It's going to make me less likely to purchase a bundle. One of the things I really liked about the sliders, was that it allowed me to consistently give double the amount to developers who had a Linux build, as I was never going to be buying the Windows-only games anyway.
If I'm now forced to support developers who won't support my platform, well, there's not much incentive in that.

Also, it's sure to put a stop to me buying bundles where I already own most of the games. What's the point now? Most of the publishers will already have my money.

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"Dark mode" is a legitimate selling point! It honestly made me want to take a closer look at this as I've had to walk away from a couple of puzzle games in the past because I couldn't stand the eye strain.

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Quoting: TheRiddickno encode 265?

According to Phoronix, it's on its way.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI've been gradually seeing more mentions of Pipewire, seems like it's kind of becoming another "next thing that will finally make Linux sound great" (although I understand it can do more than sound). What do people figure the prospects are this time around?

Pretty good, I'd say! I've been running Pipewire for the past month or so (I use Arch BTW ;) ) and haven't had any issues (apart from needing to check that conf files were updated on package upgrades). I like that it's a nice, compatible and modular system that maintains compatibility with existing solutions (Alsa, Pulse, Jack) and - best part - lets you still use the Jack server as a backend, if you want.
Surprisingly, it also seems less temperamental than PulseAudio and seems to not leave clients hanging if you restart its daemon (unlike PulseAudio).

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Quoting: CybolicI do remember thinking that some of the tracks were odd choices for some of the expansion levels (at the time, I didn't know they had their own soundtracks).

Yeah, for Scourge of Armagon at least the Trent Reznor music does not really fit, but the Jeehun Hwang soundtrack can charitably be described as generic at best. [...]

Yeah, I was fairly disappointed when I got ahold of the expansion soundtracks a few years ago while going through a period of listening to the Quake, Quake II and Quake 3 (the Arena Noise album by Sonic Mayhem is amazing) soundtracks. They really don't compare.

The Frogger soundtrack you say? Hmmm, not sure it has quite enough mummy vibes :P

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I had completely forgotten that "The Offering" didn't include the expansion soundtracks!

Since I originally played through Quake from that very release, I'm now wondering if I didn't get the full experience and need to go back and play the expansions with their real soundtrack. I do remember thinking that some of the tracks were odd choices for some of the expansion levels (at the time, I didn't know they had their own soundtracks).

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Psychological horror that promises jump-scares... those two things are complete opposites in my book :/
I'm all for psychological horror, but jump-scares are like the "laugh now" signs at sitcom-tapings: a mechanism that does nothing except pull me right out of the story and remind me of the artificiality of the medium.
The production quality does look decent so I'll wait for reviews but this is a very odd duck indeed.

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Quoting: NanobangI feel like its "one of ours," and it's gone into the world and "done good."

Indeed, i also got tens of hours of fun when playing the alpha. Don't get too carried away with this Linux thing though. Pretty much noone will ever know or care that it was partly developed on Linux and had day 0 support. Only Linux people will talk about it, like Arch people advertise their distro of choice.

Well.... A friend of mine actually picked it up about a week ago because he knows I run Linux and had somehow heard that Valheim was developed on Linux so he "wanted to try a game developed on Linux" as that wasn't something he had bumped in to before. This was right before the media frenzy, so Linux turned out to be an actual selling point!

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Quoting: GuestToo bad they did not decide to make a keyboard with properly aligned keys.

Do you mean an ortholinear layout or something about the spacing?

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How do you like these keyboards? Did it take long to get used to them? I attempted to use one before I knew how to type properly and it was a mind bender.

I have issues typing on standard keyboards comfortably due to American football injuries to both hands. This led me to prefer chiclet keyboards over mechanical due to the low actuation force. It wasn't until I forced myself to learn to type properly that ergonomic keyboards started to "click" for me. I've now got the logitech Ergo K860 [External Link] and I love it. If this keyboard had back-lighting and the build quality of the MX keys it would be perfect in my eyes.

The open source firmware and the fact that system76 makes this keyboard makes me want it but I'm afraid it would be physically painful for me to use. Hopefully there is an ample return window as I'd really like to try it.

I've been using an Ergodox EZ Shine for a couple of years now, due to carpal tunnel syndrome and mild psoriatic arthritis and I consider it one of the best purchases of my life. Together with a proper layout (I recommend Dvorak or a custom BEAKL15 layout - that's what I'm using these days) a keyboard like this can alleviate a lot of finger and wrist pains; I now have to put on a compression/heat glove only once every few months instead of daily.
Ideally, you need to take the time and figure out which keys and shortcuts you need most often (lots of typing measurements to go through) and which of your fingers are most flexible and in which directions, but it will be worth it. Plus, no-one will ever ask to use your computer again :P

Here's my current layout [External Link] if you're interested. Pretty much everything is on or around the home row through the use of layers and it lets me type one-handed as well with either hand (great for when you're on the phone).

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