Quoting: TermyGOverlay is pretty cool - having lazarus as a makedep is not so cool though...1.2GB for a Toolkit is a bit much (and then people complain about 9MB for KDE Framework ^^)

Try CUDA. 4.1GB on Arch. It's the biggest package in my cache by a factor of 8.

I used to run an entire multitasking desktop in 32MB, with a web browser and email client, from a 60MB HD. Easily.

Quoting: GuestAnd it depends from Gtk2, I tried to get rid of that!

I'm trying to cling on to it for as long as possible.

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Quoting: FutureSutureThat means there are approximately 210 167 Linux users out of those 24 157 126 concurrent users. Absolutely wonderful!

Yeah. It's 1%, but that's still a fairly decent chunk of market if even 5% of Linux users buy your game. If you base your development model right so that support is low-effort, I'm sure most devs would welcome another ten thousand sales. Of course that 5% might be optimistic...

I remember back in my Amiga-diehard days (the late '90s), someone estimated that there were probably around 100,000 regular Amiga users in total. And development still happened, hardware was still released, we even had the occasional commercial (indie) game. It was small-scale, but we muddled along.

Over 200,000 users online at once on Steam is the major leagues compared to that. I think Linux is doing okay. It could always be better, but I don't get the sense of battling against the odds that I did back then.

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I didn't realise I owned so many Paradox games already. Until they started releasing on Linux, I'd never even heard of them. I'm very tempted by Knights of Pen and Paper 2 for basically the price of a cup of tea, though.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWeird. The definition sounds like a straightforward, fairly intuitive thing. What makes them so hard?

The infinity combinations you can get and that they aren't easy to read. IMO is one of the most powerful tool for text search but also a dangerous one (the day you create your RE it totally makes sense and it is hyper intuitive... six weeks later you want to cry).

There are some things in life that are easy to understand, and there are some things that are difficult. The really tricky ones are those that you think you understand perfectly, but it turns out you couldn't be more wrong. Regexes are like that for me. The rules all make perfect logical sense, but whenever I try to follow them I come up with something that totally fails to work as expected.

Fortunately, we have things like txt2regex [External Link]. (The output from which always leaves me saying, “But that's what I did! Isn't it?”. Oh, well. It works.)

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Quoting: PinguinoThis sounds exciting, but I'm still waiting for the update that makes SteamPlay Together work for me. I've tried different games with different set of friends at different points in time and so far it's been an embarassing experience involving no actual gaming whatsoever.

I tried it with a friend for the first time last weekend. I won't say there was no gaming; as long as I didn't want to move left or right (gamepad), it was fine, with surprisingly little lag. Mind you, the audio sounded like a bowl of Rice Krispies with a stammer. Definitely needs work.

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Quoting: grigiAll in all, they could still base it on Arch and provide their own repos for "sensitive" stuff for which they want to have more control over.

Exactly. They might even use their own repos for everything. Nobody's suggesting they'll just ship stock Arch with Valve branding. We're talking about basing it on Arch (or Gentoo, or something else): either taking a snapshot of the repos every so often and thoroughly testing it, like Canonical do with Debian, or using the Arch tools - ABS, pacman, etc. - to build their own distro from scratch.

Of course, we don't even know if they are dropping Debian. Maybe Pierre-Loup misspoke. Or maybe they're moving to Ubuntu, to bring it in line with the runtime (that always seemed strange to me; why use an Ubuntu-based runtime environment, but “standard” Debian for your distro?). But basing it on Arch wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world.

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Quoting: GuestI'm going to guess there will need to be some level of hardware support for ray tracing (purely a guess on my part - I've not looked into the details yet).

Apparently it supports pure hardware raytracing, GPU compute, and (I may be imagining this part) even CPU. So it should work on anything, although good luck trying it without at least a half-decent non-RTX card.

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A toggle key is going to be very useful.

You know, I never thought when it came out on the PS2 that in 2020 I'd be playing GTA:San Andreas in anaglyph 3D (thanks, reShade) on a computer running Linux. What a time to be alive.

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Just an update here: I don't know what I was worrying about with AC. It takes a bit of tinkering (Proton GE is a must), the stock launcher is a little unstable (and I can't get Content Manager to work at all), but the game itself runs beautifully. Project Cars, although it's rock-solid stable to the extent that it's easy to forget that it isn't native, tends to drop frames with a lot of AI opponents on-screen; I haven't seen that yet in AC.

They should really be calling this bundle the Instant Race Sim Collection. What a bargain.

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Oooh, very tempted by Assetto Corsa. But I'm not sure I want to jump through all those hoops to get it running well. I know it's only £10, but I really don't have money to throw away on stuff that just doesn't work. Decisions, decisions... :S:

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