LibreWolf (for example, among other security-conscious software packages) does it by default to reduce enabling of fingerprinting. The information is misused far more often than it is put to any of the user’s interests.

Stats like this one, but not this one specifically.

He does, and gaming on linux is an excellent resource we are fortunate to have. OTOH, GFY has now borne a grudge over this for months and makes a point of posting about it at every opportunity.

This link does not even generate any ad revenue (unless I cannot figure out how to turn off my ad blocking). It’s so petty.

Whatever apps and corporate synergy they might have, no commercial consumer OS meets my most basic use cases for operating a computer. The whole point of commercializing the OS was to take power away from users and artificially limit our options. It wasn’t even a secret, there was huge industry-shaping lawsuits about it. But people don’t give a fuck about that if they can’t run Fortnight…

I’m annoyed we didn’t all go with BSD, but this is nice. We got to hold on to some of our nice things for once.

So, this is embarrassing. Apparently up until this point, every time someone said, “monero,” what I heard was “Venmo”, and I just tuned out that pay pal bullshit every single time. Oops. I know better now, thanks.

[ insert chart of market cap over time ]

People actually use bitcoin for critical use cases. It satisfies needs in their lives that don’t just have to do with crypto. Another vanity coin is not a substitute.

Really! I got started on Simutrans and had a lot of difficulty moving to oTTD. The straw that broke the camels back was having to lay down rail tile by tile instead of routing between two point.

I have thousands of hours in Urban Terror. I wish the jump mechanics could be enabled in other games. I have so many neurons dedicated to it.

Simutrans, surely.

Every couple of years I throw 40-80 hours into (eg) https://crawl.akrasiac.org:8443/#lobby

I was a total Rust junkie, I was playing 40 hours a week. Then they dropped support for the Linux client and wouldn’t let Proton users do EAC. I had to stop cold turkey. But I fucking did it, because fuck capital-driven operating systems designed to exploit me and my own computer against me.

I feel like this is just enabling Microsoft.

how precious

ur mom repasted my x-ps but it just made it worse

billionaire

genuinely decent human being

pick one

IDK, Unreal Engine runs on Linux, can export to Linux, and the Unreal Tournament games are released on Linux.

You are cherry picking. What about EVERYTHING ELSE?

That’s a public line. It’s BS. Sweeny has been actively trying to torpedo gaming on Linux for YEARS. I don’t know if it’s just “Steam is good for Valve so it’s bad for me”, or if it goes deeper than that, but it’s obvious in the last decade of behaviour.

I don’t need to understand that it’s an issue for you, but I want to understand why it’s an issue for you.

cries in .blend

Blender can be found in any professional studio today, doing some part of their pipeline, rarely all of it.

There are soooo many people I need to track down and say, “I told you so!” to regarding Unity vs Godot. Ownership matters. Own your platform!

I think I installed Kohan for Linux on my FreeBSD box? Does that sound possible? I really enjoyed it, and I don’t think I had anything but FreeBSD in my home at the time…

Agreed! Does it still run? I have install media around here somewhere…

I finally beat my first campaign this year. On Very Hard! It has displaced all my Toribash black belts as my rarest achievements. More people need to play!!

Hey, wanna exchange some blueprints and fight?

There’s a blast from the past. And don’t forget https://obscuritory.com/action/battalion/

I have thousands of hours across dozens of playthroughs, and every single one of them ends the same way; the whole damn universe eventually de-coheres under the pressure of a relatively small quantity of mods and everything gets borked. I swear never again to waste my life playing it, and then start a new campaign 6-12 months later.

From the Depths is AMAZING. I lose a couple months to it every year as it sucks me in again.

StarMade has so much potential. It’s been open sourced and the community is starting to take it over, watch this space.

I really love games where you build large vehicles you can walk around inside, and then you go blow them up.

I keep almost buying this. If it was online pvp I would have been all over it.

I’m 46 and it took weeks for me to become competitive in Battlebit. You can still do it, it just takes a much bigger investment in effort and time.

Linley’s Dungeon Crawl aka Stone Soup. The most worked and polished old school roguelike there has ever been. Just in terms of game design, it is fascinating watching this project evolve. I have never seen a project make more fearless choices, and they almost always turn out to be winners.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/

Edit: OOPS! Not really multiplayer. There are some social features on the site that hosts it allowing you to watch other people’s games and heckle them and stuff.

I prefer https://www.simutrans.com/ – I grew up with it and OTTD feels too fiddly the way you have to lay out track one tile at a time.

https://www.urbanterror.info/home/

Not an extra thing that you have to install, an extra thing that you have to maintain, forever, instead of just letting the OS do it for you. Have you never borked your main machine with a flubbed driver update? Or found that, uh oh, you broke CUDA last time you upgraded and didn’t notice until you tried to do some work?

…but trust Microsoft even less, no doubt. Russian guy might be fucking with you, but MS definitely is.

The Steam Machine lives!

I don’t have a recent example because Proton always works (when it works).

Most developers don’t support their native Linux release at all. You’ll download an automatic update, and suddenly the game doesn’t even start; check the forum and find out, they never even tested the Linux build, it’s just all automatic, and it’s gonna take a couple of weeks before they get their linux box updated and working again so they can fix it because their one linux guy is working on something else. It’s crap. Proton has been a massive improvement in game reliability.

Here’s a good place to get better friends: https://friendlylinuxplayers.org/

Which is fine, but it isn’t a perfect strategy, because developers and publishers have complete control to replace the client at any time to add features you decline to use, and you are not automatically entitled to a refund if that happens.