Ya know.... I was scrolling down and I happened to see an article about Last of Us getting performance updates and getting better.

It made me wonder.... If the game worked fine at launch, that article likely wouldn't be there... and it's a positive article (Improvements!)....

I kinda wonder if there is a bit of a marketing strategy to this. To keep the game in the news longer and generate more positive coverage. 1 bad release article vs multiple positive improvement articles?

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It's the taste you can see!!

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: 1xokIt is sad that the children only find Windows and MacOS, if they can still get their hands on a desktop computer at all.

As far as possible, I equip all the children in my area with Linux computers (including Steam Deck). Modified Minecraft in particular runs much better on it than on Windows or MacOS.

Public education forces children to use microsoft products, microsoft office in particular. They teach chilren to use that, and require them to use that. I have no idea, why libre office is not used as the main office suite. I am not talking about rare cases with some excel built-in math functions, but 99.999999999% of cases, where libre office is good. That's why microsoft is so generous at providing "education" licences for free, of cheap price, so people don't even think or look for alternatives.

In the USA, that's not exactly accurate. Google owns K-12. Microsoft's strategy is to pick them up for university and beyond. That said, you are very right for university and beyond are definitely Microsoft's world. And for good reason....

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: 1xokIt is sad that the children only find Windows and MacOS, if they can still get their hands on a desktop computer at all.

As far as possible, I equip all the children in my area with Linux computers (including Steam Deck). Modified Minecraft in particular runs much better on it than on Windows or MacOS.

Public education forces children to use microsoft products, microsoft office in particular. They teach chilren to use that, and require them to use that. I have no idea, why libre office is not used as the main office suite. I am not talking about rare cases with some excel built-in math functions, but 99.999999999% of cases, where libre office is good. That's why microsoft is so generous at providing "education" licences for free, of cheap price, so people don't even think or look for alternatives.

As much as I'm regularly telling myself "don't complain, LO is free software", LibreOffice is a !@#$%^& $#@! show. Unless it's some extremely basic stuff, I'm having issues with LO practically every time I try to use it for anything serious (and so do friends and colleagues). Doing a presentation for work with non-default layout? Have fun. Need SVG with hidden elements? Hope you're on that latest version. Doing anything remotely fancy in calc, like how about multiple data series in a chart with labels? Are you crazy? Creating (or god forbid hoping for it to already exist) a standardized letter layout in write? Good luck. Some of the issues I encounter have been a thing for years and sometimes you find comments from ages ago telling you "yeah, not a thing, but you can do this and that !@#$ backwards workaround". Doing stuff in LO is just way too often, way too unintuitive and cumbersome.

The current MS Office incarnation could be equally terrible or even worse (haven't touched it in many years), but I'd take 2010 era MSO over today's LO pretty much every day of the week.

What @PixelDrop wrote is very close to my experience in, sadly, too many cases. Have someone that is content with a browser, full stop? Great. My mother is happily running a Debian system as well (not like there are no problems with garbage abandoned printer drivers or anything...). Everyone else usually has one or more pieces of "functionality" (some software) for which it's impossible to find an equivalent on Linux.

Sorry for the rant, but LO touches a sore spot of mine and makes me appreciate the "WHY THE !@#$ IS THIS !@#% A THING" feelings I often have in my Linux life and usually successfully suppress after a short time.

.... Because this. I make presentations in LO for when I teach. I export them all to PDF. That way I can actually use them regardless of OS. Everything has a PDF viewer that does full screen and most clickers work just fine with them.

I used to do data analysis. Its been 3-4 years, but Calc' Pivot Table implementation is just not good compared to Excel. And it's just not the office suite. There isn't a good alternative to SQL Server Management Studio or ArcGIS Pro. Comparatively, there just aren't the resources being put into the FOSS stuff as there are going into these big enterprise suites.

And I don't think it's totally fair to expect that from the Linux community either. If the goal is broad adoption and support of the Linux Desktop, I think we have to accept that some niche or advanced stuff just won't be there.

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Quoting: mamillerI'm scared how popular Roblox is right now. Is there even any game more popular among kids these days?

Fortnite. At least where I live, that's what all the young kids talk about. Even my children talk about it with "authority", having never played it (maybe at a friend's house).

Minecraft too. My kids play that a bunch. I haven't gotten to the point of putting together a server, but it might be an eventually (I'll prolly have to learn to play then...yikes)

Gotta love kids.

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Quoting: JSVRamirez

Quoting: legluondunetDevelopers don't want Linux users to play his game, just don't play his game and advertise it.
His game is not important, we have today enough games to play on Linux for more that a human life.

I think you underestimate the potency of peer pressure in 10-year-olds. My daughter has a Windows partition on her laptop, JUST so she can play Roblox. We managed lockdown and remote learning, even over Microsoft Teams, in Linux, but Roblox forced it.

This. One of the main reasons we have a Switch. So the kids can play with their friends. I'm not going to be an absolutist at the expense of my kids. It's a much more nuanced approach.

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: denyasisOr...

https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1649562547908120576?t=9SPils6omkXsgBHftIl3oQ&s=19

OMG Half Life 3 confirmed...

Lol!!

Honestly what surprised me more was that GOL was on Twitter. I thought they moved on from it in December? Oh well, I know GOL is free to change it's mind, I just didn't realize it until now (guess I'm slow on the uptake, lol)

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Or...

https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1649562547908120576?t=9SPils6omkXsgBHftIl3oQ&s=19

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Quoting: scaineI'd love to get into these games, but the AI just does my head in. Rimworld, Prison Architect, Oxygen Not Included, Rise to Ruins, man I've tried a lot of these, and they all have one problem - I'm not a very good god. Every single time, I get to some stage of the gameplay and I need one thing done immediately, or the colony will fail. One thing, or you all die. Stop what you're doing, and do this one thing. The thing is priority 9, chopping trees is priority 1. Why are you still chopping trees? And... you're dead. And that guy inside, cooking? He's dead. That clone running out of oxygen over there? Yep, dead.

I don't get why AI in these games is so frustrating. But it is, so I kind of gave up on them.

LOL, you are so right!! I can't speak for all, but in RimWorld, the early/mid game is totally this! I also tend to think of it as the most difficult/challenging part of the game because the colony is so fragile. Once you get past it, the have difficulty goes way down because the colony is so resilient.

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Quoting: Grogan

Quoting: denyasisProlly the same one I have: the Extreme Pro 3D (something like that). Funny for me, the game wouldn't detect it native, but did just fine using proton.

I'm partial to using that old stick, mostly cause it's what I played X2 on when it came out, lol.

I didn't want to touch it until I had vacuum with dust brush in hand (couldn't even see the logo on it), but I got it out and indeed, that's what it is, "Extreme 3D Pro". I don't remember if I ever plugged that in on Linux. I'll have to check my kernel config.

I now remember why I bought it, years ago I wanted to try a racing game "Burnout Paradise" with a joystick (I used to use them in the 90's) and it didn't work out so well, a game pad type like XBox 360 was better.

But this is an actual flight game.

All I need is joydev for USB sticks, any other logitech joystick drivers are for game port.
[ 3757.813609] usb 6-1: new low-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[ 3758.415727] usb 6-1: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c215, bcdDevice= 2.04
[ 3758.415735] usb 6-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 3758.415738] usb 6-1: Product: Logitech Extreme 3D
[ 3758.415741] usb 6-1: Manufacturer: Logitech
[ 3758.449979] input: Logitech Logitech Extreme 3D as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/0003:046D:C215.0003/input/input20
[ 3758.450350] hid-generic 0003:046D:C215.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Logitech Logitech Extreme 3D] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0

P.P.S.

IS working (button presses and axes registering in test apps) but not recognized in this game and there's no compatible profile defined. I can't get a peep out of it in game.

I had the exact same problem. I know for a fact the stick works in Linux having played other games, so I'm thinking it's the game. I ended up paying using proton and the stick works out of the box with one noticable "bug". In game, in menus, the throttle is also translated as the X-axis for the mouse...

But other than that it works fine!

PS. - what was your udev rule you added? I'm curious.

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Quoting: GroganNow that you mention it, I also have a flight stick sitting in the corner, collecting dust. It probably works, it's an older logitech. I can't even remember why I bought it or when or if I ever used it.

Prolly the same one I have: the Extreme Pro 3D (something like that). Funny for me, the game wouldn't detect it native, but did just fine using proton.

I'm partial to using that old stick, mostly cause it's what I played X2 on when it came out, lol.

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