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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: LinasAnd I am sure that is why Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) exists. Not because they actually want their users to use Linux, but because they know that they lost to Linux in the server market, and cannot pull off a compelling Windows-proper alternative.

I'm quite sure that WSL only exists in order to keep Linux Server developers and Administrators using the Windows desktop, and not loosing them to a Linux desktop like they lost on the server side.

I don't think so. It's to make it easier to manage Linux services that run on Azure. Now, admins and developers don't have to run a VM. I don't think MS was "losing" anybody to Linux that is now satisfied with WSL.

In all the places where I have worked where we used Linux servers all of us Linux devs where running Linux desktops. With WSL I'm quite certain that a huge proportion of them have been forced to work on Windows Desktops by IT/Management.

PuTTY already existed for the people administrating Linux servers from Windows, if that is all that Microsoft where reaching for then why spend the vast amount of time and resources that they have with WSL?

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Quoting: LinasAnd I am sure that is why Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) exists. Not because they actually want their users to use Linux, but because they know that they lost to Linux in the server market, and cannot pull off a compelling Windows-proper alternative.

I'm quite sure that WSL only exists in order to keep Linux Server developers and Administrators using the Windows desktop, and not loosing them to a Linux desktop like they lost on the server side.

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In case any future reader experienced the same problems with KOTOR2 I managed to find out that this happens due to the game being not fully compatible with the version of libopenal that where introduced in Ubuntu 18.04 (or perhaps even as early as 16.04) and that it needs the one from 14.04.

So I downloaded the 14.04 deb for i386 from http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108030537/libopenal1_1.14-4ubuntu1_i386.deb , extracted the libopenal.so.1.14.0 from the archive, moved it to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu and recreated the link libopenal.so.1 there to point to this older library and after that the sound no longer disappears.

Perhaps better to move it to the local game directory and play around with LD_PRELOAD but I found it easier to just go the system wide approach and perhaps there are other old 32-bit games that have other problems with this new version ov openal anyway.

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Quoting: DanglingPointer

Quoting: F.UltraAfter the update MCC just exists with "Fatal Error!" for me :-(

edit: after reverting back to Proton 4.11 it works again. So the most likely thing is that it was Proton 5.0-7 and not this update of MCC that broke it for me.

Yeah same thing for me. I recommend you file a bug here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2907#issuecomment-628183624

More people reporting about this, then more focus will go to it.

Don't know if you are the 404-guy on GitHUB but I managed to fix proton-5.0-7 by erasing some very old files in /etc/vulkan/icd.d/

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Quoting: DanglingPointer

Quoting: F.UltraAfter the update MCC just exists with "Fatal Error!" for me :-(

edit: after reverting back to Proton 4.11 it works again. So the most likely thing is that it was Proton 5.0-7 and not this update of MCC that broke it for me.

Yeah same thing for me. I recommend you file a bug here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2907#issuecomment-628183624

More people reporting about this, then more focus will go to it.

I did, however in the works of also adding my proton log.

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After the update MCC just exists with "Fatal Error!" for me :-(

edit: after reverting back to Proton 4.11 it works again. So the most likely thing is that it was Proton 5.0-7 and not this update of MCC that broke it for me.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: SolitaryIf anything I would say the migration crisis in 2015 was more of an example where we saw problems of such nature, but even that is not that simple, because it was Germany that initiated that whole mess with invitation and then acted surprised when other countries refused to participate. That whole issue is more political than anything else, because the solutions are already on the table.

Honestly the migrant crisis of 2015 was less Germany's fault and more that of the US and Russia playing cold-war in Syria.

Well, that did start it. But migration crisis wasn't just refugees pouring in (that's where the "Refugees welcome" slogan comes in), it transformed into basically anyone trying to enter EU (illegally). It sparked big movement of people from Africa and Asia, which definitely did not escape from warzones. It created discourse that certain people refused to admit that distinction (still labeling all as refugees) and in response to that certain countries flat out refused to accept a single refugee/migrant even if they were willing at first. The situation as a whole got mostly solved by the deal with Turkey and the fact that the bordering countries that were receiving the biggest hits just got fed up and had to solve it on their own (with maybe some financial help and resources, but nothing systematic), because there was no other solution presented. EU was capable, but not willing to solve it systematically.

But the "other countries not willing to help" is hardly Germany's fault, it's those other countries. Don't fall for the hype created by those non-willing countries, sorting out who came from a Warzone and who didn't isn't really a problem so "but but, large groups of immigrants from other parts of the world" is just an excuse.

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Quoting: LungDrago

Quoting: SolitaryThe whole Covid situation in Europe is often misconstructed as EU acting late or not doing anything. EU has its limited competency and countries healthcare systems are not part of it, critics often like to bash EU for not doing anything or the opposite accusing them of overstepping their competency. Solving the Covid situation is national problem, so EU really has no say in here. Problem of Italy is that they have oldest population in Europe and they have lower amount of ventilators per capita than other countries. Italy is not a victim that got left behind by bureaucrats in Brussels. Nobody knew what to expect and they were the first that got hit hard, but not the only one (Spain for example).

What EU did and did it well was rescuing citizen from abroad that got stuck thanks to travel bans. What EU can do is to prepare some more coordinated effort in the future, but till then it is up to the countries themselves and that is not EU fault. This whole situation is unprecedented and makes sense there was no master plan for it. No country in the world, democratic or not really knew what to expect and how to prepare themselves. If anybody claims they have the answer (if only they had the power) they are most likely lying, there is no simple solution here. Lot of countries in EU solved the Covid situation fine though.

If anything I would say the migration crisis in 2015 was more of an example where we saw problems of such nature, but even that is not that simple, because it was Germany that initiated that whole mess with invitation and then acted surprised when other countries refused to participate. That whole issue is more political than anything else, because the solutions are already on the table.

I'm aware this is not really an EU problem, I really should have said Europe instead of EU as I actually meant the geographic region rather than a political body. Anyhow, maybe I am biased but to me it was common sense that a virus outbreak was coming. Sure, there was no telling where it would spread next, in our day and age, everyone is traveling from everywhere to everywhere, but that doesn't mean we sit about doing nothing until it actually becomes a real big problem. That's where Italy (and Spain, as you said) came in. Only once the red numbers came from those did I noticed governments taking action. Until that, no one thought of stocking up on medical supplies for the coming crisis. In my country I would call it a debacle - first there were no supplies to speak of at all and then, with a hoorah, medical workers received equipment that a) came late, b) was not of sufficient quantity, and c) wasn't even of the right kind. To me, that's not a government answering a crisis, that's a government trying to placate its subjects with whatever they could scrounge up until they fix their hot mess.

But I digress, a dictatorship could've underestimated the situation just as badly as democracy did.

Don't know if the same happened in your country but here in Sweden we got into the "no supplies" situation in January when China closed their borders since they manufactured the vast majority of all the medical stuff that we use. Then when we begun to source it from other vendors, countries like Germany confiscated the supplies (which they later released when they realised that you cannot do that and have an open European market).

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Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: LungDrago

Quoting: SolitaryI am not sure you or I understand each other. I think democracy works wonders... because it basically limits the aspect of "people problem" that I mentioned, because nobody is allowed to have too much power. The system is designed to limit, slowdown and prevent any radical changes.

Meanwhile with socialism, where you have strong government you get that problem, because you are governed by people that inherently have more power thanks to stronger standing of the state. People with too much power = abuse of power.

The other side of that coin is that when stuff happens and something needs to be done about it, democracy can be slow to react. Take the Covid situation here in EU. Essentially, Italy had to take the punch for most governments to stop just bickering about the issue and start doing something about it.

The whole Covid situation in Europe is often misconstructed as EU acting late or not doing anything. EU has its limited competency and countries healthcare systems are not part of it, critics often like to bash EU for not doing anything or the opposite accusing them of overstepping their competency. Solving the Covid situation is national problem, so EU really has no say in here. Problem of Italy is that they have oldest population in Europe and they have lower amount of ventilators per capita than other countries. Italy is not a victim that got left behind by bureaucrats in Brussels. Nobody knew what to expect and they were the first that got hit hard, but not the only one (Spain for example).

What EU did and did it well was rescuing citizen from abroad that got stuck thanks to travel bans. What EU can do is to prepare some more coordinated effort in the future, but till then it is up to the countries themselves and that is not EU fault. This whole situation is unprecedented and makes sense there was no master plan for it. No country in the world, democratic or not really knew what to expect and how to prepare themselves. If anybody claims they have the answer (if only they had the power) they are most likely lying, there is no simple solution here. Lot of countries in EU solved the Covid situation fine though.

If anything I would say the migration crisis in 2015 was more of an example where we saw problems of such nature, but even that is not that simple, because it was Germany that initiated that whole mess with invitation and then acted surprised when other countries refused to participate. That whole issue is more political than anything else, because the solutions are already on the table.

Honestly the migrant crisis of 2015 was less Germany's fault and more that of the US and Russia playing cold-war in Syria.

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Don't know if any one else have stumpled unpon the same problem and perhaps a solution but KOTOR2 for me drops all sound effects at random points, sometimes after 30minutes, sometimes after 5minutes...

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