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They’ve already won the phone market, the server market, and the professional workstation market. We’re just bringing them to the Linux desktop which has traditionally refused to adopt new technologies in a timely manner.

Thanks, but no, thanks. I don't need my desktop to be a container. That's not a new technology by any means either. Immutable distros exist for years, for example OpenWRT. They have their uses, but it's counter productive on a general purpose computer.

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Quoting: Jarmerthe wayland future is really coming along nicely. Cinnamon is getting there, xfce will be there soon, cosmic/gome/kde are already there. Yes!

FWIW, Budgie as well...

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VI is definitely the best Final Fantasy to me. Though I prefer Phantasy Star (and Dragon Quest) over Final Fantasy. Sakaguchi-san once mentioned wondering what pixel art versions of VII-IX would've looked like. It made me think of some alternate reality where Sega somehow successfully courted Squaresoft and the Saturn was the home to them in that form instead. lol

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People forget that Steam does have a OFFLINE mode that can be activated anytime and you CAN even force it to be permanent.

Gabe has said that if there was ever a situation where Valve went under (end of world as we know it, lol), then they can toggle a offline switch at their end to make it persist.

Of cause at that point will everyone have internet to receive it? fortunately there are apps to do this already that 'mostly' work.

The issue is that games with multiplayer stuff are often running on Valve servers so that 'app' 'code' would also need to be open-sourced in such a event to people can host and play their select games still at least in LAN.

LOTS OF THINGS to consider.

BUT GUESS WHAT! Only Valve has put in effort to actually consider these situations, every other retailer except maybe GOG has told customers to go eat a bag of dicks... and yet, all these activists ignore them and only go after Valve.
Bad actors perhaps...

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bloody expensive service I tell ya. At least IMO and in Australia ($20mth with lots of limits)

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EA just going to keep breaking this shit. Their like Bethesda, every update MUST break compatibility! Like its the whole goal of the updates to begin with!

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Pineapple is good on pizza. I like it with ham and bacon or on BBQ chicken pizza with bacon and onions.

I like anchovies on pizza too, but I gotta be in the mood for them. Pepperoni, mushrooms, sausage, black olives, banana peppers, and anchovies is good.

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Can they fix the installer bug? I still have to drop down to 8.0-5 to install the thing for Mirror's Edge Catalyst, then put it back up to play the actual game.

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If you don't find it worth spending the effort on, why even bother with an image?

It's not as if the site isn't already plastered with images. Imo, it could do with a good makeover that removes the vast majority of them. Bonus points for a cli-retro-style with all of them removed.

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Do you know if these are workarounds for bugs in games or in the wine implementation of the windows APIs?

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Quoting: TheRealSpesch@Liam On Bazzite, after about 2 minutes the error message “Problem detected” appears and you can just close the app. However, if you start a game session quickly enough, you can dismiss the message with CTRL+G and the stream continues to run normally. Do you also get this error message on Fedora?

I also get this on Bazzite. From what I've read, it's not unique to Bazzite, though. On Reddit, I saw another report it on CachyOS.

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I'm curious what they're gonna do with this. The obvious would be a simple update to keep it running fine on modern systems, but I doubt this would lead to incompatible saves…

Square is one of these company that do some stuff good, some stuff bad. I really hope this one is the former.

And, although very unlikely, if this was a remaster, I'd be se happy.

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[quote=eggrole][quote=Pyrate]

Quoting: MinoscerebMy use case for Lutris over Heroic is for those game setup files I find laying on the ground after they fell off a truck full of game setup files. The customizability shines better there, even if both programs are capable of the same end results eventually.

Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: MinoscerebI like lutris for the setup scripts for old gamss

I have almost completely switched to Heroic for no good reason other than "I like it", and I too find old setups that have fallen off of the back of the truck from time to time. You can install them fine with Heroic. It is as simple as Add Game -> Select Executable (or installer) and go.

I'm referring more to the community scripts on lutris

Take something like Quake for example, that might only include the windows version, lutris will give options to install linux source ports, or automatically apply fixes to old games. Heroic doesn't have such feature AFAIK.

Another reason I like to keep both around is because they both seem to handle controller inputs differently. I've had some games where controller doesn't register on heroic, but registers on lutris

Granted I could just add it as a nonsteam game and enable steam input, but that kind of defeats the purpose for me having drm free games not reliant on a closed platform

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Quoting: TheRealSpesch@Liam On Bazzite, after about 2 minutes the error message “Problem detected” appears and you can just close the app. However, if you start a game session quickly enough, you can dismiss the message with CTRL+G and the stream continues to run normally. Do you also get this error message on Fedora?

Nope, never seen that here.

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Sounds like good news. Xfce is one of the most relevant DE's out there in my opinion. We need a solid option for lightweight hardware. Seeing this DE fall away because they can't run Wayland sessions well would suck.

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@Liam On Bazzite, after about 2 minutes the error message “Problem detected” appears and you can just close the app. However, if you start a game session quickly enough, you can dismiss the message with CTRL+G and the stream continues to run normally. Do you also get this error message on Fedora?

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Interesting news! I'm looking forward to seeing what the new build of the game has over the current. If I remember correctly the switch port includes some features the current PC port lacks like analog movement, and turbo speed. Hopefully we get those sorts of features in the new release. I'm also wondering about the save file differences. I hope someone takes a look into the possibility of editing an old save to work in the new game.

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Hope we'll see it on GOG as the previous!

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Dat timing...

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe basic question is whether the 30% cut generates windfall profits. If it does, then lawsuits that successfully reduce that cut will leave Valve in place but reduce costs for the consumer.

It most definitely will not. It's not a "tax" that gets added on top of the game price like Tim Sweeney would want you to think.

Really? What is it then? Monopoly money?

Profit?

Good, old-fashioned profit.

By which you agree that yes, it is a tax.

But anyway. How much profit? There are levels of profit that are not OK. This is one reason that monopolies were traditionally held to be a bad thing--competition on price was supposed to cause companies to keep their prices low, limiting their profits. That's what market efficiency supposedly is. Where it is agreed that there is no such competition, regulated utilities used to be given like 6%; in this age of regulatory capture it's probably a bit higher.

Now. If it costs a platform 10% of sales to offer their service, and they are collecting 30%, that means they are making three times their costs . . . So, 200% profit? I think that might be a wee bit on the windfall side. We don't know just where Valve's expenses fall between the lowest bound anyone usually suggests of 10% and what they actually charge, 30%. But I really don't think it's unreasonable to want to find out, and to hope maybe the courts might have a shot at doing so.

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so, about the new version... what exactly is gonna be new about it, other than being new and incompatible with the old one?

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In my youth as a tabletop gamer I of course consumed vast quantities of ham-and-pineapple pizza. So much that I grew to hate the sight of it, and wholeheartedly joined the anti-pineapple faction. But decades have passed and I have mellowed, come to an accommodation with the sins of my youth, and now I don't mind a bit of pineapple-and-bacon pizza now and then.

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Their script just sets up their Flatpak and their repository for it. You don't have to be given a flatpak file for it to be installed via a Flatpak.

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Interesting interview! M. Gospodnetich sounds like a level-headed person and actually got me interested in their project. Respect for the humility when considering Bazzit as a "distribution" and massive kudos for the answer about anti-cheats, clear and so true.

Pineapple on pizza absolutely rules.

Honey, get the botnet out, GoL is going down! 😡

(that's a joke, please don't ban, I will never seek to harm someone, no matter how heretically wrong their statements are)

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The original Huntdown really nails the 80's era Cannon action movie look and feel, and it's a solid run n' gun. This should be awesome.

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But wen i go to downaod page is offer just GeForceNOWSetup.bin and not flatpak. Idont understand

https://international.download.nvidia.com/GFNLinux/GeForceNOWSetup.bin

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... and the current version being delisted, as usual. A bit of burying the lede there.

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Why can't they have a decent numbering scheme?

There is one Final Fantasy VIII but about 10 Final Fantasy VII for fucks sake!
https://ff7.info/every-ff7.htm

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: drenAgain this is misleading. Once you download your game from GOG, you can completely remove them from the scenario of installation at all. You have the files, you can install it on as many computers as you want and you don't have to login to play the game. You absolutely cannot do that with Steam.

You absolutely can. There are lots of DRM-free games on steam and downloading the files is the only thing you need to do in order to run them. Obviously you can't do that with games relying on Steam DRM (at least not without using workarounds), but that's something the developer put in there, and not valve. Valve does not require any kind of DRM for games sold on Steam.

@Caldathras is absolutely correct. GOG provides standalone executable installers, steam has no such feature. Games being DRM-free on steam isn't normal. Devs can and sometimes do add Steamworks DRM after initial releases, etc. The permanence of the Steam install being DRM-free isn't there. Also the Steam installation doesn't include other necessary dependencies, such as DirectX or C++ redistributables, that are included as part of an actual installer. Steam also doesn't advertise or tell you which games are DRM-free. On GOG EVERY game is DRM-free with all dependencies included as part of the installer (both Windows and Linux). In a lot of cases, these DRM-free directories still need the Steam client to act as a wrapper or handle activation. With GOG, you don't even need to use Galaxy, you can just download the installer from the website and install it where you want. This is why Heroic is able to provide direct access to your GOG library and is able to install everything you need for a game. It just feels like you are trying to make an equivalency argument that isn't actually equivalent.

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The community will love it when their saves don't work with the new version!

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