It's sad how honest people are much more vulnerable to being sniped for opinions because they speak them instead of removing any meaning by proxying their communication through lawyers. Stallman has had very controversial theoretical opinions that could be and were used against him, because he conducts his discussions under public scrutiny.

Interestingly, he has very recently changed his mind on damage caused by paedophilia: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Sex_between_an_adult_and_a_child_is_wrong) [External Link]. And just as he was becoming a less controversial figure, Vice blew up in his face.

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I've played the demo and it's basically Pokemon, in everything but name. Good game, and the demo is more complete than some released games - gives 2-4h of play depending on how quick and thorough you are

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I'm looking forward to season 4, as I've just gotten everything from season 3 :D:D:D

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Does __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 %command% make a difference on AMD GPUs?

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There is alo the fact that currently Mesa uses NIR as an intermediate representation*. It's looking like in the future, Vulkan will be the most optimised graphics API GPUs support and making it the intermediate representation is quite appealing.

*Intermediate representation is a way of reducing combinations. Every piece of hardware is different and there are many graphical APIs. Trying to implement each on each would take a lot of effore and therefore Mesa developers have used an intermediate preresentation to reduce the problem's complexity from n*m to n+m.

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Slay the spire works just fine for me in borderless fullscreen on Kubuntu 19.04.

Interestingly, on a friends windows laptop where I showed the game off, it didn't fit the screen properly and the "start" button was out of reach, preventing play. It worked fine on another windows computer though. Seems like the engine is relatively new and hasn't been given treatment to work around hardware quirks...

I thoroughly enjoy it, but I don't think the 4th character fits thematically... There are so many 3s in the game - cards have sets of 3, relics have sets of 3, there are 3 shards to collect before fighting the heart, there are up to 3 enemies at a time(reptomancer excluded)... I'm sure the creators can surprise us though.

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Quoting: SalvatosInteresting event, although I don't have any games currently tied to its achievements. Very interesting prizes too. The way it's designed, though, it looks like everyone should just join the same team (i.e. corgi) to ensure they are eligible for the free games.

Wrong. Only X players from the top 3 teams will win prizes. Meaning that you want to be one the smallest winning team. Corgi is probably the biggest now, not the best choice.

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Quoting: Satoru

Quoting: vectorI say this tongue-in-cheek so don't flame me, but perhaps Ubuntu would like to deprecate support for OpenGL as well; after all, Apple is deprecating OpenGL support :P

At least Apple

1) CLEARLY communicated that 32-bit and OpenGL was deprecated YEARS in advance
2) Did not hem and haw about 'well maybe we'll get rid of it in 20.04'
3) CLEARLY made an OS update that bugged users about their apps potentially not working in future releases
4) Only after 2-3 years of such updates, notification, etc is 32-bit support finally ending with OSX Catalina
5) OpenGL was declared deprecated last year, it still is not offically dead even in Catalina. yes its likely soon, but Apple has been screaming about converting to Metal for years. to the point where Aspyr and Feral back ported their entire steam library to Metal last year

Canonical's plan

1) "You have 4 months sorry!"

If Canonical is going to copy all of Apple's bad decisions, then they should also copy the part where Apple spent YEARS clearly communicating to both devs and users, with popups and warning. As opposed to dropping a bomb on people with 4 months notice, and then when users upgrade to 19.10 in 4 months suddenly 50% of the Linux games will stop working and Proton/Wine also dies with it.

So much this↑. Seriously, WTF do you mean you're removing an important part of the ecosystem with only 4 months notice? This is not a serious approach. If they wanted to test a 64 bit only Ubuntu, Canonical should have said it's a test. Deprecating 32 bit installers was clearly communicated and few people were taken by surprise. If Ubuntu announced they're marking 32-bit multilib as deprecated, they could have done so, but removing it out of the blue is a terrible idea.

I think one of the reasons steam is a 32-bit application despite supporting only 64-bit OSs is so that users don't notice whether the games themselves are 64 or 32-bit. Since installing the package pulls in 32 bit, you have both anyway.

I would be OK with openSuse Leap becoming the new Linux home for Steam. I remember that installing Nvidia drivers broke the package manager and that's how I ended up with Kubuntu, but I'm sure they could solve it. I head rumours steam was considering Flatpack as a way of cleanly packaging the old steam runtime and moving to a new one, but that was last year so it might have just been rumours.

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Pluses of the new layout:
- uses full width, unlike the current Steam client that looks designed for a vertical device(higher rather than wider, like a phone).

Minuses:
- achievements are less prominent,
- where did DLC selection go?
- multiple direct community links(guides, discussions, hub) were combined into a single slightly bigger button.

On the whole, I don't like the new layout.

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I've purchased Slay the Spire. I was planning to buy it from GoG, but a Steam key from Humble is fine too. I think that's the first time my purchase counted for gaming on linux :D

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