Quoting: levellordCan anyone advise how many different nations in the game? I'd appreciate your response!

See https://oldworld.fandom.com/wiki/Civilizations [External Link]

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I just figured that the graphics issues with the Feral port i.c.w. with NVIDIA are solved when using the 515 driver. So no more reasons to move away from the Feral port for me.

(For the sake of testing (:smile:) I replayed the first chapter of that game, it is imho still a really good game. Both successors are obviously better looking, but story and character wise, Tomb Raider 2013 is still my favorite)

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Alright, I could not resist :)... Impressions from first 10 minutes are really good.
(The native Linux version starts just fine for me.)

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I've updated my Fedora installation last week to 36 and to be honest my experience wasn't that great, actually past updates had been much much smother for me.

I've mostly been bitten by a green (or black login screen) due to this one https://github.com/negativo17/nvidia-driver/issues/129 [External Link] , which leads to https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/proprietary-nvidia-driver-shows-a-black-screen-instead-of-a-virtual-terminal-or-a-graphical-session/22440 [External Link] . The decision to remove the legacy frame buffer driver in FC36 seems to me a rather bold move for NVIDIA users, the mentioned work-arounds are essentially "do not use your NVIDIA GPU" :(

Next to that Gnome 42 lets you feel that it is right in the middle of the transition to GTK4. E.g. only the build-in theme is now usable, which tbf finally looks actually pretty good.
I'm also using a Wacom pen instead of a mouse and while its usage improved nicely for Wayland (no more second cursor due to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/285 [External Link] being merged), using it also regressed when starting an X11 session (cursor invisible until reconnect) or with GTK4 applications on Wayland (cursor stays invisible until it has been moved outside of the gtk4 window).

So yeah, rather bumpy and also slightly disappointing due to the NVIDIA and Wacom issues.

PS: I'm still planning to report those Wacom issues.

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Quoting: LNX

Thanks though to Proton

for killing native linux games development

I get your sentiment, but the hard truth is unfortunately that the AAA ports where already mostly dead or at least not sustainable in the long term. See this blog post from an insider https://mdiluz.micro.blog/2021/07/19/native-linux-ports.html [External Link] and also this older blog https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/linux-gaming-ticking-clock/ from the same author.

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CLion, nice.

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Quoting: cookiEoverdose

like NVIDIA drivers being a nuisance to install

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/ [External Link] helped a lot with issues, never failed me in years of Fedora.

Running the NVIDIA installer as suggested on this site is not suitable for the average user imho. I think it is better to keep your system in sync with the rpm/deb databases by using a package repository like negativo17 or rpm-fusion.

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Quoting: jensCool, I hope Fedora works for you, I’m more than happy with it since several years. Fedora shines with its Gnome integration (which I use), but don’t know how well the KDE integration is set up.

I was amused when I watched a video that was trying to push the idea of not suggesting different distributions, and instead to suggest people use something based on the desktop environment. I sort of agree. If trying to convert someone over, we should ask what the person is looking for. Based on these questions, you suggest the 'best of breed' for the DE, and be sure to ask if they want stability or continuous new features.
For example; if someone wanted simple, out of your face system where you can just launch applications and get work done, I would suggest stock Gnome. If they wanted new features over stability, I would suggest Fedora over Debian.

If they want complete customization, I would probably suggest Suse over Fedora, with KDE. At least it used to be a great KDE distro. Not sure how great it is now.

I kind of miss Xandros, but that might be the Tequila talking...

Yes, I completely follow you. One of the reasons for me for going for Fedora was its Gnome integration (from what I know a lot of Gnome developers use Fedora). It’s also no coincidence that releases of new distribution versions are linked to releases of the desktop environments (at least for Fedora and Ubuntu). So it would indeed a recommendation matrix like:

You love customization and like to play with the desktop itself: go KDE with
OpenSuse or Arch (more stable vs more bleedeing edge)

You love the less is more approach and prefer a desktop that goes out of your way: go Gnome with
Debian or Ubuntu or Fedora (from stable to more bleeding edge)

(I’ve only stated the desktops and distributions I somewhat know, there are of course more)

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Cool, I hope Fedora works for you, I’m more than happy with it since several years. Fedora shines with its Gnome integration (which I use), but don’t know how well the KDE integration is set up.

I do use the https://negativo17.org/ [External Link] repositories (actually just the multimedia repo that contains everything) instead of RPM-Fusion, especially the NVIDIA packages do integrate very well and keep me away from usual update headaches.
(Tbf, I always switch to nouveau for distro updates for being on the safe side)

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Quoting: HoriThey either need to be serious (right now they're anything but... and always have been) about their Linux support in their drivers, or open source them... or ideally both.

Ignoring the very likely legal issues with what you propose, do you really think that just changing the license and dumping thousands of lines of code on GitHub would change anything?

I guess what you are really asking is that NVIDIA sets up there driver development like amdgpu (the kernel part) and Mesa, which essentially means rewriting the complete driver from scratch. I don’t know anything about the NVIDIA driver, but I’m very certain that you don’t do this on a Friday afternoon.

Please don’t get me wrong, I would also prefer that NVIDIA drivers integrates better into the modern graphics stack on Linux and I’m also certain and don’t like that e.g. Wayland adoption is unfortunately way slower due to that. It’s also completely fair that you are switching vendors for your next card. Though please don’t demand a solution which sounds popular, but really wouldn’t work in practice and completely misses the point for this complex issue.

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