Quoting: itscalledreality

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: itscalledreality

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: itscalledrealityNotice that everyone has dropped the “it’s impossible to develop for Linux because of marketshare” bologna.

That's because they think the marketshare is increasing. There's nothing contradictory there.

Yes I believe the last report was that marketshare had increased from 1% to 1.5%. Which is not a substantial enough increase to kill that argument. So it is contradictory.

increasing

So a market share of 1% isn’t substantial enough market to invest writing more compatible C++? But a few hundred thousand units pushing that number to 1.5% does make it worth the money?

There’s no indicator that this rise isn’t just a trend, it’s been released less that a year. So I expect someone making arguments about market share being the reason not to develop as having considered these ideas. The steam deck isn’t going to get that number up to 5% even. It’s a niche first generation device regardless of the acclaim.

IMO it was a BS argument from the start.

You keep focusing on actual numbers when PLG was pointing out an increasing trend. Looking at the long term view, the numbers will matter more, which is why we're seeing more developers start to support the Deck.

As for the argument being BS - I don't agree, although I suppose it depends on what argument you're referring to. We're not seeing Windows developers suddenly scrambling to provide native Linux versions. Nope, all they're doing is adding Proton support to a Windows title, a much easier proposition.

Maybe you meant the argument that some developers wouldn't even provide Proton "support", perhaps citing support and QA costs? In which case, yeah, I agree.

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Quoting: kit89Vermintide 2 works now, thought they couldn't get the EAC working correctly?

It plays, and you can host games, but you're still kicked out if you join a game sadly. Actually, it's been working for about a fortnight, so I wonder if the latest version noted here actually fixes the "kicked when joining" problem. I'm on the Vermintide 2 steam chat [External Link] about this though and no-one has mentioned it, so I guess not.

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I think Cheeseness mentioned on Discord that he's had some (small) contribution to this one too. I'm looking forward to checking it out.

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The prologue is completely free, as noted, so I gave it a shot. Well, this game is absolutely excellent. Goddamit, I really don't need yet another massively addictive game, especially not so close to Backpack Hero. Sorry Ring of Pain, sorry Art of Rally. I'll see you soon, but for the moment, there are demons to slay.

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I've probably got over a hundred hours on the Itch version, so I insta-bought this when it came out with more equipment, refined balance (no more wearing 10 stacking spiked helms!) and two extra characters!

The new characters are so wildly different from the base game that it feels like I'm relearning from scratch. The idea behind the robot character, which turns your backpack into more like a programming array is genius.

This is an absolute gem of a game - 10/10 for me. I love it. Plays beautifully on the switch too, albeit, using the right track pad as a mouse. I mapped the two back left triggers as left/right click and it's very intuitive.

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Quoting: scaineDpanter has recently convinced me to try Siduction, so that'll be my next distro hop.

But it's a shame I'm disto-hopping at all, tbh.

What are you looking for?

Back then - a stable Linux distro with a strong community. Ubuntu was an amazing experience.

Now? A rolling release on a familiar packaging system. Hence, Siduction. Although EndeavourOS has been okay - but without the AUR, Arch would be way too much pain. And the AUR, it turns out is just a scripted install for various git utilities, which I didn't expect, so it's so slow. And unless you use something like `yay`, it's yet another core packaging system I have to remember to update occasionally. So... not sure Arch is for me, tbh, even with the quality of life improvements Endeavour throws in.

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That's a very, very cool soundtrack, at least judging from the trailer.

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The movement looks spectacular. Provided it's not frustrating, this looks like an amazing mix of Dead Cells, Celeste with a hint of Hollow Knight. Very impressed.

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I'll be picking this up - loved the demo and your review of it a couple of months back. It's great fun.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47I've been using Mint as my main distro since 2016, and this update was harder to install than either of the previous two major version updates. The upgrade script got stuck trying to update the deb package "context," (a dependency of texlive-full). I aborted mintupgrade and tried to run  sudo dpkg --configure -a
But that just got me stuck on the same package. Then after fiddling some more I tried using "sudo dpkg -r" to manually remove context and its reverse dependencies. Then I tried running mintupgrade again, but it got caught with an error saying "there are 1220 packages that need to be upgraded." Rather than upgrade them automatically, the mintupgrade program got stuck in a loop of telling me to upgrade deb packages until I aborted it and ran sudo apt upgrade...

...except my apt configuration had somehow been broken, so I was left with three packages that couldn't be upgraded. I tried mintupgrade again, and this time it got caught in a loop telling me "there are 3 packages that need to be upgraded." So I aborted again, apt purge'd those three packages, and then ran mintupgrade yet again. That time it worked. After rebooting, I reinstalled texlive-full.

The developers said mintupgrade was supposed to be more beginner-friednly than the upgrade process from Mint 18.3->19 or 19.3->20, but for me it was the opposite. It feels so disappointing, because I've liked almost every other mint-specific change in the last six years.

Now that I've actually finished upgrading, I really like it. I'm impressed that they managed to rebase Cinnamon on an almost completely different window manager and still preserve all the features I love, and I look forward to using this operating system base for the next two years. Hopefully they can iron out the bugs in mintupgrade before 2024.

Hrm. Maybe I'll wait a month or two.

Well, last time I used Mint, it was Mint 19 and I was amazed to discover that there was no upgrade path to Mint 20. It was basically just "re-install". The forum had some unofficial instructions you could follow, but they didn't pan out for me and I ended up re-installing for Mint 20. I jumped to PopOS shortly thereafter, then most recently (and for the past 7 or 8 months or so) to Endevour. Dpanter has recently convinced me to try Siduction, so that'll be my next distro hop.

But it's a shame I'm disto-hopping at all, tbh. I used Ubuntu and only Ubuntu from 2004 right up to 2018, but when Ubuntu 18.04 came out, they'd discontinued Unity and doubled down on snap and I jumped to Mint, feeling pretty disillusioned. It was a great experience though, so every cloud has a silver lining, I suppose.

I'd never have guessed that only 3 years later, I'd be running a rolling release and Plasma, but here I am.

I'll always have a soft spot for Mint though. I'm so glad they have an upgrade script at all!

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