There needs to be a Ubuntu Devs meme where they are sitting around a round table and are like What Terrible Idea Can We Come Up With This Year?

It's not that 64-bit shouldn't overtake 32-bit in the app / game space, but in the library space it's not a sane solution.

As these problems come up and with developments in ARM, POWER9, RISC I am beginning to think that binary distros are not the way.

What I'm afraid of is what it will cost to switch to a source package manager distro -- I am under the impression that even Gentoo has some ideology and thinking in implementation form that is stuck in 2008.

It's a shame Ubuntu couldn't learn a lesson from Gobo Linux where they organize packages /Programs/X-Library/V.XX/[files] -- if Linux took a page from their book we would have never needed Snaps or Flatpaks because multiple dependency versions could co-exist, and on servers where security matters they could simply require the latest version or have a secure channel of approved versions completely mitigating the necessity of LTS and having the best of Rolling Release and Point Release stability and freshness all while eliminating the necessity to over-engineer solutions that never should have needed to exist to begin with.

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QuoteWhose Wine is it anyway? Wine 4.11 is out

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Quoting: AlbatrosGamingUbuntu does not care about the desktop any more they only care about servers and the cloud looks like I need to change my laptop it is 64bit but I run some 32bit software on it.

Well I did deploy a new Ubuntu Server yesterday at work and I have to say the installer was pretty nice and it felt way nicer than CentOS which on the flip side felt great -- like security, so secure you have neither nano or vim.

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I thought Ubuntu had expanded their IoT interest within the last few years and that enough IoT used 32-bit, am I mistaken that 32-bit still has many use cases?

What about Train Stations, Skyscrapers, and Transport where Ubuntu is on that hardware which could be a unrepresented user-base.

WINE and Proton and Steam are obvious Desktop-user problems.

Announcing it 2019.07 that it's going to happen 2019.10 is also a little unprofessional, Google announces service changes / shutdowns 6-12 months in advance -- not 90 days.

If I was a 32-bit user I would see even more reason to run Gentoo and I would start to see Binary distros as a sort of here-today-gonne-tomorrow thing in the same way that open source people avoid proprietary applications and SaaS with forced UI updates and devolutions.

I understand that it would be a "good idea" if users upgraded to 64-bit systems -- but some users simply cannot at this time.

On the flip side -- It is my personal opinion that Canonical does a poor job maintaining 4 versions of the same software per app, library and program vs what they could accomplish with LTS+Rolling instead of LTS+6 Month Point Release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Table_of_versions

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Looks like Age of Empires II meets StarCraft meets something else.

Looks amazing, definitely going to follow this one closely, as a RTS from the screenshots if it plays and has all the basics right buying it is a no-brainer.

Very excited to get more RTS to sink my teeth into on my Linux. No Tux No Bux

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Quoting: tmtvlWell, if they're gonna ruin the detail view I'll permanently switch to list view.

Comparing the current version against the screenshot I can't imagine what functionality you consider "missing" or "ruined".





I think Liam hit the nail on the head with specific developers abusing the system.



Lets be real, if you were hosting a party and someone at your party was swaying guests to ditch your party and come to this smaller more niche party you'd be pissed and probably kick them out of your house and not invite them back.

If I was Valve I'd do a whole lot more and make it violation of TOS and withhold the developer's sales money until they stop trying to piss off big daddy and reconcile their platform abuse, possibly to the extent of developers forefitting their income prior to to the ban hammer and being canned.

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I'm very pleased to see my feedback made it into this design iteration,

changing things too much leads to user confusion, anger and loss of income and at a glance it looks like they didn't remove anything that was tried and true but simply expanded and improved what they already had.

Major kuddos, general gamer reception seems to be very positive so far save a few snags that need to be buttoned up. <3

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Quoting: eldakingHeck, they accuse Linux users of "wanting things for free".

My 2 Linux Gaming rigs each with $950.00 Processors and $600.00 GPUs speak otherwise.

Oh what's that I hear? :O They don't actually gather market research & intel and just parrot narratives and FUD passed down by the dumb IT of the world.

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QuoteFor me personally, it's not a case of a game needing to be "native", I'm so long past caring about the internals of a game. ~~I want a game that both works and is supported.~~ The latter obviously being extremely important, since ~~if a game update breaks the Linux version then as a paying customer I would expect something to be looked into and fixed up.~~

<3<3<3 AMEN. <3<3<3

As a Linux Gamer with 350+ games I've purchased it's not worth it to me to buy a game with 0 expectation that it will continue to work in the future. To my knowledge I am not able to download "old versions" of the game on Steam if the new versions break the game.

Also, lets be REAL for a moment. SteamPlay is nothing more than a ~~ Plan B ~~ for gamers like me. It eliminates the need for me as a gamer to go through hoops to play a highly anticipated title (rebooting to windows -- assuming I had a windows, which I don't. Running VGA Passthrough, or streaming from a Windows box in my closet, etc...)

I can probably count the number of games I would be willing to go through the effort to play on one or two hands.

Bottom Line -- If a developer doesn't want to go through the effort of providing support to me, I am unwilling to spend money. SteamPlay is a nice backup or Plan B, but native games will get my money 98 times out of 100.

For example. I recently played Marble Skies on Linux, amazing game, I couldn't give a damn even if the Linux versions cost a premium either, I'll still pay it over buying some half baked bug infested product lazily chucked at me with zero support.

~~ SteamPlay was never a silver bullet and it never will be. ~~

At best it may enable playing some specific AAA games like GTAV, Halo MCC and Final Fantasy XV but even then there are thousands of other Linux games I could buy and not have to dick around getting the damn thing to work.

If I wanted to dick around getting things working, I would have settled for pirating roms and Wii games, but because I'm classy I pay for my games so I don't have to fuck around with technical quirks becuase I want to spend time PLAYING MY GAMES, and not spend time FIXING OR ADMINISTERING MY GAMES.

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CPU enthusiasts are calling the Intel's counter-launch Intel EE or Emergency Edition -- where they are simply launching as a response to AMD playing such a strong hand.

Competition is good for us -- the consumer, and after being on a 32 thread CPU for half a year now I can say it does have some amazing perks.

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