I think there’s one key thing you missed: you have never bought a copy of the game on Steam! It’s always been a license. Valve simply made the fact clear now because of legal changes.
so the next question, is this retroactive
So the answer for this is a solid no.
For many systems out there, /bin and /lib are no longer a thing. Instead, they are just a link to /usr/bin and /usr/lib. And for some systems even /sbin has been merged with /bin (in turn linked to /usr/bin).
Not just Linux… 99% of the time you see something weird in the computing world, the reason is going to be “because history.”
The C developers are the ones with the ageist mindset.
The Rust developers certainly are not the ones raising the point “C has always worked, so why should we use another language?” which ignores the objective advantages of Rust and is solely leaning on C being the older language.
They very rarely have memory and threading issues
It’s always the “rarely” that gets you. A program that doesn’t crash is awesome, a program that crashes consistently is easy to debug (and most likely would be caught during development anyway), but a program that crashes only once a week? Wooo boy.
People vastly underestimate the value Rust brings by ensuring the same class of bugs will never happen.
It really depends.
If I know I will never open the file in the terminal or batch process it in someways, I will name it using Common Case: “Cool Filename.odt”.
Anything besides that, snake case. Preferably prefixed with current date: “20240901_cool_filename”
People back then just grossly underestimated how big computing was going to be.
The human brain is not built to predict exponential growths!
The “quit having fun” meme is ironically becoming as cringey as the thing it is originally complaining about.
You will help the community more by telling non-Linux people why Linux gaming is better, and this meme is doing the exact opposite of it – “oh Linux can’t play some games, yada yada. But we are still better! Switch over!” – like what’s the logic of it?
What’s the purpose of this meme other than circlejerking?
Disclamer: I am a Linux user myself, started with Debian and is now using Arch Linux.
I will share some advantages I experienced in Linux gaming:
Alt-tabbing old fullscreened games won’t mess with my monitor.
The compatibility of Wine when it comes to some older games is wild. SimCity 4 actually crashed less when I played it on Linux.
Better performance across the board. Granted it’s just a mere 5% difference but I will take it, why not.
I use IPv6 exclusively for my homelab. The pros:
No more holepunching kludge with solutions like ZeroTier or Tailscale, just open a port and you are pretty much good to go.
The CGNAT gateway of my ISP tends to be overloaded during the holiday seasons, so using IPv6 eliminates an unstability factor for my lab.
You have a metric sh*t ton of addressing space. I have assigned my SSH server its own IPv6 address, my web server another, my Plex server yet another, … You get the idea. The nice thing here is that even if someone knows about the address to my SSH server, they can’t discover my other servers through port scanning, as was typical in IPv4 days.
Also, because of the sheer size of the addressing space, people simply can’t scan your network.
And boy we are hitting new peaks since the page was fixed. It’s 47.11% now!
Indeed. I would love to have a “modernized Morrowind” experience – an RPG game that really nails the role-playing part of RPG, but without the cheesy parts of Morrowind like the unintuitive combat system – but all of us know that it’s just not gonna happen.
Wow, Europe, you guys sure are worrying us a little.
– Best regards, South East Asia
Assuming the entire US court system isn’t in the corporate pocket
I love your optimism
If I remember right, the syncing issue was particularly egregious when you run windowed X11 programs on Wayland. So it could be that you got lucky.
I think if you consider anything post C++03 (so C++11 or newer) to be “modern C++” then Concepts must be the top example, doesn’t it?
Counting from C++0x that’s almost a decade of waiting.
It’s the explicit sync protocol.
The TL;DR is basically: everyone else has supported implicit sync for ages, but Nvidia doesn’t. So now everyone is designing an explicit sync Wayland protocol to accommodate for this issue.
You need to enable DRM KMS on Nvidia.
Mine is simply default KDE. The only visible thing I’ve changed is the wallpaper – changes to my desktop mostly concentrate on the “invisible” ones like shortcut keys or setting changes or scripting.
Desktop? I settled on Arch and Fedora.
Server? Debian. Although technically I never distrohopped on servers, been using Debian since the beginning of time.
Are the streamed data stored in a local cache? Surely the bandwidth costs are going up to the sky with the server sending data to every single player.