I think there's a bit of selective memory going on here too. GOL has covered numerous Windows-only titles that work well in Proton. Deep Rock Galactic, No Man's Sky, Halo: Combat Evolved, Risk of Rain2, Pandemic Express, Elite: Dangerous to name a few.

Plus all the emulation news, distro news and occasional review, VR chat, hardware announcements, proton/wine version updates. I stay here because of that diversity. I can put up with the odd Stadia announcement that I don't care about!

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelIs that shelf optional or do I have to remove it by editing the files like for the news section? BTW: anyone else noticed constant shader cache downloads reappearing for proton games after the last update

From the article:

Also, since it's using the Shelf system it can be moved around or removed entirely if you don't find it useful.

Yep, I got a few shader cache downloads recently, but only about two or three for the 50+ games I have installed. It's not like the original bug that was constantly downloading cache's (often zero bytes) for every game.

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Thanks to this month's Humble Choice, I topped the big "thou" this week. 1002 games and counting! According to SteamDB's Calculator, I've only played just over 50% of them... but never mind that! 1000!!! Wooo!

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Quoting: gabber

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: velemas@Liam please do not associate Stadia with Linux gaming, there are a lot more of Linux fans outside of 14 lucky countries where Stadia is available. Currently Stadia means nothing to me and likely in foreseeable future if at all.

In any case i wonder how Logitech g29 will be managed in Stadia.

It's playing games, on Linux. I will cover it and I shall continue to do so. Don't like it? Don't read it. Filter it out if you must in your profile settings.

As a reminder to all: This website is Gaming On Linux, don't put us in a box of your own making. We cover everything.

The issue is not the covering, but the wording "good news for Linux fans". I am a Linux fan, but I don't consider games going on stadia as good news. Quite the opposite for many reasons, and it seems I am not alone. Let's say there is a diversity of opinions on the topic.
So, sure, cover it. But please don't call it "good news for Linux fans".

PS: auto-correct options for stadia : sadist and diastase

Sure, you (and I) are individuals who are Linux fans, but not impressed by Stadia. But plenty of other Linux users are delighted by Stadia. So "Linux fans" is perfectly applicable. Let's not get all "not all men" on this subject: if you don't fit the "Linux fans" group in this case... who cares? If you're not interested in Stadia, don't read the article, don't interact on it.

Easier just to ignore it and move on to something that interests you. Define yourself by things you love, not the things you hate.

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Stadia means nothing to me either, but I love that GOL is always clear in its article titles - there's never clickbait (why would there be, as there are no adverts), so I have no problem with the site covering such things. I suppose the tag filtering is there too, but I haven't felt the need to filter anything.

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Yep, that's stylish as hell! What a great concept. It almost looks realtime, which is putting me off a bit... but surely not?? I think I'll wishlist this for the moment and track it along.

Edit: It's definitely turn-based: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wZbiqNrO5M [External Link]

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I have to say, Dubigrasu, you've really knocked this out of the park:

https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/245680 [External Link]

You're the fourth top contributor overall and I see that GOL has moved up to rank "558 of 252994". Insane. Especially when you view the top contributors and many have literally only contributed to GOL!!

Incredible and nothing to feel guilty about if you need to reign it in a little. I went for two or three weeks without any GPU jobs for the same reason, but without GPU, you're only really scoring about 10K a night, whereas you can easily top 200K a night if you use your GPU (I'm on a GTX 1080). But wow, does the PC get hot!

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It's weird. I hate tiling in the same way I hate fullscreen windows, apart from when I'm playing games. I think it's a carry over from being old. Back in the VGA era, you only really could run fullscreen. I remember going to university and they had these insane hi-res green screens attached to crazy-powerful unix PCs and suddenly I could have the equivalent of 10 full screen windows ON SCREEN AT THE SAME TIME. It defined me, I think. Clearly, because tiling WMs are lame.

Besides. I have pretty backgrounds. You can't take that from me.

(I realise that I can still have 10 full screen windows on screen at the same time in a tiling WM. My point is that it doesn't feel the same, because it just looks like one massive full screen window with a bunch of stuff going on. Nope. It's not rational. It's just the way I feel.)

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Went ahead and bought the game today. It handles ultrawide resolutions really well and this is really one of the few as many 2D games don't scale well.

Linux port (GOG release) running fine:

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Is having huge black borders unusually well support? :)
(Though I wouldn't know how they could do it better, given their checkerboard setup.)

See Ehvis' comment earlier in the thread - there's no corruption, menus and backgrounds fill out correctly.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääDistrohopping ended here on this distro. Nvidia-driver installation (as far as i remember) was a world of pain everywhere else.

Thanks Phil and the whole Manjaro crew!

I've never had a problem installing nvidia drivers on Kubuntu. Just open the driver manager, click, and you're done.

In ten years of using Linux, I've experienced precisely one time where I struggled with the Nvidia driver on Ubuntu - when I tried to install it from Nvidia's site. I can't even remember why I was doing so, but I couldn't get it working and had to revert to the distribution driver from the command line on that occasion.

Otherwise, installing Nvidia driver is about 4 clicks - Settings, Driver Manager, choose your version, hit apply. I never understand why some people seem to have such a hard time with it. Even across the 6 or 7 various cards I've had over the years.

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