Quoting: kuhpunktI'm still baffled how many people think that HL3 would be a VR game. That makes no sense and would be a very very dumb idea.

No, it wouldn't. Obviously Valve is waiting for the right time - VR is affordable for everyone in the future like it was for smartphones (2007) at some point, and the internet and computers in the past and so on ....

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Quoting: MegazellI've been on Ubuntu Mate for about 2 years now. Left Linux Mint on my main gaming rig. I use Lubuntu on some of my older rigs and machines. I've not had any issues with Pulse Audio or the like. Were you are on Ubuntu or some derivative? I've found Ubuntu problematic for me in the past. The DE does not help me get to what I need to go and there are many lib files I had to install to game properly.

I have questions for Antergos users:

* How are installs from GOG library?
* Is Vsync automatically dealt with like on Ubuntu Mate?

These 2 questions have nothing to do with wether using ubuntu or any other distro - it's still linux. It's about the version of kernel, software, xorg/X11/wayland, mesa ... you use.

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Quoting: medveTo make everyone happy, devs could change the used words to "Accept/Do not accept". The current words are actual political slogans, in the EU at least.[...]I dont think that people are upset because of "refugees" appear in the game. They are upset because of the words, references to the real world politics.

It's a chicken/egg problem - why should someone stop using a word, because some missused it for his purpose?? Don't use the word "apple" because it's a trademark? The same goes for every other word political missused or misussed as a name for selling a product.

Xenophobic people always hiding behind such subtle but clear statements of their thinking and deny it afterwards.

"Refugees Welcome" is just a clear naming for that option - he first connected it political and gave away that it annoys him because he is against welcomeing refugees in the real world. In any other case he would have made a constructive proposal of renaming. But there is absulutly nothing wrong with "Refugees Welcome".

Just let asholes be asholes. Dont' spend to much time thinking why people exists who think the earth is flat, building a wall helps, calling themself "Reichsbürger", or the in the US popluar grouping "Creationists".
It's just as the humanity has smallpox, it will heal - eventually - sometime;)

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Quoting: cue58

Quoting: Pangachatso what's the problem?

The problem is that certain political views have basically become a meme recently. Just like with any meme you have some people who are desperate to inject it into everything to show how much they "get it".
Some people just really want to inject their political alignment into the discussion every chance they get, just to show what side they're on even when the situation doesn't call for it.

Recently??? It has always been so. Just more public since the internet went mainstream.
Some people will always put their believes over the best arguments, so they will probably not learn.

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Quoting: melkemindI'm going to build a space wall to keep them out, and the Ragerian Dominion is going to pay for it! ;)

Know it's just a joke... but from which material build in space?

And "the others" have to pay it - so easy chash flow;)

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Quoting: UnholyVisionAs others have said, welcome to the Arch life. :D

Yuarty -sYusudaadasdas” to update

Only a suggestion (For the people wanting the more lazy route), but if you want Yaourt fancy, you should try out "yaourt-gui" in the AUR. At least anyone that doesn't blindly install everything from AUR. Because it makes Yaourt very basic user-friendly. You still need to know package names, but it makes searching the names easier too. As you just type the number 8 for "yaourt -Ss", follwed by a prompt you enter text for said search.

or just use pamac as gui (from manjaro) - if away from terminal;)

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Quoting: natewardawgManjaro. It blends stability with bleeding edge, doesn't break as often as the more pure Arch(s)

I don't like this false claim that "pure Arch(s)" break more often - or even ever break. It's just not true!

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Quoting: Ray54Currently, I assume that your game reviews are performed on the current Ubuntu LTS. So, if a game works well for you, it should work well for me on my up to date Mint OS (as mostly on the same code base). Similarly, most commercial Linux games are tested against Ubuntu (and perhaps Steam OS), but often not against Arch type distributions. Assuming that you will use only Antergos for future reviews, can you give your views about the relevance of those future reviews for the current majority of the GOL readership, that if I understand your stats properly, use a Ubuntu based distribution.

[...]as I am thinking of trying Fedora and Arch myself, but I am concerned about loosing simple and reliable execution of games in my now large games library.

This concern is distribution independent, so unneeded. For Games it matters what kernel, drivers, mesa version you use.

Commercial games saying "supports Ubuntu,Nvidia" has primaly to do with legal protection.
In fact says nothing about how games working on users system or distro - Ubuntu is behind, arch-based distros are more bleeding-edge - saying that all games a running on my arch/amd since years, better as on ubuntu benchmarks, even if the news media claims otherwise (just gives me head shaking e.g. if "phoronix" says it doesn't work on amd card or has some regression, but it runs for me perfectly - since years he does fake news about bashing amd (vs nvidia) - but he just don't realizses that it's his broken ubuntu, not the amd driver (or he is paid from nvidia and does it on force))

Also lets asume a game offical only "supports" ubuntu - so what? If your pariticular ubuntu system is broken, the game still doesn't work - nothing gained.

So in the end: less worry, more doing!

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Quoting: staticx27They are suggesting stuff like verifying the files but doesn't seem to be working for anyone.

There are always people in forum suggesting re-verifying the files and stuff, no matter what the real problem is, doesn't mean they have the slightest clue - is just kind of trolling from them.

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Quoting: MGOid

Quoting: paasistiLinux Mint 18 with Cinnamon.

I'm using sudo ppa-purge ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa

I tried aborting the first deletion and accepting the second, but that didn't get me too far it seems. Now ppa-purge says that the PPA is removed, but my Mesa version is still 13.0.2 - padoka PPA and the original issue is not fixed (and, skype and steam won't start so need to reinstall those, at the least..)

EDIT again:
Well, I solved this by upgrading to the bleeding edge PPA. Everything seems okay now (no screen tearing as there was before when I tried the PPA) so I guess everything is awesome again. Although it would would be nice to know how to downgrade if there's ever need..

Hum, maybe there is something with the Mint packages not being completely compatible with the Ubuntu ones. Tried the same command you posted (I'm also using Padoka's stable PPA) and it was okay in a Kubuntu 16.10 install.

Concerning newest mesa just working for gaming, I would strongly recommend you to switch to a distro which is NOT based on Debian/unbuntu - any other - OR compile mesa-git/llvm-svn your self.

BTW on my distro it's all in AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=mesa-git [External Link] and I use it with package manager yaourt (pacman+AUR). You can even add a signed repo with precompiled llvm-svn.

Running mesa 13.1-dev/amdgpu/CIK/opengl4.5. stable as always, but newest version.

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