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Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
29 October 2017 at 3:52 pm UTC

Quoting: jens
Quoting: XpanderMight need some ini file tweaks for it.
Do you happen to know the settings for a correct aspect ratio for a resolution of 3440x1440 too? I can select that resolution in the settings, but that results in black boarders on the sides.
Otherwise the games runs perfectly fine.

This trick works on Linux too:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/514900/discussions/0/1471968797465016980/

Looks really cool now in 21:9 ;)

F1 2017 is officially coming to Linux, releasing November 2nd from Feral Interactive
27 October 2017 at 4:52 pm UTC

Very cool, yes, will certainly buy this one on day one!
Especially considered that 2017 will be the last year with "proper" cars. I have followed Formula One for nearly 20 years, but I guess I will stop with the introduction of Halo :(

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
27 October 2017 at 2:48 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdaweThere is no right or wrong card, it's personal preference
Exactly. All cards have strength and weaknesses, nothing is perfect. There are only wrong buying choices for your personal preferences and expectations.

If you bought a Ferrari and want to transport 6 people with comfort from A to B, I would say you bought the wrong car for your purpose or preference, right? This has nothing to do with how shiny or fast the Ferrari can go.

I'm sure AMD is doing great, but it is not the card (yet) that everybody supports due to still being experimental drivers and stack. Just accept that when buying such a card, be cool and be patient. And no, nvidia is not the holy grail, far from. AMD is much better at system integration, but nvidia shines with being stable and solid for gaming.

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
26 October 2017 at 6:24 pm UTC

Quoting: PompesdeskyI'm not personnaly angry or mad or complain about the game not working fine with my graphics card manufacturer, I'll just be skipping it until it works or forever for that matter.
Perfectly cool.

Quoting: PompesdeskyI was just answering your "trollish" comment implying that Nvidia is the best and only option for Linux users.
This is not what I said or implied to say. What I said was: _If_ you are angry or complaining that this game is unsupported on your graphic card, _then_ it seems you bought the wrong card. Please note the difference.

PS: Don't you think that there is a lot of complaining and anger between the lines in a lot of comments in both threads about this title?

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
25 October 2017 at 6:39 pm UTC

Quoting: XpanderMight need some ini file tweaks for it.
Do you happen to know the settings for a correct aspect ratio for a resolution of 3440x1440 too? I can select that resolution in the settings, but that results in black boarders on the sides.
Otherwise the games runs perfectly fine.

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
25 October 2017 at 4:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: PompesdeskyYou mean those graphic cards that have a working open source driver right ?

Yes, exactly these ones ;)

Don't get me wrong. It is really cool that AMD is getting into shape on Linux and it would be cool if Nvidia would move slightly into that direction too. But please just don't get angry or mad or complain that not everybody is jumping right now on that still experimental combination. It is perfectly fine that developers choose to support a stable stack only and one must not demand from them to do a lot of upstream work too. Time will heal. If you are an early adopter, very brave and cool, but expect that things are unsupported.

PS: Thinking about this, I don't like the headline of this thread at all. Of course it is fine to mention that support is limited for nvidia, but doing this that prominently in the headline immediately sets a specific tone :S:. Anyway, my gratitude to Aspyr/Bloober Team!

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
24 October 2017 at 9:07 pm UTC Likes: 5

Bought this one, very cool!

PS: Is there actually anybody happy with this one next to me? I'm reading here and in the thread about this earlier today mostly complaints from people that apparently bought the wrong graphics card :(

HITMAN - Game of the Year Edition announced with a new campaign
24 October 2017 at 9:04 pm UTC Likes: 2

Very cool, I'm happy to pay for this one once it's available.

The developers of Solus are hoping to improve Linux gaming with snaps and their Linux Steam Integration
17 October 2017 at 7:56 pm UTC

Quoting: appetrosyanMakes sense, but there's a problem. Red Hat are repeating their mistake with Gnome Shell. They released Gnome 3 when it was a torture device hardly suitable for occasional use, much less a full blown default.
Why not switch to CentOS or another LTS focused distribution? A project with the size of Wayland or Gnome Shell needs years with feedback from the field to mature. There are other distributions if you prefer not to be part of this process.
Though I agree that state and intention of a first release should be transparently and honestly documented.

The developers of Solus are hoping to improve Linux gaming with snaps and their Linux Steam Integration
17 October 2017 at 6:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: slaapliedjeI have used docker, the engineers love it at work. I agree it is great for development. But when moving to production where the hardware is there and you don't want multiple containers floating around, it is much better wothout them. Of course this all depends on how many different applications make your 'stack'. I set up FreeNAS with a bunch of jails and it was a pain getting all of the various IP addresses and services split up to talk to each other securely. I ended up ditching that and going with openmediavault, which supports docker as well, but it is easier for me to just throw it on the host system, since I don't need to separate them out.

As usual, it depends ;) Docker and similar software do solve some specific problems, but are _not_ the solution for everything. Know your tools and especially know what they are not made for ;)
Software containers aren't a replacement for packages. But in certain situation, when you have a very different lifecyle and update frequency between your application and your host, when you need very fast CI/CD or when your runtime dependencies are not trivial, they solve a lot issues for you, especially in bigger environments.
(That said, they are a lot of valid concerns against Docker in production. Give it time, it is still a relatively new technology.)

Back to the topic: Having a flatpak steam environment or the Steam runtime with a stable set of libraries is imho a requirement for a gaming company like Feral. You can't expect them to support every game they have published on every new Linux flavor until the end of time. I have seen people blaming Feral in public that their games aren't yet compatible with Ubuntu 17.10 (that isn't even released yet!). This is just stupid/unfair and hopefully something like flatpack can help here.