I was given a Steam Controller from a friend and I'm pretty glad I didn't have to pay for it. It feels just too big in general, with several buttons out of natural reach, and the touchpad surface chafes. PS3 and PS4 controllers would be my controllers of choice, but the last time I tried to use a DUALSHOCK4 on Linux/Steam it made games unplayable because of extreme lag. Looking at those charts, maybe I should try a GameCube controller, since that's the only one I still own ^^

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Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: liamdaweTruthfully, I've not always had a great experience with Lutris. The interface needs a lot of work to make it more friendly ...

Same here. In fact, though I've no interest in making videos, I nevertheless seriously considered making one of me trying to use Lutris, so the devs could see what a confusing morass the UI was for a (or at least this) uninitiated user.

That sounds like a really good way to relay that information to them. Good thought!

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Quoting: zen_xeno

QuoteWould you sacrifice your rights as a consumer for direct customer support on your platform?

This is not a right which exists, so it is not available to be sacrificed.

That sentence tripped me up a bit too, but I think we should understand it as "your rights as a consumer, in exchange for..."

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Quoting: 0aTTEven a game like Portal2 is censored in Germany. Fortunately only mild.

Whoa, what? It's been a while since I played it, but isn't the game free of both nudity and violence? Does German law have something against paint?

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI'm not a big point and click guy but at that price I gave it a go.

That trailer doesn't look like a point-and-click at all, though

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHis ideal it seems would be a Linux that continually improved in quality and which was treated as a first-class OS citizen, but without actually growing much in number of users so as to stay a congenial group of communities.

That's not what I perceived from your quoted text. The idea isn't that we shouldn't grow much, but that we shouldn't grow too fast. Notice, in particular, "work to artificially inflate the userbase" and "create a more attractive platform" (emphasis mine of course). I think his point is that if you just invest on putting a half-baked product into more people's hands to inflate your numbers, you'll ultimately shoot yourself in the foot by showing potential returning customers a bad experience. Whereas by prioritising your product's quality, you may not get as fast a short-term adoption as with an equivalent marketing budget, but your retention rate will be much better and favor steady growth.

We don't want everyone to use Linux so we can make it better.
We want to make Linux so good everyone wants to use it.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

QuotePlenty of doctors here still use dictation and have secretaries transcribe everything for them,

Pompous bastards.

Leaves more time for actual consultations. Waiting rooms are crowded enough as it is, and it's easier to find someone who can type than someone who can give sound medical advice.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut now, nothing is written down in longhand and nobody has secretaries for doing anything except looking like a big shot. You don't transcribe things, you don't take dictation, you don't in general use your fingers to reproduce stuff. You make copies by copying the friggin' file.

Um... dictation, transcription and especially secretaries are all very much still a thing. Some going the way of the dodo, perhaps, but not there yet, and that's just considering industrialized countries. My cousin recently graduated as a stenotypist and was guaranteed a job as soon as she finished her exam. Plenty of doctors here still use dictation and have secretaries transcribe everything for them, as well as digitalize handwritten records. The same holds in many courts of justice.

Even for direct typing, faster tools and techniques have their place for some, but if I wanted more speed than qwerty I'd just go straight to steno if I were gonna learn a new keyboard layout anyway.

(Man, what is it with this article attracting all the off-topic? :P)

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Quoting: Dunc

Quotewhen I finish a game, I like to watch the credits rolling

I don't. It's 2018. Scrollbars have been a thing since at least the mid-'80s. Why do we have to sit through twenty minutes of advertising executives and lawyers before we get to see who voiced the main character? And then blink and miss it?

Games aren't movies. Is it really beyond the wit of developers to put the credits into the main menu structure, and split up the various departments so we can go straight to the part we're interested in?

So much this. I'm especially annoyed at Kickstarter projects that list hundreds of nobodies that contributed to the project as if anyone cared besides those desperate for a misplaced ego boost. The way I see it, credits are only really useful if you want to prove that you worked on something. For anyone who's just curious, Wikipedia and IMDB are much more efficient at turning up the info. Sorry for anyone who has an inglorious, behind-the-scenes job, but if you can be replaced by literally any other qualified person without affecting the end result, no one's gonna remember you for it regardless of your name being in the credits.

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Quoting: ArthurBut it's become clear to me that a lot of the Linux community is not very consistent. Free and Open Source only matters to some, while a good bunch are just posers.

Is it a bad thing that not everyone in the Linux community is a hardcore activist, that some are just looking for a more respectful system than Windows and Mac OS or simply can't afford proprietary software and rely on FLOSS to have access to computing?

You said it yourself: it's not all black and white. To me open source matters when it comes to things like science, knowledge, and basic functionality like Internet browsing or text processing. I really can't care less about reverse-engineering my music, movies or games and changing the way they work, since they're meant to be distributed and used as a specific experience. Am I a poser for not going full Stallman? If so I don't give a damn, these are my opinions, choices and preferences and I'm not trying to conform to anyone's model of who deserves free software.

Of course there's also the issue of trust and privacy, but frankly it's not like I go and monitor the source code of every piece of free software I use anyway. I see privacy as a losing battle -- every part of the network/system is potentially compromised by corporations, governments as well as individuals -- and if I wanted to win it at all costs I'd probably stop using computers altogether and start growing vegetables in the woods. That doesn't mean I can't make the better choice where it's convenient and sensible to do so.

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