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Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by ticoombs »

mnky9800n wrote: post #148
bombcar wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People call it "homelab" or "data hoarding" these days, but yes, the easy access to hours and hours of movies and music was "solved" for the average person by the content streaming sites, so there's not as much a drive as there used to be for it. Heheheh, drive.

And now I learn that I am average.

If your willing to try /r/homelab and /r/selfhost have great wikis and are good enough entry points to start you on your way.

There is a lot you can do with a rPi and an 8TB HDD!

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by robertlagrant »

wqaatwt wrote: post #147
pjmlp wrote: post #132

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See ABK deal, Microsoft has tolerated SteamDeck thus far, they own the platform.

What about it? I’m just curious what specifically do you think MS could do that wouldn’t get them into extreme trouble with the EU/FTC?

They could create a new interface that's somehow more efficient, and work with Unreal / Unity / Godot and a few others so it's just a recompile for them, but it's a bigger problem for Wine, perhaps? I'm just thinking out loud.

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by robertlagrant »

kbolino wrote: post #76
pjmlp wrote: post #50

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They already control enough studios, PC and XBox market. SteckDeck compatibility relies on "emulating" Windows ecosystem. Remember DR-DOS, OS/2 and EEE PC.

They bought a lot of companies and are doing their level best at running them into the ground. Xbox is a dying platform. They may try some things that they've tried before (GFWL) but they're not going to succeed this time either. Kernel-level anti-cheat is a bigger threat to gaming on Linux than anything Microsoft has directly done, but even that is fixable.

> Kernel-level anti-cheat is a bigger threat to gaming on Linux than anything Microsoft has directly done, but even that is fixable.

Agreed. Valve providing some service that gives local games less info, so they literally don't know where players are until they need to, might spell an end to wall hacking at least.

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by acjohnson55 »

iggldiggl wrote: post #88
acjohnson55 wrote: post #43

I absolutely loved this game growing up. It scratched a similar itch for me as SimCity. The corporate layer wasn't particularly sophisticated, but it did give me some early insight into finance. The soundtrack was also incredible, and I wish it were available independently.

> The soundtrack was also incredible, and I wish it were available independently. For a few euros (and less if you happen to catch a sale), the GOG version is worth it for the soundtrack alone. But yeah, 7-Zip doesn't seem to recognise the installer used by GOG, so you actually have to install the game to get at the soundtrack files.

One day, I might have to go through the trouble to do this!

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by bombcar »

mnky9800n wrote: post #148
bombcar wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People call it "homelab" or "data hoarding" these days, but yes, the easy access to hours and hours of movies and music was "solved" for the average person by the content streaming sites, so there's not as much a drive as there used to be for it. Heheheh, drive.

And now I learn that I am average.

It really is a world of difference - XBMC 20+ years ago made your TV a wonder to behold, more powerful than anything anyone else would have (and desirable, too!).

Now a full Plex + JellyFin + Infuse setup just makes it feel like some sort of knockoff Netflix.

There are still advantages. But they’re not as noticeable (main one being if you can find it, you can have it instead of having to search various streaming platforms).

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by pxc »

wqaatwt wrote: post #150
pxc wrote: post #122

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> On desktop Linux I regularly have mixed Qt/KDE, GTK2, GTK3+/libadwaita and Electron (with every JS GUI framework being a different UI/UX experience) GUIs and dialogs. And you can choose to install GTK+, Qt, and Electron apps on Windows or macOS, too. That has no bearing on the consistency of the desktop environment itself (not on Linux or on macOSa or on Windows). That fact is simply not relevant here. You could po…

> could point to some specific distros which choose to bundle Why does that matter if that’s not how most users do it? There is no magical dividing lines between a distribution and the user choosing to install a random collection of apps on their own.

'Desktop Linux' isn't an operating system but a family or class of operating systems. Linux distros are operating systems. If we are to make mewningful comparisons to macOS and Windows, then we must compare like to like.

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by brirec »

pjmlp wrote: post #134
jwcooper wrote: post #62

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Microsoft is going the opposite of what you're suggesting. Their games are coming to Steam, Playstation and Switch. Also, their game division isn't exactly thriving right now. They have a ton of studios, but they are not selling hardware very well right now. The more that time goes on, and the more entrenched steamOS/Proton becomes, they will not have any sort of easy time trying to lock-in to Windows. Even now in th…

Playstation and Switch, for sure. Steam, not on detriment of Windows, how can they allow something like SteamOS to put Windows to shame, with their own APIs? I can bet on them changing that, lets see who's got deeper pockets.

Most of their biggest games already are on Steam, though!

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by mnky9800n »

bombcar wrote: post #165
mnky9800n wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And now I learn that I am average.

It really is a world of difference - XBMC 20+ years ago made your TV a wonder to behold, more powerful than anything anyone else would have (and desirable, too!). Now a full Plex + JellyFin + Infuse setup just makes it feel like some sort of knockoff Netflix. There are still advantages. But they’re not as noticeable (main one being if you can find it, you can have it instead of having to search various streaming plat…

yes i remember setting up a system through xbmc that made it so the tv would appear to have cable channels that were built from everything that was on my storage. So you had channels for different genres or cartoons or movies or whatever. and you could flip through the channels and watch whatever was on. and now it's just that you can even watch digitizations of old vhs recordings of television on youtube if you want. there just seems to be no need to do all that work and when you do, it never seems terribly nice and half the time things are falling over. It was fun when i was a student but now I actually want to watch television if i sit in front of the tv, not try and fix whatever broke to make it work again.

Re: Railroad Tycoon II

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Post by wqaatwt »

pxc wrote: post #166
wqaatwt wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> could point to some specific distros which choose to bundle Why does that matter if that’s not how most users do it? There is no magical dividing lines between a distribution and the user choosing to install a random collection of apps on their own.

'Desktop Linux' isn't an operating system but a family or class of operating systems. Linux distros are operating systems. If we are to make mewningful comparisons to macOS and Windows, then we must compare like to like.

But they are inherently different and not really comparable to macOS or Windows so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense.

For instance where exactly do you draw a line between which app/package/component is part of a Linux distribution and which is third party? OTH it’s more than obvious for proprietary systems.

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