I am a steam member since 2005.
But my purchase history only goes back to 2012.
Before that I bought physical media.
I think winex/cedega was the reason I did buy half life and forced me to create an account.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: ArdjeThere is no fast opensource opengl implementation for AMD. And the closed ones suck.

You may want to take a look on some benchs before saying such thing: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gpus-feb-2021&num=2 [External Link] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gpus-feb-2021&num=3

Deus Ex & Hitman are both OpenGL titles. If this isn't fast, then I'm not sure what you define as "fast" for OpenGL.

Nice...
It sounds like high end hardware vs high end hardware and open source vs proprietary vendor lock in.
This wasn't the case 2..3 years ago.
Not that I cared, because in all other respects, open source drivers had so much more benefits than that proprietary vendor lock in beast.

But I am glad to be proven wrong, that currently open source can outperform proprietary. And that everyone wins with that: from hardware manufactures, to game publishers to game distributors to 3d designers.

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Quoting: GuestGitLab is nice and all, and I haven't used Kanboard, but issue and wiki linking, and building issue hierarchies was always better for me with trac (and thus redmine). I managed it well with jira+confluence too, but always wanted something self-hosted and lightweight to run on a pi or something.

Yes, jira+confluence is bad on the server and the client. Got page loading times of more than a minute on official rented jira instances just to see the dashboard.
Gitlab is pretty heavy on the server side, but pretty complete and it doesn't have slow page loading times.
For personal projects or small installations I either use gitea or github.
Gitea works extremely well to collect systems configurations. (gitlab too, but it is > 8GB vs 128MB RAM usage).

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Quoting: vipor29a linux exclusive nice :)

I think there are a lot of linux exclusives, but I guess the windows guys wouldn't get it.

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As long as I can not fix my steam controller settings from the desktop variant, I would not even bother to look.
I do hope that steam os 3 and accompanying client release will merge all in one client engine with just different themes.

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Quoting: Schattenspiegel

Quoting: x4mer

Quoting: SchattenspiegelInteresting: with SSD + HDD(raid0) ~ 1 minute
with SSD only ~ 12 seconds
to load the client.
Edit:
And for reasons unknown the loading time stays at 12 second after remounting the HDDs even after rebooting :woot:
Thank you very much! I would never have tried that.:smile:

HDD went to sleep and motor powered down? When remounting, the drive would be woken up.

nope: I had the slow start problem for quite a few months now (one of the Steam patches). Neither library repair, changing between beta and stable client nor removal/addition of the Steam-libraries was able to fix it. It seems starting Steam with HDD (containing one of the libraries) unmounted caused some configuration file to be rewritten which fixed the problem.

Since they seem to be using chromium as their UI engine, I wonder if it is because they never ever purged or reindexed the database. About all browsers use an sqlite3 database, and they mostly use it as inser and forget.
I used to have a shell script that traverses al sqlite3 databases, reindex/vacuumed them, filtered some urls from the history and so on. I mean, no should know your political preference by looking in your history.

These days however the history is uploaded to the google cloud for offline analysis.

But back to what I mean to say: maybe, just maybe they added a field and hence needed to rebuild the database ;-).

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Quoting: dpanter

Library: The Recent Friend Activity shelf has been removed.

But why? :sad:

Privacy?
I actually would buy a lot more games if I could just filter out some of the statistics it publishes about me. I mean, talking for a friend, because I do not play nor have the games I talk about.

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Quoting: UnixOutlawSorely tempted... but... I just bought two laptops - and - I'd really prefer an AMD option...

At least it is not Nvidia. This means graphics drivers are always up to date.

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Quoting: elistoCopyright need to be removed from existence.

Patents need to be removed from existence.
However, copyright is the sole reason why Linux can exist in the current capitalistic world.

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"Defendants have sought to exploit a potential market that belongs exclusively to Take-Two"
A market is where you exchange value for value.
You can't exactly say that giving away for free something is exploiting a market, because then you do not understand capitalism. Exploiting means you gain something of monetary value. None of the hackers gained something.

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