Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: grigiwhy do they always have to do the Not-Invented-Here thing all the time.

You are aware that most of the NIH stuff came before nowadays established alternatives?

upstart (2006) preceded systemd (2010).
Unity (2010) preceded Gnome Shell (2011).
Snap (2014) preceded Flatpak (2015).
And when Mir was announced in 2013 Wayland was a long shot from being remotely usable.
Even Bazaar (26 March 2005) came a few days before Git (7 April 2005 after a 3 day development).

There were definitely previews of Gnome-Shell long before Unity was out. Unity was literally Ubuntu's answer to Gnome-shell being weird for people. It took like 5 years to hit 3.0. Ha, I've been using gnome since .21/.22 was in the Debian repositories many moons ago... funny enough, it probably would have never existed if KDE had chosen a toolkit that was fully opensource (or just GPL) at the beginning.

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Quoting: 14I've never really played the Doom games. And I haven't been playing single-player FPS games. But that trailer... it looks like guilty pleasure.

Speaking of guilty pleasures... I started up Dead Island 2 over the weekend... and spent most of the weekend playing it! Ha, finally stopped as I ran into a very frustrating fight... but it's a blast.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: grigiwhy do they always have to do the Not-Invented-Here thing all the time.

You are aware that most of the NIH stuff came before nowadays established alternatives?

upstart (2006) preceded systemd (2010).
Unity (2010) preceded Gnome Shell (2011).
Snap (2014) preceded Flatpak (2015).
And when Mir was announced in 2013 Wayland was a long shot from being remotely usable.
Even Bazaar (26 March 2005) came a few days before Git (7 April 2005 after a 3 day development).

Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: grigiIt's a laudable effort from Canonical to try and harden the linux desktop by using sandboxing as standard.
Just, why do they always have to do the Not-Invented-Here thing all the time.

True, Snap supports more use cases than either Flatpak or oci, but its such a closed ecosystem that nobody else dares adopt it. So it just develops at a slower pace, and gets less testing. And sits with horrible performance for years, etc...

It's basically the reason I tell people to move off Ubuntu as their snapification of everything is really breaking things.

Frustrating that Ubuntu (Means: Working together well) is not working together.

What do your suggest for the people you tell to move off ubuntu?

I'm on ubuntu atm and mostly stuck with ubuntu to keep things as simple as possible for me, I was enjoying linux mint prior to that but don't like how further behind mint is with things like wayland ect

I usually just do Debian, but Mint and PopOS are fine. Being behind on Wayland isn't a terrible thing, it's not 100% 'ready' yet. Much in the same way the move from GTK2 to 3 to 4 wasn't ready for a long time because so many apps hadn't been updated yet. Wayland breaks copy/paste behavior in older apps.

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Quoting: PenglingPff, that's nothing! Until the Steam Deck and its ilk, my FPS motion-sickness issues stopped me from playing any of them! I'm still inching through Doom II right now, with Doom 64, 2016, and Eternal sitting in my library waiting for their turn.

Doom64 was awesome. The Brutal mod (I think that is what it was called) is sweet too. There is definitely a happiness with hearing the original Doom game on a MT-32 or Gravis Ultrasound too.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: PublicNuisanceStuff like this rarely effetcs me. I actually prefer to not use cloud saves. I want manual offline options and to back it up myself. People can complain it's more work, and it is, but then again when crap like this happens I just laugh and go about my day.

It'd be nice if there were a folder where game saves were put by standard.

OOH, that's a Wine specific problem actually.
Standard that stuff is on windows set in user\Appdata and in linux in user/.local, but wine maintains for each prefix its own Appdata.
I understand the issue.

It is supposed to be a standard, but not all games follow it. There is also the AppData/publisher/game vs AppData/game/ thing that always irritates me.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: hardpenguinAlso it is kinda important gaming news in context of cloud saves in general and depending on online platforms to store things for you.

That's very true! I must be honest, I never thought of that - though I do use the "cloud-saves" feature in Steam, the sorts of games I play aren't huge open games that demand large time-investments, so I wouldn't be opposed to re-playing my sorts of titles if I lost the save-data - indeed, that's happened with a few that don't support it, already.

Ha, the bad ones for me is the hard fought Neverwinter Nights with a wizard... and my Ultima 7 progress. Neither of which of course were on Steam, so I never had any cloud saves for it and lost them...

I still haven't beaten Ultima 7 to this day due to that. Started it up a few times though...

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceStuff like this rarely effetcs me. I actually prefer to not use cloud saves. I want manual offline options and to back it up myself. People can complain it's more work, and it is, but then again when crap like this happens I just laugh and go about my day.

It'd be nice if there were a folder where game saves were put by standard.

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeI never got into it either,picked it up on gog years ago, like you tried it for 20 minutes wasn't really my cup of tea

I do like the metro games though

Ha, I tried them at the time they came out, and my computer didn't run them all that well, so I put them on the list of 'I'll play them eventually...'

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: PenglingI'm a little bit confused - isn't this a Windows-only problem, since this relates to their GOG Galaxy launcher?

Galaxy works on Linux with Wine too, has done for ages. But, Heroic Games Launcher also supports GOG too, and if memory serves works with cloud saves nowadays too.

Ha, my first question was, "GOG has cloud saves?" For the most part, the games I have through GOG don't seem like they would even support it.

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Quoting: Marlockgiven the amount of pain and suffering some users got from the original Steam Deck wifi, i'd hope the specs for other linux handhelds would be careful to show they use wifi models with known-good linux driver support

is this a known info already?

I have read some issues with the original Steam Deck wifi, but never experienced any issues myself. I wonder if it's less about driver support, and more about locations and router compatibility. Not that I'm saying Linux and Wifi hasn't been 'fun' for me in the past. I had a laptop at some point that would connect and work just fine in Linux... until I tried to stream anything (like YouTube). It'd just disconnect until I'd stop... That's when I found out that laptop manufacturers will sometimes whitelist Wifi cards in the bios... fortunately, someone had already hacked/patched a bios for my particular model that worked great with the Intel replacement :)

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