides the non available cross-platform multiplayer I didn't found any issue with it.

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Quoting: superboybotI think Flatpak is fine (and to a lesser extent Snap, especially on distros that include it by default), but I don't really see the point unless it offers a package that isn't in your repo. AppImage is cool though, as a preservation method.

But other than that, what problem is it solving? It seems that some people use them for many (most?) installed packages. I find it a bit strange. For instance, why is Firefox even offered on Flathub? Are there distros that don't have Firefox in the repositories?

I'm personally running an ostree distribution, which discourages users to install anything by package manager that is outside the standard ostree image. The reason is that only the ostree is tested and works, but any package layered on top of it could cause potential issues. On the other hand it allows you to easily rollback any update and the updates are atomic, so you don't need to worry about package database corruption during update. This is really a newbie friendly distribution, although it's still in development and not everything is working as it should.

In this kind of distribution the Flatpak or similar solution is a must. The Flatpak in advance has sandboxing (although it's on the packager to set it correctly). For example I'm running Steam in Flatpak and it doesn't have access to anything outside the flatpak container it's running in (except for few media folders in home), so any game that has some tracking things inside is not allowed to get any info about what you do outside of Steam, even what operation system are you running. You can easily change those permissions by FlatSeal application, which is also flatpak.

And as Klaus above me wrote, the Flatpak solves the issue of too much different distributions by creating a unified way that works on any distro that has flatpak available.

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