Quoting: KROMNow, if they finally would create a new control center for Linux to configure all that fancy stuff, that'd be awesome.

Why? What would be in such a control centre? One of the things I love about AMD's design on Linux is explicitly NOT having any configuration to do. I just tick, or untick vsync in each game and it works (whereas on Nvidia, it was a coin-toss if it did anything at all).

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: scaineI enjoyed my time on Mint. The kernel is a bit disappointing, but both Mint and Pop OS have kernel managers built-in anyway, so you can easily upgrade with a couple of clicks from the settings app.

what is the benefit of running a more upto date kernal vs a cutting edge one such as on arch if your not running an AMD/Intel GPU ? i know that there is sometimes new hardware that would be supported better but for the average person is there really that much of a difference ?

Mainly just hardware support. I got into running up to date mainline kernels when I got my Ryzen 3900X cpu, which didn't work well with the older kernel shipped with Mint at the time.

These days, I run xanmod kernels because I want Fsync support in Proton (and Futex2 when it lands). I do own a PS5 controller... a dualsense, I think they're called... and I'm not sure what kernel version added that, but I like to be reasonably cutting edge for this, while the rest of the OS is really stable. It feels like a nice compromise.

But definitely not necessary, no.

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I enjoyed my time on Mint. The kernel is a bit disappointing, but both Mint and Pop OS have kernel managers built-in anyway, so you can easily upgrade with a couple of clicks from the settings app.

I'll stick with Pop for the moment though. Having made the jump to gnome for xrdesktop, I don't really want to go back to Cinnamon, despite how slick it is. Maybe one day.

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Between this, and yesterday's Death Trash stream, it's all about the vomit, apparently!! :grin:

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Good guy Kalypso!

I only have a handful of their games, but I'm keeping my eye on Spacebase Startopia!

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/kalypso [External Link]

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Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: scaineI had a lot of fun with this. Great atmosphere and just the right level of "difficult, but do-able". Unlike when I played Dark Souls 3 and absolutely hated how unforgiving it is. Some of Hellpoints fights are hard, sure, but nothing like as bad as that.

I actually finished this and enjoyed most of my 35 hours doing so.

I don't think that DS3 is unforgiving, is the most fair in the series IMO. Even the fantastic Nameless King.

DS2 is bad, cheap encounters, a lot of awkward traps.

The knights in DS3 don't observe stamina, so they just spam constant huge attacks. I hate it when games lay out mechanics, then just plain ignores it for enemies. I love Advance Wars, but it still pisses me off when enemy artillery ignores fog of war... but my artillery don't.

So, I went off DS3 pretty quickly.

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606

Quoting: scaineI had a lot of fun with this. Great atmosphere and just the right level of "difficult, but do-able". Unlike when I played Dark Souls 3 and absolutely hated how unforgiving it is. Some of Hellpoints fights are hard, sure, but nothing like as bad as that.

I actually finished this and enjoyed most of my 35 hours doing so.

The final fight the with final 'True' bosses can be brutal.

If you mean the gods, then I skipped one of them, but of the two I fought, one was pretty straightforward, the other I couldn't beat because he did too much radiation damage... but then I came back in a space suit and it was a total breeze!

I think the game lets you potentially massively "underbalance" your stats. I was a heavy armour guy, so I had taken many, many points in Load... something you just wouldn't do if you wore light armour. But if you try to fight the radiation god without that space suit, I genuinely wonder how you could survive. But without tonnes of points in Load, if you wear the space suit, you basically can't move.

Other than that minor piece of potentially unbalanced gameplay, it's great though. I love the potential customisations. And some of the weapons are just so satisfying (although again, you'll tend to specialise massively around just one of them, sadly).

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Aw yeah. Really looking forward to this. It's been a long time coming.

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I had a lot of fun with this. Great atmosphere and just the right level of "difficult, but do-able". Unlike when I played Dark Souls 3 and absolutely hated how unforgiving it is. Some of Hellpoints fights are hard, sure, but nothing like as bad as that.

I actually finished this and enjoyed most of my 35 hours doing so.

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Can't wait for this. The dev is very active and funny on Twitter : https://twitter.com/talecrafter?lang=en [External Link] and the game just looks like great fun. And now it's getting a demo? Sign me up!!

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