Quoting: kudlatyI'm on the fence about buying this. How US-centric are the questions?

I'm Swedish, and I've had many hours of fun on the various quizzes and games with both friends and family. Can't say that any of the questions have felt particularly US-centric to me as of yet, but I've not played any of the You Don't Know Jack games either, so I can't speak to the questions in there.

The Jackbox Party Packs are more than definitely worth it regardless, lots of fun games and in my experience they've all run better on Linux than on Windows for me.

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Oh nice, this means I can probably stop running Steam as a Flatpak soon.

I've been trying to avoid having 32-bit libraries installed as far as possible - which as it turns out is really easy as long as you don't want to play games on Steam.

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I was a little sceptical about the graphics, but I'd say they actually look downright good in motion.

The game runs quite well too, even if the loading times are really long, and the in-game information is quite lacking.

Most definitely going to spend some more time with this, mainly because at first touch it feels like an actually playable version of A.R.K.

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Quoting: razing32If you're the one working on this project , thank you :)

Just the Flatpak and Windows maintainer for OpenMW, haven't done any real development work on it since way back when I wrote the first unfinished prototype for saving ESP/ESM/ESS data.
But thanks anyway, always nice when people enjoy what you do :)

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Quoting: GuestI decided to install it via flatpak. I was happy when I found out it was the newest version. I hope they keep it up to date.

I certainly have no plans on ceasing maintaining it. :)
That being said, it seems like we lost an appdata xml update in the process, so the flathub page incorrectly states that it's still 0.43.0

Quoting: GuestNot the same engine, but an upgraded version of it, yes. Theoretically, after they complete 1.0, they could decide to upgrade their project to support other Bethesda games like Oblivion, Skyrim, or the Fallouts.

There's a thread on the forum that started back on the Ogre version, it's basically a proof-of-concept of loading Oblivion / Skyrim / Fallout content in OpenMW, so certainly far from an impossible thing to do.

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I'd say $5 is more than worth it just to get Dirt: Rally.

Probably the best racing game I've ever played, and the Linux version is really well done as well which is a big plus - though being a Feral port that doesn't surprise me.

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Quoting: KelsI get that flatpaks and snaps are easy to install, but what's never been clear to me is are they as easy to update as PPAs for instance? Or do I have to go to every single piece of software I use and keep them updated manually and individually?

Both Flatpak and Snap comes with built-in updating as far as I know, as well as their repository-based installing. Which also happens to be the reason I prefer them above AppImage with their install-less design.

Now I can't speak for Snap - can't easily install it on my dist - but for Flatpak it's as simple as `flatpak update` to update one or all installed applications. Or just use KDE Discover / GNOME Software and let it update the apps for you.

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There is work ongoing on getting Minecraft running as a Flatpak as well, though apparently Java is misbehaving quite badly, so multiplayer doesn't seem to work.

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I mean, when/if they actually get it out then I'll most definitely get one - or possibly even two depending on the final price.

I've been looking for a nice looking - while still powerful - little HTPC to stick by my TV for a while now, had a NUC for a while but their design really doesn't work for that. Also used a Pi for a while, but there's simply nowhere near the power I need in one of those.

And hey, there's just something about being able to sit back and relax with a replica Atari joystick that calls to me.

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I wonder if they're planning on maybe switching it onto a newer Debian base entirely, stretch has been released for over a year now after all.

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