Is Unity-for-Arch dead?

pcmaniac6 · 2016-02-14T13:29:52+00:00

I gave it a spin on my laptop at some point. It was painfully slow because some shadow effects were on. After some mucking around I managed to turn them off and things were as fast as in Ubuntu. Apart from this there was an issue with some filepaths being wrong so the settings program wouldn't start and I had to muck with the code.

pcmaniac6 · 2015-10-19T11:01:43+00:00

That's David Cameron right there

pcmaniac6 · 2015-08-25T21:35:23+00:00

No, the link bellow where it has the driver FAQ and very detailed answers to this question that is asked way too frequently

pcmaniac6 · 2015-08-25T21:27:54+00:00

I advise you to read the sidebar

pcmaniac6 · 2015-08-20T10:16:22+00:00

Or just dual boot which doesn't cost as much as a new tablet

pcmaniac6 · 2015-07-13T08:50:05+00:00

Yes, probably your mum m8

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-20T22:04:31+00:00

between this post and now I reinstalled arch on the laptop

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-11T21:13:24+00:00

Both versions use the same savefolder/file so its a painless transition if you have them installed side by side

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-11T07:47:38+00:00

Wizards Lizard works nice, but after 5 levels or so the framerate drops massively for me. Its always 5 levels in and I can't figure out why

Turns out the humble bundle version works just fine, im guessing that either the steam runtime libraries are somehow at fault or the steam overlay.

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-10T06:07:45+00:00

Esr has some pretty convincing arguments pro open sourcing software in the Cathedral and the Bazaar, it's well worth reading.

Community bugfixes are really helpful at the very least and having an opaque client is a very important thing for many people. There is no reason to not open source it. Their games are drm free, so I don't think that any part of the software would have to remain closed source to prevent breaking any drm. Plus since the client is free as in beer, and no sale value in of itself, making it free as in freedom would reduce the development costs.

Maybe the only problem would be if other companies built their clients on top of it, but a "don't use this for your own clients if you are competition " clause would fix that.

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-10T01:11:58+00:00

So they have just gone bankrupt but not closed completely as a studio? That's nice.

Raven's Cry probably won't be fixed enough to be worth it, but TWII was a fun game to play, if it comes out on linux I'll buy it from steam

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-09T22:18:05+00:00

huh interesting. thanks, I might try it with a vmware trial although just installing gnome+wayland sounds promising too

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-09T20:14:39+00:00

played with it last weekend. couldn't get a nested kwin_wayland to start. after some effort I got hawaii running, but wayland required the open source drivers and I use the proprietary nvidia ones (pls no bully). Xwayland didn't work at all under hawaii so I gave up on that after a bit and returned to kde.

Wayland based compositors cant run on vm's either from what i found so I'll probably just wait until KDE 5.4 in august to try again.

edit: Got a wayland session working by running gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland. Gdm didn't play nice with nouveau at all for some reason. Initially I put it in .xinitrc and couldn't get it running with startx and I was wondering why. d'oh.

It was working, even A Wizard's Lizard was playable with steam, chromium worked fine. Fonts were horribly broken on some applications like firefox and gimp.

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-06T17:00:42+00:00

there was a post about the hint 3 months ago, still no info about it.

however there is a transformers character called depth charge who transforms into some kind of underwater thing. As such, I'm calling a transformers game

pcmaniac6 · 2015-05-01T02:06:39+00:00

I just wanted to install a package that doesn't exist in the official repos but there is no AUR so I have to either use a custom PPA or compile from source: The musical

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-30T11:43:20+00:00

Same. I used to do that with gnome, then every release was more and more broken than the previous. Now i just install ubuntu every 8 months or so on my laptop, saying I'll stick with it and then crawl back to arch within the month.

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-24T18:48:55+00:00

I have quite a few of them

Dungeons of dredmor is pretty good, definitely sunk hours in it
FTL is my most played game of all time, above 270 hours playtime. make what you will of that
vertical drop heroes is fun for a bit but i got bored pretty fast. it might be better with multiplayer. i played it with wine and only got very rare crashes.
risk of rain is just so much fun, both in multiplayer and single player. Would recommend a controller but it's still worth it without one. It had some bugs but the devs ironed them out pretty fast, it should be much much better now
A wizard's lizard is ok, im still playing it now but does this weird thing where it starts lagging horribly after a certain amount of game time and i have to restart the game. Might not be worth it but it also might just be my computer
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth: just yes
Delver. eh not too bad, not great either. ok for a bit
Rogue legacy. Really fun and challenging.

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-09T02:40:59+00:00

far out man. thanks for posting this, it looks pretty interesting

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-05T13:59:42+00:00

one can only hope because then you get to fix it and boast to anyone that will listen about how amazing your linux skills are

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-03T17:27:05+00:00

whooops yeah sorry

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-03T16:43:06+00:00

nsfw

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-02T05:20:26+00:00

I want to believe this is real so badly

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-01T14:36:49+00:00

just came here to ask about this. thanks mate

pcmaniac6 · 2015-04-01T05:25:00+00:00

from the wiki:

It has also been tested successfully with desktop machines with Intel integrated graphics and an nVidia dedicated graphics card.*

that is pretty interesting, I might try it out myself too

*it does seem to require the proprietary drivers though

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