By: kaibutsu
Also the comments in the Valve Linux blog are first class. I learned things!
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whir: It's exceedingly helpful that Valve is a big company with a lot of clout and ongoing interactions with the hardware manufacturers. Attempts by the general linux community and developers to...
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Valve reportedly preparing second-generation Source engine, kinda explains the Episode Three delay
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Valve's linux blog continues to be interesting (so does their economics blog). In their latest post they say they've got the Left 4 Dead 2 to run at 315 FPS on Linux (OpenGL), versus 270 on Windows 7...
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Of course the PS3 was a huge disaster until he got developing for it. TBH I think Microsoft is stupid if they haven't been courting the hell out of him to get the slickest, most metro integrated...
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As far as the available games go, Valve states in their blog post that they've been porting Left For Dead 2, so presumably that will be available. As for as other games, there are a bunch of Linux...
View ArticleBy: nolnacs
I don't really understand the hate for KDE4. Sure, the first couple (or 5...) releases were buggy messes, but it really works quite well for me now. Perhaps I just don't demand that much out of my...
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Fuck 'em all I'm going back to CDE I've come to like KDE 4, even if it is like an easter egg hunt sometimes. I've been using Kubuntu since Ubuntu switched to Unity. I'll try Unity again in a VM to see...
View ArticleBy: sfenders
I'm assuming that extricating oneself from the default desktop is too much of a pain to be worth it? I've been running Ubuntu 12.04 since it was in beta. For me it involved clicking the little desktop...
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PS: my word, if you have puppies or children the probabilities shift *so far* in favour of Steam over ephemeral physical objects.
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A claim that they'll try not to leave all your bought and paid for software completely broken swayed you so much? I'd consider that non-assurance to make the don't-buy-DRM case. I ruined physical Deus...
View ArticleBy: Sebmojo
(On second thoughts Arma II isn't really indie - substitute Recettear if that works better)
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I'm a steamthusiast. It's DRM, but it offers enough in return to make it very much worth the candle for the reasons already mentioned. But one thing that doesn't get mentioned enough is how much time...
View ArticleBy: boo_radley
Zed: "A claim that they'll try not to leave all your bought and paid for software completely broken swayed you so much? I'd consider that non-assurance to make the don't-buy-DRM case." I understand,...
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A claim that they'll try not to leave all your bought and paid for software completely broken swayed you so much? I'd consider that non-assurance to make the don't-buy-DRM case.
View ArticleBy: boo_radley
dno: "Bottom line was, is and always will be: this is DRM and DRM is FAIL" Greetings from the year 2012, oh ye denizens of 2003. So here's one interesting thing that swayed me about valve and...
View ArticleBy: Malor
Now that it's out from under Sun's control, LibreOffice is reportedly moving very quickly, at least internally, as they're cleaning out huge amounts of old cruft and poor code. I would expect that...
View ArticleBy: LogicalDash
I don't think there's a single sane person alive who thinks Open/LibreOffice is a good piece of software in any objective sense. There is no sense in which "good" can be "objective". LibreOffice is fit...
View ArticleBy: aychedee
Gnome shell is nice and simple, the UI for Windows 7 is okay. But it has such a weird underlying operating system that I'm not sure how anyone uses it. There's no way I'm installing steam on my Linux...
View ArticleBy: George_Spiggott
The target demographic for Unity may have only six people and a three-legged dog in it, but apparently I'm one of them. (Probably not the dog, though.) I move from one machine to another so much that...
View ArticleBy: CBrachyrhynchos
There's also Bodhi which is minimalist Ubuntu with Enlightenment as a DE.
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I wonder how much their continual confusing of Ubuntu with Linux is going to mean it won't run anywhere else. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Do they have other Linuxy things for Ubuntu only? From...
View ArticleBy: kaibutsu
For those complaining about Unity, I will say what I say every time this comes up: Salvation is a "sudo apt-get install [favorite wm/de]" away. Some good options include: xfce (might as well just...
View ArticleBy: Samizdata
As much as I am a parishioner of the Church of Steam, my experiences with offline mode are proof of the existence of the devil.
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Steam is supposed to just work as far as automatically starting in offline mode when it can't find an internet connection. No preparation required. I've tried it in the past and it has worked for me....
View ArticleBy: Zed
I'm assuming that extricating oneself from the default desktop [on Ubuntu] is too much of a pain to be worth it? Well, before installation, it's very easy -- there are also official installation images...
View ArticleBy: wierdo
griphus: "History question: Has there been a closed-source release of this magnitude before?" WordPerfect. That was a pretty big deal in 1997 or so. Happily, it was very close to the experience on...
View ArticleBy: CrystalDave
Yeah, 12.04 really stabilized Unity. 11.10 seemed like a beta release, by comparison. I'm currently running 12.04 with Unity 2D on my netbook, and between Synapse and Guake, I really don't ever see any...
View ArticleBy: Malor
Hmm, maybe I should take a look at 12.04's Unity, I think I last tried it in 11.10.
View ArticleBy: Cash4Lead
I actually don't mind Unity. I am a bad, bad person. You're not alone. Neither it and GNOME Shell are quite as useful as GNOME Do in my opinion, but for the average user, it works fine. Really, at this...
View ArticleBy: mightygodking
Sorry though, what's this Steam thing? It is a sophisticated system for delivery of virtual hats.
View ArticleBy: mcstayinskool
Another +1 for Unity. The big horrible mistake I thought Canonical did was release Unity in Ubuntu 11 as the default, when it was quite clearly a buggy piece of crap. In Ubuntu 12 its stabilized, and...
View ArticleBy: pharm
dno: "Is it really that simple to you? No principle at all about being in complete control of your highly personal property?" I'm saying that Steam has positives as well as negatives. That for some...
View ArticleBy: scruss
Y'know, I actually like Unity. I was forced to use it for a week when I had a stock Ubuntu install and no time to configure it, and would you believe it, by the end of the week I was quite happy with...
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Meh. I've given Open/Libre more than enough of my time. I don't think there's a single sane person alive who thinks Open/LibreOffice is a good piece of software in any objective sense. It is only...
View ArticleBy: Pogo_Fuzzybutt
This nightmare looks as bad as or worse than buying Kindle books from those dicks at Amazon. These guys are the Amazon of gaming. No, that's EA and whatever-the-fuck they call their version of Steam....
View ArticleBy: Malor
Is it really that simple to you? No principle at all about being in complete control of your highly personal property? I truly despise intrusive DRM, but I think of Steam as being about as...
View ArticleBy: Orange Pamplemousse
mph, I installed Mint (MATE version) last month, after needing to transition to a new hard drive. I'd been using a unity-disabled version of Ubuntu for a year or two prior to that, and the transition...
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mph: I'm assuming that extricating oneself from the default desktop is too much of a pain to be worth it? Well, the easy way to to do that is to download Kubuntu for KDE, or Xubuntu for XFCE. You can...
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pharm: "That's what Steam takes away (although personally I've never had any issues with offline mode)." Is it really that simple to you? No principle at all about being in complete control of your...
View ArticleBy: mph
Vanilla Debian (at least the next release which has just frozen) has gone Gnome3. So if you're trying to avoid the new shininess that won't help. Well, that's the thing: Back in my Linux heyday, it...
View ArticleBy: Juso No Thankyou
Sure, Ubuntu lost their minds with the Unity lunacy. But the lunacy is spreading. Under normal circumstances I would have switched to Xubuntu and stayed with it. However, those Canonical busybodies...
View ArticleBy: Malor
The big thing with offline mode is that you need to 'pre-arm' Steam to get it into that mode. If you can set it into offline mode when you're still online, it will work flawlessly, in my experience....
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If nothing else, this is a Valve masterstroke when it comes to negotiating the terms & cost of Windows licences for their (putative) console with Microsoft. A credible alternative will give them...
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mph: "I'm guessing I'll be back on vanilla Debian. Now that I'm old, I really don't think I'll need that morning fix of seeing new stuff after apt-get update (or whatever the kids are doing these...
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