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Rinzwind

@SeverusTux the 3 I named run natively. Baldur's Gate is also on steam.

Severus Tux

youtubing all of them ;p

Rinzwind

PT is from 1992 but last I played it was in 2012. stll looked very good.

Videonauth

tropico 5, civilazation 5 xcom 1 & 2 there are many which run natively on windows, if you want to know which ones are avaiable on steam and running natively search for steam OS games

Severus Tux

5:35 PM

@Rinzwind nah... nah... nah.... This is what you are saying ?

Videonauth

borderlands 2 as well runs on linux

Severus Tux

user139252

Anyone with 14.04 available to try something right now?

Rinzwind

16 here

user139252

I'm trying to install GIMP, and I'm getting an error saying that some packages cannot be verified...

user139252

5:36 PM

I just want to see if anyone else is getting it.

Severus Tux

V/s this ?

user139252

IMGUR is blocked at work

jokerdino

Nice

Rinzwind

That's in France

user139252

Here's my output

jokerdino

5:38 PM

@TheBrownOne askubuntu.com/a/75575/25798 ?

user139252

Haven't seen the apt-key update command before. Let me try that.

user139252

Yep, that was it.

user139252

Thanks :D

jokerdino

Upvote it!

user139252

I did!

jokerdino

5:40 PM

!!

Severus Tux

@Rinzwind nooo way...
All those you mentioned are some kind of "top-view" games (Well even Super-Mario is a great game ;p ) , I am asking for "Real" games, with extraordinary graphics.

jokerdino

Open your window

Severus Tux

Ah,...., I don't have it anymore :( (windows)

jokerdino

Go out the door and look at the world.

Serg

ew , windows

oh, wrong type of windows

sorry

Seth

5:44 PM

@TheBrownOne gimp installed just fine for me.

Videonauth

@SeverusTux store.steampowered.com/search/…

Seth

@SeverusTux Minetest.

user139252

@Seth Yeah, I worked it out. The dinosaur pointed me towards a key issue.

Rinzwind

@SeverusTux you got a lot to learn. graphics never make the game. the story does.

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user139252

@Rinzwind This is what I always say.

Severus Tux

5:48 PM

Yes, but thats not all of it.

Serg

But when both are good, then it's a win

Severus Tux

Yes, "Both".. Its an "and" gate, 1 and 0 = 0.

Well , thats my personal opinion

Rinzwind

@Serg nah. I can live with 2d graphics if the quests are good.

in general graphics drag down performance
I played load of online mmorpgs where lowering graphics was a sure-fire way to win in team quests

Serg

@Rinzwind yeah , if the plot is good, then graphics don't necessarily matter, but in case of something like "Alien Isolation" or "Far Cry 3 " , graphics and story combine together quite well. There's other games who have great graphics but are just. . .dull . . .

I guess , i like balance - ying and yang stuff

Rinzwind

I do like it when boss enemies look good.
like in DS3... The "dancer" boss was truly amazing.

Severus Tux

5:56 PM

I would say This is the "only" reason people duel-boot Ubuntu with windows , instead of using only Ubuntu .

Videonauth

--> great game wich as well runs natively on linux store.steampowered.com/app/286690/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_9

Rinzwind

Linux F2P Moba: store.steampowered.com/app/263500/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

jokerdino

There are some good games on Steam.

Rinzwind

yes there are

Ok I just saw Aberoth on steam.

A good story aint going save this o

Severus Tux

@Videonauth wow... thats good :D

Videonauth

5:59 PM

the second one of those as well runs on linux natively

there are many very good games meanwhile (AAA ones) which run on linux as well

Rinzwind

@Videonauth not gonna happen. copyright kills it for linux

Videonauth

the times are slowly changing

Rinzwind

steam is going to be our gaming platform for the next few years.

Videonauth

what metro redux ?

Severus Tux

@Videonauth by "natively " ,you mean without steam ??

Videonauth

6:00 PM

no but in linux without wine and such

Severus Tux

ah...

Rinzwind

oh wine is no longer relevant.
steam killed wine as a gaming platform

(and yes I know what I said there ;-) )

Serg

Perhaps one day we won't need wine at all , when everything will be in docker containers , and dependency hell will be a thing of the past and nothing but horror stories to tease young IT aficionados

Videonauth

wow firefox 47 is in the official repos now

Seth

@Serg s/docker containers/snap packages/

Serg

6:11 PM

Good call !

Wild Man

here is to hoping

Serg

Here's a more meta-ish question for you guys. What's a good "answers per day" amount ? What i mean is that i want to make my presence on the site more organized, scheduled. In the past it was " latch onto whatever question i see and answer it" , but now i want to make it smarter

Seth

questions don't follow a schedule ;)

Wild Man

@seth they had no issues with it at all

Rinzwind

@Seth :D

Seth

6:14 PM

cool, I didn't think they would :)

Wild Man

me neither but they did say they were glad I asked first

jokerdino

Is Seth privy to some stats on the forums that is not available to the public?

Rinzwind

I answer anything I can. When I hit 150 rep I hope it will float to 200
with the aim to not get too much over 200 so the next day I get some fallout from those answers making it easier to get to 200

Videonauth

@Serg actually I aim for 1-5 answers per day

Rinzwind

@jokerdino no he made a comment about the reversal :+D

jokerdino

6:16 PM

I read something in the transcript but I can't remember what it was now.

Serg

Hmmm , that's a good approach. A good, quality answer can make somewhere between 2 - 3 upvotes, even better when accepted. So to reach 150 i'd probably need 3 - 4 answers

Severus Tux

Well... beware of next "cleaning up" 😜 😝 😋

Rinzwind

@Serg I believe it is a bit higher. Probably 5-6

You can get better traction though if the answes get accepted

not saying it is perfect but it got me to 125k :D

Serg

I suppose it worked for you, hehe :)

Rinzwind

and aim for some bounties :=D

Serg

6:22 PM

I have problem with bounties :/ Whenever i look at the page with featured questions, it seems i can't answer any of them or have only slight idea about 1 or 2

Rinzwind

stuck on 160 for today :D

Seth

I who what now?

chaskes

A lot of bounties are offered for things that can't be done.

Jacob Vlijm

...Most of the time I only answer questions I have the feeling, they are "my" questions...

Rinzwind

@Serg research them! :) there is a reason for the bounties

cl-netbox

6:22 PM

@Rinzwind This must be only working for you ... my answer from yesterday was accepted and only got 1 upvote ! :P

Severus Tux

@Seth can we get " smilies " on chat ?? I copy and paste them from qtox

Rinzwind

@cl-netbox happens ;-) I need about 5, 6 NEW answers to get to 150

Serg

@JacobVlijm that's exactly the same feeling i have

Severus Tux

@JacobVlijm well most of the questions are "yours" , or you will make it "yours" with some scripts ;-)

Jacob Vlijm

@cl-netbox some of my answers that are now on 10 or 20+ were zero for months.

Rinzwind

6:23 PM

Jacob takes too much time per answer ;-)

not saying it is a bad thing for AU >:-D

Jacob Vlijm

@SeverusTux definitely not! I can (really) only answer questions I find interesting.

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...same with my knowledge, I find it hard to learn if I am bored on the subject.

Videonauth

anyone knows which programm is called to show the cheat sheet (super key hold)

Rinzwind

ohhhhhhhhhhh my top answer just made 400 upvotes <3

jokerdino

@Videonauth the overlay?

Videonauth

yeah

Rinzwind

6:25 PM

@Videonauth hold it (the super)

jokerdino

@SeverusTux they are called emojies

Seth

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Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind Tell me where, so we can make it 399 :)

Serg

@SeverusTux some of the questions me and jacob answer are quite easy , once you know ins and outs of tools such as xdotool or wmctrl or qdbus ( which i like a lot ) . The rest is just putting everything together into a script. That what makes a question "yours" , imho. I would hesitate with filesystem type of questions, because i am not qualified enough for those

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm checked it ... nearly all my last answers were accepted ... not more than 1 or 2 ... :)

Serg

6:26 PM

or nvidia questions

Rinzwind

@JacobVlijm askubuntu.com/questions/41332/… :X

Videonauth

@Rinzwind that i know i would like to know which script programm is involved in showing it ;) so i can change it

Rinzwind

oh sorry Misread

I doubt it is hardcodes. Maybe check "keyboard" short cuts?

Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind bastard..

Rinzwind

@JacobVlijm D: what you never upvoted?

please dont upvote topics I post in chat :(((

Jacob Vlijm

6:28 PM

@Rinzwind I won't tell you :)

Videonauth

@Rinzwind the keyboad shortcuts wont give any hint sadly

jokerdino

@Videonauth it's part of unity

Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind Nono, seriously

jokerdino

you can edit the overlay if you want but you need to compile it

Rinzwind

@Videonauth all bugs point to"unity"

jokerdino

6:29 PM

I know it because I added the Super + V line.

Videonauth

mhmmmm compiling it wouldnt be a problem

you have a link oto the source ?

jokerdino

> plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp

Rinzwind

where would we be without jokerdino :=)

jokerdino

right here.

Serg

Just out of curiosity , @jokerdino how did you come up with the name ?

jokerdino

6:32 PM

that's a terrible story

Rinzwind

we are waiting >:-D

jokerdino

I am not gonna tell it.

Rinzwind

lol

jokerdino

@Videonauth it used to be here but it's not there anymore.

try bzr'ing the code and grep for any of the lines from the shortcut overlay.

Videonauth

launchpad.net/unity

just downloaded the tarball

jokerdino

6:35 PM

gonna get some sleep. cya

Rinzwind

bye!

bbl too :)

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