Quoting: soulsource[...]I'm curious: Why would using ALSA directly cause such issues?

Because most distributions these days use PulseAudio and accessing ALSA directly can cause... issues. If he/she means using the ALSA API instead, then PulseAudio should intercept that just fine.

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I had some crazy bugs and mistakes that were only revealed by getting it running on three different platforms.

And right there's a very important benefit to cross-platform development, especially when doing it from the beginning!

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Quoting: sobkas[...]

$() is bash specific I think and there is absolutely nothing wrong with ``

btw. do you use
#!/bin/bash
or
#!/usr/bin/env bash

Very true. I prefer to just require bash instead of targeting sh in general - less surprises down the line in case I forget some incompatibility issue.

I generally use /bin/bash. No real reason other than I've never had issues with it.

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Quoting: Guest[...]SCRIPT_DIR=$(readlink -f $0 | xargs dirname)"[...]

My favourite has been the following, for a number of years:
DIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
Same thing really, I just like the non-piped approach.

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To get the "window spread" in XFCE4, install skippy-xd ;)
I have it mapped to one of the twelve buttons on my wonderfully supported Roccat Nyth - highly recommended (desktop-switching, window moving, navigation buttons and media control on the rest, such a wonderful mouse).

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Quoting: Seegras

Quoting: maodzedunAwwww, doesn't ship to Bulgaria. And the cheapest one there is twice that price :(((.

And the bloody buggers don't even ship to Switzerland. Bums!

Nor Greece. Does anyone know whether this is a suitable replacement? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Duronic-DM351X2-Monitor-Adjustability-Warranty/dp/B00HYWLT8E [External Link]

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Quoting: MyeulC

Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: MyeulCLooks really nice and sturdy. And way cheaper than the other ones I saw, too.
Would you mind adding a closeup picture of the clamp, to get an idea of how it if attached, please?
I am now seriously considering buying one :)

Yeah I can try and get a good picture of it.

Thank you very much. This is what I have been unhappy with in the other stands I have seen. This one looks quite sturdy, but I can't really see it in the first picture, while in the second one, the arm is right in front of it :-/
If you could just move the arm to the left and take the second picture again, it would be great :)

The Amazon page has some pretty detailed pictures of the clamp, if that helps.

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Team17 and Linux are a great pairing! Many Amiga users switched to Linux after the fall of House Commodore (myself included), so with a few more titles, we might again see some of that beautiful, classic love that can only happen between a platform and a games company ;)

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I don't see a SteamOS or Linux icon on the store page. Is there a link to an announcement?

EDIT: Found it. [External Link] I guess my local repo just hasn't updated yet.

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Quoting: alexgol

Quoting: PeciskI hope Sony involvment means they look for possibility to add Vulkan API to PS4. Considering Vulkan driver is so much easier to support and it is much closer to what they have now, it would be a killer move.

?????
Easier to support than what?
Both XBone and PS4 dont need Vulkan or DX12. Games are developed
particularly for their hardware.

Yes, but if PS4 (or 5) supported Vulkan, a game built for Vulkan would be able to run on Linux, Mac, Windows 7-10, SteamOS, PS4 and Android; that's pretty much every platform out there apart from XBox and Wii U (but Nintendo's in the group as well... we'll see). On the other hand, a game built for DX12 is able to run on XBox and only the latest version of Windows, that's it.
Of course, games still need to be tweaked to run on each platform, but with Vulkan, it's just optimisation and code path changes, not an entirely new port.

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