Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
oh man. I played SO much KSP. I think my lifelong love of indie games partly stems from being a Linux user: I tried things I wouldn’t otherwise have tried. Factorio, as well, was a Linux game right out of the box. SNES and NES emulators.
Sure, a lot of the latest and greatest corporate shiny didn’t work (or not without caveats) but there were tons of perfectly good games.
What is ‘viability’? Like, if viability is this Holy Grail state where everything works perfectly, we’re setting ourselves up for failure.
Agreed! Way better. I just hate how ‘viable’ is such a moving target. You can always find SOMETHING to dismiss it with. Linux is ‘unviable’ because of some random game that doesn’t work or because of some new feature in the latest whizbang. If that is viable we’ll never be there.
Viable is when it meets one’s needs sufficiently, not when it can do some impossible list of tasks perfectly. Viable isn’t perfect, and I hate it when people pretend it is.
There was a good selection back then too is what I’m saying. Minecraft. Literally every web based game. It was a fine gaming platform, there was more than enough to keep you busy, if you weren’t picky.
I guess ‘viable’ means different things? Is this an American usage where something isn’t viable unless it can do literally all the things?
Xbox isn’t a viable platform because you can’t play world of Warcraft!
I played a lot of WoW back then, it ran fine. Speaking personally. I guess if you want to gatekeep gamer hard enough you could call Linux nonviable back then but I always thought it was dumb. A ball and a deck of cards are viable gaming platforms. :p
There was a decent selection of games on Linux ten years ago. Just because your favourite games didn’t run didn’t make it a nonviable games platform. Xbox doesn’t run all games either, but it’s still viable.
!thelongdark@lemmy.ca, which put out a new content patch with some very nice immersion fixes this week. The new zone is very challenging.
Absolutely, came here to say this. You can fully turn off what minimal ui there is and it’s still playable. They could really get rid of some menus too, like cooking could be a little more drag and drop.
More animations too. Latest patch went a long way, but eg fire starting and the like.
Best game evar if you like survival games and walking simulators. :P
I’m not seeing The Long Dark.
Seems like every generation has to learn the Old Lie again and again.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
Sorry, hadn’t intended to come off rude. :(
It’s “come on” or “c’mon”, not “common”.
Oh, are chocolate rations up to 60 grams now?
In most other spaces, I have to defend my use of Linux. It’s refreshing to have a place where it’s more or less the default.
Ugh. As much as I appreciate that people need cheap gas to survive, it does encourage more gas use. :(
In fairness if you have basically unlimited thrust, maintaining a forced orbital position would be pretty cheap, you could hover as close as you want.
Dead, unfortunately, and I don’t read hieroglyph :(
I’ve been looking for one of these for parchment. Any recommendations?
I think I speak for a lot of Canadians that when your civil war breaks out, we’ll be sending arms and support to whoever is opposing the Trumpists. It may be under the table.