I'm honestly shocked you guys haven't run out of wine puns yet.

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Easily one of the best survival games ever despite early access status. Surprisingly stable and with minimum amount of bugs, though there are some. Simple and clean design that hides clever new mechanics behind it. Despite the primitive low-poly graphics art style the game looks amazing and packs an especially impressive weather system that will have you shaking in your boots during storms, gazing upon Yggdrasil at night and just chilling peacefully during sunrise. There's of course room for improvement, but most of it has to do with adding various new kinds of content and features as what's already in there is solid for the most part. Perhaps most important of all, the game nails its Viking theme perfectly and oozes mead through every pore. I like it. :)

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Quoting: nepoThanks a lot! What a shame they focus on new expansions instead of improving (and fixing!) the base game and the old content first. I understand the business case here, but sadly this is not for me. The core seems broken by design.

Agreed. Starting from the 2.0 big update back in the day, Paradox have been steadily shaking things up and adding a boatload of new stuff, but never slowed down and polished what's already there. The game is hurting really bad because of it. AFAIK "features" like factions that pop up in your empire are still half-baked and just barely somewhat working, pop jobs and overall planet management is a micro nightmare that keeps growing on you larger and larger as the game goes on, sectors are simply put broken, ship design is still mostly a series of serial upgrades instead of giving you any real choice, etcetera etcetera etcetera. And those are issues that the game is carrying from the beforementioned big update, I haven't talked about the individual issues that came with later content.

Stellaris is a bizarre, monstrous amalgamation of expansions and DLCs that isn't holding up together at all. They kinda lowkey ruined the game, it took me a while to realize it though. The power of getting shiny new stuff is that strong, I suppose.

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Make sure to check out the GamingOnLinux community servers guys. :) The game is great so far.

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Quoting: ZlopezMost of the people doesn't bother with these things. You need to accept them to play the game, so you really don't have choice, if you want to play it. It's the same as with EULA, you can't really Disagree with it and still use the product.

Fascinating, we do have a choice, though. There is plenty of other products for us to use, it's not like we're forced to play games with shitty DRM and anticheat shenanigans. We could just move on to something else. That applies to us as in Linux gamers, so definately for Windows gamers as well. Strangely people seem drawn to the same shitty games like moths to a flame. Publishers would realize quickly that anticheat=bad if it made cuts into their revenue but gamers seem notoriously bad at voting with their wallets. Or just generally incapable of any more complex decision save for "game fun, me play" and "game not fun, me not play". It might've just killed them, but it is fun, so it is technically a good game :D

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Quoting: damarrinFor someone who just wants to play an online game it’s irrelevant how the anti cheat is implemented and what it installs in their system as long as things continue working. If they’re not a cheater, they are happy they will have less of those to deal with.

It’s us Linux users who bring in other considerations like privacy and control over their own machines into the discussion, since these are among the reasons we use Linux in the first place. But we are t1 per cent. This discussion does not exist for the vast majority of people out there. It’s us who want to have our cake and eat it. And it’s not a jab or anything, I’m like this as well.

True. I've been vocal to my friends against Riot's anti-cheat for example, but despite how much I try to explain how dangerous and even nonsensical anticheat solutions like this are, they simply do not care. It could send nudes of them to 4chan for all they care, as long as it prevents cheating (which it doesn't, but makes you feel like it does so it's good enough I suppose). They lack the education to understand the issue in front of them and such education involes too much text they don't care to read.

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Question - if I play Cyberpunk using a streaming service, can I transfer my save files once Nvidia gets its shit together?

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWondering what the specific missing features are in the Nvidia driver preventing this from working.

Amusingly, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla with vkd3d works on Nvidia but not AMD.

This extension is needed.

VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type

Currently only implemented on RADV.

Any at least a ballpark ETA on when can we expect Nvidia to catch up? I haven't really been interested in playing a day 0 release before so I have no experience or data on this.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: LungDragoIn my mind, the only reason you wouldn't use KDE is if
a) you're a newbie user and/or can't be bothered to tinker with your desktop to suit your needs and tastes
b) you're a fancy enlightened i3 user - although it's worth noting that again surprisingly KDE is very useable keyboard only if you wish.

I keep reading that list and I can't seem to find "you're happy with your current DE and have no pressing need to change it."

Probably there somewhere. I'll keep looking.

Fair enough. There is indeed no need to switch if you're happy so far with what you have. No arguments there. :)

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: tmtvlI may give kwin another try but I just know it'll still be EWMH compliant and therefore terrible on multiscreen.

what issues do you have on multiscreen?
i use two screens (of different size) and the only issue i have is that freesync doesn't work with that - and thats no kwin issue ^^

Same here, no issues with KDE on multiple screens.

KDE is amazing. It's very flexible and configurable, which is just the way I like it. For all the functionality it's surprisingly quick and lean too, having a smaller memory footprint than many "minimalist" DEs out there. That describes KDE quite well, actually. You still get a very peformant DE but with no compromises on features or eye candy.
In my mind, the only reason you wouldn't use KDE is if
a) you're a newbie user and/or can't be bothered to tinker with your desktop to suit your needs and tastes
b) you're a fancy enlightened i3 user - although it's worth noting that again surprisingly KDE is very useable keyboard only if you wish.

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