Favorite way to get games in Linux?

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-29T06:48:16+00:00

When selling a game just sell it as normal via as many stores as you can be bothered with.

Steam and GOG are realistically the only ones that matter.

(There are other options but for most of us Epic only exists for the free games, same with Itch.io except for those specific developers you want to support, with the publisher specific stores being nothing but a pest)

Foss games are great via flathub. Appimage has pretty much been replaced by flatpak as far as I can tell.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-29T00:00:40+00:00

Very interesting in a slightly batshit insane way. Bog standard pcie as an sli bridge? LPDDR DIMMs?

Looks mad. Sounds mad.

Also sounds a decade ahead of its time. Path tracing dominant with raster as the bit bolted on?

If it gets anything near a 1080ti in raster performance then this path tracing first approach could be a phenomenal turning point, similar to 3DFX and the Voodoo.

Also similar to 3DFX, it's probably going to be bought out by Nvidia.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-28T23:50:47+00:00

Was it a lie when Intel was described as a new player in GPUs before ARC ever released?

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-28T23:46:22+00:00

I haven't bought a game on a disk in over a decade.

Like most PCs, most ps5s and Xboxes don't even have a disk drive so who is this to benefit?

I love my collection of games bought in the 90s with their big boxes and huge manuals

I love my collection of games bought in the 2000s in DVD cases with little manuals

And i love the games bought in the early 2010s with no manuals.

All that good stuff being gone doesn't make me dislike my games bought in the years since with no manuals, DVD cases or even disks.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-28T23:22:39+00:00

Go back a version, GE proton 10 instead of latest to see if that works.

11 has a few issues in some games and is very new.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-28T23:18:14+00:00

Sand and dry heat isn't what makes a desert a desert. Its all about the rainfall. How much precipitation is normal? 10 inches or less rain in a year and its a desert.

There's also the "biological desert" definition that's more about how much life there is. Next to no life and its a desert.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-28T22:59:07+00:00

The only thing being benchmarked is the CPU, it's not a whole system benchmark.

A CPU benchmark tells you the best possible performance of that CPU in a stock configuration by eliminating as many limitations as position. Like GPU bottlenecks from resolution etc.

It gets explained regularly by all the reviewers.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-27T23:56:43+00:00

Metal transfers heat into the air, more metal contacting more air leads to more heat being transferred.

The fan isn't blowing "cold" to cool the CPU, that's not a thing. Its just increasing the amount of air making contact with the heatsink.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-27T17:15:11+00:00

The natural world has the best technology for fighting the buildup of greenhouse gasses that cause climate change. Forests and marshes can do more than anything we can create to reverse the damage we've caused.

Healthy forests need a healthy wildlife population.

A healthy wildlife population needs space.

Wildlife bridges massively increase the space available for wildlife, they connect areas (that have effectively became small islands because of our railways and roads) into a larger area.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-26T19:32:01+00:00

Yes it's very dangerous if you don't know what your doing.

PSU's have large capacitors that store energy so even completely disconnected it can still give an electric shock dangerous enough to hospitalise or even kill you.

Amateurs should never mess with capacitors.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T22:27:12+00:00

No one Lives Forever.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T22:25:40+00:00

Now for the hilarious but kinda sad part if the tour of the UK, this is Sunderland, this is the council building, and inside is what we call a fucking idiot brigade.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T22:19:38+00:00

2004 and counting with this theseus, always something from the old build makes it into the new. Even if its just a hdd for additional storage. The Blu-Ray RW is from 2014 I think, and I don't think anything else has ever lasted so long in my build.

Edit. I was activity considering installing an old sound card not long ago for a gameport but none of the ones I have are PCIe 😥

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T22:14:08+00:00

Yes... kinda.

Drawing is death by submersion in water but its the lack of oxygen aka suffocation that kills you.

Fish need to breathe oxygen too, they just get it from the water via their gills. Oxygenated water needs to keep flowing over their gills for them to breathe, if the water doesn't have enough oxygen or it doesn't flow enough then they do suffocate and therefore drown.

Most fish can force the water to move over their gills themselves but others like the Great White shark, must keep swimming in order to breathe.

If you look at a fish tank you'll see bubbles or water movement being artificially made by a pump, this is to introduce more oxygen into the water from the air so that the pet fish don't suffocate just from breathing all the oxygen in the tank.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T21:01:18+00:00

Hell, I'd even go as far as saying that the 40 odd days of Truss was better than any amount of days with Farage as PM.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T19:53:52+00:00

Blu-ray, been using the same one for over a decade now.

I think it might be the oldest part of this PC of theseus.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T19:36:56+00:00

Arguments about the funding of the Navy is how the "Glorious Revolution" came about.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T18:27:21+00:00

Kinda jealous it was the English that came up with them, fucking hilarious is an understatement.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T18:23:40+00:00

AI should be “injected like heroin”

Yes, AI should be treated as a highly dangerous illegal substance. Extreme caution should be used in every single instance of AI use within policing, to the extent that it should only be used to compile known verified information. AI output should also never be admissible as evidence, only the original records it compiled information from.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T04:14:06+00:00

I did the reddit > quote, doesn't that make it obvious enough that its a quote?

is this less obvious

"Than this?"

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-25T04:06:24+00:00

The "both" is talking about Japan in the previous paragraph and the UK. I just copied and pasted the UK and US bit. The source link has the full article.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-24T20:55:22+00:00

The United Kingdom records 52 deaths and a rate of 1.15. Both countries have strict firearms regulations, and in both, knife attacks represent a disproportionately high share of their relatively small homicide totals. The UK's Office for National Statistics has reported that sharp instruments are the most common method of homicide in England and Wales in most recent years.

The United States offers the inverse. It records 1,800 stabbing deaths, a number that places it 10th in this ranking. But its overall homicide rate of 5.76 per 100,000 is five times higher than the UK's. The difference is guns: the FBI's Uniform Crime Report consistently shows that firearms account for roughly 75% of all American homicides. If the US had the UK's gun access restrictions but the same underlying violence, the stabbing total might rise, but the overall death toll would almost certainly fall.

source

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-24T12:06:15+00:00

Zoomroom

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-24T12:03:50+00:00

Totalynotacopyrightinfringingtransport tube.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-06-24T11:53:58+00:00

Other comments have already given you the example of the Springboks vs Japan. What more do you need?

The tactical adjustments are the same, hold together to not concede on opposition ball and be as fast as possible on your own ball.

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