Tempted to buy on gog for -33%, althoug 40 eur is still too steep. (we get screwed on the pricing in the EU)

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I'm thinking of getting it via gog, it's 33% discounted and i have the second game from that store as well. I doubt i'd use coop at all anyway.

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Quoting: DefaultX-odI just can not be silent any more, and I feel the urge to speak up, for all of those who recommend to install something different from Ubuntu/Fedora to a newcomer, what's going on in your heads? Maybe distros don't matter in terms of gaming and some basic things like watching youtube or surfing the web. But could you believe it's more than that? No one would considering to switch to Linux just to play games, because surprise not every game is playable. When an app just double click away like packet tracer for example (Ubuntu/Fedora case), and for Manjaro there is the need for the guide. So that's being said how all of you can recommend something to a newcomer to deal with all of that?

I would suggest Debian.

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Quoting: fagnerlnThe problem in recommend some distro to play games is that it's common to see people with similar systems and hardware with different issues on protondb and winehq. I hope that Valve can make Pressure Vessel working flawlessly.

I think this is to be expected, since running on wine doesn't mean the program is supported.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: AsciiWolfJust make sure to install Steam on Ubuntu from Valve website and not distribution repository. The distro one is outdated and problematic, even on 20.10. It will hopefully be in a better shape in 22.04.

This is the opposite I'm recommending everybody in the Steam forums (for any distribution). Because the distribution makers have the same package and more knowledge of their distribution than the user or even Valve. Is this claim based on anything?

It's best just to untar the "deb" file, since the "actual" steam will live in your .steam folder and your game directories. That way you can avoid whatever crap it may install to system directories (maybe nothing) and just install and run it from within your home dir.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: illwieckz

Quoting: GuestThis is what an amd fanboy would say, not a conscious customer who evaluates a product properly. Nothing you mentioned is actually an evaluation of any aspect,

This is based on the actual testing of 50+ hardware pieces, more than 70 configurations, it is months of testing (and in fact, sometime, years of debugging).

Quoting: lunisAs a game developer you develop your software for a specific driver/hardware combo.

We don't develop for a specific driver/hardware combo. You're talking like a web developer from Internet Explorer 6 era.

The specific bug I talked about is a bug where Nvidia driver wrongly announces the hardware supports a feature that is not supported. That's unrelated to how the game is developed or not. A game written properly against the OpenGL standard would query the availability of the feature and would enable code the hardware does not support because the driver made a false statement. So we have to do some guesses to attempt to detect the faulty driver/hardware combinations to not trust what the driver says.

And outside of game development, I have seen Nvidia cards requiring to plug a screen on VGA port to stop the Nvidia driver to complain when using the HDMI port. I have seen Nidia cards displaying the early BIOS screen on one port and the operating system on another, requiring to unplug/unplug the screen during the boot process to get continuous display. This has nothing to do with game development. Some cards just disconnect themselves from the PCIe bus with the proprietary driver, not the open one. This has nothing to do with game development.

I had myself to write Xorg.conf things to make Nvidia stuff working on actual hardware, things people using AMD or Intel don't do since year 2008 or so. What a blast from the past!

The thing is that Nvidia products are like dragster: they can shave 1 second over their concurrent time on a straight line, you don't know what happens if you have to take turns, they are not meant to make yourself able to take your children to school or complete the Dakar Rally, and it may just explode in your face before starting the race.

[  195.564010] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.

True story.

aaaand you're still pretending amd drivers are near flawless and nvidia is garbage because you found issues. I can also link issues: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/929
be a guest for more: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues. I never had to write xorg.conf to make my hardware work, nvidia-settings takes care of the settings. My nvidia card displays the BIOS and everything on the same screen at boot. Did your GPU "fallen of the bus"? Your hardware is probably started to fail or is not connected properly. There is a very high chance it's a PSU issue.
Game developers definitely target specific hardware, it's pointless to deny it. They literally mentioned that in the video from this article.

AMD drivers are and were not flawless, but i ran into a heap of problems with nvidia and their shitty drivers that effect the basic system's functionality even as i do not have an nvidia card in my computers than with the AMD drivers. To me these things are a lot more annoying than amd producing graphical glitches in games back 3-4 years ago.

Also your point about "ideology" earlier is clearly faulty. Even if you ignore all beneficial access to freer software, you get a lot of very practical (not legal) advantages too. It's simple even if you like nvidia hardware by the large tends to work better with linux the freer their drivers/software are. It's the same with printers too: the ones that have largely free drivers seem to always work better than the ones that don't.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ageresPDF files aren't meant to be edited, and for creating e-books from scans there is DVJU. People sending you PDFs should send images instead.

Well they won't. How about I stand on principle and refuse to do my job?

Well without knowing what kind of stuff you scan/edit (digital art, images, text) it's hard to guess what you could do to get around not having adobe on your linux pc.

For me it's mostly cropping cellphone photos of notes, so for that gwenview is more than enough. For the rare case when i need to extract an image from a pdf, i just copy it from okular into gimp or krita for editing or save it directly. Or i use convert to to get images from or save them to a pdf.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGIMP for cropping pages, one at a time, pdfshuffler for sticking pages together and so forth

Take a look at pdftk(1)

I looked it up. It's a command-line tool.
I don't want to be using more command line tools, I want to be using fewer of them--fewer tools period, in fact, I want to be using one piece of graphical software. Command line tools for fiddling with visual things is a fundamentally stupid idea anyway. The sequence then goes

Open graphical viewer software, look at visual thing, figure out what you want to do with it --> Close graphical viewer software because you can't wrangle the thing with another tool while you have the file open --> Use command-line tool --> Open graphical viewer software; discover that you didn't do what you wanted to do --> Close it again --> Use command-line tool --> Open graphical viewer software; maybe it worked this time, figure out the next thing you want to do with the visual thing . . .

This is a broken idea. And I can't even imagine how I'm supposed to crop pages I can't even look at while I'm cropping them. Just no. Maybe they're useful if you have ten thousand things and you want to do the same simple thing to all of them so you can use the command line tool to batch them, but that is not a normal situation.

I'm not familiar with your workflow, but if you are doing your own scanning simple-scan let's you crop and export to pdf (although I've never used it for documents larger than 40-50 pages myself so i'm not sure how prone it is to crash with larger documents). If you get your scans in image formats, i think convert will be also a fast way to to join them all in a pdf, and it's probably installed on your computer already if you have imagemagick on it.

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Quoting: Shroobster

Quoting: HoriAnd no, an open-source game doesn't provide freedom.

Thank you. You understood it. Open source in games has nothing to do with open source in software like a video editor or an operating system. People who (only) play open source games because they're open source shouldn't be allowed to play games.

Sometimes reading comments like these on the internet i get the impression these kind of trolls are irritated by the fact that what Stallman/the FSF and others said are true. In fact, they called against a lot of stuff that since have become fashionable to hate (like government spying, DRM, "bad javascript").

When people call a game open source, they usually do not mean doom 3, but a game that is released as free software with the assets also tipically released under a "user-friendly" licence (like the copylefty creative commons). These do not restrict the maker(s) to sell their game, mind you, it only gives you the rights to modify something which you paid for to your hearts content.

Since gamers are kind of uninterested in this stuff in general, here are a list of examples:

-Recently there was a big uproar about Blizzard relicensing some derived works (so like custom maps and whatnot) that are made for their warcraft 3 remake. Where could this not happen? With libre games, since they give you the right to modify them as you wish and redistribute your modifications.

-There's always some whining going on about companies breaking so-called eSports games. If one such game were a libre project, the community could curate gameplay changes and wouldn't have to rely on a company to make/break the game every few months.

-For most games, you cannot even make mods on linux, since the tools are almost never released even if the game itself is released on linux. You have to boot windows or hope that the workflow doesn't crash your wine setup too hard. This is also a non-issue with libre projects, since they by and large accept contributions that make them work on more platforms, even if supporting more than one is not necessarily their core goal (but most of them tend to support at least linux and windows).

-Libre projects also don't mine bitcoin on your computer when they are supposedly an online shooter.

-Libre projects are free of any kind of digital handcuffs.

On the minecraft thing especially: I don't like the direction minecraft's headed, not because of microsoft, but because of the focus on combat. I enjoyed it a lot more way back when the monsters were weaker and fewer in numbers. Minetest is great since it allows the community to make their own spin on the formula. I used to play voxelands, and nowadays i'm trying to get into voxelgarden.

Spoiler, click me

I said people who only play open source games because they are open source and boycotting proprietary games shouldn't be allowed to play games.

Why does this bother you so much? People could have different reasons to think like this.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Someone in the comments mentioned gadot engine yes its open source but why do they need to hold an event to encourage developers to use their engine. If you/they are that passionate about open source gaming fix the problem direct. Get a discord group together and actively work on a game using open source development tools.

Why does any project ever have to market itself?

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