Evening Newbs

Try putting a laptop running Windows to sleep for a week and see if it has any battery left.

None of these features are usable in SteamVR, or if they are, aren’t supported by any games, like HDR.

Pop OS too.

Nobody who packages debs are updating their applications for jammy anymore. Anything I install is several versions old at this point. Just the other day I tried to compile an application that uses Autocxx, only to find that it requires C++14 headers, and the jammy repo only had up to 12 or 13. I know I can add PPAs or get things other ways, but it kind of defeats the point of a package manager if I’m constantly hunting for things outside of it.

I’m looking forward to Cosmic, but I’m curious if it will delay the 24.04 LTS release. 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth at this point.

PinePower is another good option that’s not very expensive. 65W with 2 C ports and 1 A port for $25.

Most games have a day one patch, but the game on the disc is usually playable without it.

I wish people would stop parroting this. For the vast, vast majority of games it isn’t true.

It’s happened to several games in the past that couldn’t prevent people from cheating.

And those games are…? There are plenty of games that have allowed anticheat to work on Linux and haven’t imploded, but I don’t know of a single one that has. Care to encourage enlighten me?

The suggestion here is that the type of game that can thrive on a subscription service is either a small one that benefits from better curation and visibility or a live-service one that can make up revenue on the backend by charging all the new players microtransactions (the new store shelves are inside the games themselves).

I’ve been saying this since Game Pass launched: it encourages scummy monetization. The kind of games that come to it are going to have more and more content locked away behind microtransactions to make up the money lost by not selling copies. It’s going to gradually become full of “free” to play garbage, and people will accept it because they didn’t pay for an individual game outright.

EAC works in Proton, as long as the developer takes the time to configure it right.

Pop is great for gaming, and part of the reason I picked it was so I’d have access to more software packages. No regrets.

Plenty of open source applications are sold. Being open source doesn’t mean you have to give the compiled application away for free.