1. Abandon Linux support, no longer sell the game for Linux;
2. "Nobody plays the Linux version! See? Only 0.1%!"
3. Segregate Linux players, so they won't ever find a populated server.

Сause-and-effect relations are strong with this Garry.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I cannot update wine-staging from 4.12.1 to 4.13 for some reason. In GUI update manager I see a checkbox with Wine, but it can't be ticked. 'apt list -u' shows available updates as well, but 'sudo apt upgrade' says winehq-staging wil stay unamended.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Icculus also mentioned on their Patreon, about a new game

I bet on Blood: Fresh Supply.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: kaimanMust be something bloated like Unity.

It is Unity indeed: https://steamcommunity.com/app/603390/discussions/0/1474221865198212654/ [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I've bought it, and it's very fun. Too short though. So far there is one episode (I've beaten it in 1.5 hours at the highest difficulty), one extra level, survival mode with waves of enemies and unlimited ammo chaingun, and the game mode where you have 25 hp cap and only grenades as a weapon.

It funny to see that the whole game fits into 50 megabytes of size. It it was made on Unity, it would take 3 GB. All game files are still called 'maiden'.

I highly recommend it to everyone who loves Duke Nukem 3D.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero works fine with SteamPlay. Don't forget you can choose which developers get your money at the bottom of the page.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Resident Evil 2 and 3 with HD textures: https://www.reshdp.com/re2/ [External Link]

You'll need to compile special Dolphin from GitHub [External Link], download archives from the project's website and unpack textures from there into corresponding folders (don't forget that PAL and NTSC versions of games use different names for folders). Then check Graphics → Advanced → Load Custom Textures (and Prefetch Custom Textures if you have several free gigabytes of RAM).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: EhvisThere is at least one crash report for nvidia for Borderlands 2. But that one crashes so quickly with so little vram usage, that I highly doubt it's related to fragmentation.

I haven't tried v0.13 yet, but with the previous version Borderlands 2 crashes for me as soon as I load the latest saved game and it consumes 2 GB of VRAM.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedjeWeird, what hardware are you using there that xorg didn't automatically set up your drivers?

It's VirtualBox.

Quoting: slaapliedjemain point was, Yast is more like a control panel, vs just a package manager like Synaptic.

So, they just combined a control panel and a package manager. I still don't see why someone could dislike Yast.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe main reason for Arch over OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is probably that Tumbleweed is more of the bleeding edge, rolling release version of OpenSUSE, whereas it's just what Arch does.

So stability wise, Arch is more likely to be stable than Tumbleweed is.

So, Arch is better than Ubuntu/Fedora because it has newer software, and is better than Tumbleweed because its software is older? I wouldn't say that one distro is better than another just because of packages versions. Some people want to have everything as new as possible, some people don't.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI've tried out Tumbleweed in the past, and while stability wasn't really an issue, I just can't use Yast. It's funny, those that started out Linux with that distribution probably love Yast, anyone who started out with other distributions despise it. I kind of fall into that latter group.

Yast seems like Ubuntu's Synaptic. Anyway, I thought Linux users prefer CLI package managers.

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyhow, Arch may have a lack of what most people would say is a real installer, but it doesn't matter because once you have it installed, it just works.

It probably does, but sometimes an OS needs reinstalling. I got a bigger SSD this winter, so I had to install it. I recently bought another one, even bigger, haven't got it yet, but already annoyed by an idea of another installation.
I also have about 20 computers with Ubuntu-based Linux at my work, and I would have gone crazy if I had to spend so much time on installing and tweaking systems on every of them. But with Ubuntu all I need is to:
1. boot from an USB drive;
2. add IP of my "server" with APT cache, so I could get updates via LAN with 100/1000 Mbps speed (one minute of time);
3. click "next, next, install", type a couple on line (one more minute);
4. boot into the installed OS, enable APT cache again (one minute);
5. run a bash script that installs software I need and removes that I don't (two seconds);
6. tweak some UI settings (one or two minutes).

That's few minutes of my time I must spend on a computer. The rest of time I can rest, everything is automatized. So, quick and easy installation is a must-have feature for me since I have to manage many computers.

Quoting: slaapliedjeThough with Arch, you should have a phone or some other device to read wikis while installing :)

I actually installed Arch yesterday, couldn't get graphics working though. I had to read wikis, look into config files on my system and on VMs as well to check what should I have done. I installed xorg, lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, xfce4, wrote many configs, but for some reason I don't see a GUI greeter, and after i type my username and password all I get is a blank dark screen. I think I didn't configure xorg right.

Installing Arch the hard way sure hepls to understand how Linux works, but does it make it a better distro than others?
I made less effort to install FreeBSD once (and I thought THAT was hard), and at least I succeeded.

View this comment - View article - View full comments