I don't know what "frame tripling" is, but I hope they implement Black Frame Insertion in gamescope.

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I remember playing TitanQuest when it was first released and how excited I was a year later when the Immortal Throne expansion released. It definitely satisfied my Diablo II craving.

Quotedespite only being a year older than Grim Dawn!

The original TitanQuest released in 2006. 10 years before Grim Dawn.

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Quoting: dvdThat's not really applicable. It's more like saying the fact that high schoolers can get an A devalues getting an A in university, or being able to cook delicious meals at home takes away from the skills of a professional cook.

If you constantly say "This is the best!" to everyone, you're indirectly saying it's all the same, even without actually saying it.
So, if for instance your child doesn't feel that his achievements are anything special, why bother working hard if everybody is getting an A+ just for participating?

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Quoting: denyasisI presume it is because people like to feel special and get personally offended when it's pointed out the benchmark they use for that belief isn't really well suited to that in the first place.

I can imagine if you have a wife or girlfriend:
-Was my cooking good?
-Not better than anything else I've eaten.

Or a child:
-Daddy I got an A+ in Math!!!
-So what?

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Linux gaming tester huh. Seems like the perfect job for @mrdeathjr

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Quoting: PJWith Gnome you just install 2-3 extensions, tweak the same amount of settings (for example turn on extra window buttons) and install icon theme. With KDE you add a theme and spend quite a bit going through the settings then disable/tweak stuff that does not work so well

This is one of the biggest misconceptions the Linux community has that makes Linux very unfriendly to new users.
You think that it's easy for a newbie to search the whole internet (Linux wikis, forums etc.) for a command that will need to be put in the terminal to run something. And at the same time you think it's hard for anyone to find a button in System Settings or Launcher Menu.
It's the opposite! You even have a search bar to help you with finding things.
This is what annoyed me to no end when I first started using Linux. Every little thing needed a command. If there's a setting or GUI it's easy for me. I will find it and change it and I'll remember that the setting is there. But I can't remember every single command that is needed to change something that I may never use again. (That's why I have a txt file with all the commands I've ever needed to do in case I need them again)
And that's why Linux will always be unfriendly to newbies. The Linux community doesn't understand that simple fact and instead thinks too much settings are hard to remember.
>Oh NO! I need to remember where this setting in the interface is! That's too hard!
>If only I could install some packages, change some config files with root privileges and run some commands in the terminal after some googling.

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Quoting: PJconstant KDE Wallet nags

I don't know what nags you're talking about. Among all the times I've installed a distro with KDE I've only gotten it once and then I put on a password and that was it. If you're constantly getting notification just uninstall it.

Quoting: PJOMG, how did you get that impression? Because I've said I think ALL de-s are actually amazing, including GNOME? Since when not hating something became fanboyism :D ?
ok, but think about regular folks - for them it is serious tweaking. They wouldn't know where to find those settings.

You're the guy that's recommending GNOME for new people to Linux right? Or was I mistaken? Sorry if I was mistaken.

Quoting: PJKDE looks like someone puked rainbow on your screen, trying to make a windows clone with bad font choices and totally tangled settings and options.

Where did you get that impression from? I like the default settings and so do most people.

Quoting: PJWith Gnome you just install 2-3 extensions, tweak the same amount of settings (for example turn on extra window buttons) and install icon theme.

You think it's easier to make GNOME look like KDE than vice versa? Which do you think is harder, removing KWallet or putting the classical start menu and taskbar on GNOME for a newbie? (I haven't used GNOME since 3 was first released so there are probably other things a Windows user and I will hate about the DE)

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Quoting: PJ

Quoting: SchattenspiegelLet's hope the ones crossing over do not come into contact with GNOME desktop first. Otherwise they might start to find windows 11 not so bad after all. ;-)

and that's debatable. My personal experience is that when I introduce some non-techie to Linux Gnome works best (with addad dock and some minor tweaks). Those were folks that actually kept using Linux.
With "techies" KDE is usually the best choice. Sucks with default settings but you can do almost anything with it.
IMO one of the issues with Linux desktop is by default every single DE sucks... even though every single one (among the major ones) is actually awesome.

When I had introduced GNOME and Unity to my friends and other people I know, nobody liked it they couldn't understand where the start menu was, didn't like the big icons of the start menu (thought it was meant for tablet). Most didn't even realize the OS had completely loaded.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlGnome out of the box is ugly and to make it useful you have to add plugins to it. The default should be a useable desktop without the user having to do anything.

yeah, but if you had actually read my post you'd notice I acknowledge that. IMO every single one of the major DEs on Linux are ugly. Gnome is a bit dysfunctional unless you're into very specific (and I'd argue for lot of workflows just not good) workflow with not so cool icons (even though they've improved and also Adwaita becomes bearable). KDE looks like someone puked rainbow on your screen, trying to make a windows clone with bad font choices and totally tangled settings and options. Xfce is like stepping back in time. I could go on.
But the thing is every single one can be made awesome. With Gnome you just install 2-3 extensions, tweak the same amount of settings (for example turn on extra window buttons) and install icon theme. With KDE you add a theme and spend quite a bit going through the settings then disable/tweak stuff that does not work so well (for example Kwallet or file search). And so on.
My belief is that most of the parts are there (or mostly there - like with sound system, where I had some hopes with Pipewire). They're just not put together well by default (maybe a bit better on Ubuntu) - maybe because we don't have much of actual frontend UI/UX designers on our platform. Or maybe there's no company that actually cares that will pay someone to do the tedious work nobody wants to do. I don't know.
But at least we could do it ourselves. No matter the DE - IMO most of them are awesome!

I can not, for the life of me understand people that like GNOME3. I was a Windows 7 user and when Win8 was announced decided to dual-boot and get used to Linux. I started with Ubuntu Mate (thank god someone decided to fork gtk2) because I loved the theme and taskbar/launcher at the time, then switched to Mint Mate because it was buggy (had memory leaks) until KDE Plasma became stable enough, then I switched to KDE Neon and later to Manjaro KDE. I never needed to tweak any of the Desktop settings or themes on any of them, just switch to Application Menu on KDE, my friends that are Windows users also liked the default themes of KDE and Mint Mate. The default theme is perfect.
I don't use KWallet and disable Search indexing, but I wouldn't call that "tweaking". It seems to me that you are a GNOME fanboy that's pushing your preferences on people that don't know better (Widnows users), which is really annoying because every distro out there is doing the same. It's like they don't understand why Linux Mint is so popular. Why would you want your desktop empty (no desktop icons) Why would you want your start menu to be fullscreen? Didn't you learn from Windows 8 that nobody wants that?
I was really disappointed when I first saw SteamOS with the GNOME DE. If I was first introduced to Linux by you or SteamOS, I would think "Linux looks horrendous" and never look at it again. Mint and KDE are not Windows clones. You may hate the taskbar and launcher of KDE because they reminds you of Windows, but there is a reason why all the OSes used to use the classic taskbar and launcher. It's like pushing a window manager like i3 because you think it's cool. I like i3 too, but I'm realistic enough to know that majority of people would hate it (I don't want to use those keybinding all the time either). Maybe it would be good idea to put it on university PCs that teach programming?
To me GNOME added features nobody asked for and removed the ones everyone loved and was used to because the developers thought it looked cool. Not caring what the users of the DE thought about it.
I used to think KDE4 looked bad. Since GTK3 was released GNOME has been getting uglier and uglier.
IMO the only reason GNOME became the primary DE over KDE5 was because of development resources. Now that KDE Plasma is stable and improving, things are changing.

End of rant.

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You can download Gladiabots on itch from the browser, but you can't claim it, so it's not really 100% off. I noticed other games that have the same problem. I don't know if it's intentional, but in the itch client when I click to install the game I get "No compatible uploads were found for this title".

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