Very probably yes, but it will also have an extensive feature set and stable, mature functions that work well after 20+ years of development.

A mature codebase is often a double edged sword I agree. But it’s not always a good idea to just throw away all that progress.

But it is in Europe

I feel like a modern IRC client would cover it wouldn’t it? What am I missing?

RIP Sun

Emulators are emulating N64hardware running a game pak, this is a native port of the game to Linux and unlocks several benefits. Off the top of my head:

• Improved performance due to running natively on the hardware (not emulating an N64 with 4MB RAM)
• Ability to set custom resolutions (widescreen), apply aliasing, filtering or other graphical tweaks
• Easier to replace textures, models, audio files and otherwise tweak the codebase
• Native controller support

I swear by Heroic for the other launchers now I’m on Linux

I’ve jumped. My old Win10 PC doesn’t have a modern enough CPU to support Windows11, and after having seen what MS are doing with it I wasn’t interested in upgrading anyway. I used to use Ubuntu back in my younger days at school so I’m not completely alien to Linux, but I’d turned my back on it in favour of Microsoft productivity suites after moving into the full time work arena. Once support ended for Win10 I flattened my hard disks and made the move.

While I do have Ubuntu/Debian experience, I ultimately decided against going down that path because I’m not too happy with the recent decisions Canonical has made. Plus, I’m a gamer deep down and was interested to see what gaming on Linux looks like nowadays (my last attempt was a half-assed install of Left4Dead 2 when Valve were just figuring things out), so I ultimately settled on CachyOS. Going from Ubuntu and Gnome through 10 years of Windows to land at Arch and KDE has been one hell of a journey and I’m surprised by how little I know in this environment. It is NOT like riding a bike, a few years away really feels like learning from scratch again!

Things are going well though. I’m running Steam/Heroic with a bunch of games installed (Proton 😍), I’m back with LibreOffice and GIMP (though I never really stopped using GIMP), and I’m learning a bunch of new terminology and apps. It doesn’t matter that because of forced obsolescence there’s no way back to MS, I’m only interested in going forward anyway.

Join us. It’s not as scary as you think.

It’s not 1 specific game but 1 genre - competitive online multiplayer titles. OP lists 2 such games. They’re not what I play but to each their own.

Enjoying a particular genre of games together as a group doesn’t make make for a weak relationship. The fact OP plays a range of titles regularly with a group of friends suggests the opposite to me.

Same here! Although so far my experience has been dominated by 3 little words: Processing Vulkan Shaders

Micron, Samsung, Nvidia.

Soon there will be no new computer components at all

PS5 or Switch 2? Which version do you all think is best?

To be fair to Remedy they only partnered with Epic to get them to fund AW2, it was either a GameStore exclusive or no game to release.

Glad to see this on steam though.

Oh you mean running directly on the headset? That would be a literal game changer!

I thought Alyx had a STEAMOS native build already, is that not true?

May Skeletor suggest: Regulation

Thing is, while real pork pies and scotch eggs are great, lots of people might have only experienced the sad, dry, disappointments that are sold en masse in supermarkets. So in that context I can see why they rank so low.

Musicbrainz?

But what if I just say I’m using all this media to train my AI? Then it’s legal right?

I moved to GrapheneOS about a month ago, not too long after the announcement. Bought a used Pixel and jumped. TBH moving to Graphene was something I’d considered for a while for privacy reasons but Google gave me that last push.

There are some different ways of doing things but I’ve really enjoyed the transition overall.