Check out our Monthly Survey Page to see what our users are running.
Latest Comments by Termy
Humble Choice for November has Project Wingman, WRATH: Aeon of Ruin plus more
3 November 2021 at 10:09 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: JuliusArgg... And I just bought Project Wingman on a regular sale.

Still this looks like a good selection after some months of less interesting ones (which I paused).

Still not impressed. For me this was my sixth pause in a row. At this rate, it's going to take years to get through my available months.

Yeah, i'm with you on that. I've only got one month left before the next billing and i'm really not sure if i'll keep my classic sub if this trend continues...

Microsoft Edge available officially for Linux today as a stable browser
3 November 2021 at 9:00 am UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: ShabbyXI'm glad they realized they lost this war, and now the poor people that trust microsoft have a working browser. If only they'd realize the same with NT and switch windows's kernel to Linux
They didn't make edge chromium based because they thought chromium was better. They were "forced" to because google was changing how youtube displays videos, which broke hardware decoding. Microsoft developers were even suspecting that google was doing it intentionally to make other browsers perform worse than chromium.

And that is EXACTLY why nobody in their right minds should use ANY chromium-based browser nowadays...

Quoting: fogger
Quoting: Sojiro84and has tab groups like Chrome, those are so good to have.

The "Simple Tab Groups" addon for Firefox is 100 times better. I don't know how I can live without this addon.

I prefer "Panorama Tab Groups" - it's a delight that this removed feature got such a great revival! ^^

Enjoy our news? Please support us if you're able to
2 November 2021 at 8:15 am UTC Likes: 3

My yearly donations to all the projects are currently a bit on hold, but as soon as the new job is sorted out that will be made up and GoL sure is on the permanent list (together with KDE and mozilla ^^)

KDE Plasma gets fingerprint reader support, plus preliminary support for NVIDIA GBM
26 October 2021 at 10:29 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: kokoko3kNow that nvidia finally supports gbm, why does kde need to support the "nvidia's new gbm" too?
Why is still vendor specific?

It's just a guess but i could imagine it has to do with removing the nv-specific code-paths that were implemented for EGLstreams-Support?
Either way it's good to see that nvidia finally admitted defeat and succumb to supporting the standards ^^

Valve banning games that allow exchanging cryptocurrencies or NFTs
16 October 2021 at 9:57 am UTC

NFTs sole purpose is to have another thing to speculate - in other words "to hope to leech money from someone else without a service in return".
So i'm all for removing this cancer whereever possible.
(And yes, if i could decide i also would ban speculation with ressources, stocks and so on)

Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim get expanded multiplayer with mod support
5 October 2021 at 7:28 am UTC

Quoting: pbNot before they cover the whole Europe (almost there) and US (still a long way to go). And even then I think it would be better to move to other continents instead of making ETS3 for example.

Not entirely wrong, but then they should plan the transition to a more modern engine or update of the existing one - the trucks themselfs look great, but the environment is starting to show its age for sure.

'Deckard' is apparently the codename for a possible standalone Valve VR headset
30 September 2021 at 9:30 am UTC Likes: 1

Given that the Index is targeting the higher-end it might be reasonable to assume they would try to target the lower end VR market, too.
Personally i'd really wish for an index with higher res and wireless option though ^^

Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton
24 September 2021 at 6:59 am UTC

While this is really great news, the most relevant part of this in my opinion is: how is this done? I hope we don't need to install some kind of EAC kernel driver or shit like hat?

Steam has turned 18 years old and PC gaming has never been the same since
13 September 2021 at 9:48 am UTC

Oh man, how much did i hate it back then when it was just a messy DRM - made me quit my (halfway successful) counterstrike-career ^^

Given the marketshare of Steam, it's really a blessing that valve didn't rest but kept improving steam to the comfort it offers today...

Valve catches a break in the Steam Controller patent trial versus Ironburg
29 August 2021 at 5:41 pm UTC Likes: 13

Every loss for a patent troll is a win for all of humanity - those kind of people can rot and die...