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What have you been playing on Linux recently and what do you think about it?
5 June 2016 at 6:31 pm UTC
Yes, I second that, it's always painful to need to run a derivative. But in this case, I can comfort you, Divine Divinity totally runs on vanilla Debian!
*g*
5 June 2016 at 6:31 pm UTC
Quoting: tmtvl.. but I fear I might need to run a Debian derivative, in which case it probably won't be worth the pain and humiliation.
Yes, I second that, it's always painful to need to run a derivative. But in this case, I can comfort you, Divine Divinity totally runs on vanilla Debian!
*g*
The handheld Linux computer Pyra is available for pre-order
26 May 2016 at 7:33 am UTC Likes: 1
26 May 2016 at 7:33 am UTC Likes: 1
This is going to be the replacement for my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC
Feral Interactive are teasing another new Linux & Mac port with a new clue
24 May 2016 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 8
24 May 2016 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 8
Quoting: SamsaiDoom 4 will not be ported because it's a Bethesda title.It's a bad regression. Open a bug report. I've got Quake 1,2,3 and 4, and Doom 1, 2 and 3. All for Linux. So Doom 4 not working on Linux must be a bug.
Linux & Steam running on the PS4 playing Bastion is impressive
23 May 2016 at 9:16 am UTC Likes: 1
I got a scanner from a colleague who had his Windows updated, and the scanner drivers didn't work any more. Plugged it into Linux and it worked, of course without installing drivers or whatever.
23 May 2016 at 9:16 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: wolfyrionA friend of mine called me that he had a logitech PS3 Wheel to give me for Free because he had no use for it.
I got a scanner from a colleague who had his Windows updated, and the scanner drivers didn't work any more. Plugged it into Linux and it worked, of course without installing drivers or whatever.
Minetest, the open source sandbox game inspired by InfiniMiner & Minecraft has a major new version
21 May 2016 at 8:59 am UTC
21 May 2016 at 8:59 am UTC
Minecraft feels so much more polished than any of the clones. Which is sad, because there are some that can sustain massively bigger worlds, higher view distance, more entities and still have a better performance than Minecraft.
Some thoughts on Shadwen, Frozenbyte's new stealth game available for Linux
19 May 2016 at 9:37 am UTC
19 May 2016 at 9:37 am UTC
Works nicely. I like it.
Sunday chat: What have you been playing, and what do you think?
10 May 2016 at 12:32 pm UTC
10 May 2016 at 12:32 pm UTC
7 Days to Die. Since Alpha 14.6 the Linux version is playable again (the broke the shaders in 14.5), although there are some snags:
- It used to be extremely fast in 13.8 to start up, until the main menu appeared. Now it takes minutes (?). From main menu to game it's also slower, but still rather fast.
- There's a bug with tone mapping or bloom or something, making light sources and bright surfaces on Linux _extremely_ bright.
- There's still some weirdness with scavenging. Things that are not very scarce in real life, but extremely so in 7DTD. Like loads of zombie lumberjacks, but chainsaws extremely scarce. Or that you can't find loads of cement in any construction site.
And the good:
- 13.8 had a lot of out-of-memory crashes, these are mostly gone.
- The skill system has been revamped, and I think it's become rather nice.
- It used to be extremely fast in 13.8 to start up, until the main menu appeared. Now it takes minutes (?). From main menu to game it's also slower, but still rather fast.
- There's a bug with tone mapping or bloom or something, making light sources and bright surfaces on Linux _extremely_ bright.
- There's still some weirdness with scavenging. Things that are not very scarce in real life, but extremely so in 7DTD. Like loads of zombie lumberjacks, but chainsaws extremely scarce. Or that you can't find loads of cement in any construction site.
And the good:
- 13.8 had a lot of out-of-memory crashes, these are mostly gone.
- The skill system has been revamped, and I think it's become rather nice.
Steam makes an attempt to fix up their review system
4 May 2016 at 3:13 pm UTC
Yes, either they should take the OS the browser reports into consideration (and not just SteamOS), or have some kind of switch you can set in the preferences.
4 May 2016 at 3:13 pm UTC
Quoting: darkszlufi really hope the next step is fixing the support and the website, being spammed with windows titles on my linux machines is pretty annoying
Yes, either they should take the OS the browser reports into consideration (and not just SteamOS), or have some kind of switch you can set in the preferences.
Nvidia 364.19 stable driver released, featuring Vulkan, Wayland & Mir support
26 April 2016 at 6:07 pm UTC
26 April 2016 at 6:07 pm UTC
I asked in the Debian bugtracker, here's the answer:
You will need all three .run-files in the tarball, including the one for ARM.
If you get Errors like "glXChooseVisual failed", especially when starting steam, you didn't install all libraries for i386 on your 64bit system...
QuoteThere is a statement:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012918.html
the alternative is build the packages yourself:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012917.html
Please build the packages and report all the issues you have, so the
maintainers can make a stable package.
You will need all three .run-files in the tarball, including the one for ARM.
If you get Errors like "glXChooseVisual failed", especially when starting steam, you didn't install all libraries for i386 on your 64bit system...
Is Steam giving you an annoying error message on Ubuntu 16.04? Here's a solution
26 April 2016 at 6:37 am UTC
I do use the repo:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
And my Debian Sid does complain. And the workaround doesn't work, because my Steam already resides in .steam.
26 April 2016 at 6:37 am UTC
Quoting: DrMcCoyI have that error for a while now on Debian Sid. No repo at all; I update Steam from within Steam.
I do use the repo:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
And my Debian Sid does complain. And the workaround doesn't work, because my Steam already resides in .steam.
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