Reminds me a lot of Chameleon Twist, which was an N64 game!

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Quoting: gojulI don't know for other people but even with a GeForce 2070 SUPER on Debian Bullseye (KDE) I faced dozens of crashes on Metro Exodus. Looks like the port is a bit sloppy given the testimonies on Steam. However the game is damn beautiful... when it works.

I'm assuming I've been lucky, but on my RTX2060 Super (laptop) it's been running fine while I make my way through the game (Pop_OS! 20.10 with Gnome).

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First of all, pro move on the giveaway (that super thoughtful)

I'd love a copy of the game!

Edit: I actually bought it myself, so count me out on the copy!

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Redhat 7 was what got me into Linux and my first Linux experience for my Celeron 333/64MB/Intel GFX computer I had as a teenager. I got it for free on a cover CD for a computer magazine, and I instantly fell in love with it (really loved trying the hundreds of pieces of software that came with it, including figuring out what each one did).

Some of the nightmares I remember:

• The mount/umount command for the CD-ROM was buggy, and sometimes it refused to do anything with the CD, so I'd have to reboot the system to get it to work


• Dependency hell! Finding a piece of software you wanted, attempting to install it, only to find out you are missing X package. You then get X package, only to find out you need Y package (rinse and repeat this dozens of times). Debian was my first experience where I did not worry about dependency hell.


• I didn't have broadband internet at the time, so I had to cart software from our dial-up computer to my linux machine with floppy disks, often needing to split/re-assemble the files on my end. Add dependency hell to this equation, and it was a mixture of elation when it worked with despair when it didn't!

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This looks awesome, please send through a key if there is one free, I'd love to play!

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I love system76, truly do (their products and commitment to Linux are amazing). Like a few others, the thing that really puts it out of reach for me is no AMD CPU/GPU combination for a machine like this.

I don't mind spending a bit more money on a system76 over a Lenovo or something, but I would also love a machine that augments that sweet open source firmware with an open source VGA driver (amdgpu). I note that the Intel XE is pretty good, but would prefer an AMD CPU with an AMD GPU (preferably dedicated).

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I would love to be playing Songs of Syx, count me in for a key too

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Yeah so a lot of the discussions regarding the lack of support is due to the UEFI/BIOS capacity as opposed to AMD not making CPU's compatible with older boards. For example, my Asrock X370 Gaming K4 is capable of supporting Ryzen 3 series (e.g. Ryzen 7 3700x), but by updating my UEFI for support for it, it removes support for anything below the 3 series as there is not enough ROM space.

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I went to a conference and watched an excellent presentation by an HR employee at Atlassian. They talked about how they like to ensure diversity and equity of numbers within their company, but they do it a bit more scientifically than most (e.g. they don't lower bar for entry, don't reserve capacity for certain gender, etc).

Basically they:
- Monitor diversity levels across the organisation at the skill set level (e.g. java developers)
- When they need to hire someone new, they take into account the diversity level figures.
- They identify they need a specific gender to level it out, and go with that (e.g. female java developer)

The cool thing is they have a team that actually writes the job post differently. Their research indicates that certain kinds of wording actually appeals to genders differently, so they can essentially have a large pool of interested parties in their job postings with the targeted gender. So if they want a female, they actually use slightly different wording in the job description, which in turn actually attracts more women to the job ad (they said that certain "power" words resonate and attract the types of gender they are after).

The outcome is not only do they have gender equality, but they also have excellent quality due to not "watering down" the barrier of entry for the sake of equality.

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Quoting: Kon

Quoting: KimyrielleIf I am not totally mistaken, that's because AMD doesn't have a competitive on-board GPU solution. It also is not considered a force for dedicated mobile GPUs. Intel still kinda has a monopoly on that. Which is why nobody considers AMD for building a laptop, still.

This is outdated information. AMD has the best onboard graphics available. Their onboard Vega 11 GPU is quite a bit faster than even a dedicated GT 1030 or Nvidia's MX250 dedicated laptop GPU.

Yup, and the AMDGPU support is built into the Kernel, so you don't need to configure any drivers out of the box! When I had my first gen Ryzen 2700u laptop part, it was working much better than the Windows equivalent due to this factor.

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