Quoting: BogomipsI feel a little bit old right now… :huh:

I started looking at Linux with Mandrake and Red Hat distros.

I remember something similar. It was time when you sometimes got CD with a book and I think I got Red Hat that way. Then there was bit of this and that. I ended up sticking with FreeBSD for some time though before switching back to Linux with Arch Linux (back when configuring most of the things via rc.conf was a thing). After messing up my Arch install I switched to Gentoo.

During that time I have pretty much learned that you can pretty much make Linux what you want to, especially with distros that don't make too many choices for you. You can use command line, GUI or maybe both. You can go with the flow and use whatever is popular or stick with something until you realize that nobody is maintaining the software you use and everybody else has already moved on to something else. You can be part of the small minority that understands whats going on under the hood or you can just enjoy having it for free.

There are operating systems that give you most of these things, but what makes the difference is the huge community Linux has. That keeps Linux thriving. It might be small compared to Windows, but Windows users have to be content what Microsoft is pushing. If Microsoft pushes something, they can complain, but forking the old version is not an option. You can like Windows XP better than the later versions, but you shouldn't really connect it to Internet anymore.

There's just so many people who haven't yet experienced these things and are stuck with what came with the computer.

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I guess two parties can play this game too. My plan of buying of Psychonauts 2 has been delayed :tongue:

If it never actually gets ported I can always pretend that they never made any sequels (https://xkcd.com/566/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I play a lot of build-stuff-up games, and having what I can build determined by drawing random cards just doesn't sound fun to me, and kind of conceptually stupid. Like I'm imagining calling the work crew together and saying "OK, so I know that what the town's economy really needs right now is a marketplace, and I promise that's what I was planning. Unfortunately, everyone seems to have simultaneously forgotten how to build one. All we can remember is house, watchtower or library. Maybe we could, I dunno, build a library and people could trade their chickens there? Anyway, sorry about that, hopefully soon the marketplace concept will pop up in our brains again."
Workers: "Uh, just what drugs are you on, boss?"

I guess I'm just coming from bit different angle. As long as it's fun, it's valid design choice. Card games in general might have little trouble of being exactly realistic and might have lot of things that make sense from card game perspective, but don't have reasonable in world explanation why things work like they do. Or at least some imagination is needed.

I guess more realistic version of a town management game would be game where you spend most of your time in meetings where you go through complaints about the new building plans...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't really get the appeal of having my building options restricted by which cards I draw. This may be a bridge too far for the deck-building concept.
(Edited to add: Especially if I don't draw the "bridge" card during my playthrough)

I guess in games like these you need to play your cards right :tongue:

In something like Slay the Spire, the random element enforces player to adapt the gameplay placed on the cards they get. It affects even the more long term strategy as you really can't wait forever to get cards for your favorite strategy.

I don't remember Fantasy Town Regional Manager doing that kind of stuff based on the demo. Or maybe I didn't figure out some of the viable strategies. The game isn't ready yet though, maybe the have something planned that makes the gameplay more interesting.

I wrote short review based on the demo earlier: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/steam-next-fest-is-live-again-with-new-demos-livestreams-and-more/comment_id=205231

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There's new teaser up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy6SiwWytSU [External Link]

Short summary:
Blocking is going to be based on maximum health and there's going to be stagger bar and when it's full, you're going to get staggered. If I understood correctly, the stagger bar scales based on health.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicThe news and announcements before were really for the hardcore users. Someone watching Linus Tech Tips to find out about the Deck IS going to ask 'can I put Windows on it?', whereas the kinda person watching an ad on TV? They only need to hear, "Buy this, play your Steam games on it". Totally different demographics, so I get why Valve went with different messaging this time.

Good sign at least, that Valve have thought through the marketing on this device. Because I really want it to be a success.

Funnily enough Linus himself is excited about having Linux in the Deck. The audience will try it regardless, just because they can. Valve has after all more or less advertised having that option. Hopefully most are curious enough to try what the Deck can do before wiping the operating system.

There's slight possibility that Windows is going to have the degraded experience this time. After all the default install has had most testing on the device.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI never use the YouTube app (for example) as you can't use ublock to block the ads :P

Bit offtopic, but what the application does is that it sends notifications and you get too see how new features actually should work on mobile. Especially shorts are just short videos elsewhere, the application has bit more UI around it. Not all positive features as such though.

Quick glance at the mobile browser version shows though that it wins clearly by having actual video grid compared to maybe 1.5 videos that the app is able to show at once. So the browser version wins by implementing one the core features properly.

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I tried to run it, but ultimately it failed to find any devices. I have no idea why it wants to have DKMS. Getting that installed on Gentoo seem to be slightly obscure procedure as I would think most users can live without it. There are other ways to recompile third party kernel modules.

Installed OpenRGB instead and had some fun with few RGB lights that I have. I ended up though leaving just static color though.

I'm not sure if Polychromatic has anything very useful for me as only Razer device I have is a mouse and most of the settings were applied correctly automatically. So let's see if I'm curious enough to try again later.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm pretty sure Linus is only cool with Linux due to Anthony. If you watch any of the stuff that LTT has done involving Linux, it's always Anthony who is driving it. Linus seems to be more interested in the hardware than any of the software. But of course that's perfectly fine, as that's just what he does.

I think for Linus to really like Linux, more of the benchmarking software needs to be ported (instead of running them through Proton / Wine, we should get native ports).

Linus actually had all the the necessary benchmarking tools in Linux for one video. It was about computer that Torvalds built and the benchmark was compiling the kernel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kua9cY8q_EI [External Link]. Anthony was directing that video and has a short cameo, so he might have helped little bit.

In overall, no wonder Anthony actually was suggested as host for the potential Linux show. I have no idea how big Linux community there's in the LLT audience, but they seem to be somewhat vocal.

PS: I stumbled actually on Linux video that Anthony wasn't involved in, he's not mentioned in the credits at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzUr6HqXmg [External Link] (bit of outlier though)

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Quoting: GuestIt's not all that surprising really. Games that get a little more exposure, and actually let people play a demo to see how it is are more likely to be bought. That's how it all used to work back in the magazine days of old.

During the festival I might give even bit less interesting game ago. There's still so many Linux natives though, that I have to usually skip few.

My wishlist is so full though, that I might not actually end up buying all the interesting ones. I just don't have time to play everything.

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