Quoting: hardpenguin...it took a while until this feature arrived in the Epic Games Store as well...

That's quite a low standard to measure against.

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This stuff is really interesting. Anything that reduces the friction between Linux and Windows is a good thing in my book.

At work all our servers are Linux, but desktops are Windows. And it always seemed that these are two separate worlds that have nothing in common. But now a lot of people started using WSL on their desktops for development of our server applications. Some are content with that, and think why would they run Linux when they can do it all in WSL? While others started questioning why do they need Windows at all if they spend all the time in WSL anyway? A double edged sword for sure, but at least people are talking about it now!

As for daily work, all the developer tools, Microsoft Teams, and Skype work natively on Linux. Office 356 runs in a browser anyway. Printers work via CUPS. Windows shares via Samba. Evolution is a great replacement for Outlook, and works just fine with an Exchange server. Surviving as a Linux user in a corporate environment is not nearly as much of a struggle as it has been.

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Looks like Euro Truck Simulator of the skies. I'm in.

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Quoting: LinasThe zombie model could also use some improvement. Right now it looks like a wooden plank with googly eyes painted on. That's not very scary.

Wood - splinters everywhere... googly eyes - a choke hazard... aaargh! [...] Also needs some really bad voice acting, like HotD, which was frankly the scariest part of those games.

You just made me realize that there's more than one way to improve a game.

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The zombie model could also use some improvement. Right now it looks like a wooden plank with googly eyes painted on. That's not very scary.

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I miss the original Asus Eee PC. Something in similar size and powered by ARM would be great.

As long as you can live without proprietary applications like Skype, and basically all the games, it would be a perfect on-the-go machine for a Linux user. There are already a bunch of distributions supporting ARM, so there wouldn't even be that big of a difference.

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Unfortunately nothing really fixed for me. Video options still don't persist, shadows and ligting are sometimes bugged, and of course occasional crashes.

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I am pretty sure that Valve would never put anything about XOrg or Wayland on the store page. It's way too technical and is an implementation detail that users should really not care about. Whether it's native or Proton, XOrg or Wayland, it should just work. And it will, given a bit of time.

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It's not much more expensive than a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) + a keyboard. Of course you still need a power supply, a mouse, and a bunch of adapters and cables. But you need that for the normal Raspberry Pi as well.

I was considering a similar setup for trips where I would not want to bring a laptop, but that never happened due to practical consideration. While most hotels have a TV with HDMI input, it may not be easily accessible. Also the location of the TV may not be very practical itself. In real world a smartphone can do basically the same, plus more.

Also it's not like any of us will be traveling anywhere anytime soon...

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Quoting: GuestSo would this help with old SDL games? When those go to full screen, they change the desktop resolution, which makes **** kwin re-shuffle all windows on all screens. At least for me, this is a major PITA

It should. Definitely worth a shot. Do you have an example of a game that does this?

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