Captain Aggravated

How are you installing it? Are you somehow using a Windows version or something?

How are you getting FreeCAD to run poorly? I’ve run it fine on a Raspberry Pi.

Do you mean the setting called “Enable Steam Play for all titles” that was usually unchecked, that you’d have to go in and check, which some folks wouldn’t do (because they might not have known they were supposed to?)

SuperTuxKart is such a strange combination of flavors.

The big commercial kart racer I played a lot was Diddy Kong Racing on the N64, and compared to DKR:

• SuperTuxKart’s graphics look better. Higher resolution, higher frame rate, reminds me a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. “Oh hey this looks pretty good” for a Windows 7 era PC game that could run on an eMachine, still slightly jank here and there.

• SuperTuxKart’s music isn’t as good, but DKR’s music was made by David Wise, so DKR sets a very high bar.

• SuperTuxKart’s menus are Windows 95 “300 games on one CD!” level. Static backgrounds, janky music that’s played too loud by default, amateurish icons, irritating stock sound effects, nostalgic in a way but wears out its welcome pretty quick.

• STK has a world/campaign mode where you drive around a little environment to pick what tracks/events you’re going to run, and it’s kind of awful. That’s DKR’s big gimmick, that you’re on an island you can explore. There are even races that take place in the lobby space. STK’s lobby space is a bunch of weirdly scattered doors. It’s at that “There, it works” state that so many FOSS projects are published at.

Overall, my experience with SuperTuxKart is finally getting into an actual race and being pleasantly surprised with how good it looks and plays given how crap the window dressing is.

This is Lemmy, you can say kill here. In fact, please do. It’s weird that we’re doing that Orwellian shit to the kids.

The majority of problems Linux has with gaming are intentional decisions on the part of the studios at this point.

I keep what I think is a pretty healthy gaming diet, which tends to steer me away from the megacorporate shit and into smaller studios and indies, and games just tend to run.