Quoting: M@GOid...I find funny when people say Unity was a disaster, when the students in my lab never showed problems using it. Very easy to learn DE if you ask me.

Unity was a disaster. But Gnome 3 was a disaster also! Even though I'm sitting on Fedora, I never used Gnome (apart some time at first, just to taste both "Gnome 2" and "KDE 3" and fall to the later). But I know, variety is a strong point of Linux. Come to think of it... in that sense, Mir vs. Wayland was also profitable in some way. It helped to chose the fittest, like in the evolution process. And now the weak shall become food for the strong!

Quoting: M@GOidWith that said, I bet Cannonical will put a makeup in Gnome 3 to make it look like Unity. If not, they will loose more users than they already have.

What? They will go to negative values?

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Quoting: EikeWow! Which country is this?

We used to have free bank accounts and free transfers (using forms way back in time), nowadays with low interest rates I pay I think 2 € per month and can have as many transfers as I want. I do them at my own computer. Really convenient and safe.

Russia. And the bank in question is Sberbank™. The bank so huge due to its Soviet Union inherited branch tree (where in most of the small towns it is the sole bank) that for the 20 years after collapse it simply refused to change and adapt, instead flushing through itself insane stream of pension and grave-money from the elderly. The year is 2009 (or so), yet in order to get your money you have to stand (literally!) a queue of 15 people in a small stuffy room, then stand near operator while ancient (yet cost-efficient!) dot-matrix printer fills your income-outcome ribbon. Classic!

And the game was pre-order (my first and only) for "OilRush" from Unigine. Apparently this whole deal with pre-orders were new to them also (and there were no native banking at the time) so they had chosen "ABN AMRO Amsterdam" as their bank. For a 600₽ base price I parted with 1040₽ that day. Nice interest, Sberbank, very nice!

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Long Live Wayland! Finally!

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If there is something worse than Steam™, than it is Steam-Key-ResellersⓒⓇ™, basically, parasites on the Steam itself. The fewer of them remain the better.

Quoting: EikeI'm just not owning a credit card, I'm paying cash or via bank transfer. (Had to make an exception for Feral, using my wife's card.) I wonder if this would be possible in other countries, though. Germany seems to be more cash-friendly than others.

Used this method exactly once (so called "wired transfer" via "SWIFT" inter-bank relay system). Man, was it atrocious! On top of 40% commission I had to fill in a lot of papers in English, in the bank where the majority of the employees did not know English and (on top of that) was not trained in SWIFT transactions (they were just pointing towards each other). It took 2 hours and required a trip to adjacent town (in the so called "Main Office", which turned out just an ordinary office but with slightly more experienced workers). Never again!

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Very high chance I will back it on the Kickstarter...

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Quoting: LeopardProbably cutting deal with Codemasters for F1 2015 was cheaper than porting already good seller game.They simply tried to get maximum earning for porting that to Linux,because licence price would differ to targeted platforms. That was an experiment which failed; nothing more.They knew at the start that game won't sell good enough but yet they give it a shot.

LOLwut?! So, in other words, they picked the weak product to port (and not the strong one) because they hoped to feed it to Linux gamers based on the assumption we are experiencing deficiency of car simulators and ignorant about the superior product, thus will "eat what has been served" no matter the quality?

VERY! SHREWD! MOVE!

Quoting: LeopardThey're porting F1 2016 to only Mac because game has good reviews and with a game generally satisfies people you can sell more and Mac user base is bigger than Linux.

Edit:Yep,you can see that is proving my point.

https://twitter.com/feralgames/status/848881198696996869

Actually, not. It does not prove the point. It is known problem that a lot of Macs are quite weak hardware-wise and Feral bets heavily on Metal in hopes it will help them widen the reach on Apple products. This does not relate directly with "good reviews" and general satisfaction. But, I say this again, this is a gamble on Feral's part: even on the twitter some ask what about older Macs without Metal support.

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Quoting: JanYes. But if you buy a Steam key from Feral it counts as a Linux/Mac sale and they might even get a little bit more money for their efforts.

As long as they will provide only DRM-ed ports their efforts are meaningless to me, sorry.

Quoting: JanThere was no DRM, just a simple CD-check.

That is called DRM in my book. I'm fed up with StarForce and SecuROM "copy protection" technologies.

Quoting: JanNo porting company (except Aspyr's Bloober Team games) offers DRM-free titles on GOG or similar sites.

Their loss.

Quoting: JanThey have never been seriously interested in games.

No, sir! Be it that way they had not invented Metal API targeted directly against Vulkan ("Mantle" back at the day) and "Direct3D 12". Apple is clearly trying to dominate gaming market (mobile gaming market, specifically) by deliberately excluding "OpenGL ES" and placing developers in the "either/or" situation.

Quoting: Jan...I don't think Apple cares too much about Vulkan.

Cares? No! Is afraid of? Most probably, yes.

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Quoting: ArehandoroIs it really? That would be amazing! Do you have any link with those news? If possible, of course :)

Please, take not of the wording JudasIscariot used. I highlighted it for clarity. ;) Other than that, it was sarcasm on my side.

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Quoting: JudasIscariot

Spoiler, click me

In short if you want to use the Windows version of Galaxy under Wine use the most recent version of Wine Staging since Galaxy makes use of quite a few features not yet implemented in vanilla Wine.

Spoiler, click me

It sounds like there is a Linux version of Galaxy somewhere nearby... ;) Of course I want to use the Linux version and not the Windows one, but as of now I simply have no choice. Just want to have a glimpse at that client which revently was updated to 1.2 with big news on the site yet, no Linux version mentioned.

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Quoting: JudasIscariot

Spoiler, click me

For those of you who play No Man's Sky via Wine and you are using the GOG version, the online features started working under Wine Staging so you should see your GOG user name in NMS and get achievements.

Spoilered so the "no tux, no bux" folks don't have to read it :P

Nice!

Spoiler, click me

And what about your Galaxy? Does it run under WINE now? Last time I checked it did not launch no matter how I tweaked DLL overrides.

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