The gameplay looks pretty good! Fluid motion, nice mechanics, everything looks very playable, but I'm already getting a bit of a headache just watching the trailer due to the giant pixels moving by so fast. I think if they upped the resolution a bit, maybe going for more of an Amiga 1200 / AGA look, it would work much better!

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Quoting: LeopardNetmarket Share statics is doesn't mean anything. They're all looking to Steam Survey and that is right thing to do. Not every user play games on Mac and Linux also even Windows.

Sorry, but no.
The Steam Survey is first of all a survey, not a statistic, and secondly, it's a hardware survey, not an operating system survey.
It has two uses:

• What hardware does a random selection of Steam users have?


• What internet speed does a random selection of Steam users have?

Neither of these are a statistic for the number of Linux users on Steam.
Now, granted, it does mention operating systems, but it's not the focus and it's well known that the numbers are skewed, and not in Linux's favour (less Linux users are asked and SteamOS is not counted at all).

I'm not trying to be harsh here, but I do believe that the perceived relevance of the "Steam Hardware Survey" as any sort of metric for the number of Linux users is largely useless and ultimately harmful for our community.

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Well, that just earned them a preorder! I normally don't preorder, but with the involvement of Chris Avellone and the lovely interview here, I'll trust them and make sure they get their cut :)

EDIT: I'm talking about Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition [External Link], in case that wasn't clear.

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Quoting: Ardje[...]
That's the easiest way to perform a script as root: make the script safe, and then hand out rights to users to run that script.

That's what I did, but for some reason it won't work with Argos. I assume it's due to per-terminal login / "tty_tickets", which I don't want to disable completely.

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That indeed was a lovely announcement, so lovely in fact that I bought the game purely based on it. I don't think I'll have the time to play it any time soon, but Linux love is Linux love :)

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I wish the zoomed out view had more of an aquarium theme than what is shown in the trailer. As it is, it's an adorable idea, but it looks a bit too sterile and doesn't quite tickle my fascination with marine life.

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Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: HailToTheGrail

Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?

You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.

No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/

Are you sure it is owned by root?
chown root script.sh

A plasmoid to change the CPU governor doesn't seem a bad idea, I might look into that.

Yup: [cybolic:~] $ cat .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh 
#!/usr/bin/bash
exec cpupower frequency-set -rg "$1" 
[cybolic:~] $ sudo chown root .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh 
[cybolic:~] $ sudo chmod u+s .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh 
[cybolic:~] $ ls .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh -l
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 54 Mar 23 18:11 .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh
[cybolic:~] $ set_cpu_scheduler.sh performance
Subcommand frequency-set needs root privileges

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Quoting: linuxjacques[...]I'm curious - what FPS are you seeing?

Never mind, I had an issue with my driver and it was running without GPU acceleration on my main monitor :P I'm seeing ~70 FPS with everything on high now :)

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Quoting: HailToTheGrail

Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?

You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.

No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/

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Quoting: M@GOidFor a more easy way to change the settings, install the package "indicator-cpufreq"("sudo apt install indicator-cpufreq" for those of you in Ubuntu). It will show a icon in your taskbar were with 2 mouse clicks you can change to the Performance governor and back. I use it for both AMD and Intel CPUs for years and it works great, for any DE.

Seeing as this lovely utility seems to be missing from the Arch repositories, I whipped up this Argos script [External Link] instead.

I wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?

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