At first I thought that those glitches and on-screen corruption were part on the video footage, then my PC crashed... Frickin' nVidia drivers (sorry for the rant, and closed source isn't an option, this is a live stick).

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: LinasI saw what you did there. ;)

Shhhhhhhutup.

Uh?

Anyway; this game looks interesting, and the sequences with electricity reminds me a bit of S.T.A.L.K.E.R :wub:

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much like what people call 'walking simulators', but you're flying instead

So, I take that it's a flight simulator :)

Looks pretty damn good, can't wait to have my computer to play this :D

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Grim85

Quoting: tmtvlNot if they don't upgrade their boxes.

If you're not going to upgrade it, then why bother with a rolling release? The longer you leave an Arch box without upgrades the more likely that upgrades will break it anyway

I’m not tmtvl, but who said the boxes wouldn’t be updated*? The *users* don’t update their boxes. The "admin" ("you") can install software and update them at the interval they see fit. Also works with Gentoo btw ;).

*I assume that by "upgraded" you both mean "updated".

That said I’d rather recommend a distro where users can do the update themselves with a couple mouse clicks and where it never breaks.

I've been considering Manjaro lately for this purpose. Looks more stable than Arch, and more up to date than those LTS distros. I have encountered many hardware support problems lately with Mint and alike, so having a rock solid rolling distro would be nice.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: PompesdeskyTo make Steam work I needed to either switch to proprietary drivers for my AMD card or suppressing some Steam libraries conflicting with the OS's libraries, that's after hours of forum surfing when it's a double click away in Windows.

Yeah unfortunately it’s more complicated with AMD hardware than with nvidia cards. And Valve included unwanted libraries in Steam for Linux, for some reason, so non-Steam games often run better (with nvidia hw too).

To be honest, my experience reflects the exact opposite.
Edit: that said, the libraries bug is quite well known and has been around for a long time. I am amazed that valve didn't bother fixing it yet.

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Well, I don't want to look pessimistic here, but always remember to take these statistics with a grain of salt. These variations could literally be anything, and I highly doubt their algorithms are optimized for Linux detection/discrimination.

No, the real goal is 100% (maybe a little less if we leave room for our other BSD/Mach/Hurd/Haiku/whatever -including mac). I might consider 50% as a good sign too :)
Until then... No mercy <insert pirate emoticon here>.

But just remember not to trust these statistics, they are really biased in a lot of ways. And there is no way to tell if they over or under estimate the numbers.

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Many FOOS games to choose from, excellent :)
Most of them could use some manpower, though.

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Quoting: veccher

Quoting: haagch

Quoting: veccherglad to see the open driver evolving they're my only hope.

Actually support in amdgpu for Southern Islands GPUs will come soon-ish and with that support for the amdgpu-pro proprietary driver.

I've tried the (highly) experimental code that's been released so far and my HD 7970M can play csgo and xonotic fine with the amdgpu open source stack. Bioshock crashes the amdgpu kernel driver though. And power management is still bugged and doesn't work so everything is pretty slow. But it's largely ready.

actually there is support for ubuntu 15.04 and 14.04 (for r9 270) but even with official support it didn't work, there are 2 ways to install the "radeon crimsom", downloading a 170mb zip file and installing (tried it in 15.04) and downloading a .deb for ubuntu (tried it in 14.04 and also failed)

Actually (why bother choosing another word? This one is fine^^), I think @haagch was talking about the amdgpu kernel driver, which is used by most recent AMD cards, and is set to replace the old "catalyst"-provided closed source kernel. This hybrid (open source kernel driver + closed source userspace blob) solution is called amdgpu-pro. There has been some ongoing talk to enable support for older cards in amdgpu, but it hasn't been done for now (work in progress).

The main advantage of this approach (here are numerous other) is that the new AMD drivers won't be restricted to a X Server/Linux kernel version, and (nt sure on this last point) might just give Wayland support for "free".

That said, I am really happy with the open source drivers, and they are constantly improving. Kudos to AMD :)
you just need a rolling distribution or some sort of ppa to have the latex fixes. Or you can compile it by yourself, of course.

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Quoting: aFoxNamedMorrisThis game instantly reminded me of Antichamber. Looks like a game I might give a try.

^This. Looks more like Antichamber to me than any other quoted game.

Looks quite nice :) I might give it a go.

It also reminds me that I never got around finishing antichamber. I am stuck

Spoiler, click me

after the end door, pursuing the black form, and then... nowhere to go :(

But I haven't played it in a long time, so I might find the solution by myself if I go back to it.

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I am wondering if pie charts wouldn't look better for these kind of statistics. You could make for example an outline with X-based distributions, with the details pictured in smaller portions, next to another distribution and its descendants.

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Doh.
I really like minetest. I wish there was more gameplay with it, though.
Cross-compatibility with minecraft servers would be awesome.

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