Well, their reasons for not supporting VR right away are very valid.
They need a good business case for it, and for VR, there is none as they have seen in their last project - you can't just plug something in and expect that now VR works for your project.
It is essentially a new platform and one that is actually a lot harder to support than say, doing a PC -> console port, since more than just the control scheme changes. It is a ton of work for a quite small audience (Hell, even Alyx stats don't look that impressive, https://steamcharts.com/app/546560 [External Link] , Divinity: Original Sin 2 has more concurrent players years after release than Alyx had on release).

Given how reasonable from a business perspective they are about VR, it is somewhat odd they do (plan to) support Linux, but I guess that just shows how easy it is to do a Linux build compared to a platform that is different even from a design perspective.

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Grab your stick and double throttle for space, space, spaaaaaace....

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Quoting: hardpenguinBless Stardew Valley for creating this renaissance for top-down farming RPG sims

I'm not sure Stardew Valley did this.
That genre never really went away.

But bless it anyway, just in case. It's good enough to get some extra wololo.

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Quoting: Rooster

Our installer aims to make the complicated process of installing Fedora to replace another operating system as easy as possible, but it’s still a barrier even for tech-literate people

Wait what?

Maybe in the sense of "tech-literate people, too, are lazy".
Just because I could deal with a complicated installation process, doesn't mean I want to.

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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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