I am currently learning Chinese and yes, the Linux support for Chinese typing is simply much worse on it than on Windows.
That just makes it that much harder to gain any ground in China. Not really sure how that could change other than with some serious financial backing. Windows is such a standard in China, I don't think much ground is to be gained there, tbh.

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Quoting: GuestLiam, in spite of my googling i do not undertand well what you mean by the eschewing base building. You mean you do not build bases at all ?

Liam didn't write this article, BTRE did, but yes, that's correct - no bases.

It is basically more like Company Of Heroes or Dawn Of War 2 than it is like Starcraft or Dawn Of War 1.

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Suomi mainittu torilla tavataan!

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Well, that's a nice surprise. I always liked Generals.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou should just be able to run an .exe installer, for example, as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

Yes it would be very user friendly but it also brings some new problems; (Windows viruses). If everything is automated some harmful software designed for windows will surely take advantage of that. Perhaps users should be warned if that is the case for a distro.

Viruses have always been a selfmade user problem.
I completely removed any kind of firewall and antivir programs years (on Windows, too) and didn't have a single problem - simply because I don't download stuff from shady sites.

Freedom also means freedom to shoot yourself in the foot.

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Quoting: Leopard2-) Wine is not a tool you can get good performance , good rendering , easy configure process.

4-) I really don't care about a game being native ( OGL , VLK ) vs Wine wrapped as long it works at good performance + renders correctly.

5-) Wine is not really a solution. It is open to regressions , tons of hacks to even running one game normally. It only can be considered as a bonus feature for people who have free time in their hands. Normal users ( which majority ) can't stand with it.

I somewhat agree with these statements as a picture of the current state.
However, I think there is much bigger potential in Wine (and tools like DXVK). I don't see it as unreasonable that a state can be reached of about 90% of "native" performance for new titles - at some point. People who care about those last 10% aren't going to switch either way as long as no true native port is available.

However, the rest might. If - and only if - Wine came integrated into the distro normally just like curl, without even requiring installing the package AND if you wouldn't need to do ANY of the current setup steps (create prefix, configure it, get winetricks, install libs, etc.). You should just be able to run an .exe installer, for example, as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
And of course it should create a desktop icon (or launcher) as naturally as it does on Windows and you should just be able to run that.

The remaining problem are the distribution platforms themselves, or rather, only Steam. At the moment, you cannot even download a Windows game running the Linux client. You have to install a separate Windows version of Steam, run that and install Windows games using that.
I don't see what could be done about that, though.
Maybe a deeper integration of Wine into the system, to easily switch to "Windows Mode" or something like that - as easily as switching workspaces.

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Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02

Quoting: TheSHEEEP396.24.02 for NVIDIA?
Oof... the one currently in the packages is 390.48.
Trying to install more recent drivers from NVidias website has always resulted in completely messing up the graphics drivers - aka nothing works anymore until you repair the X configuration files, etc. Extremely bothersome, so I've stopped using anything that's not in the official packages.

I am using this [External Link] ppa, never had issues with it on my system, you may want to try.

Thanks, but that is what I have already, and the latest one available on that (at least for Ubuntu 18.04) is 390.

Edit:
Nevermind that, it's late and I am blind. 396 is indeed there.

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396.24.02 for NVIDIA?
Oof... the one currently in the packages is 390.48.
Trying to install more recent drivers from NVidias website has always resulted in completely messing up the graphics drivers - aka nothing works anymore until you repair the X configuration files, etc. Extremely bothersome, so I've stopped using anything that's not in the official packages.

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Quoting: TheRiddickyeah well simulator turn-based? I dunno any more.

RTS = Real Time Strategy and usually implies something like Command & Conquer, Warcraft, Dawn Of War, etc.

This is a turn-based strategy game.
Though I think the overworld view might be in real-time if it is like the original X-COM - but that is only a small part of the game.

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Quoting: TheRiddickNot like ultra high framerate will be needed for a RTS, if its above 60fps then it should be fine.

It is not an RTS.

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