Lovely atmosphere. It's giving me a weird Outer Wilds vibe too which is no bad thing. One month to wait, then!

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"Death finds a way". Haha! Clever girl...

Love the bike scene too. This feels like "The Forest" had a baby with "Jurassic Park". Surely an essential purchase! :grin:

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I very nearly resurrected my 2018 mini-series "Play It Now" for this title last year. But Liam had already written three articles on it, including a short review, so I dropped the idea. But yeah, in short, go play this now. It's fun, uplifing, engaging and great value.

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: scaineI wonder if this will ever get deb/ppa support.

WIP, track the request here [External Link]

Sounds like a hell of a journey! Although a lot of it about the licensing for Debian. Interesting that they're making Oibaf the dependency model for their deb/ppa work. I wonder if it's compatible with Kisak, or I have to switch PPAs when they have a build out?!

Thanks for the link regardless.

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I'd love to know if they'd considered launching on Itch.io. It's definitely where I prefer to buy games (especially indies) now, due to the tipping options. I do prefer if such an option includes a Steam key right enough, if only for the convenience of managing my library from a single place.

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As usual, I can recommend Lightworks for its incredible stability. But the free version is hobbled to 720p output, so if that's a factor, then you'd have to take one of the subscriptions - but it's a viable model to use the free version to get everything lined up, then buy a month's sub at £15 to do a specific piece of work.

https://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=213 [External Link]

I can't say I've used it for complex/heavy stuff, but it has been used in the film industry, so it's certainly capable. And it's the only video editor I've ever used that hasn't crashed, ever.

Otherwise, Kdenlive is the only video editor I'd trust not to crash every 10 minutes or so, so it's the one I use when I just need to quickly splice together a couple of streams of footage. If they've further improved stability, that's a huge win.

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I wonder if this will ever get deb/ppa support. I'm just not a fan of "locally" (i.e. non-managed) installed software. Such a cool project too.

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Quoting: soulsourceI dug out the very first PC game my parents bought for me: The Settlers 2. 24 years after release it's still an incredibly awesome game, and of all Settlers games I've played it's still my absolute favourite (though it might be the nostalgia talking :tongue:). Runs perfectly fine in Dosbox.
Apart from that I've been playing Death and Taxes, and while it's fun, it lacks a bit of challenge.

I spent many hours in Settlers 2 - it has an atmosphere which is hard to describe, but which hooked me in. Combined with that perfect learning curve and mid to late-game challenge, it's a classic.

I might try Widelands, after Liam covered it a few weeks back: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/07/inspired-by-settlers-ii-the-open-source-widelands-has-a-new-test-build-up

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Quoting: randyl

Quoting: berarmaI would have liked that you started with a supported title like HL:Alyx. It would have been more representative of the state of SteanVR on GNU/Linux.

Besides, add to that, like others said, that you're using an unsupported distro and it seems you're going for the big prize. Yesterday I read Lutris isn't supporting Mint for the issues with Wine games.

I'd like to read the experiences from someone not going so hard on it.

Wait, does Valve VR only support Ubuntu? That would be a terrible marketing decision on their part.

Like all Valve products, Ubuntu is the only "official" supported platform. However, as you can see from this article, Mint works with a bit of foresight, and I can see extensive notes on the ArchWiki [External Link] too, so there's plenty of platforms you can use if you prefer not to go with Ubuntu. You haven't filled in your profile details, so I can't see what distro you do run, but I unless it's Linux From Scratch, I doubt you'll have too many issues making this stuff work.

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Quoting: CatKillerOff Topic:

Quoting: scaineAnd I just can't enjoy my desktop when it's Gnome3. It doesn't gel, despite my giving it 6 months to do so.

But Mint! Holy cow, what a slick, beautiful experience it is. Better... better(!) than Unity, in my opinion. I have fallen in love with my desktop all over again. So, giving up Mint for a slightly better VR experience isn't on the cards, I'm afraid!

I was in a similar position to you. I had Cinnamon on my laptop because, at the time I got it, the high-DPI support was best, and I was getting increasingly annoyed by Gnome 3 on my desktop.

When I built my new desktop I gave KDE a try. Within a week I decided to switch my laptop to KDE as well, since I liked it so much more.

In particular, and the reason I'm mentioning it, the out-of-the-box audio configuration for setting device priorities - and having different priorities for different classes of audio application if you want that - is way better than what you get on the GTK side, since they had all that already for Phonon.

If you do get itchy feet to try something different, that's the direction that I'd suggest you try.

While I was disilluioned by Gnome3 on my primary PC for that 6 months I mentioned in another comnent... I actually ran KDE (I think it was Kubuntu, or KDE Neon, one of the two) on my laptop.

Two things put me off using it. First, the KDE devs have a funny attitude about Nvidia, and at the time, my primary PC was running a GTX1080, so I couldn't see myself using it.

But second, and most importantly, I've been a gnome-fanboi since 2005! I know it inside and out. It's familiar. And while certain things were really nice in KDE, other things were a pain. One thing in particular I hated is that both Kate (the text editor) and Dolphin (the file manager) are crippled to disallow running as sudo. Now, I get it - they're trying to promote good behaviour. But when an O/S makes it THIS hard to do what I want, it's become something I really resent. It thinks it knows better than I do.

If there were a simple('sh) fix for this behaviour, I'd have shrugged my shoulders and continued to use KDE. But it wasn't simple. It was painful. The absolute simplest way around this was to, I shit you not, install thunar and gedit/xed. That felt like ridiculous overkill for the five or six tasks I need admin for when I'm installing a new O/S I'm trying to fall in love with. It put me on the back foot with KDE right from the start. So when the papercuts began, I felt them more keenly. I hated that every app had to have a K in it. I hated how there's no "desktop" and I had to create a desktop widget for the 3 or 4 files I temporarily use the desktop for. I hated how confusing and convoluted the control panel is (better than KDE3, but still a mess). There was more, but I moved on.

I'll give it another try at some point, I'm sure. I like to check in with DE's and distros on my laptop, I usually test at around two a year. I'm overdue for another shot at Manjaro. Serebit won't shut up about Budgie. I want to see what the fuss is about Elementary. And I haven't used XFCE in over 5 years.

But Mint will take some beating. I love it. It feels good, it looks amazing, and it performs wonderfully. But you never know!

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