Eoras Northwind
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.28 21:45:00 -
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Tara Nighthawk wrote:Doe EVE still work with Linux?  Hehe 
Yes...and no.
This month is the first time in a long while that Eve has received a garbage rating on WineHQ. While Linux users sometimes can keep up a SISI installation to check out the Almighty Future(tm) this is a rating for TQ, not the patch to come. I however can personally vouch that both the test server and the current live server are affected.
- If you use the new shiny GNOME 3 with an nVidia card, it requires the nouveau driver. That driver can't handle Eve, TQ or SISI, and pretty much any other non-native game in wine for a lot of people.
- As the Linux channel in game will attest, Eve works under wine with the nVidia binary blob drivers very well. But your 'new hotness' touchpad desktop is probably horribly broken. (So sad, what a loss. /sarcasm)
So it is not so much about Eve changing and breaking as certain Linux desktops moving on and 'improving' their user experience. Some people have even rolled back one or two releases of their favorite distribution to avoid losing out valuable skill queue time.
For what it's worth, the biggest improvement "for Linux" in this patch is letting patching work on +1 Tb disks. Linux has long been able to build massive filesystems out of just about any random junk or overpowered storage part you can stick into your case. Or dangling off the side of it. Patch day sucked for Eve: having to force a filesystem bellow 2.2 Tb of freespace just to get a SISI or TQ patch to take. Or putting Eve into a WINEPREFIX that lived in a disk-in-a-file.
OT, though: un-nerfing the speed on the Dominix - slowest of the battleships - is something that has been coming since the work that killed nano-Ishtars and their speedy ilk. It's still a space brick, just a slightly speedier one. Gallente mission runners can rejoice. All hail the sclerotic nut sack of drone aweseomesauce. Now with racing stripes.
Poor Interbus. I can only expect cruiser roams to start poking holes in their structures where ever possible. NPC nullsec PI just got a whole lot more expensive.
Also, sad there is no fighter bonuses for carriers. So much for that elite Sanctum running. Well, there is the new BCs which do well at it. Just not as tastey to catch and kill in NPC crazy space.
Soo many changes, though. Keep up the good work CCP and soon you'll be nicknamed "Continuously Cool Patches." Not that anybody would ever call you something else  . |