circuitfarmer

RDR2 was a beautiful game and one of the few that gave me a serious emotional response at the end. But it was a bit long winded along the way, so I’m OK with this.

This. It was meant to be viewed at 480p.

Yeah, they jumped the shark with that shit a while ago.

Note that it will also have an effect on the quality of reviews. Glassdoor is only worried about number of accounts at this point. It’s unfortunate, since sharing this kind of information is constitutionally protected, but it isn’t necessarily profitable.

Sounds like they want a round of layoffs but don’t want to pay severance.

Gotta keep that labor pool large so wages can stay low.

Well, that kicked my ass.

It’s meant for whom, exactly?

Duh. Need to use raw beans.

I dont hate it. But Crises happening automagically does feel against the typical nature of Civ, where I typically prefer more random events.

It’s more board game feeling.

Why does

The Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park

look like it is copy / pasted by someone who couldn’t be bothered to match the font?

In its natural environment.

Didn’t they announce that there would not be a launcher? Also removed for Civ VI.

It’s gotten to the point that I buy games without looking them up first.

Same here. That was how I knew things had changed.

Let’s also not forget that while Elden Ring was waiting for a patch on release day to avoid stuttering on Windows, it never stuttered on Linux due to shader precaching in Proton. I try and tell that story to people on the fence about switching. A lot of people have this idea that Linux is “catching up” – in some sense, it is the opposite, in that I can sometimes get better performance on Linux vs Windows even with Windows binaries.

I’ve been on Pop for most of the time I’ve been gaming on Linux. Though I am currently switching to Arch for reasons, Pop has been great. Very easy, very stable across the board.

If you don’t have previous experience with Linux, there will be a learning curve, but depending on your hardware, it may be gentle or steeper. Likewise, your choice of distro may matter a lot, at least at first.

But you should take ProtonDB ratings as a good indicator that “might just be my hardware” is correct, at least for DRG. It also works out of the box for me on both my main rig (=currently running Pop) and the Steam Deck.

As of a couple months ago, the ray tracing also works in Linux when on AMD.

But to be clear, I don’t really play anything multiplayer.

I tried to avoid such bias by being clearer about what I play. I don’t think it’s biased to suggest single player games are more likely to work without issue.

Likewise, if you’re on nvidia, you’re more likely to have issues.

It is decidedly more work, particularly for those not familiar with Linux. But you’re right that there aren’t necessarily other issues – it all comes down to the particular titles one wants to play. ProtonDB is everyone’s friend.

For me personally, I love the simplicity of the all-AMD approach, and as I’m only a 1080p gamer, I really don’t need the nvidia horsepower anyway.

AMD. That was an early switch I made since the nvidia experience on Linux sucks (at least compared to AMD). Minimally it’s the difference between juggling poorly supported drivers and not dealing with drivers at all (since AMD’s are in the kernel), but I’ve gathered that there are many compatibility issues as well.

Linux gamer for 3+ years now. I rarely, rarely have any issues with anything at all, and most of those are solved by switching to Proton GE or Experimental. Most of the time I think stuff actually runs better than on Windows.

But to be clear, I don’t really play anything multiplayer. The sole exceptions like Civ VI have worked perfectly fine, but my understanding is that a big reason these larger multiplayer games don’t work is their anticheat.