Played a little bit with the one at FOSDEM, felt reasonably weighted, liked the port layout, but the shell felt like the stereotypical sticky when dry and slippery when wet plastic of a cheap aftermarket controller, and the shape was a little too smooth - so there was no real way to get a solid grip on it.
I really like the fact that it has trackpads though, unfortunately the positioning of them makes it almost impossible to use both trackpads and sticks in any meaningful combination. You either have to hold the console so that you can comfortably use the pads, or you have to hold it so you can comfortably use the sticks and buttons, there wasn't really a middle ground for my hand size at least.

Spent a while chatting about the immutable design, and from the answers to my questions it's been really well thought out, though there seemed to be an awful lot of weight placed on the fact that it would be as easy as possible to disable the immutability.

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Quoting: andriishafarIsn't this what steam flatpak does? They don't use Steam Linux Runtime/Steam Runtime Tools for Proton flatpak. Linux is all about "everyone, quick, let's build same thing but different"

The Steam Flatpak has used regular Steam + pressure-vessel (and therefore also regular Steam Linux Runtime and Proton 5.13+) since Flatpak 1.11.1 - at least as long as bubblewrap isn't installed setuid by your dist.

In fact, the old separate Flatpak extensions for Proton haven't been updated in years and are very likely to be removed soon - they're already archived on GitHub.

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I wonder if one of these gaming hardware companies are ever going to stick trackpads on their competing devices.

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The screen is definitely quite drool-worthy, though I wish it would've had a few more nits. Not that I expect to replace my current laptop for a while, sitting with the TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOne of the DEs should get on the VR HUD usage soonish. With things like what the Apple thing is, and some very rough support already for SteamVR, I'm expecting we're likely 10ish years away from basically having floating displays via small glasses. Can already sort of do it with the Xreal air glasses and a Mac, the software still kind of stinks, so it's only a matter of time.

xrdesktop has had integrations with KDE (and GNOME) for a while at this point, so the desktop use-case for AR/VR is already there - with some limitations of course.

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Quoting: Valck

Quoting: AnanaceThe thing that I like the absolute most about this, is that there's not a hint of Electron in the new code, instead just regular C# and Avalonia (which has Linux as a first-class citizen)

Yay, no Electron, invented at GitHub, owned by Microsoft. Instead, a first class .NET citizen. Nothing to see here, move along.

:D

I'll take an application written in a high performance open-source programming language with full support for native Linux binaries, using a native UI framework with full support for Linux, over anything that in any way, shape, or form includes Google Chrome or the insanity that is Javascript (or Microsoft's Typescript like the old Vortex).

I wouldn't have minded a Rust implementation either, nor a C++ Qt/Gtk one.
But C# makes a lot of sense. Especially if they want it to be easily extendable, since that's something which C# does amazingly well.

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The thing that I like the absolute most about this, is that there's not a hint of Electron in the new code, instead just regular C# and Avalonia (which has Linux as a first-class citizen)

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Quoting: LinasSo wait wait wait... Is this a sequel to a game that is not released yet?

I was thinking along the same lines. This is like an addon to a game that isn't released yet -- a distraction. It makes me have no faith Star Citizen will ever release. I'm glad I haven't paid any money.

To be fair, Squadron 42 was a main goal from the very first day. The initial pitch was for Squadron 42 as a modern Wing Commander, with Star Citizen reusing the same work to provide an MMO component as well.

Of course, during the development it's Star Citizen that's been pushed to the people first, since a live-service MMO offers much more possibility for driving funding to the development.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: AnanaceI'd definitely suggest trying it out during one of the free fly periods they run if you're interested in space games, one will be coming up next month for their IAE event.

Does this mean Star Citizen can be tried for free sometimes?

Yep.

They run at least three free fly events every year; Invictus Launch Week in May, Foundation Festival in July, and the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo in November.

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Quoting: a0kamiFeel free to join the Linux Users Group (LUG) community/organization, they always find a way to get the latest version working on linux, submit issues, try patches, provides custom build if needed and most importantly walk you through any kind of troubleshooting. Can't say for sure there were recent group play sessions but with the new Pyro system just around the corner to try out, I'm sure this'll give an interest boost!

It's worth noting that the Linux User Group org in Star Citizen is currently the #14 largest of all organizations, and we also have a couple of people in the Evocati Test Flight - the basically pre-pre-alpha testing group - so Linux fixes and such are usually ready by the time any patch is available for the wider audience.

I'd definitely suggest trying it out during one of the free fly periods they run if you're interested in space games, one will be coming up next month for their IAE event.
I also most definitely recommend not grabbing anything more expensive than the basic starter pack ($45), the more expensive stuff is only if you really want to support the development.

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