Back when this PC came out, my only experience of Linux was playing about with LiveCDs, such as Mandriva. It wasn't a great desktop back then - manually mounting CDs and USB sticks, and trying to figure out the correct AT&T commands to script up an internet dialler!

My god, we take so much for granted now...

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I played a LOT of this game back in its (original) day. It led me on to ET: Quake Wars too, which was another massive time-sync. Happy memories.

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Absolutely incredible work. Also, a great month generally between launches of both Valheim and Hadean Tactics. And Loop Hero is just around the corner too!

Now if we can just get out lockdown, I'll be a very happy (and quite possibly drunk) bunny.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: amataiSure. But transitioning from "no tux, no bucks" to "no tux, bucks" will take a few year more for me before feeling natural.

I've mentioned it before, but for me Proton can mean "no Tux, some bucks." Without Linux support there's no way they're getting full price, but if they haven't made their game not work in Proton then there's a chance they could get a couple of quid. More if they've committed to keeping it working, rather than having it work by accident and stop working at some point in the future by accident.

That's a great point. Every single game I've bought that's Windows-only has either been through Humble Choice or an absolutely mahooosive sale on Steam. Like 75%+ sale. Meanwhile, I'll generally pay full price for a Linux native game.

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Quoting: ronnoc

Quoting: scaineI mean, how stupid a decision is it really? That I had to install Thunar AND geany, just so I could make a single line edit to my file, the way I've done so for years, and the way that I can do so on every other desktop environment available? That's... pretty stupid, I reckon.

On KDE Plasma on can install Konqueror in under a minute. By the way, it's a really awesome Midnight Commander, twin pane file manager (and more).

Konqueror is KDE's Webbrowser and swiss-army-knife for any kind of file-management and file previewing.

Features:

Webbrowsing using KHTML or KDEWebKit as rendering engines
File management using most of Dolphin's features (including version-control, service menus and the basic UI)
File management on ftp and sftp servers
Full featured FTP-client (you can split views to display local and remote folders and previews in the same window)
Embedded applications to preview files (e.g. Okular and Calligra for documents, Gwenview for pictures, KTextEditor for text-files)
Different kinds of plugins: Service-menus, KParts (embedded applications), KIO (accessing files using special protocols like http or ftp) and KPart-plugins (like AdBlocker...)

Someone further up also mentioned Krusader, too! I'm not actually a huge fan of split-pane file explorers, but I do prefer file explorers which offer the facility if required. I tend to replace Nautilus, with its fork, Nemo, for that very reason. Nautilus patched out F3, whereas Nemo keeps it available. Very handy for when you have multiple file copies to perform.

I did give KDE another few hours of airtime on my laptop, via Endeavour O/S, a few days ago. However, I quickly ditched it - more a reflection on Endeavour than KDE though. I get why Liam like Endeavour, but at its core, it's still Arch, and needs soooo much more work for basic things. I went on to try Elementary OS, but was put off by how custom everything felt. That and the fact that they really push the paid apps at you in their store. Which is kind of awesome really, but it's little in your face. I jumped ship to Pop OS, which I'm continuing to run now, day three. It's okay, but Gnome Shell is generally such a gigantic step back in functionality. I'm not sure I can stand it. I'm going to persevere for a few weeks at least, however, before deciding whether to reformat back to Mint. Give it a chance to win me over.

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: scaineWho the hell is this absolute mentalist? Utmost respect, if not trolling...

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Edit to add... holy cow, there are THREE such people. Three. smh.

Are you alright scaine? :grin::tongue:

Well, I'm clearly 11 monitors short of "alright", but otherwise fine, I suppose.

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Who the hell is this absolute mentalist? Utmost respect, if not trolling...



Edit to add... holy cow, there are THREE such people. Three. smh.

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BoxVR can be pretty intense, but sure enough it's pretty basic in terms of what you actually do - three types of punches, dodge left/right and a squat. I can still call it a decent workout if you go for the 30 minute sessions though.

But this is great. I'll give it a go at the weekend, hopefully my tendonitis will have cleared up by then!!

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Quoting: AkonadyDeath to Early Acess games!!!

Nah, when they're done well, it's a great experience. You just have to look in the right places, use a bit of judgement. And if you're still not sold... fine. They don't affect you if you want to wait for the finished product.

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Quoting: scaineI was reading about Ingenuity's flight time recently. It's a trial flight only and expected to last only 90 seconds before crashing back to the planet surface.

From the solar panels, I kind of naively assumed that it was intended to stay airborne... forever! Perhaps docking back with Perseverance in the event of a storm, before buzzing back into the skies to provide aerial support for Perseverance's next foray around the crater.

Nope. 90 seconds, a bunch of data collected, crashing far, far away from Perseverance where it has no risk of damaging the main star of the show!!

Still an amazing accomplishment if they get it airborne though, given the atmosphere - the helicopter blades need to spin insanely fast in order to generate any lift! If it gets 10 seconds of airtime, I imagine the engineers will be delighted!

That's a little different to what they said on the livestream (5 flights planned in total). Starved for interesting news like this, must find more!

Interesting! The Wikipedia article [External Link] alludes to multiple flights too - each of which may last up to 90 seconds. Huh. I got my info from a Discovery Channel thing that was running a couple of nights ago. Fingers crossed it lands safely enough to recharge and take off again. God, it'll only take one high-wind landing to potentially scupper it!

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