Quoting: toorThe fact they were underpowered was actually probably the reason Linux was preinstalled instead of Windows Vista in the first place, because it made sense on a technical aspect. Yet people would rather buy those with Vista.

I have Acer Aspire One, which is now collecting dust. I though about buying Asus EEE PC, but specs where annoyingly low. The thing is though that Aspire One had Linpus Linux and by default it booted into simple mode. For people used to Vista, it might have been bit of a shock. I actually quite quickly wiped the Linpus and installed Arch Linux.

EEE PC had Xandros, which might have been little bit better experience.

In the end those Linux netbooks might have been bit more popular with people who loved hacking them.

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Quoting: CFWhitmanI work in an IT Department, and, "Don't deploy on Friday," is probably our number one rule. If you deploy something on Friday and it causes a problem over the weekend (and you are not the one on call), you will get bawled out.

Yeah, we found out the same in the last years. :)

How critical the product is might have something to do with it. I can imagine that Valve has no Friday deployments policy for store, but games might not have it.

If the product is actually critical, developers might have to do some work in the weekend and that's no fun.

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There was interview earlier (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZeVzpYQFf8). I think they mentioned few of the older games in that one and discussed bit about design philosophy. Being different is definitely intentional. Not just from the aesthetic side.

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Quoting: NezchanHighly recommend Hidden Folks, one of the best hidden object (or well, hidden people) games I've played.

Similar Linux native games are hard to find. Artifex Mundi games are in same genre, but they mostly seem to be aiming being mysterious.

Hidden Folks is instead funny and is more like Where's Wally (or Wally) experience.

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Quoting: TheRiddickSo this is lumberyard? what happened to lumberyard, discontinued? Also if this is lumberyard then its open-source crytek engine 3 or 4? Does it currently support DX12 and Vulkan?

I took quick trip to Wikipedia and project page and found some answers to those questions.

So O3DE is successor to Lumberyard that took some parts from it and some parts are written from scratch. I checked also the Lumberyard Git repository activity and there hasn't been anything for a while, so successor part must be true.

Crytek connection might still be there, but it's getting bit muddier as some code has been rewritten. I guess over time situation will be like Source Engine and Quake.

DX12 and Vulkan is supported on Windows, Linux only has Vulkan. Which makes sense.

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Quoting: BlooAlienI got nothin' against this existing, if for no other reason than having one more choice available in the cross-platform game engine space. Still gonna use Godot myself, but happy there's another option out there, even if it's not the right choice for me. Looking forward to Godot 4.

Based on latest Steam Next Fest, indie developers have really started adopting Godot, so you will surely not be alone.

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Next Fests are good excuse to try out demos. Way I approach them is that I try to play as many native Linux demos that I can, which means that I might find gems that I might have not otherwise tried. This time around I wishlisted Terraformers, Woodland Empire and Neverlooted Dungeon.

Woodland Empire has interesting premise, though based on demo it still has long way to go. I'm just interested in nature simulations. Demo is still available.

Neverlooted Dungeon is immersive simulation starting more from the interaction with objects perspective. Somehow it has managed to make the interactions somewhat natural, so opening chests needs bit more effort than just pressing the interaction button. Demo is still available in case you're interested.

There are few others that might be interesting, but didn't cause enough reaction for me actually to wishlist. Maybe if I would have found time to try them bit more when the demos were actually available.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PhiladelphusWow, having demos available increases sales?!? Who'd've thunkit??

I've definitely bought a few games after trying their demos at previous Next Fests (Webbed and Per Aspera, off the top of my head, and I'm waiting for Terraformers to release).

Oh, Terraformers had a Next Fest demo? What's it like?

It plays lot like a boardgame (it even has even theme common with Terraforming Mars). You basically build improvements, more cities and balance between different kind of resources.

PS: prologue doesn't seem to be time limited: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557040/Terraformers_First_Steps_on_Mars/

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Quoting: RedfaceSee https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/06/msg00000.html for the full freeze announcement of Buster which links to https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#full

QuoteNo changes in unstable that are not targeted for bullseye

Don't upload changes to unstable that are not targeted for bullseye. Having changes in unstable that are not targeted/appropriate for bullseye could complicate fixes for your package and related packages (like dependencies and reverse dependencies).

That means while sid/unstable is not technically frozen there are almost no newer versions during that time, mostly bugfixes, and newer versions only as exception.

I was reading the same document earlier and missed that part. So Debian testing and unstable are more of a rolling release with hiccups about every two years or so.

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Quoting: RedfaceNah, that is Debian, the Ubuntu development version, currently Jammy Jellyfish to be released as 20.04, does come close to a rolling release, but its like Debian testing and unstable affected by freezes, so its not really rolling, but close.

You can also use devel instead of the codename, devel is kind of a symlink to the current development repositories.

At least according to documentation, Debian unstable (aka. sid) is not subject to freezes. Testing is subject to freezes, so rolling stops for a while (shouldn't called testing rolling release as because of that it's not really one).

However as mentioned, there are other distributions out there that do rolling releases. Those are quickest way to fix the problem instead of waiting Canonical to implement true rolling release. Debian is the most familiar for Ubuntu users, Arch is doing bit of its own thing with AUR and all (which is not bad thing at all).

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