Yeah, War Thunder has periodically been a buggy mess, but right now it runs pretty well. Let's hope it stays that way, but I'm not ready to make any bets.

It's a game that I like to sporadically jump into every now and then when I'm bored and too lazy to look for something new to play.

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Quoting: g000hCan anyone advise me - If I were to play the Survival Sandbox mode of the game, would it spoil the single player campaign?

The reason I ask is that I'd rather play the campaign once all the Chapters are released. At the same time, I expect that each Chapter is quite distinct and can be played on its own without influencing the later chapters (Is that true?)

Not really, unless you count learning to navigate the maps as a spoiler.

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A while ago I didn't think d3d12 would get much adoption, but these days I'm not so sure. Glad there is vkd3d anyway. Didn't think there would be much need for it, but it might just turn out that one day it will be essential for people like us.

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Quoting: rcritMost annoying of all is bring up a terminal which I do a fair bit and rather than one step (right-click) it's three.

In Ubuntu there is a very handy keyboard shortcut to open the Terminal. Ctrl+alt+t. When I moved to Debian I discovered that it didn't exist by default in Debian so I guess it's an Ubuntu thing, but that didn't stop me from going into gnome-settings and manually binding it. Just click the + at the bottom of the list to add a new entry, name it "Open terminal" and put "gnome-terminal" as the command and assign to whatever key combination you want. I still use ctrl+alt+t because it became my habit after using Ubuntu where it is the default.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: Luke_Nukem

Quoting: rcritAnd yet still an empty desktop.

I don't know about you but the only time I ever see my desktop is when I first boot. That's a weird complaint to have.

I think that getting rid of desktop icons was one of the biggest innovations of GNOME 3. Finding stuff on the desktop is slower than any other method, be it start menus, search, or simply a file manager. To find stuff on the desktop you have to literally move whatever you are doing out of the way, and break your flow. It is only realistically useful for the first few seconds after you have logged in, and before you launched your first application that obscures the view of the desktop.

^This

And for the people still not convinced, try using a tiling WM/Compositor for a while and get comfortable with it. Notice how you basically never see your desktop wallpaper.

The comparison between GNOME and tiling WM's might sound weird to some, but their workflow aren't that different, only GNOME is intuitive and helpful, and tiling WM's are for geeks that accept that they have to know more than a dozen hotkeys and work mostly with the keyboard rather than the mouse, and they have to find and install their own applications rather than having a nice selection installed right out of the box.

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Pulling in gnome-shell and mutter from Debian experimental repo as we speak

Edit: Too much excitement! Got the release version of mutter, but gnome-shell was only version 3.37.92-3. I'm sure it will be updated any minute though.

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Quoting: PatolaBTW -- who else is raising and lowering the windows like hell since the latest release of Euro Truck / American Truck? I can't stop doing that.

Haha, only now and then, and only in ETS as I don't have ATS yet :)

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Quoting: BeamboomI really wish GloriousEggroll would join forces with the Valve efforts instead of operating on the side. I try avoiding to do more "custom modifications" to my system than absolutely necessary. It's such a nightmare whenever I do a new fresh install.

Doesn't some of these contributions trickle back into the official version whenever possible though?

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Oh yes, I've noticed improvements, but as with most things YMMV.

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Quoting: Xaero_VincentSo any examples of WineD3D Vulkan vs DXVK? Anything Vulkan work yet? I'd like to try it out.

I don't know much about WineD3D, but I don't get the impression that it's at a point where we should start making comparisons like that. I have a feeling that it would be a bit like comparing apples to oranges.

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