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posted by martyb on Friday April 05 2019, @04:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the drm-as-the-elephant-in-the-room dept.

Depending on how it is measured, the market share for gaming on GNU/Linux is less than 1%. Jason Evangelho writes at Forbes about what is holding back gaming on GNU/Linux. He outlines three problem areas. First, there is inconsistency across the distros in how hardware — especially the graphics card — is dealt with. Second, major titles continue to ban the accounts of those who join from GNU/Linux hosts. Lastly, he figures that the gamers need to pull behind a single distro and get support for just that one distro because vendors are using the existence of multiple distros as an excuse to support none of them.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:20AM (3 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:20AM (#825252)

    That error will occur if one's IP address changes between the time the Post Comment page loads and the time you click Submit. (Even if you are logged in, BTW).

    Apparently some shithole ISPs have started alternating user's IP addresses for *EVERY* HTTP(S) connection made. This behavior breaks a LOT of sites, but they don't care. There are on-line tools that will tell you your IP address. Check and see if it changes with each connection. If it does, then call up your ISP and complain to them.

    As mentioned, some proxy software can also cause this problem. Make sure you don't have any of that unintentionally loaded.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:29PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:29PM (#825437)

    Apparently some shithole ISPs have started alternating user's IP addresses for *EVERY* HTTP(S) connection made. This behavior breaks a LOT of sites, but they don't care. There are on-line tools that will tell you your IP address. Check and see if it changes with each connection. If it does, then call up your ISP and complain to them.

    It's actually quite common, at least for my IPv4 network since I don't even have IPv4 address. The only thing saving me here is IPv6 connectivity. But even that is NATed when it comes to work, hotels, whatever and so every connection is likely to have different IP address, even for IPv6, depending on what the NAT thinks. And then there is mobile networks...

    The bottom line, don't *assume* IP address == fixed, even per session. It just doesn't work at all. It did't even work 15 years ago as IPv4 was already limited, never mind now.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:09PM (#825444)

      My IP is displayed in Conky, it hasn't changed in months.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:52AM (#825610)

      This is one of the major overlooked features of running your own VPN - DIY "mobile IP" style connection consistency.