Nice additions :)

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Ummmm....
15" and no numpad??

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Looks great!
Also - I'm not buying a laptop with force-preloaded OEM Windows!

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Hmmm...
Proton hanging 100% times on OriginThinSetup.exe (all the Wine beauty magic sits in RAM and nothing happens) :(
Not working for me (on Ryzen 4700U with Oibaf's AMD drivers; other games work normally).

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPYeah, that trailer completely fails at delivering that tense System Shock atmosphere.
No idea who thought this music was a good idea.

It is hilarious, sure, but what are they trying to sell here?
System Shock or Serious Sam?

Rest assured that when you play the demo, it definitely is *not* a SeriousSam-styled shooter :)

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Uuuuu - Linux version coming too?
I guess I might give them that full price; they deserve it...

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Oh my...
...the elevator music, which scared me through my childhood :D

(unfortunately current demo seems to be "heavily un-optimized" on Linux :( )

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Ehvis

QuoteHow long before extinguish phase starts?

Never. Not because they don't want to, but because the importance of Linux as a whole is way bigger that than the worst-of-both-worlds WSL system can ever be. It simply doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Never say never when it's Microsoft. Changed in some ways, not at all in others ;)

You could argue that trying to pull developers from Linux to stick with Windows, and just use WSL for ML/AI/CUDA is part of an extinguish strategy. It is when you think of it quite literally, as keeping people on WSL where they control it. All depends on your point of view and what we're referencing when we say extinguish.

But the landscape is different. EEE applied to things microsoft could control in some way. The battle fought against Linux was lost long ago and the foothold that Linux has in the total market is way too big for EEE to work. Sure they can do the first E. They can try to do the second E, but it is doomed to fail because it won't find significant adoption. Which means the third one is out of the question.

To me the whole WSL thing is a curiosity. They made a Linux kernel work on Windows in a VM like manner, but what is the point? To have your Linux service go down with a windows update? Making things dependent on two systems instead of one is a guaranteed way to make it less reliable. As a whole WSL actually looks the same as Stadia. Sure, there is a narrow niche that might see an advantage in it and would use it, but it is not objectively better and will therefore be ignored by the big crowds.

An interesting viewpoint. I'm curious then to find out how much adoption WSL has seen, if they made a bigger and better version of it with WSL 2 and now they're expanding it again - does that not mean the opposite of what you said? It must be getting a reasonably good adoption rate for MSFT to pour resources into it?

Just a sidenote: If this is some kind of a long-term strategy of MS's, such a thing as an immediate adoption might not be really important.

(I tend to think in a similar manner when talking about SteamMachines or Valve's Linux support: The goal of these two exercises is rather long term, and probably quite different that an immediate user adoption/market share/business revenue).

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I have a friend who "bought" Star Citizen some years ago.
He keeps sending videos how awesome it will be.
He is also still awaiting a full release.....

With my X4 - Collector's Edition I'm playing for quite a time, got the awesome expansion and I'm not looking back :D
Some parts of the game still need some polish and work, but it is a hugely awesome and entertaining simulation with countless possibilities of what a small player in a huge universe can do and achieve.

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Quoting: McMarius11I love this game!

#metoo

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