Great project, and I donate happily. But for some unknown reason, the PayPal payment option did not work in Firefox. I had to do it with the Chrome browser. Just in case someone has a similar problem.

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The open source project must be used by Microsoft.

What part of GNOME is used by Microsoft? Honest question.

I haven't gone into details with expectations, but I would imagine this will end up related to WSL, or Azure DevOps. GNOME probably refers to GNOME Foundation, which does more than just the desktop manager.

Well, it says on their page:

It also powers Ubuntu which is the first Linux work environment supported at Microsoft

So I assume that some people at Microsoft are using Ubuntu as their work environment.

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If only I had more time :sad:
It's a great game, and I'm pretty sure, the DLC will be great as well. But the time sink is real...

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I'm also not impressed with Crayta. I have tried the creation mode, but I was not able to create anything useful and I did not know how to do it. The existing games are...well, lackluster.

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I have ordered the Founders edition too. Mainly because I'm curious to see if this works (and its a pretty good deal, with the Chromecast and the fancy controller).

When we're talking about the consequences, Stadia will have on "Desktop gaming", I would argue, that offline gaming will die anyways, sooner or later. Developers/publishers don't want a second hand market for their games, therefore streaming is perfect for them (plus no anti-cheat necessary).

From a technical point of view: Why would any developer still bother with Win32-API/DirectX, if they a) don't want offline games anyways, and b) Vulkan exists for Windows as well.

For the midterm, this will mean: More titles will use "Linux-API", but will get released mainly for Windows, but run pretty good in a Proton environment.

Microsoft, oth, must support Vulkan for XBox someday, if they still want developers to port their games to XBox (everything else is Vulkan)

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Reminds me a bit of Astrotit [External Link]. I guess that makes me old :(

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Alan Pope did some testing [External Link], and it does not look good. I guess Canonical will reconsider this decision.

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Quoting: liamdaweTurned the graphical preset to Low, so everything was down. Tried another new survival game - crashed to the desktop. This time, stuff like this was being spammed into the log:

Exception Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteSyntaxException - database disk image is malformed during BulkExecute: INSERT INTO [active_blocks]([id], [type_id], [data], [container_id]) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
StackTrace:

I had the same error in the logs. After repairing the SQLite database, the game worked again. I have repaired the database _working.db with the help of this page: http://www.froebe.net/blog/2015/05/27/error-sqlite-database-is-malformed-solved/ [External Link]

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