Quoting: Eike

Quoting: gqmeloI worked on a company that developed OpenGL applications and using this approach we were able to build on CentOS 5 and run on Ubuntu 16.10, for example. That's 9 years of backward compatibility.

How much work was it to follow all security problems, update the statically linked binaries and ship them for nine years...?

Only an issue if the software "faces out" as it were. You're assuming this isn't something that just simply runs on the computer; not everything has to be networked.

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Quoting: Metallinatus

Quoting: ShmerlWhat stops anyone from partnering with Dell, and making them provide Linux options on all their models, and not just on a couple of laptops? I agree though it requires money. I'd also like to see KDE used for such purpose.

Honestly, if someone tried that, Microsoft would strike back their own deal with Dell to keep it from happening....

They can be hit with anti-trust pretty hard if they'd do that.

Maybe in the EU. Antitrust in the United States is effectively a dead letter at the moment. The monopolists have the richest lobbyists, and the richest lobbyists rule the US, ergo no antitrust enforcement.

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Quoting: ShmerlI'd call it perceived lack of demand. Disprove them by flooding them with requests for Linux versions.

The problem is that it's not just perceived. We really need bigger market share. Man, the Linux desktop is really pretty damned good (I remember when it wasn't, but those days are gone) . . . I know there's a monopolist busily trying to keep it sidelined, I know nobody has figured a way to milk it for concentrated money, but there's a side of me that really can't understand why we're not growing much.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThese days it might also be worth looking into those Snap or Flatpak thingies. Extra fiddling maybe, but near as I understand it could buy you quite a bit of distribution-agnostic-ness.

Snap isn't that good yet. Maybe on Ubuntu it just works but on Debian I only got the CLI apps working. As I understood it, the snap developers have to hardcode NVIDIA driver paths in the framework and I use the binary non-repo driver. So OpenGL doesn't work and at least Krita couldn't run.

Ah. Well, maybe in a couple of years. Too many useful things always seem to be maybe in a couple of years.

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Quoting: EhvisI remember one game where the developer had a Unity3D game running within a day, but had dependency problems when starting from the Steam runtime.

STASIS is suffering from this right now. The engine needs newer libstdc++.so.6 than provided in SteamOS so it doesn't start there. So another advice: check your dependencies on older distros if possible and either ship the libs with the game or link them statically if you can.

These days it might also be worth looking into those Snap or Flatpak thingies. Extra fiddling maybe, but near as I understand it could buy you quite a bit of distribution-agnostic-ness.

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I agree with some of the people who basically consider this to be two separate topics of conversation. Topic one: Were the developers of The Witcher 2 port, including Jaycee in specific, treated horribly by some Linux gamers? This seems clearly to be the case and I'm very sorry it happened. It's true that it's very difficult for vague groups of consumers to police themselves, but still there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that bad stuff went down, it should not have, and since there is an association with us whether we like it or not there's nothing wrong with expressing some contrition on behalf of the unpleasant persons who committed these verbal assaults.

Topic 2: Is Jaycee correct in his opinion that these unfortunate events had anything to do with the abandonment of the Witcher 3 port? No, I think Jaycee is wrong about this, and frankly looking at the situation in a fairly unrealistic way. Lots of people, and Shmerl in particular, have made some pretty sound points on this.

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Quoting: Nyamiou

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: NyamiouThe idea that a company would judge an entire community over the reaction of a few individuals no matter how loud they can be is completely unacceptable, if CDRP are really like then they got the hate they deserved.

And "they got the hate they deserved" is the problem. People like YOU are exactly the problem.

People like me? WTF? seriously. Also thx for quoting out of context, that's nice.

Seriously, you are a troll trying to turn people of the Linux community against each others. I don't know why you are doing that and I don't understand why people listen to you, but what I know is that they probably shouldn't.

Give me one good reasons you are telling that stuff, even if it were to be the truth, given the harm it does to the community?

You need to stop this. Really, I'm reading with disbelief. I don't know what you think you're doing, if you think you're some kind of cowboy riding to the rescue with your bizarre conspiracy theory about fake identity, but you need to realize that you are in fact mistaken, which means you have been making highly unpleasant false accusations to a developer of a Linux game port.
It seems as if you may have realized that you were mistaken, but the appropriate reaction to finding that out is not to grudgingly give a few centimeters of ground and continue attacking, it is to swallow your pride, climb down and apologize. It is not too late.

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Quoting: razing32Apparently the words to advance the game feel like the old adventure trope of rub everything on everything else.

. . . So this is an x-rated game? ;)

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Quoting: Alm888"non-English languages"…
Like there are "English languages" (i.e. English somehow became a category)…
Sorry to be a "Grammar Nazi", but I think "languages, other than English" would be more appropriate.

Still no word on DRM-free release?

I don't think that implies what you're saying it implies. The usage may be a bit odd or clumsy-feeling if you think hard, but the actual grammar seems sound. You're treating it as if it's "English languages" with a "non" loosely attached, but the hyphen makes "non-English" into a single word, and it's the whole thing which is attached to "language/s", so clearly it has to be plural.
And I think "languages, other than English" would be bad style.

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Philip K. Dick gets into everything.

Spoiler, click me

"Through a Scanner, Darkly"

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