Quoting: ShmerlNvidia has a bad history of support when it comes to drivers

I'm rather curious about this, can you qualify your statement? I've avoided AMD/ATI gpus for quite a few years for two reasons:

• Build Quality -- it seemed like no matter what the build or price range of card, I'd have issues after a year, give or take.
• The drivers were buggy on both windows and linux, and the linux support in particular was bad.

Now, while I like open source, what I really care about is that it works. Maybe it's just my distro choices over the years but I've always found Nvidia support to be excellent in that the official drivers just worked.

That said, it's been quite a while since I've revisited that.

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Regarding Mint's wording about 32bit support in their announcement (which wasn't quoted here), I find the mixed reporting on all of that to be interesting. I'm pretty sure many of the writers out there are either ignorant of, or willfully ignorant of, the original posting/news about 32bit support removal where Canonical was quite clear about the complete drop of 32bit support -- not just for the kernel/distro release. They backtracked regarding multilib support only after Valve had some words for them.

They certainly tried to spin it like that was always the case in that updated "clarification", but it's plain for the world to see -- and read given five to ten minutes -- that there was no miscommunication.

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Quoting: HoriIn case you thought that the post-GTX naming convention wasn't bad enough...

At least it's not taking a page out of the Nintendo (And numerous others) playbook by putting the word "New" in front of it instead.

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The big thing Ubuntu had was Canonical, for better and worse. Whoever they pick, it'll probably have to have some sort of corporate backing unfortunately. I could see them getting over it/arranging backing to something popular with a good track record, like Mint (LMDE) or something. They're invested in debian/apt/etc already, so at the very least I imagine it won't break away from that easily (and if they did, I wouldn't be surprised if it was at the same point they began reconsidering supporting linux at all).

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To be honest I'm not sure why people are terribly surprised that Canonical made that call, and really, I expect they'll stick to it. They have a history of making calls and more or less telling people/communities/"linux people" to deal with it and/or "F*** off" (paraphrasing on my part).

I stopped using Ubuntu years ago over Canonical's jerk-wad behavior; the fact that I had problems with their quality control was only icing on that cake (LTS tended to be too old/too problematic, current always managing to break just enough that I had to fix my desktop every four months). I love Mint as being the "good" derivative that I rarely have to fix during normal usage/updates (My preference is Mint XFCE), and it pays to remember they have a Debian/Rolling non-ubuntu based version. I'd be all over their "LMDE" if it became their flagship, I've not adopted it yet simply because I've always suspected it'll get dropped once it becomes too much of a technical debt.

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Quoting: MohandevirNot on subject, but just a tought... What use for EGS exclusivity deals if Xbox PC gamepass works around it? Metro Exodus is now on the Xbox PC gamepass, after 4 months of exclusivity. Has the sales been lower then they expected? Could it become the demise of Epic's strategy? Better put their Fortnite cash down the drain, unless it's a Steam lockout deal?

IMHO it's absolutely a steam-lockout deal in everything but name.

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Honestly I doubt Epic has to pay publishers/devs any extra money at all to get timed exclusives like this, at least the non-AAA games.

They pay a bigger cut, so I'm sure it's as simple as maximizing new-release full-price profits. Simple as that.

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Honestly I really don't understand the hate Schafer gets for his studio and money management. I do know the reasons people cite repeatedly, I just don't understand why. It's no secret that studio has struggled from practically day one financially, and except for Spacebase DF-9, they've always delivered -- Yes, including Broken Age (Was I the only backer that liked the final product? Although, Act 2 was way better then Act 1). Really I think it's just the popular thing to hate on. Spacebase gets some legit hate/bad rep, which Schafer did explain albeit it all happening very abruptly (it came down to money of course). Maybe it's because I don't care for the type of game Spacebase was, so I never got bit nor got burned. I own literally every other Doublefine game.

It's an indie studio with actual staff that he has to pay (in an admittedly not-cheap area where him and his employees have lives).

It's unfortunate they went with Microsoft to us linux fellows, but I hardly blame him. Heck, the same people that won't give him an inch also throw a fit if he doesn't give them a foot; I can't imagine that makes it easy to stay in business -- I wouldn't be surprised if his options were to sell out, stress himself into serious health issues if he hasn't already (I'd be more surprised if he hasn't), or take the lifeline.

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I've heard a lot of comparisons to it and some other launchers like Lutris, but to be honest, if anything it sounds a lot like Playnite.

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Quoting: ArnvidrI have not figured out how GOG is integrated at all. Do I still have to go to the webpage to install anything? I installed GOG Galaxy, but that didn't seem to really work, so maybe that's just a lost cause. From reading about 0.5 before I got it, I thought I would point lutris to my GOG library somehow, so I could install anything there through the client, but I guess that's not it.

I also found it confusing, but did eventually figure it out (it's not obvious...). Basically you have to:

"+" Sign in the title bar > Import Games -> GOG Icon > Sign In > WAIT (It's hitting gog to build the game list, silently) > Check which games to import in the same window, this does NOT install them, it makes them available to install. > Import them. Now, pick a game in the main window and select to install it. If a GOG installer script is available, a install from GOG option will appear in the install window. If it doesn't, then no gog installer is available and you'll have to do the needful manually.

^ I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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