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on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:02AM
from the yes-it-WOULD-help-if-you-got-out-and-pushed dept.
from the yes-it-WOULD-help-if-you-got-out-and-pushed dept.
Yeah, so life has managed to delay our December Update until February. Things happen. The only change to what's in it is that I wrote up a simple plugin to syndicate content to Twitter, which is very much preferable to our current situation since we're pushing stories from a hacky little script on my desktop at the moment and I'd like to be able to boot Windows 7 for some vidya once in a while.
Downtime should be five minutes or less starting around 2:00AM UTC (an hour and forty minutes from now).
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:52AM (9 children)
Assuming that you have the script on linux...
You realize that there are plenty of games that run on linux.
After all, once I was doing all my dev work on linux did I really stop using windows. Even for games. Granted I used wine, but that is far from perfect... there were always a few windows games I would duel boot for... However, dual booting can be a pain in the ass... Saving everything, waiting for the reboot.
What really stopped me from using windows for games was off hours support calls. If I was in a game, I would have to save the game (assuming I was at a point I could save), spend the time rebooting into linux, fix the problem, reboot into windows and restart my game. Most of the time, fixing the problem was by far the quickest part of the whole process.
Back then... there were few linux games... but enough... The cross platform Humble Bundle was a godsend and one of the very few places for linux gaming. Since then, Steam, GOG, and others now support linux gaming. While some major publishers still ignore linux, plenty of others do support it. I have more games on linux than I have the time to play... I have no reason to use windows at all anymore, and I have not used it in 10 years.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:26AM
Swords or pistols?
dual booting
After the other thing, that just sounds boring.
I used wine, but that is far from perfect
I'd like it better if folks who mention this would give percentages on success/failure.
Raw numbers would be even better.
How new the games are would be interesting as well.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Apparition on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:02AM (2 children)
As of right now, I own 157 video games on GOG.com. Out of those 157, 49 support Linux. That's less than one-third. Don't get me wrong, that's much better than the Linux video gaming situation was six years ago. But Linux still has a long way to go to be a viable gaming platform.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:45AM
...Linux still has a long way to go
To be a viable platform for any segment of the market, app developers have to get on board with Linux ports of their stuff.
It's a chicken-and-egg thing.
...and for app developers' interest to catch fire, USERS have to let them know they're interested.
Have -you- let the software providers know that you want Linux ports of things you have used|tried?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:53AM
I hope it gets there. It's not just Linux, though - I know a Mac die-hard who only has a Windows system to game. He hates Windows.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:05AM
Yeah, I'm all kinds of informed about Linux gaming. There's just some shat I want to play that it still won't do, unfortunately.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:52AM (3 children)
Do they have Solitaire? I don't have a computer, some of my friends have computers, they say the Solitaire is amazing. As good as the real thing. Get a computer so you can play Solitaire, they tell me. I don't have time for that. Primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents. A lot.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:25AM (2 children)
The appropriate computer for you... http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-04-03 [dilbert.com]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:53AM (1 child)
We bought Etch-a-Sketch for the kids. Which according to the news -- I had no idea -- has LASERS inside. My son Barron -- who will be 12 next month -- is so good with computers, it's unbelievable.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:45PM
You're not supposed to take an Etch-a-Sketch apart and snort the powder inside. The powder inside an Etch-a-Sketch causes early male baldness.