Quoting: GuestValve anti cheat has been working for ever on Linux... how come? are valve devs super smart and Epic Games devs dumb af?

Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: NociferThat's not correct. Some holes can indeed lead to privilege escalation and thus provide full access to the whole machine, while other holes are more or less limited in what they can do. It's not a given that a bug/exploit will lead to total foobar. It's as you say at the end: it really depends.

Exactly. I said it depends. You're essentially agreeing with what I said, yet you're stating that what I said is incorrect.

Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: NociferThe argument is that the bigger a player base is for a game, the more lucrative a target it is for cheat developers and cheat consumers alike. Even a minuscule 1% of cheating players amounts to a very different number in a game with 10,000 players versus a game with 250 million players.

I already explained above why this argument is a stupid one. Yes, the statement is correct if you look at it isolated from the context, but it doesn't make sense the way he's using it in his argument. That's a common tactic. Say something that is obviously correct, then misuse that in an incorrect argument and hope that people fall for it.

Quoting: Doc AngeloAre you sure you understand this topic well enough to explain it to others? If you ask me, this is a very misleading simplification of how bugs and exploits work. The size of holes is important in the physical world, but that doesn't really make sense in the digital world. Any bug can lead to full permissions. It really depends.

Quoting: Doc AngeloWhat's your argument? He might be right because the player count is high?

Quoting: elmapulcalm down, not all games have an install base as big as fortinite, in fact fortinite is the biggerst one.
if an game has lets say 1~10 millionss of users it may worth support linux.

Quoting: areamanplaysgame

Quoting: amataiYeah, Plasma keep breaking thing on my computer so that I don't have to break them I suppose.

I keep giving KDE another chance every few months, but it's just never been a good experience for me. I love a lot of the KDE ecosystem, but for some reason basic stuff that just works in GNOME, like pairing a Bluetooth gamepad or, like, playing audio in Firefox, does not work in KDE on the same machine for no reason I can easily discern. And then, when I go back to GNOME, I have to spend extra time fixing the stuff KDE broke that it shouldn't have been able to break.

Quoting: JarmerI'm surprised the Steamdeck team chose KDE for the DE, and not something simpler and less resource heavy like XFCE. Being that it's a battery powered device (sometimes) I would think they'd want to squeeze every single compute cycle they could and isn't KDE the heaviest DE out there?

Quoting: BielFPsThere's one thing that saddens me about this game is that, back then when they attempt to make a native version, they didn't had vulkan and the linux graphics were in a sorrow state. That resulted in a (opengl) poor performant native version specially compared to the later Proton that made use of a more performant API.

Nowadays they have everything to make a great port for a linux version, thanks to so much investment that was made along those years, but there's almost no probability that we'll see another attempt to make it, due to the problems with their first attempt, and the fact that Proton justifies the lack of reason to work with anything that isn't DirectX.

At least we can somehow play the game on linux and hope that they don't put any kind of anticheat latter.

Quoting: GuestWhen you buy something, you're paying for support too, so why paying full price for a software that is completely unsupported on your platform, where platform can be Linux in general?

Quoting: GuestThere is absolutely no excuse that the big developers can not support Linux

Quoting: KithopI played a fair bit of Squadrons via the Xbox Game Pass on my Windows disk (gasp), in VR with HOTAS, and mechanically, the game is good fun. The ships feel good, the VR support mostly works, almost on-par with Elite: Dangerous aside from a couple left/right eye-swap bugs in in-game cutscenes.

However, I can't recommend people pick this up unless they're getting it for free as part of something like Game Pass / EA Play... (review follows in spoiler tag)

Spoiler, click me

Unfortunately, the backlash against EA's microtransaction policies was happening during the game's development, as I understand it, so when they said, 'Alright, fine - we're not putting MTX in', they also gave the game a very very short lifespan. A couple rounds of fixes + content patches, and then that's it. The game isn't making them money any more, so they've basically completely abandoned it save for keeping the matchmaking servers running.

There's really only two game modes - team deathmatch, and a 'push' style 'kill all their capital ships in sequence before they kill yours, but be nice and take turns being offense and defense', with no future plans for anything else. No co-op in the single player campaign. Everything is just geared around a ranked 5v5 PvP setup.

If you can find 4 friends to make a full team, you can have a decent enough time, either stomping the AI in the unranked mode, or maybe going against randoms in the ranked mode - at least until you get matched up with the level 100+ 5 person squad of hardcore players who play the heck out of the game and will wipe the floor with you. :p

If you don't have 4 friends to play with, honestly, don't even bother loading the game up. The matchmaking has been absolutely dead for so long - we've tried at least 3 separate times over a 3-6 month span to get matches with 2-4 people on our side, and you can end up sitting and waiting at the menu for it to try and look for a match for you for upwards of half an hour with no hits.

We thought it was just an off day, would try again next week - same issue. Sometimes even with an entire 5-person team ready to go. I think once we were restarting the matchmaking for an hour and a half total (granted, while we're all Alt-Tabbed out and doing other things waiting for the queue to pop) before we finally gave up and basically uninstalled the game.

It's frustrating, because I feel they actually did a great job with the art, assets, engine, etc., and I want to play the game with my friends, but EA has pretty much completely abandoned it since there's no MTX to grind our wallets with. It's like they're not even entertaining the idea of a season pass or expansion pack or sequel - I'd be down for paying $30 for an xpac or $60-90 for a proper sequel with a co-op campaign or larger scale Battlefield-style battles, but this really feels like something between a tech demo and a fully fleshed out game. It could've been so much more. :(

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: BlackBloodRum

Quoting: Mountain ManThere are plenty of Linux native options for ripping music CDs. I've been using K3B for years, and it works great, but there are many others if that's not to your liking.

Quoting: iskaputtNot exactly on topic, but did you try whipper as an alternative? I've been using it for my CD collection and it usually works just fine. It checks the rips against the musicbrainz database and pulls other metadata from there as well. I know that some people swear by EAC, but maybe this works for you.

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper [External Link]

Sadly.. due to my usage case, while Linux apps do a perfect job of ripping audio, the log files produced are not satisfactory.. let's just say it's for "not linux's fault" reasons and not entirely down to my own decision.

I'm curious what EAC can do that native Linux software can't.

Quoting: CerberonI like the idea of this, it would make it easier to run mod managers or other executables you might run along side a game than some other methods.
However I have had problems running things that run fine in Lutris, not sure if it a problem due to Flatpak installation or I just don't know how to use bottles properly.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPOn one hand, you're right.
We've all seen lots of systems that tried to reinvent the wheel but ultimately hit the same roadblocks the "original" wheels met and started to implement similar workarounds, ending up not much better, making a point for why reinventing the wheel was pointless to begin with.

On the other hand, you can do pretty much anything with .yml files, including more complex logic.
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to e.g. even write bash code (or Python, or whatever else can be parsed&executed at runtime) if it really was necessary for some use cases.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThe real problem is adaptation and maintenance. If the main maintainer for winetricks stepped down, someone else is almost sure to take over.
Not sure what the situation would be with Bottles.

Quoting: whizse

Quoting: Nociferwhy have you (the Bottles devs) seen fit to re-invent the wheel and opt for a new, custom system for installing external requirements instead of using good ole Winetricks?

https://docs.usebottles.com/faq/where-is-winetricks#why-not-winetricks [External Link]

Quoting: mirkobrombin

Quoting: kibasnowpawThis is way to complicated to use and it don't feel user friendly at all and a stuff is missing or not working. i still feel like lutris is a better options here or if you somehow can miss mass this two.

Our focus is on ease of use. What and how should we improve?

Quoting: BlackBloodRumSadly.. due to my usage case, while Linux apps do a perfect job of ripping audio, the log files produced are not satisfactory.. let's just say it's for "not linux's fault" reasons and not entirely down to my own decision.