Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: rkfgI have a feeling that as SteamPlay becomes more and more reliable this situation will become common. I wonder what Valve would do if anything at all.

If it does and Valve do nothing it's going to seriously erode some trust.

The flip side to that is it makes better business sense not to do anything as the majority of people talk a good game about supporting linux gaming yet at the same time they are playing Doom 2016 fallout 4 etc which have no linux friendly policies.I hope for more native games but am thinking this is going to be become more and more common.

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Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Honestly I preferred new dawn it the story was more interesting and if you want to find out what happens to the two main characters from farcry 5 its all there.

I main issue with it is that it's quite unrealistic. Nukes blast the world, yet this area somehow thrives because of it.. Seems like an excuse to keep same assets really. Guess I'm just too use to the harsh fallout universe
(even tho its unrealistic also since if such mayhem was going on there would be no humans left!)

Well yes that is certainly true though the reason for thriving world is explained but it is very hand wavey and brief. But cant help thinking if you came to a video game for realism you maybe looking in the wrong place.

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Quoting: g000hNot that I'm especially keen to do this, but I'm interested in the specific steps needed to run an Ubisoft title, including the Ubisoft launcher from Steam Play/Proton without resorting to Lutris. This type of thing (running non-Steam titles on Proton) has been mentioned before on GOL, so if someone is able to point me in the right direction. Or if someone wants to share (non-Lutris) steps here, it would be very appreciated.

Not sure what you have against the open source tool lutris but if you want actual wine steps check wine db or http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/forums/guides [External Link] it does use the play on linux tool however it does tell you exact dlls and dependancies you will need to install it on vanilla wine.

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Quoting: zkarjI'd rather wait for Linux port than purchase Windows version, however long that takes. No reason to give developers a leeway to not focus on Linux port.

So never then as its a Ubisoft title and they have no partnership with feral

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Quoting: gustavoyaraujoAbout LibreOffice...

I'm sorry, but LibreOffice is waaaaaaaaaaay more complete and powerful than thre FreeOffice suite, also the LibreOffice document format is open to everyone and the Document Foundation care about the freedom in that area. Yes, FreeOffice has nice compatibility with MS Office fomats, but there is no problem to put that in the oficial repos of as a flatpak. The LibreOffice replacement is bad because We should fight for freedom in the document formats. That's something related to education, that's why it bothers me.

Free office just got an update to read open formats and yes it has more software for example softmaker offering does not have a database program, however the document formats war was lost long ago MS office is the default suite for any serious company it just is. Now we could argue that is because of marketing unfair licence agreements etc but its just the state of play at the minute.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: pbProprietary office suite? Software store? I thought Manjaro was just arch with more conservative approach to packages, but it seems that it's to Arch something like Ubuntu to Debian? I'll stick with the vanilla distro, thank you very much. ;-)

I was kind of wondering why anyone would want a non-Free office suite that wasn't Microsoft Office. I personally don't want Microsoft Office, but there are reasons someone would. Anything else has all the disadvantages of LibreOffice from "not being MS Office" and I find it hard to imagine it being as good as LibreOffice in terms of features unless someone sank ten billion bucks into it which you'd think we'd have heard about, and then on top of that it'd be non-Free. What's the use-case here?

Free office is well free there is a paid version but they are a ms gold software partner and they in my experience have much better ms compatability than libreoffice and wps office on linux. Basically if you want/ need the highest compatability softmaker office 2018 or their freeoffice is as good as it gets on linux. There are few comparrisons on omg ubuntu between Only office wps libre & freeoffice. Not taking anything away from Libre its a very well polished suite that can basically give you everything you would need as a day to day office suite. (unless you use complex formula or heavily formatted docx documents)

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Quoting: sr_ls_boyHow are they able to get around easy anti-cheat? I literally
had to patch the executable to get Far Cry 5 to run at all.

well theres always https://lutris.net/games/far-cry-new-dawn/ [External Link] and its works

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Quoting: TheRiddickJust goes to show how good DXVK can be if given the chance.

Shame the game is mostly a repaint of the previous one, which seemed better in some respects.

Honestly I preferred new dawn it the story was more interesting and if you want to find out what happens to the two main characters from farcry 5 its all there.

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Quoting: 14Emphasis mine:

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: ShmerlWould be nice if they also focus on KDE as the primary supported DE, and will help speeding up its development.

Personally I would rather xfce became their primary and only de but thats because I like the fact its very memory efficent and i have plenty of ram i just dont like bloat code that comes with a vanilla kde base.

In just a handful of posts, you can see why more than one DE needs to be supported. Why would you want fewer options for the masses? I don't understand.

Okay first it was the original poster that said he wanted kde only my counter point was if there was only going to be one flavour of manjaro i would rather it was xfce. Secondly on your last point no there needs to be fewer options as it does tend to scare off potential windows converts. They go to say manjaro webpage they hit the download button and bam 4 options so imagine you have never used linux before at all and youve been on windows all your life. On one hand you could say oh wow look at the options on the other hand they might well go (and this seems likely as i have worked with a large number of windows users) no i just want an os i dont know what kde is or xfce i just want linux and they are done no second chances.
Why windows works for the majority is there is no choice its windows there is only feature options home prem everybody understands that now if windows started shipping windows aero windows basic windows dx12 windows dx11 then you would see message boards fill with is there just a regular windows i can download. Options are great if you know what they are if you dont its just a confusing mess.

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Quoting: ShmerlWould be nice if they also focus on KDE as the primary supported DE, and will help speeding up its development.

Personally I would rather xfce became their primary and only de but thats because I like the fact its very memory efficent and i have plenty of ram i just dont like bloat code that comes with a vanilla kde base.

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