IMO this move by canonical is long overdue. I was surprised to see such negatives reactions about it.

If support for 32bit libs had been ended a while ago, we wouldn't be in this situation today.
The easy availability of 32bit libraries is pushing app developers to distribute 32bit executables, which needs to stop.

On the other hand, steam could ship with the whole 32bit runtime, as needed, and it would make for less breakage (see flatpak).

But I agree that this could have been handled a bit more gradually. First deprecate it and print a warning when opening/installing an application for the first time. Then move multilib packages to a disabled-by-defaut source. Then to a PPA. Then remove it.

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Quoting: melkemindI started packing to move and now can't find mine! :( I'm going through serious withdrawal right now.

Ah, I know that feeling :P.
Just imagine you have it (pick up an object the same shape) and pack it where it makes sense, I usually find that after some thinking I pick up the exact same place as the actual one most of the times ^^

I like the steam controller. It works well for most uses. But the best part of it is the API. I love it when games are integrated and allow you to select different bindings depending on whether you are in a menu, driving a vehicle, etc.

Most games work fine with it after some tweaking. All of them, actually. Though it was a bit difficult to configure it to easily play Nier Automata, and I still have some glitches with shadow of mordor (thankfully there's the gyro aim).

However, the in-game overlay has regressed quite a bit lately (there are some glitches, such as with the deazones configuration).
I also wish we could access the BP overlay when using a controller, regardless of whether we're in BP mode or not.

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I hope those Ryzen will all feature a display controller. It sucks to have video outputs that I can't use on my motherboard (2700X). Other than that (and the costly BIOS update I had to do, but this should be fixed with the latest gen), I've been pretty happy with it, I can't wait to see Zen2 + Navi :D

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Quoting: BotonoskiAnd yet another reminder that I haven't changed my setup much in a long while.
I think my GPU is dying, or the PSU, or both. Or neither? seems like all my issues started occurring after after running the Blender 2.8 beta for a few hours, so either bad timing or the program somehow corrupted something. Though I doubt any sort of corruption would cause my PC to randomly shut off.

A bad PSU is dangerous, I lost my previous graphics card that way.
That said, it might also be invalid shaders generated by blender, though those would tend to lock up the GPU/system instead of shutting the computer down.

Liam, I second Shmerl's phrasing. Seeing how many answer XFCE+Wayland would be indicative of the accuracy of the results.

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Hmm, I use sway, but that wouldn't really fit the "window manager" category, would it?
I would be a bit curious regarding Wayland vs X :)

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Well, in related news, Rage 1 is still broken for me... I had the same graphical issues back in the day on my HD 4850+Windows 7, IIRC. It's probably an OpenGL issue, though. I will post screenshot as soon as I can access them from my Steam profile (seems broken ATM), but it's squares popping up all over the megatexture.

Spoiler, click me


It looks like someone answered a similar comment of mine on phoronix [External Link], I'll try it out, and report back :)
Apparently, it's some game bug.

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: amataiUsual message about how minetest is cool to put under any post about Minecraft ^_^
Nah, seriously, if you have'nt tried Minetest, it has become very cool (I will probably stop putting message under every message about Minecraft on the issue, that can soon become annoying)

My kids like all of the extras that Minecraft has, like animals, rails/cars, house decorations, etc. How does Minetest do with those kinds of things?

Those aren't really present in the base Minetest game, but the whole point of it is to be able to mod it. You even have a basic mods browser inside the game itself (that allows you to pick from the selection that's on their "contentdb website" [External Link].

Better trains, bikes, or roads, automation, biomes, trees, NPCs... you name it :)

It could use a bit more polish, though, I agree :)

I used this Flatpak the other day to checkout the latest update, I hadn't realized it was so new. Well done, and thanks :)

Why flatpak? I prefer my proprietary software sandboxed.
The update? I was both impressed and not-so-much. In a way, it's still the same old game, but it feels more polished:
* In-game crafting guide, that's very nice
* It allowed me to discover the fireplace, which saved me as I could locate my home from afar due to the smoke
* not sure about auto-jumping as implemented
* nice improvements to boats

That said, I managed to spend more time than I would like to admit into it ^^"

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There is one more thing that sprung to my mind while watching this:

Surely Google isn't doing this for free? Every minute spent on the platform must cost someone something, and the player isn't paying for electricity this time around.

Once you realize that, it has a couple more implications (this will have to be adjusted per-game according to bandwidth and encoding costs, as well as monetization schemes -- ads. But those are a few thoughts):

• Very long experiences that you get for quite cheap won't be looked at kindly from Google and game devs alike (that game you bought on a whim and ended up spending 400 hours on? A huge money sink)


• subscription-based or continuous-revenue (loot boxes) makes more sense


• Online population is still a big factor in a game's value, so developers will have to calculate if that's worth it


• people not playing their games could skew the scale the other way


• games wasting computing resources should will be frowned upon


• I hope (but it isn't clear just yet) that this will shift game devs' focus from games that waste your time (esp. online games, since it brings more people online) to games with more distilled experiences


• Datacenters have to be geographically distributed, they will be close to big urban centers and the remaining people will be left in the cold. Datacenters will be used for gaming during evenings, and for "AI"/ cloud compute in the morning.

And I wonder whether it will be Google or developers picking those tradeoffs.

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Quoting: N30NI picked up this game when it first release and while early game it runs fine, late game has performance issues that make it unplayable. The game is great. I highly recommend it if you're able to play in a VM or dual boot but not under steam-play/wine.

What do you call late game?

I have everything set to ultra (including corpse count), and I haven't seen it dip below 45 FPS, it usually runs at 120FPS.
The only real issue I encountered was a GPU hang at the 20th stage (~140 min of gameplay) when I was going so fast that I reached considerable heights in Abyssal Depths when I got deflected :/

Spoiler, click me


Yeah, this is the run, I got quite lucky there. I think this screen was taken halfway trough. On easy because my goal was to get the "flawless" achievement (which I did). I then wanted to get "The Long Road" but I obviously failed very short :/

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Quoting: kneekoo"Public Domain", which some people know as free to use and redistribute, which cannot be applied to everything released as open source software, but only to free software.

Since we're nitpicking, I would like to clarify that you are not necessarily free to use or redistribute free software as defined by the FSF. The GPL restricts your license choice, for instance. Public domain grants you even more freedom (but doesn't guarantees the freedom of users).

Also, there's the catch-all "FLOSS" I sometimes see, or "FOSS" which seems enough already.

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