Quoting: bubexel

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: bubexelIt reminds me people saying same at half life 2 because it had no software rendering and no everybody can afford a video accelerated card. When you play for first time 3D games with a good accelerated videogame you don't want anymore software accelerated games. Same feeling i have with VR. I have a problem with flat games atm to be honest.

Not the same thing. Hardware accelerated rendering was a better replacement for software rendering. However, VR gaming is not a replacement traditional gaming. It is an entirely different beast that needs a different approach to games. I would love to have more high quality VR games, but I don't want to give up the regular ones.

It's exactly the same thing. VR is a better replacement of Flat Monitors. 3D games was not replacing tradicional gaming, we still have 2D release gamings.

Nope, definitely not. Sure, I don't want to play Elite:Dangerous on a monitor anymore. That's literally how good the VR "upgrade" is for that game. It also gets around the "gross motor control" point made by another poster here, because I'm still using my keyboard/mouse (or joystick/HOTAS) and the headset is just for immersion. But my god, the immersion. It's... hard to describe how game-changing it is.

But conversely, I don't want to play Noita in VR. Or indeed, the vast bulk of twitch FPS games I love. And anyway, my desktop is still 2D, so unless a compelling VR-based desktop comes along, I'm still going to play certain games in 2D even if they could benefit from 3D, because I use my desktop while playing them.

Honestly, even if that 3D desktop comes along, I still don't buy that VR is a natural upgrade path from a monitor, simply because the hardware isn't there yet. I played about 5 hours of Elite in one session at the weekend there and when I took the headset off, not only was my hair a mess, but my "panda face" was spectacular, and I had soreness across my cheek bones from where the headset rubs very lightly. Hardware will have to improve by two or more generations before this stuff becomes viable.

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I used to back "no tux no bucks", but it's had its day. I still focus mostly on only buying Linux games, sure, but I realise now that doing so won't impact the market in any way at all. Not just "won't impact the market meaningfully"... I mean it "won't impact the market AT ALL". So I've made exceptions, I'm glad I did (Elite! Noita!), and I'll continue to do so.

What Valve is doing is visionary. Literally, visionary, as in it will take decades to see through to fruition.

Here's a great story I heard in a leadership talk. Back in the 1950's Sony came up with this vision: "Become the company most known for changing the worldwide poor-quality image of Japanese products". It's a brilliant vision - punchy, specific, measurable. But of course, it took 30 years for that to become something that didn't make people laugh out loud. And then with products like the Walkman in the early 80's, then the PS1 in the 90's, and the VAIO laptops in the 2000's, then the Bravia TV line-up... they succeeded.

Actually, their vision today is less impressive - "to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology, and to nurture innovation to enrich and improve people's lives". It's less impressive because it's not really measurable. But that first vision! It was risky. It was bold. what a story. What a vision.

Looking at Valve, I suspect their vision (for Linux) is something along the lines of "Make gaming platform-agnostic without impacting a developer's choice of toolset". Hence the focus on Proton. The work with Collabora and Codeweavers. Their improvements to the graphics stack, drivers and kernel. It'll take decades, but I think that one day, Linux gamers will simply buy a game and expect it to run. How risky is that? How bold?!

DRM? Anti-cheat? Shaders? Installation? Media playback? External peripherals? Experience? Performance? Contollers? VR? All of it will be irrelevant, because you're running Linux and all the hard work has been done.

That's a vision I can get behind, even if I might not even be alive to benefit from it.

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Looks like most people here agree with my views, so I won't repeat them. Only one outspoken defendant of Denuvo/DRM/Anti-Cheat, which is... well, one more than I'd expect in a Linux-focused community, but then there are millions of us now, so it's not hard to accept that there will be more and more Linux users that don't care, or understand, the harm of these technologies.

Indeed if we have any hope of growing beyond 1%, then we need more such gamers to join the ranks and, well, game. Regardless of the DRM/anti-cheat landscape.

But I'll stick to my guns. I despise Denuvo as a company for their root-kit approach to DRM. I've refused entire Humble Choice months in the past because they've featured Denuvo-ridden games (although annoyingly got the one with Yakuza before I realised). I don't support them and I never will. Despite how open they're being here, I sincerely hope their efforts on the anti-cheat front fails spectacularly. The last thing we need is yet another prevalent EAC-like solution barring entry to online games. And Denuvo's previous record shows that once they've cornered enough of the anti-cheat market, they'd start bundling their DRM too, making gaming worse in literally every possible way - intrusive, compulsory for single-player, reduced performance, binary, proprietary bullshit.

No thanks.

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So many people commenting "I don't want this", which is... weird. This isn't aimed at people who use Linux. They'll build this into the Steam client and then hard-core Windows users who want to dip their toe into the Linux waters can, with no repercussions. No, it might not be the best possible experience. Yes, hardware variance will make this tricky.

None of that is the point of the article though, which just pointing out that Steam want to increase visibility of Linux as a viable platform. This sounds pretty cool. And it won't affect us at all.

For my two cents, I'd like them to have made some inroads on EAC and BattleEye first. Most Windows games trying out a Linux key to see how Steam runs will want their big online games running, I think. And that's a big challenge, because of course Epic hate Valve. Not sure how that will play out. It's not like Epic will throw us a bone here - they probably already regret their Linux EAC client. No-one at Epic appears to care about Linux at all, least of their blind-sided CEO - I swear, if he calls Windows an open platform one more time... what a muppet.

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I'll no doubt pick this up, since I'm a fan - I patron Kitsune Games to the tune of a dollar or so a month, but it's really Lore Finder (Steam [External Link], Itch [External Link] that I'm waiting for! It's got a real Rogue Legacy vibe, but with Cthulu overtones. One to wishlist if you haven't already.

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I just couldn't figure this one out when I played it. I'd consume a bunch of cloud, which gave me one part of what I apparently needed, but then started running out of something that wasn't on the map, and I couldn't consume enough of the thing I needed. Tried about four or five times, with subtle variations of that theme.

Hopefully they've added some kind of meaningful tutorial now, cos it's otherwise completely baffling. I never even got the editor parts where you somehow evolve into new form, with new abilities. Just a constant cycle of "eat wrong thing, start to die quite quickly"!

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Quoting: sudoerEndeavourOS is very overrated imo and one should be using ArcoLinux, Manjaro, or vanilla Arch directly imo, as they (EOS) practically are doing nothing for Arch, they just offer the Calamares installer and a feminine purple theming and that's it, leeching the Arch servers for free and pretending "oh but my forum is so friendly compared to Arch". At least other projects like ArcoLinux or Manjaro actually DO something for Linux, like making Linux more accessible to newbies, providing good and helpful scripts, developing apps like pamac, teaching stuff and providing FAR more options (just compare the Calamares installer for ArcoLinux and the Calamares for Endeavour). You should have used the testing branch on Manjaro anyway, it's just some days behind Arch, practically the same and stable AF. As for bashing the Manjaro devs because one dev needed a beefy machine for developing, testing and building stuff and some immature whiners who like to whine and troll everywhere (a typical internet behavior) made a riot, that's just childish behavior of the kindergarden.

I think you're missing the entire point of open source. The act of "standing on the shoulders of giants" isn't "leeching". It's the entire premise of the distro scene.

As for whining and trolling, perhaps you should consider the tone of your own post here.

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I played a fantasy village builder on Android years ago and this game has very similar vibes. Build the village up, attract heroes, outfit and send them off. They come back with treasure, spend it in your taverns, and buy better kit. It's really compulsive stuff.

I didn't realise this was released. It'll be my next purchase once I get through Wasteland 3.

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Looking forward to this, even though I didn't play the first one too much. I've seen quite a few gameplay videos and it's just beautiful. Insta-buy for me.

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Quoting: dibz

Quoting: scaineCertainly, Mint's biggest problem is the lack of an upgrade path. You basically have to re-install every two years, simple as that. Hardly ideal. But otherwise, it's amazing. So why am I constantly on the lookout for another distro...? :grin:

Oh? The upgrade path typically "opens" shortly after new releases, and they appear as a menu item in the update manager. The update manager does not, however, alert you about this; I believe that's intentional as the Mint camp typically, as well as any sane person would, tell a person not to do a major upgrade unless they had an actual reason to. It's fair to say I probably only knew about this because I subscribe to their rss feed on their homepage, and when they announce new releases, they also announce upgrade instructions typically; I doubt I'd be aware of the details otherwise. It's a few clicks to do and is pretty similar to just doing a normal update. All that being the case, if you don't mind doing new installs, keep doing them IMHO. Any OS, Windows and OSX included, tends to appreciate a fresh start once in a while. I've used the upgrade method for the last few major versions.

That said, for a long, long, time I've only made two data partitions for my installs -- home, and everything else, so if/when I ever need to do the nuclear option and actually reinstall it takes maybe twenty minutes combined; including picking out whatever software selection post install. Pretty much all my settings/icons/themes are in my home directory anyway, so even a fresh install takes very little time -- but I still haven't had to in a long time now. Not to make this about Windows, but honestly, whenever I have to do a full windows install it tends to be an all day affair in comparison; I'm not sure when it happened, but I tell ya, setting up Linux sure became far easier then windows at some point.

That's really interesting. I only use about 3 or 4 PPAs (Mesa, Wine, Chrome/Dropbox and OBS), but I've found the Mint upgrade to be a real train wreck. It refused to upgrade unless I downgraded all my packages first, which took ages. Then finally upgraded, then I had to restore all my PPAs, and so on. It was painful stuff. To be fair, Ubuntu isn't hugely better - but it automates a lot of the process for you.

But just look at these instructions... holy cow. https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2 [External Link]

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