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who the gently caress pirates software that sounds like a great way to become a spam relay or child porn host or something
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our linux port was done for other reasons and it needs to be maintained so it's not like we lost money on it but someone was like "why not release on steam on linux as well" and despite me saying "no don't that's gonna be a shitshow" we now we have negative press from gamers, bad steam reviews and our community manager got an extra special death threat
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Feb 16, 2018 20:03
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eschaton posted:systemd is the right thing and it’s embarrassing it took Linux this long to get something like it launchd has the ability to replace cron, but not even apple is dumb enough to imagine people will be happy with a unix that lacks a fully compatible crond so they ship both -- launchd, fully capable of running scheduled jobs and emailing you about them, AND a legacy crond that will never go away
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Feb 16, 2018 20:03
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Suspicious Dish posted:our linux port was done for other reasons and it needs to be maintained so it's not like we lost money on it but someone was like "why not release on steam on linux as well" and despite me saying "no don't that's gonna be a shitshow" we now we have negative press from gamers, bad steam reviews and our community manager got an extra special death threat lol there is no market for linux games outside of steam what the gently caress were you guys thinking
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Feb 16, 2018 20:03
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we were funded by a company with deep deep pockets to put our game on their platform and they asked for a linux port as part of the deal. they paid us very well. i'll let you make a few guesses to what that is.
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Feb 16, 2018 20:05
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Suspicious Dish posted:we were funded by a company with deep deep pockets to put our game on their platform and they asked for a linux port as part of the deal. they paid us very well. i'll let you make a few guesses to what that is. i honestly have no idea the only uses for linux on game consoles i've ever heard of are like, touchscreen machines in bars, and, uh, hotel kiosks
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Feb 16, 2018 20:05
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:who the gently caress pirates software everyone
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Warning: this is an off-topic Mac desktop post. I recently got a super expensive Macbook, fortunately paid for by my job, and not by me. I have been desktop Linuxing for 13 years or so, and while macOS is undoubtedly more polished and such, it is not that much better than Fedora with GNOME. I thought the difference would be a lot greater. It does laptoppy things a bit better, but my Linux desktop is nicer for hacking, I think. The thing I like the best is that Homebrew is a package system designed by humans and for humans, and packages are not defined in a macro language that produces a shell script. Also, Steve Jobs decided that if you select your monitor as the audio output source (mine has a convenient audio plug), then you can no longer control the volume from macOS itself. I guess Steve never used a monitor that did not come with a volume knob. While ALSA has a billion volume controls that all do the same thing, it at least has too many, and not too few.
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Feb 16, 2018 20:10
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systemd is replacing mature proven system components with no apparent connection to its mission, for no benefit that youve been able to name. It must take some really heavy kool aid drinking to reach the point where your defense amounts to "there was nothing, then systemd appeared" 
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Feb 16, 2018 20:13
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systemd service management is just so drat good that i barely care if it fucks with other things it is a quantum leap suddenly linux is as good as solaris was in 2006
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Feb 16, 2018 20:14
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Athas posted:Warning: this is an off-topic Mac desktop post. is it connected via something like hdmi or displayport? i think the system assumes the source is a tv monitor at that point and punts it to the local controls. good for conference rooms and bad for desks
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Feb 16, 2018 20:17
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Agile Vector posted:is it connected via something like hdmi or displayport? i think the system assumes the source is a tv monitor at that point and punts it to the local controls. good for conference rooms and bad for desks Yes, it is displayport, because I am not an animal.
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Feb 16, 2018 20:18
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Gazpacho posted:that really has nothing to do with turning linux into his own garden of pure ideology you're welcome to cobble together your own systemd-free linux out of whatever pile of janky components you want just don't complain when poo poo doesn't work
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Feb 16, 2018 20:21
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Suspicious Dish posted:we were funded by a company with deep deep pockets to put our game on their platform and they asked for a linux port as part of the deal. they paid us very well. i'll let you make a few guesses to what that is. are you talking about SteamOS and Steam for Linux as if they are separate platforms?
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Feb 16, 2018 20:40
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pseudorandom name posted:are you talking about SteamOS and Steam for Linux as if they are separate platforms? the gently caress you are talking about. steam for linux is a standalone app, steamos is fork of debian 8
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Feb 16, 2018 20:43
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Suspicious Dish posted:our linux port was done for other reasons and it needs to be maintained so it's not like we lost money on it but someone was like "why not release on steam on linux as well" and despite me saying "no don't that's gonna be a shitshow" we now we have negative press from gamers, bad steam reviews and our community manager got an extra special death threat Who the gently caress cares about Linux games to the point of getting mad and sending death threats? What the gently caress is wrong with gamers?
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Feb 16, 2018 20:50
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Suspicious Dish posted:we were funded by a company with deep deep pockets to put our game on their platform and they asked for a linux port as part of the deal. they paid us very well. i'll let you make a few guesses to what that is.
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Feb 16, 2018 20:53
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cinci zoo sniper posted:the gently caress you are talking about. steam for linux is a standalone app, steamos is fork of debian 8 that's why I'm asking him
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Feb 16, 2018 20:54
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Suspicious Dish posted:our linux port was done for other reasons and it needs to be maintained so it's not like we lost money on it but someone was like "why not release on steam on linux as well" and despite me saying "no don't that's gonna be a shitshow" we now we have negative press from gamers, bad steam reviews and our community manager got an extra special death threat Sapozhnik posted:there's a small linux zealot customer base but they are statistically insignificant, and courting those sorts of customers is a horrible idea anyway because you're never ideologically pure enough for them so they'll spend most of their energy publicly making GBS threads on your brand instead of promoting it even if you bend over backwards to please them. also zealotry doesn't pay the bills, there's that too.
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Feb 16, 2018 21:06
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linux is the desktop operating system for people with opinions. that population is not small nor insignificant.
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Feb 16, 2018 21:11
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The_Franz posted:
i'd guess facebook dba oculus
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Feb 16, 2018 21:13
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carry on then posted:i'd guess facebook dba oculus oh, well, if we're going that route, Steam VR is much more plausible since Valve already has a Linux presence
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Feb 16, 2018 21:20
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My favorite part of systemd is how mad it makes the "I've been going to LISA for over 20 years..." crowd.
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Feb 16, 2018 21:34
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keep in mind i'm never going to tell you if you're right or wrong but keep guessing i guess
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Feb 16, 2018 21:44
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Suspicious Dish posted:keep in mind i'm never going to tell you if you're right or wrong but keep guessing i guess if you didn't want people to guess, don't literally say "i'll let you guess"
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Feb 16, 2018 21:51
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i thought that was a pretty clear expression for "i can't say who for obvious reasons, so go ahead and ponder"
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Feb 16, 2018 21:55
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Suspicious Dish posted:i thought that was a pretty clear expression for "i can't say who for obvious reasons, so go ahead and ponder" lmao, your follow up post obviously indicates you took issue with us doing just that
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Feb 16, 2018 21:57
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i don't mind if people ponder i'm just making it clear i can't answer yes/no for certain if people are looking for confirmation. like that guy who was confused about steamos / steam for linux and got mad at me about it.
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Feb 16, 2018 22:03
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my guess: ouya
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Feb 16, 2018 22:12
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Athas posted:Warning: this is an off-topic Mac desktop post. it's not off-topic friend; macos is the worlds most advanced linux operating system also, hifi posted:my guess: ouya
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Feb 16, 2018 22:50
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ill go with unknown Chinese billionaire with a secret passion for linux gaming
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Feb 16, 2018 22:52
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He’s bringing back Loki Entertainment!!!!
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Feb 16, 2018 23:16
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the weird thing is that his company's games area already available on every platform except Linux, so somebody with deep pockets paying them to port to their platform and Linux "while you're at it" doesn't leave any platform besides Linux for them to port to comedy option: Chrome OS
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Feb 17, 2018 00:09
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riot games? lol
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Feb 17, 2018 00:10
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you know what would’ve been cool if the companies that wrote N64 games and set them up to also build for IRIX had also shipped them for IRIX GoldenEye at 1280×1024 against your coworkers on your Indigos, all licensed via FLEX.lm
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Feb 17, 2018 00:26
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cinci zoo sniper posted:the gently caress you are talking about. steam for linux is a standalone app, steamos is fork of debian 8 confusingly both steam-on-linux and steamOS ship a separate Ubuntu 12.x-based runtime environment for Steam applications
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Feb 17, 2018 00:36
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eschaton posted:you know what would’ve been cool an indigo was much slower than an n64 an indigo 2 was a lot faster, but not fast enough to do anything interesting with videogame graphics. even 'solid impact' would render quake at 1 fps
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Feb 17, 2018 00:36
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:confusingly both steam-on-linux and steamOS ship a separate Ubuntu 12.x-based runtime environment for Steam applications steam-on-linux began its life as an ubuntu "canonical app store" app iirc
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Feb 17, 2018 00:38
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since suspicious dish works for telltale games i'm gonna guess the industry giant was either sony or microsoft, paying for a port to their consoles and linux just for shits and giggles? it's the best guess i can put together but i still can't imagine a business reason for a third party to pay telltale to port the wolf among us / walking dead to linux edit: maybe the "linux" port is really an android port?
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we already have had a working android port of our game for years. this is a desktop linux port i'm maintaining.
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