I'd be interested to see how the experience would be if one were to run native linux only.

How easy is it to filter for that? Would restricting oneself to native reduce compatibility problems, performance, and/or battery life compared to restricting oneself to verified and playable?

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For someone who pretends to be doing stuff "for the good of the industry", Sweeney is displaying a remarkably short-sighted stance.

What is the point of "breaking the steam monopoly" if you are going to concede the underlying OS to an even bigger competitor that has a proven track record of monopoly abuse?

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Got AI War 2 (native linux).

Never got around to playing the first one, hope I'll find the time to play this new and improved one.

Rogue-lite fans may want to grab Starward Rogue by the same dev (Arcen Games). It's silly cheap at the moment.

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What's really needed is not this half-behinded "we think it'll run fine"-label, but a list of games that have a true commitment to *full* support, either by valve or the devs of the game in question.

This is especially important in the case of the games that are running via proton, since those have the biggest potential of valve and the devs pointing to each other when you need something fixed.

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Which still leaves the problems that those original devs are likely not the ones who had the copyrights and that these new devs are also charging for those user created levels.

It's one thing to distribute abandonware for free, quite another to charge a hefty fee for it.

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Not a fan of the mobilification nor of the shady situation regarding the copyrights.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, no doubt the laptop is very nice. I'm not sold by the marketing, though--all that breathless stuff about multitasking. Studies suggest that people aren't as good at multitasking as they think they are, and that switching tasks has a cognitive and time cost, so you're better off concentrating on one thing for a while.

And this marketing also ignores that the user is not necessarily multi-tasking when the computer is doing so. Not only having the pc doing stuff in the background while working on something different, but also running multiple programs to do a single job.

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I took a quick peek, first impressions are very, very good with two main points:

First: the artwork and music are excellent. As close in feel to moo as can be without actually being moo.

Second: less positive, the interface's visual design. It manages to completely rub me in the wrong way with broken lines in interface elements (for example: that gap where alerts appear and the next turn button's left edge not aligning with the planet panel's), and the blue buttons from the galaxy view disappearing when changing screens. The changeover from the galaxy view to the management screens feel inconsistent, not sure if that is due to the colour change or the aforementioned buttons not being in the other screen views. I know this is the way moo1 does it, but with the bigger screen real estate nowadays I'd prefer those blue buttons becoming more of a navigation bar.

Feature request: Customisable hotkeys. I would really prefer Enter as a hotkey for next turn instead of "n".

Feature suggestion: tabbed empire management as in star ruler II.

Did I mention I like the artwork and music? Looking forward to really digging in ^_^

Running via ubuntu 20.04's standard open java runtime environment on a 1080p screen.

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Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: GuestIt's intended for sensitive data (normally crypto related) for the usual purposes (e.g signed software validation and authentication). It's aimed at Windows more than anything else, but pretty sure something similar is already on AMD powered consoles.

Good/bad really - good for locking down and preventing unauthorised software changes, bad for the same reasons.

Suspected as much. I would hazard a guess at MS getting to put their chip in as part of a deal for putting more AMD in their Surface gizmos.

To state the obvious, I’m very not interested in having a Microsoft anything in my hardware. It smells of stinkowiff.

In addition to it being a descendant of xbox's "protection" against its own users, it is also designed to phone home directly ... Whatever could go wrong?

I really hope this security chip can be reliably disabled and that the the people who thought this was a good idea get a laxative in their drinking water every day to occupy themselves more usefully than by thinking up this kind of nonsense.

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Quoting: CatKiller

QuoteWith this release you're getting Kernel 5.4, a packaging base of Ubuntu 20.04

That seems really weird. Most Ubuntu 20.04 users are going to be on 5.11 already because of Hardware Enablement. If you're going to go through the effort to make a new downstream release based on that, why wouldn't you pick up the newer supported kernel from upstream?

That kernel has been causing quite a few annoyances on my xubuntu install, from touchpad drivers stopping to function up to an 10sec shutdown time increase.

I've been able to fix everything, but it's adding up to the annoyances (snap, slow software manager, sleep problems, etc) the more recent so-called lts release has been adding on a system what was doing fine in 18.04. Funnily enough, linux mint, based on the same ubuntu version, has none of those problems.

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