So we should use corporate shitty AI art to replace the beloved artwork of classic games instead of just pirating or grabbing from Internet Archive? Bold take in a place like Lemmy.

Rocking an X260 myself. Picked it up for something like $100 on eBay a few years ago and it just keeps on ticking.

I feel like an old ThinkPad is like a right of passage on Linux. Just about everyone I know who uses Linux has had one at some point or another.

Okay, this is legitimately cool as heck. This finally helps me wrap my head around the “everything is a file” concept in Linux. Of course it can just copy the executable to memory for later reference. That’s how the system would not completely have a meltdown when you do live updates.

Excellent share!

I would be genuinely shocked if they actually manage to do anything remotely substantial to make games run on Linux. This sounds more like them jumping late on the Steam train (pun intended) as they have been doing up to this point.

HL1 is a great game, but not essential for enjoying 2.

Some that come to mind:

• Half Life 1/2
• L4D 1/2
• Portal (1 for sure, 2 maybe?)
• The Stanley Parable
• Ultrakill
• Super Hexagon (depending on your TV’s latency…)
• Mirrors Edge (maybe)
• Doom (maybe)
• Almost any 2D game

The Stream Controller is $100. Considering the quality is on-par with the PS/Xbone controllers at $70-80 and has the extra features, I doubt you’ll find one cheaper. I’m pretty sure it’s the first of its kind with trackpads as well.

Thanks for doing the research I was too lazy to do 😅

Is there a good resource for browsing through all the Linux wallpapers that ship with distros? Many of them are quite good and I don’t enjoy sifting through stock photo sites to try and find equally good wallpapers.

I’d have to imagine those were all hosted by Sony servers. You would have to convince PSN that the emulator is a real PS3, which is probably a significant challenge on top of the fact that Sony lawyers would probably be let loose on the idea for security implications.

I’ve been pointing newbies to LMDE for ages now. Standard Mint is okay, but with the underlying Ubuntu changes, I’ve found it can teach those new to Linux some unconventional habits and it seems like LMDE just sticks a bit closer to what I would consider to be the “base level” introduction to Linux without being too manual.

Talk about boneheaded. This idea would have been an easy shoe-in for all parties involved. How is a company whose whole business model is to work with licensing designs manage to forget like the first step in licensing?

Even with all the right hardware and community-recommended open source software, there are still plenty of unique hostile choices made in BluRay publishing that means playing my stuff in realtime from the disc before ripping has about a 75% success rate. Many of them scramble playlists and bend the standard to make it unplayable without using their official license.

And that’s if you know where to get the legally grey key files to decrypt them in the first place.

DVDs should be possible in this day and age though.

To your first edit, having been a user since 2010, I’ve tried it both ways and sometimes just giving in to a new distribution is easier than spending a week or more combing forums and getting ghosted while your display resolution is broken.

When it comes down to it, unless you’re using Linux as a hobby, I say distro hop away until something clicks in your first few months. When you finally get your hooks into one you feel you understand, that’s when you start putting the effort into perfecting it.

It makes sense if you read it as the caption for the picture

Yes, but with a practical engineering approach, you don’t get to have an office like this:

It’s okay, but the size is the actual issue. You always think a handheld keyboard on a phone feels too small until you bump up to that size. Your thumbs just reach everything, but especially when you factor in the aluminum case and its weight, you’re not going to be journaling on it. It’s more for tasks with light point and click interaction with the occasional data entry. Hence why RCT is one of my go to experiences on it.

I have a Clockwork Pi uConsole and with even just one 18650 I can easily play something classic like Roller Coaster Tycoon for a couple hours. They’re not as bad as you’d imagine.

I guarantee this will cost more and be less hackable than the offerings from ClockworkPi