Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: BlackBloodRumIn my opinion the steam survey is a highly unreliable way to count Linux marketshare (as a whole).

It doesn't count overall Linux market share, nor is it intended to do so. It counts STEAM USERS ON LINUX and nothing else. Important distinction which a lot of people seem to miss.

What it's really counting is the percentage of people who were randomly selected and agree to be counted, which, considering how paranoid a lot of Linux users seem to be, is probably a very small percentage of Linux users on Steam.

Possibly. On the other hand, judging by the comment sections in this type of articles, it seems like Linux users (those who drop comments at least) care a lot about having their platform be more visible in the statistics so I'm not sure which way it goes. Pretty sure Windows users don't care much about the survey though. They have no reason to make their platform more visible to attract more game ports and such.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@Samsai Yeah, I just wanted to say that there's a simple way to create immune CPU's. Obviously they will want to come up with a more clever solution in the end.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: EikeI wonder if immunity against Spectre and Meltdown can be built into chips and when the first CPUs having it will be announced.

Anyway, I might replace my i3570K with some Ryzen+ this year.

Ryzen is already said to be immune against Meltdown, and while it is hypothetically vulnerable to one of the two Spectre variants, it hasn't been demonstrated in practice.

And yes of course you could make a chip completely immune. Just get rid of speculative execution, as that's what these attacks exploit. That will come at a performance cost however.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BlackBloodRumIn my opinion the steam survey is a highly unreliable way to count Linux marketshare (as a whole).

It doesn't count overall Linux market share, nor is it intended to do so. It counts STEAM USERS ON LINUX and nothing else. Important distinction which a lot of people seem to miss.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: jensDo you scan the source code of every software you run on your machine for this kind of mistakes before executing something? ;)
Don't get me wrong, this is a bad and serious error that should not happen, but please don't assume that open source software does not contain any not yet known serious mistakes just because it is open source.

Sorry for being unclear, but I meant those as two separate issues. Of course open source software can contain mistakes. Just look at what happened with Ubuntu 17.10 recently which apparently corrupted the UEFI on certain laptop models. Still, I'll take open source before proprietary any day, and if I have the option to sandbox software which I cannot trust 100% then I will take that option.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: lucifertdarkWhy not use it as it was intended by Valve & stop messing about with Snap & Flatpack?

There are good reasons for sandboxing Steam. At one point it had a bug which caused Steam to do 'rm -rf ~/' which caused some peoples entire home folders to be removed. It's proprietary software, so can you really trust that it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to? Also, there's the good old issue with the ever changing ABI/API on GNU/Linux. Flatpak and Snaps can provide the necessary runtime in a controlled fashion separate from the rest of your system which should ensure better reliability for Steam and games installed through Steam, while also making sure Steam or games cannot mess up your system.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: dubigrasuThere's a big (3.3 GB) update right now for Arma 3, wonder what it is...

Patch 1.78 including Tac-ops DLC was supposed to land today. Are we getting a day one ports update? I'm downloading 8.3GiB right now. :D

https://dev.arma3.com/post/spotrep-00076

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: sonicDamn :'(
https://twitter.com/Arma3official/status/931440788449480706

The RC usually goes on for a week or two so you still have time to play a bit more cross platform MP.

They have two more minor DLC's in the pipeline which will disrupt MP compatibility with the ports, but once these have been released I think we can expect less updates on the Windows version which means there's a good possibility that the ports can keep up.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: freerunnerliveDoes malden map working?

It does :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTSince they don't dedicate to Linux completely I skip Arma. If they can guarantee me version parity with Windows I might consider it.

Like this I'd be better of using Wine instead of the non-native port.

So you're saying you would rather run the Windows version under Wine, because the port is non-native ?
Anyone else see the irony here ? :><:

Also, they're not going to dedicate to Linux when people arent buying it!!

Also, it doesn't work in Wine. So there's that :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments