Finally played EVERSPACE past week as I wanted to understand if I should wishlist the next one, and it`s been collecting dust in my library for too long. Game is fun and looks and sounds great, but I am new to roguelikes (several hours Dead Cells, several hours Tangledeep, maybe 10 hours Prey: Mooncrash) and I am totally new to space sims. So far it is still too hard for me, I only got to Level 4 once, but I enjoy it.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: bird_or_cage

Quoting: AnanaceSomething to make "new" copies somehow different from "used" ones, to make sure that there's at least some reason for people to want to pay more for a "new" copy rather than a bit-perfect "used" one.

I like this idea. For example, disable achievements, leaderboard and cloud saves, because you did not pay the full price, which includes these "extra services".

Bad specific examples I think. Those are mostly services provided on Steam by Valve, services which they currently provide to people whose games were bought on sale and even to games which are available for free. The loss . . . well, sort of loss . . . is to the game producers. More relevant would be lack of continuing updates, support and such, not to mention no guarantee of new DLCs working (because the new DLCs might only work with current, patched versions of the game).

Well, hosting previous versions of game costs money, especially if it is a 60 GB game.
Also non-updated game may cause negative reviews and negativity towards Steam in general, under-featured game is better than deliberately-broken game.

In the end, I hope the law will just force Steam to change EULA, nothing else. I can sell my fridge, but the shop where I bought it does not have to deliver it to new owner :D
Yes, not a good example since some may say Steam actively prevents reselling by refusing to move the game from one account to another, but they can make it as troublesome as possible to make people just forget about that.

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Quoting: AnanaceSomething to make "new" copies somehow different from "used" ones, to make sure that there's at least some reason for people to want to pay more for a "new" copy rather than a bit-perfect "used" one.

I like this idea. For example, disable achievements, leaderboard and cloud saves, because you did not pay the full price, which includes these "extra services".
Overall I am not happy with this and I fear a negative impact on a market.

They only thing I would be happy about if I was in France, I could buy a Windows laptop and then resell Windows license. :D

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Will you be picking up a copy?

Definitely yes, if female protagonist is an option. Can`t seem to find this info, will probably ask at subreddit or just wait for release.

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I will not buy this game, because by doing so I would (unfortunately) support the publisher 505 Games, who decided to cancel Linux and Mac release of Bloodstained and denied kickstarter backers the refund.

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Quoting: chelobakaHow do you install Proton 4.11? Steam client doesn't update Proton 4.2.

in your Library, switch to Tools
you will find Proton 4.11 in the list
right click it, there would be "Install" option

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It seems lots of D9 games that were borked are fixed now, like Fable: Anniversary, Deadlight. Did not yet have time to test more.

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Quoting: Nevertheless

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: ixnari

Quoting: GuestIt is always funny to read the random comments.

The team at Google Stadia mentioned that privacy will be “at the user's control".

Oh [External Link], I'm [External Link] sure [External Link].

so what? they will know that i'm a bad player? who cares.
when it comes to voice patterns, video patterns or knowing who i'm friend with, i can see how this could be used for evil purposes.

but spying on me while i play? why is that an issue? how can this be used for "evil" purposes?

Like I said before, because you're feeding proprietary AIs, training them manipulating people.
Would you think watching human problem solving, or even human responses to enotional dilemmas might be useful for that?

It is just crazy when one entity can examine most of your life, they know where you are (maps), what are you speaking about with which people (messages, allo, gmail), what do you think is important (calendar, keep, drive, docs), what are you interested in (search, youtube) and now also - what and how do you play. Surely there are some things I forgot to mention.

Are you comfortable with someone knowing you better that your wife, mother and physiologist together and keeping your full profile in "mind" at all times? I am definitely not.
I do use some google services, an Android phone, and maybe I will play one or two games with Stadia, but I am definitely keeping most data outside such companies.
If they want my data, I am open to a commercial proposal (which I will most likely decline, it`s just weird that they (edit: Google) expect everyone to give them everything for free... on the other side, people expect an email service to be free these days, so I guess they are even).

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I wish Firefox Stable and Chromium were available as Flatpaks, for now I am forced to use slow Firefox Snap on Debian 9 (it is not in repos, only Firefox ESR is) and my wife will probably be forced to use Chromium Snap on Ubuntu 19.10 if Canonical decides so. This is sad.

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Quoting: TobiSGD

Quoting: Linas

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Mountain ManAt this point, what is the best Ubuntu alternative?

Depends on what you're after. I left Ubuntu after they forced too many UI decisions I didn't like, so Mint was a natural choice for me. Similar look and feel to good old Ubuntu + Gnome.

Debian Testing is also a good choice. It's basically the same system under the hood, so it's not even that much of a change. And Debian Testing is a rolling distribution with packages that are fairly up-to-date. And if you need bleeding edge, there is Debian Unstable. And even Experimental if you are really adventurous. :)

The biggest difference is that Debian is much less opinionated than Ubuntu, Mint, and other derivatives. They don't have the Debian desktop experience, but rather ship upstream packages. So you get vanilla GNOME, vanilla KDE, etc. with minimal branding from Debian.

Debian Testing doesn't security updates in a timely manner. Experimental is not a branch of the ditro you can install, it is only a bunch of packages that you can install (preferably on a Sid system) if you dare to do so.
I personally would either go for Stable (if you can live with outdated packages and/or need the stability of package versions), or Sid/Unstable with apt-listbugs installed and a look at Debian forums for possible problems before updating the system.

What about Debian Stable + backports repo? I believe it provides everything you need for gaming, the only issue I have is outdated Firefox, and Firefox Snap looks so ugly on Debian Stable I even made a bug report.

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