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Latest Comments by Dorrit
Play through the amusing free point & click Hair of the Dog out on Steam now
25 Mar 2021 at 1:43 pm UTC

Point and Click, Victorian themed, up my alley :smile:

Metro Exodus arrives for Linux on April 14
25 Mar 2021 at 1:38 pm UTC Likes: 11

Good news.
And, personally, I couldn't care less about ray tracing.

Linux hardware vendor System76 introduces the Thelio Mira desktop
11 Mar 2021 at 6:44 pm UTC

There's something wrong with the images they post on their site.
According to one of the photos the CPU fan is blowing to the inside of the case (you can clearly see the exhaust side facing inwards).
But according to one of the animations hot air is blowing out from the CPU exhaust grill.

The best Linux distros for gaming in 2021
5 Mar 2021 at 10:47 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeEither way, Debian is a fantastic Distribution for just about anything, gaming included
This.
Quoting: slaapliedjeYou just need to know the secret sauce to setting it up
The sauce can simply be MX-Linux, Debian prêt-à-porter.

Plasma 5.21 Beta is out and it's a thing of beauty, towards first-class Wayland support
24 Jan 2021 at 2:36 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: slaapliedjeCrying shame we can't get some DE that is somewhere in the middle
I find recent Plasma 5 versions to be the perfect middle since you'll only tweak if you want, the out of the box experience is already quite good.

Plasma 5.21 Beta is out and it's a thing of beauty, towards first-class Wayland support
22 Jan 2021 at 5:46 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: fagnerlnThis twilight theme is really beautiful!
Indeed :smile:
And the best thing is that we can go into settings and tweak to our liking. Particularly fonts: I like to have my blacks #000000 and whites #ffffff; with plasma that's only a few clicks away.

Silly comedy adventure Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac gets a permanent price drop
19 Jan 2021 at 2:32 pm UTC

I love the visuals of this game. For €7.99 it's an easy buy :smile:

Valve's review of 2020 shows off pretty big numbers - 120 million monthly active users
14 Jan 2021 at 2:43 pm UTC

Quoting: NanobangValve knows the world economy is going to tank and has been positioning themselves as the source for Linux gaming because everyone will be out of work, and no one will be able to afford new Windows or Apple machines.:grin:
That may very well be an accurate prediction.

Valve's review of 2020 shows off pretty big numbers - 120 million monthly active users
13 Jan 2021 at 11:06 pm UTC Likes: 4

Valve's work for Linux can't be praised highly enough.
I have few doubts that soon, this year probably, we'll have a financial/economic crisis of epic proportions; something to make the Great Depression feel like an appetizer. It'll be interesting to see how it affects the software landscape.