Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
Found a cool open source driver and UI for the Steam Controller.
They don’t have an rpm package for CentOS 7, but compiling it should be easy enough. This will be really nice for games that don’t cooperate with the Steam UI properly, IOW DOSBox which yes, I have installed under Linux. There are some old classics I’d like to play using the Steam Controller (like Jazz Jackrabbit) which gave me absolute hell under Windows.
Grand Theft Auto 3 is getting it’s own Open Source engine called OpenRW. I love hearing stories like this, the more games that are playable under Linux the better (with excellent ports of course).
On another note, Dota 2 which is already working under Linux will be getting Vulkanized. Well, the good kind. 😛
We’re going to release vulkan support soon, probably sometime next week. That DLC checkbox is an error and shouldn’t be visible yet. Sorry for the confusion.
That’s awesome. I’ll be even more hyped if and when other source titles join on the vulkan bandwagon. Especially gmod, the optimization is piss poor on Linux when I run it on the highest settings.
One of the many reasons I’ve held off from upgrading to Windows 10 is the fact that I don’t have control over when updates occur. Some say that it isn’t so bad, but clearly they haven’t been in the middle of something when it decides that it wants to restart. Some strange occurrences have been taking place recently, from upgrade prompts showing up on local weather reports to PC Gaming streamers getting hit with updates, Microsoft is getting more of the wrong publicity.
This guy (who already runs Windows 10) had his game session interrupted by an update even after changing the settings. I would be seriously pissed if that happened to me, especially if I was working on a project or Streaming for my friends. Of course, we all know Microsoft’s love for PC at this point, otherwise this would have been fixed before or not long after release.
Today’s weather forecast: UPGRADE BITCH!!!!
As I’ve said before, I’m not upgrading until they get rid of that problem, and a bunch of other problems… Until then Windows 7 and CentOS work swimmingly.
I think it’s more than fair that if you look at my content, or to the side where you’ll see my current distractions you’ll notice that I really like Steam. Steam is a really great platform for buying and playing games, and they’ve done a brilliant job making their platform accessible to people outside of Windows on the Mac and Linux platforms. As a result has helped bring more gaming attention to Linux which is great overall. They make really great hardware, such as the Steam Controller. Big Picture? It’s a wonderful convenience for those of us who want to play on a big TV and want the console experience but the freedom to mod and play the way we want to. Does this make me a fanboy? Not really, because unlike fanboys I can point out flaws, and Steam has a lot of flaws.
Is Steam’s focus on movies a flaw? Not really, considering their focus has been on things like Big Picture, SteamOS, their controller, you name it. They want to bring Steam into the living room for those who want the option, so releasing movies would make sense. And why not? They already sell software and graphic novels, why not movies? It isn’t something that I would buy, but why deny others of having the option? That to me is not a flaw.
Now, if you said that their browser sucks? I’m all on board in agreement. And I’ll even admit that Big Picture has it’s issues. For example, sometimes when I look at my friend activity there will be a 50/50 chance that it’ll either fail to come up, or it’ll appear fine, and then there’s a 25% chance that it won’t display correctly. Like, you’ll scroll over a friend to see what they said, or what picture they took, and it won’t come up at all. Then you have their support service, which we all can universally agree sucks.
And then there’s the Steam Mobile Authenticator. Want to trade with someone on the market? You need a smartphone, or to wait three days for the trade to go through. That sounds somewhat reasonable, note the emphasis on the somewhat. It gets ridiculous when you want to sell something on their community market. I went to sell some cards I accumulated in a game, and found that I had to wait 15 days… wtf? Again, you need a smartphone.
I don’t want a smartphone. I literally have no reason to purchase or use a smartphone, nor do I have the desire to purchase one. I rarely make phone calls and when I do it’s over a landline. Everything else is done via email. When I point this out people seem shocked for some strange reason. Then they ask me why I wouldn’t want “the most convenient device ever made”? Why? I’m a practical person. If I bought a smartphone it would literally be just to use the trade system and market on Steam, that’s not a good reason to buy a smartphone. Also, I’m not the type that checks social media every few minutes. There are times when I just want to disconnect completely from technology and go about my business. That might change someday, but for the time being I don’t want a smartphone, especially for something like Steam.
I’m not against the idea completely, but why do they fixate on having a smartphone? Why can’t you use a secondary email address, or a landline? I would think the landline would be safer since it’s tied to your fucking house.
I love you Steam, but you’re drunk… Get back to your roots dammit.
In 1996, Atari started work on a Beavis & Butt-Head arcade game. It tested poorly, was never completed and few of the 12 prototype machines were believed to be alive and obtainable. Until Galloping Ghost Arcade got their hands on one and got it working again.
Unfinished or not, I would actually want to play this. 😛
Hate to say it, but I saw this coming.
- Information about your interactions with our Services, like information about the games, content, apps or other experiences you interact with, and information collected in or through cookies, local storage, pixels, and similar technologies (additional information about these technologies is available at https://www.oculus.com/en-us/cookies-…);
- Information about how you access our Services, including information about the type of device you’re using (such as a headset, PC, or mobile device), your browser or operating system, your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and certain device identifiers that may be unique to your device;
- Information about the games, content, or other apps installed on your device or provided through our Services, including from third parties;
- Location information, which can be derived from information such as your device’s IP address. If you’re using a mobile device, we may collect information about the device’s precise location, which is derived from sources such as the device’s GPS signal and information about nearby WiFi networks and cell towers; and
- Information about your physical movements and dimensions when you use a virtual reality headset.’
That’s a little too big brother-ish for my taste. I knew from the moment Facebook invested in the Rift I would lose what little interest I already had in the project. I say that I have little interest because VR is too new. I can say that I have little interest in other VR Projects as well, including Steam’s HTC Vive. But Oculus gets a big fuck no from me because of Facebook’s creepy uncle mentality.
As if I’m going to spend hundreds of dollars so I can have Facebook potentially watch my every move and try to sell me shit I probably don’t want. Why would anyone be ok with this? This is right up there with Microsoft’s telemetry BS and Google’s over the top data collection. I don’t see how people can be so open about their privacy and act as though nothing can go wrong because ‘they have nothing to hide’. Sorry, I’m a privacy advocate and shall remain as such. My computer and devices are like my house and house internals. I don’t want people snooping around in there unless I give them my permission.
Gaming On Linux is having a Linux Gamer survey. If you use Linux for any gaming you should consider taking it. No need to login or anything. 😀
Over at Gaming On Linux they have determined that there are over 2,000 games that run natively on Linux! Things have come so far since the Steam beta, really great to see.
People (who use Windows exclusively) say that Linux isn’t great as a gaming platform, or it isn’t ready. Granted it does have a ways to go, but they forget that Windows had to grow too. In the realm of PC Gaming Linux is getting more attention, and Microsoft is just starting to come back to pretend that they always loved their PC Gamer base… right.
I thought it was already a thing if you bothered with VM’s and were curious to see what Ubuntu was like, but apparently Canonical and Microsoft are partnering together to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, no VM required.
With this new addition, Ubuntu users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10.
Ok, so why exactly are they doing this?
Canonical and Microsoft are doing this because Ubuntu on Windows’ target audience is developers, not desktop users. In particular, as Microsoft and Canonical continue to work more closely together on cloud projects, I expect to find tools that will make it easy for programmers to use Ubuntu to write programs for Ubuntu on the Azure cloud.
So is this MS-Linux? No. Is it a major step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux on the developer desktop? Yes, yes it is.
BS. People have been saying for years that Ubuntu is the Windows of Linux, this just confirms it. 😛
It also seems unlikely that Ubuntu will be bringing its Unity interface with it. Instead the focus will be on Bash and other CLI tools, such as make, gawk and grep.
lol yes. Unity and Microsoft’s new definition of the desktop would go hand in hand actually In the sense that I hated Unity with a passion, and despise Microsoft’s hardon for tiles. ffs they still exist in Windows 10’s start menu. I think I know why they’re saying this will be the last Windows, they’re going to call their next OS Microsoft Tiles, and Ubuntu will be there to help make it shittier with Unity.
Apparently while I was minding my own business today Microsoft released an AI on twitter targeted at teens, young adults etc as an experiment. After not even a full 24 hours they had to shut the bot down after it became a racist, sexist asshat. The last thing it uttered was:
There are many more examples that you can find here, here and here.
I can’t fault Microsoft for this, after all this was an experiment. An experiment that shows how corrupt asshats can corrupt a machine. Brought upon by racists, sexists and anything else you could think of. I also find it interesting that you don’t really see much from the other side of the spectrum. The bot had plenty of love of Trump, Hitler, Gamergate etc but nothing much about teh ebil feminists, Hillary, gay pride etc. I mean, they say feminists and gay people are ruining our world, you’d think they would have control of Microsoft’s chatbot within seconds! 😛