Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: dvdI really dislike these flats/snaps/etc for software i want to use daily. Even for one offs like games i tend to like containers you can roll on your own better. Mainly because they they don't want to solve "linux packaging".

I don't think of this as 'solving linux packaging' it's 'solving distribution of applications'. If you've ever talked to a developer and asked 'why is there no Linux version!?' they'll either respond with 'what's linux?' or they've looked into it, saw that they'd have to either distribute their package as rpm (various versions because not all rpm based distributions are created equal), a deb (these work better in different debian based distros, but can still run into dependency crap), a tar ball, or... a bunch of others that use their own packaging standard. By the time they've looked into it this far, they're head is spinning and they're like 'why can't I just release it as an exe?' Well that option is there too... but Linux users generally don't like .run files, or generic blobs either, especially if they require root to install (which even on windows most ask for permission to install crap outside the user's dir).

Flatpak, Snap, Appimage all are different attempts to solve this issue.

My biggest issue currently with flatpak? Gnome-Software has a higher preference for flatpaks over the native package manager! I found a bug report / feature request to be able to change this, but it doesn't look like there has been much movement on it. There is supposedly an option in dconf for it, but i couldn't seem to find it the other day when I went looking.

Which developers? I reckon blob devs won't support much more than Ubuntu and SteamOS in any case, and then the whole thing about generic blobs is mute. (stuff like games etc.) And the blobs that matter for computer operation either get replaced or seem to be moving in a direction where the hardware manufacturers want to produce working solutions for linux distros. It's not really effected by flatpak & co. either.

My uneducated guess is that the ones that can't figure out tarballs don't really want to support the distros either.
Money is better spent on your favourite distro or the FSF imo.

These things supposed to be "secure" but they have some idiotic configuration. My aunt needs Adobe Reader because in 2022 EU and local govt. systems still mandate proprietary programs, so it was installed on her main computer (a snap package). It got infected by a trojan and I only found it by chance, as I ran a virus scan/upgrade for her some point later.

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I really dislike these flats/snaps/etc for software i want to use daily. Even for one offs like games i tend to like containers you can roll on your own better. Mainly because they they don't want to solve "linux packaging".

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: CyborgZetaNothing wrong with supporting the people who make, or package, the software I use.

I wonder how they prevent someone from lazily throwing a package together and selling it on flathub while the original authors get nothing. Similar to what happens on Steam, e.g. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/someone-released-the-foss-rts-0-ad-on-steam-without-speaking-to-the-developers/.

Nothing, anyone can sell free software.

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I raged again and purged it from the hard drive. People are so toxic on MM. And the 'casual' mode is a joke, i don't understand why you can't choose the maps like in mm i'd much rather play vertigo with the same 10 people than being forever stuck on mirage... I clock in around 1k hours over the 10 years (well more like 6 years since the port was crap for like 4-5 years after i bought it so i never touched it) In addition to no friendly fire being able to walk through players is also a big problem, since half the time you die trying to peek and shoot while teammates walk through you. The community server browser is crap too - dont know how they managed to fuck that up since it was working just fine even in 1.6. To me it would be more fun than source but not nearly as good as 1.6. I feel the community was far less toxic a few years back, not everybody was super serious and there were less griefers. If there were more active servers i think i'd still rather play 1.6.

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I really love that stuff like this makes it to GoL as well, had a lot of fun with it myself.

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Oh man Skyrim never dies...

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Well i can only repeat myself, but this is in it's own club for me in terms of value for money. (A bit of bragging: Just reached the hotk on 5 bsc for the first time, ofc. he disposed of me quickly... But someday I'll enter the Astrolab)

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Quoting: Mal

Quoting: M@GOidGranted, is not the same experience as playing it on a 1000 dollar discrete card, but is the same game. It IS the same game. Vanity pushes us out of our senses, to make us spend a lot of money on a system just to play a game "better than in the peasant consoles".

But consoles have historically always been a comparable "value for the money" proposition with PC. They had (and still have) super competitive entry price but then once you're they slowly and stedily siphon the flesh and the soul out of your wallet. PC had always had a steeper entry price (the hardware cost) but then it would repay itself in a few months thanks to better game prices and services. And the better performance and freedom of use would close the deal.

Now the entry prices for PC gaming are just a no no. Once you put some math on it in there is no way one can recover from that initial investment. PCs have just become the equivalent of the electric cars. A vanity luxury item just to show your status and play to be superior.

Just to be clear it's not a product issue. Both NVIDIA 4000 serie and AMD 7000 serie are awesome hardware. It's the pricing that is totally nuts. Who will buy those things? Rich people? How can they sustain a mass market with just rich guys? And if young adults continue to buy consoles since PC are unaffordables, who will buy PC games in the next years? Who will sell PC games if nobody has PC to play them?

It's not a matter of "a good iteration" followed by a "a bad iteration" followed by a "good iteration" again. We're well over the famous microsoft good/bad iterations game. One can easily check on steam that most gamers sits on the 1000 serie. It's a 7 years old serie. It's 7 years that NVIDIA and AMD don't offer a good deal. 7 years is an era in the entertainment industry. PC gamers and PC gaming are already at risk of extinction.

Well... we have the deck I guess to keep the light on. That's still PC gaming on paper. But it's not the "quintessential" implementation of PC gaming.

I usually sit on my computers for 5-10 years. I had my old laptop from 2011 to 2018 as my main PC, then built an expensive PC (about 300-400$) at the time using the new ryzen processor, which i somewhat regret to this day, since the energy saving modes are fucked up on ryzen 1. It doesn't have a single component that would've been consider 'high-spec' or whatever, maybe not even mid tier. Yet it can even run the garbage Cyberpunk game at 1080p without lags on low-medium setting.

Maybe consoles are better for people who only use their computer to play, but if thats just a component having a computer is worth it, and a decent PC is still cheaper than a quality laptop.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: dvdIt's a bad game, and the 1.6 patch is still buggy.

If you honestly think it's a bad game (and you've actually played it) then you'd think so regardless of the very very minor bugs that may still be present since logically you can't possibly like the content itself - of whom you of course are in every right to not do, just like I never really got into Skyrim.

But don't present that opinion like it's a fact.

As for me I have ~400 hours in that game, multiple playthroughs - and I usually never play a game more than once. It's the best game I've played since... Since the Bioware heydays. I still love exploring the map, it's the first game where I *never* use fast travel. I much rather just take the bike to the destination and enjoy the travel.

Really it's not the bugs making it a bad game.
Well, the driving is totally broken (yes, like Saints Row 2 broken or even more), the gameplay is uninteresting, and what makes it even worse is all the good content - i only played it a second time since the artists and writers still clearly did the excellent job they did on the witchers - is buried under stale uninteresting gameplay. The difficulty is also broken, although to be fair that may just be a "modern game" thing, where the enemies can barely hurt you on very hard. I think the way they did the character building could be fun if your choices mattered at all. But they don't, except for maybe the brawling sidequest which is difficult to impossible to finish without investing to the corresponding abilities/attributes. I loved the main story, and most of the "bigger" side stories, but i think they hurt their game a lot by focusing on graphics - made it inaccessible for many people and they could've spent their money on more missions or creative content instead, which would've made the game a fair bit better. I had another rant about it recently, and maybe they can still fix it with the Phantom Liberty expansion/dlc, but i don't have high hopes. I'd love if enemies merging with cargo crates and the occasional rendering bug would be this games biggest problems. But it's not, it's almost everything else. Which is a shame, since the artwork and the writing is good, but the game is not.

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Quoting: BeamboomI'm just happy that CP2077 finally get some recognision for being the really good game that it is, and has been for a long time.

Yes, the consoles were given a version of the game that's been in a sea of problems. That was bad.
But the PC version has been totally playable ever since just a few patches after launch, and only improved from there. Not only bug fixes but tweaks and improvements and additional content aplenty.

And that CDPR kept cool and kept going after THAT shitstorm, well I don't see all devs able to do that.

Now we only awaits the CP2077 DLC this year - that's gonna be xmas all over again :)

It's a bad game, and the 1.6 patch is still buggy.

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