Quoting: ShmerlAlso, Ubuntu is not the most popular distro these days anymore. So I can ask the same question, why Ubuntu?

Eh...
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux [External Link]

Ubuntu makes up 30% (+7% if you count Linux Mint as it is Ubuntu-based). The next-big one is Arch (11% Manjaro + "pure" 10% Arch).

Don't look at numbers that come from "number of downloads" - these numbers say little to nothing about actual usage. Stuff like distrowatch shows different numbers of which distro is "most popular" every few weeks, it is useless for this purpose.

Only look at sources that check based on actual usage. Unfortunately, Steam hardware survey is one of the only relevant source I know - most others just show Linux vs Windows or focus on server technology (in which Ubuntu also usually ranks highest).
But Steam is highly relevant to our case here, so...
Wait, don't we have such a statistic on gamingonlinux itself? Can't find it right now...

Either way, my question "why Fedora" was answered: Because the Fedora project worked with Lenovo to do this.
Makes sense.

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Why Fedora, though?
I mean, nothing against Fedora, but wouldn't Ubuntu generally result in a better experience for users due to more widespread support of pretty much anything?
There's a ton of stuff readily available for Ubuntu (or rather, as .deb) which is not impossible to get on Fedora but you have to jump through some hoops.

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I do run standard Ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop (need one machine to have the most common Linux), so I guess I'll upgrade that to 20.04 eventually.

No need to hurry, though, I didn't have any problems with 18.04 to begin with.

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Well, that's a blast from the past.
I have a very faint memory of playing a game just like that, maybe in the very early 2000s or even before that.

Now I know what the name of game that was, heh.

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Golf with your friends... until they won't talk with you anymore.

I played this with a bunch of friends a few years back and two of them (those usually fighting for the first place) were just constantly trying to upset each other to break their concentration. It was truly beautiful and allowed me to win a few times, too, when they both lost their cool.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Linas

Quoting: PopeRigbyYeah, games always get that wrong. A shotgun isn't supposed to have the range of a melee weapon. The spread of the pellets is usually pretty tight, letting them travel relatively far.

And pistols are not sniper rifles . :whistle:

TL;DR Games are not realistic. Neither are movies. It's just our perception.

Game developers have to work with a surprisingly delicate balance between "realistic" and "fun". Hollywood has given us a very twisted perception of how guns work. So if you make it too realistic, it feels less realistic, because you subconsciously expect the guns to work like they do in the movies.

But the hardest thing to simulate accurately is "you", because in the actual reality the mechanical accuracy of the gun does not mean nearly as much as the person wielding it. There are even records of actual soldiers in actual conflicts complaining that their guns were inaccurate or ineffective, whereas it was often the case that under stress and pressure they were simply not able to keep on target.

The closest I have seen is the original Operation Flashpoint, later renamed to Arma: Cold War Assault [External Link], where you would basically have no chance of hitting anything while walking around, and sprinting would make your heart race and your hands tremble. But this clearly wouldn't work for a fast paced game like Half-Life.

Another very realistic gun work was Brothers In Arms where the developers listened to old WW2 veterans that told them that early in the war they could empty a full clip at point blank range without hitting anything. I think most gamers finds the guns in that game "frustrating".

Wasn't Brothers In Arms marketed as being especially realistic, though?
I might confuse it with another game, of course - it's been a while.

In the case of being marketed as realistic, I could see that as being more of a positive thing, though.
Certainly not fun for a lot of people, but those people might not be the target audience.

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Quoting: Alm888the "City of Difficulties" would be "Трудностеград" (sounds as awful as it implies to be!). I wonder, who would like to live in a town with such a name :S:

Sounds like an interesting idea for a point & click adventure game, maybe. :D

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPOr, if that fails, block people for disagreeing with them. Yet another thing I'd never do.

Have you considered that maybe they block you because they find you annoying, not because they disagree with you? How is blocking a source of irritation a negative thing, if that's all you are to them?

But why am I annoying to them? It's not like I go around just randomly insulting people in the worst manners.
I annoy them because I disagree with them, won't back down from my views (or pretend to) prefer honest and direct words instead of buttering up or keeping my mouth shut if I disagree with anyone and call them out on their shenanigans.

Finally, because all of the above mentioned was directed at them instead of with them.
I'd bet my other kidney that if I showed 100% the same kind of tone and behavior and everything else - but actually agreed with them on whatever the topic, they would not have taken even closely that much of an issue with it.
Just look at all the jabs thrown at "gamers" in the posts - none of which were any better or worse than mine.
And none of which caused any ruckus. Huh. I wonder why. As if it was easier to fling sh't at someone who ain't flinging back.

Quoting: tuubiYour smarter-than-thou attitude and talk of bubbles might hold some merit if these people weren't simply blocking some random dude with an abrasive manner on a forum. It just does not matter. They have better things to do. It's like walking away from an obnoxious loudmouth in a pub. He/she doesn't necessarily deserve an audience.

Eh, the majority of things I comment on an article is on-topic and not related to any poster. As it was in this thread, before the usual subjects got oh-so-attacked by my small remark calling out their "online people mean!" whining. And then things went from there, because, as I said, I do not back down from discussions. Even if they are completely off-topic.
Which does make me feel bad and hence I'll stop after this post. I don't like derailing threads due to the mess it causes.

Seriously, though, if you cannot even take the odd minor punch, what are you doing talking to people on the internet?
Offense is always taken, never given.

Quoting: tuubiNow, if they were getting all their news exclusively from sources they happen to agree with, that would be an actual problem.

That's pretty much a given with people like that. People who block others on one platform for whatever minor reasons like "this guy wronged me!", will do it on all platforms and media until all they find "annoying" are gone and only opinions and voices they like remain.
Of course, it is always excused with "not worth my time" - the easy way out if you run out of arguments or never had any to begin with.

Besides, if you think only news bubbles are a problem and not opinion bubbles, then you are very much mistaken. One is just the next "level" of the other.

Quoting: EikeThe tone of "everybody who thinks or feel differently is stupid". The tone that tells people that someone will not even consider to reconsider.

You take issue with your own tone?
Did you block yourself, too?...

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It IS quite brillant.
Except for the Interloper chapter - wow, that was probably the most massive break of pace I've seen in a game like that.
Game goes from lots of action, shooting, dodging missiles, jumping and the occasional puzzle to...
Gigantic, long-reaching levels with lots of walking, lots of waiting (on slow-moving conveyor belts, among other things), lots of simple-yet-annoying puzzles and extremely little in the way of action.
Almost made me quit the game - just completely threw me out of the experience. And when you look around, lots of people quite strongly dislike that one chapter.

But except for that one blooper, the game is a great experience. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes FPS games.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle@sheep guy

You are quite a hypocrite here, because you seem to have quite a negative reaction whenever you are called out for being an asshole.

Nah, man. I really don't care in the slightest what random internet people think of me.
I am merely calling people out on their weak-mindedness and hypocrisy and showing them that not everyone agrees with their attempts at establishing the only "proper" way of thinking by lumping everyone who disagrees them in with whatever group is currently "the enemy", in this case "gamers".
What I also do is correct people when I think they are wrong - which is a normal in a discussion, I would think?

I also fail to understand how having a negative reaction to being called something (which again, I don't, call me whatever you want) would make me a hypocrite. I'd be a hypocrite if I blocked you for calling me an asshole.

Quoting: rustybroomhandleMaybe YOU need the safe space where you can be an asshole without being challenged.

I welcome every single challenge and never back away from a discussion (well, except if its been going on for ages and I grow tired of it). Quite in contrast to other people who just love to block those they disagree with or whose directness they cannot handle.

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWhen people disagree with you, you call them weak minded and whatever the hell else...

I have not called a single person weak-minded for disagreeing with me. That is something I'd never do.
I call people weak-minded if they are weak-minded. And quite a few people are - often those who then go ahead and demand people censor themselves or hold back to protect their feelings. Another thing I would never do.
Or, if that fails, block people for disagreeing with them. Yet another thing I'd never do.

I'd block people for harassing me, stalking me or stuff like that - but that hasn't really happened yet.

Quoting: rustybroomhandleAnyway, I had you blocked for a reason.

Q.E.D.

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