Josh

Most Linux problems stem from an obsession with saving drive space, and a failure to differentiate between system and application code. They want programs to load common functionality from shared libraries that are stored in the system files, but these libraries are constantly changing and breaking programs. It makes no sense. There's an easy solution, and that is to just place the required library files (in .so format) in the same folder as your program, and use a launcher script to tell the system to load the shared libraries from the same folder: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./myprogram This should really just be the default behavior, like it is on Windows.

Hi, can you tell me what graphics card you have?

The variable you have is probably an Entity object, and you need to cast it to a Camera object: local camera = Camera(self) if camera ~= nil then coord.z = self.camera:GetRange().y farpoint = self.camera:ScreenToWorld(coord, framebuffer) end

The problem had to do with extra NULL collision shapes being created in the physics thread. It will be fixed in the next build that goes up on the beta branch.

Yes, but just because you add a shortcut in the task bar doesn't mean the program works on Linux.

Linux Mint is really good. You can actually replace Windows with this.

Proton could be good for games, but I don't know if it's going to work that well with our editor, because you will often want to open folders in the system's native file browser. And probably other reasons. I'm not sure how I would ever be able to debug this on Linux if it was built on Windows.

It's better than I thought it would be...

I am really impressed by how well the game Cyclone works. I just launched it from Steam, nothing special, and it worked perfectly.

Well, I got to the point of wanting to trying out some games through Steam, and it's clear Fedora thinks you should not be doing any 3D work on their OS. With Mint it's very easy, other than that you will be copying and pasting tons of terminal lines of code and praying they still work. I tried Bazzite, Fedora, Kubuntu, and Mint. Although the KDE/Plasma UI is miles ahead of anything else, Linux Mint is the only one that is even trying to make a usable desktop OS. Everything else is just not seriously meant for desktop usage. Even if you can get it working, the longer and more convoluted the process is, the more time it will take when you inevitably have to reinstall the OS and do it all over again, the process will change from version to version, etc.

The installer for the current version of Fedora is totally broken, and it's not a rare problem: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-installer-crashes-after-clicking-install-fedora/107228 The solution is...I can't find the thread and it involves modifying a file somewhere, but it worked. At this time, Mint is the only thing I can really recommend simply because it works. Fedora with KDE is everything I liked about Bazzite, except presumably it's more suitable for desktop usage. KDE looks substantially better than any other UI out there, and even looks better than Windows.

The program is set to periodically save a backup of the current file you are working on. This can be found in the "Backup/Maps" folder in your project. Just remove the .bak extension from the file name and you can load the map from that.

I am on Fedora KDE now. It's got most of what I like about Bazzite, and unlike the Kubuntu and Mint, it recognizes my USB network adapter.

People kept turning it up all the way and crashing their 8 GB GPUs.

Mint is still the best, and it feels like they're the only one even trying to make a normal OS for computers. It seems like for everyone else, the actual desktop user is an annoying afterthought. Ubuntu is still chasing the Windows 8 dream of having a big touchscreen on your phone, TV, and computer. (Yes, I know Canonical no longer controls that, but that's even worse because they are allowing their name to be damaged.)