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ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Reviewed
5 Jan 2015 at 10:27 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EKRboi...
The Roccat MK Pro has 2 things that kind of bother me. The first may not really be an issue but as I can't get my hands on one to try it does worry me. It is the T# buttons below the space bar.. A.) what are they for? and B.) do they get in the way? I don't really want/need macro keys.
those T buttons below spacebar wont be a problem, they dont activate when you just accidentaly hit it with your thumb or similar, which is rare to occur anyway.
those are mostly used for profile switching or whatever else you configure under them.. those buttons need some more force than other buttons so they are not accidentaly activated.

I have Ryos MK Glow

Welcome To The Re-launched GamingOnLinux!
19 Dec 2014 at 10:22 pm UTC

mostly i like the new web design

couple of issues though:

1) i badly need dark theme - too much white kills my eyes
2) the featured section picture is way too big and eats too much space
3) weird space(big gap) between gol icon and the rest of the links on the top panel/bar
4) on the front page when some article has 2 digits for amount of comments the line is split weirdly
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Windows Games On Linux, WINE & PlayOnLinux
18 Dec 2014 at 12:16 pm UTC

i wanted to use PlayOnLinux but i always felt the interface quite slow and weird
specialy the parts where its configuring something or making shortcuts etc (its like windows with lots of next, next buttons imo)

i'm mostly using my own scripts for standalone wine versions and prefixes
i sometimes use playonlinux compiled wine packages though which i download from here:
http://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/ [External Link] and then just extract to the place where i want.

my basic scripts are like that: http://pastebin.com/Xhr7K2ty [External Link]
then also same scripts for winecfg, winetricks and regedit.

i just copy those scripts to new game folder and then modify the game executable :)

that's how i like to keep my stuff organized

GOL Survey Results: November
1 Dec 2014 at 10:28 pm UTC

survey is buged?
you can take it multiple times.. so we dont really know if you we got over 1000 unique responses
and no it doesnt even have to be dynamic ip to take multiple times.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.32 Is Now Available.
30 Nov 2014 at 6:31 pm UTC

Quoting: XodetaetlAre there more details about "Improved support for restoring display mode" ? It would be nice if it meant that Wine now restores the screen res when a low res fullscreen game crashes.
wait what? this issue has been fixed long time ago.. when they updated the xrandr support in wine
havent had this issue for years imo... this was fixed i believe somewhere in wine 1.5.x something

The Steam Sales Are On
27 Nov 2014 at 1:13 pm UTC

i havent picked anything.. nothing interesting that i dont own.

Goofy Arena Shooter 'Square Heroes' Released For Linux
17 Nov 2014 at 5:14 pm UTC Likes: 1

Nice, i played beta a while back and it was decent fun, but im not good at those types of games :)
Gameplay still reminds me a lot of teeworlds, but like said previously here its a bit different, not by much though.

View video on youtube.com

Developer Who Sent A Death Threat To Gabe Newell Decided Not To Leave His Studio
15 Nov 2014 at 10:45 pm UTC

i still think it was stupid to pull the game from steam.. it shows how much in control they are, if they dont like something they can just remove it..
ofc that death threat tweet was nasty as hell, but it wasnt meant seriously anyway, internet is full of those comments.

they could have settled this matter privately.. but pulling a game from steam because of that is still stupid in my eyes... i bought this game and i wont get updates to it anymore..how fair is that?