Lots of arcade games and other amusement machines made in the last twenty years run on desktop Linux.
Incredible Technologies games, Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix Big Buck Hunter Pro, Arachnid dartboards, and TouchTunes jukeboxes off the top of my head.
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1·17 days agoSorry. If there is a keyboard key or other input event to scroll it, you could set a touchscreen gesture to emulate that input?
Does double tap and drag work?
Meaning: tap, lift, tap without lifting, drag.
3·17 days agoI went to school in the '90s. My friend and I thought the Game Boy game Final Fantasy Legend II was funny in the way that you fought against terrorists, dinosaurs, ghosts, robots, and germs, using magic and medieval-fantasy-trope weapons alongside muskets, SMGs, chainsaws, and even nukes! (Game devs and translators had to get creative with only seven letters and an item type symbol for the item names, to fit in the tiny amount of memory available.)
Our drawings inspired by this were often battle scenes with the likes of Hussein, Hitler, and Mussolini being shot, impaled, nuked, and/or decapitated by chainsaw. We must have drawn a thousand guns.
We turned out OK.
Final Fantasy Legend spoiler alert
Years later, I played through Final Fantasy Legend 1 and discovered that even the final boss can fall to the Chainsaw (a weapon with a low chance of instant kill). The battle log says “Creator went to pieces!”
Killed God with a chainsaw.
It works for Ultimate Boot CD, which includes DBAN and a lot of other fun stuff.
I play with retro hardware and Ventoy has also worked for me with some weird old isos that even Rufus didn’t work with (XP/Server 2003 multidisc from eXPerience that uses a Linux bootloader?)
This, I tried some newer distros with Wayland and ended up going back to Debian Stable and X11 for gaming. Got Sunshine (for Moonlight handheld client streaming) working for in about a minute.
21·2 months ago200+ models from 5 big device makers
Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.
Bleeping Computer reports 813 products from 10 vendors.
Checked the BIOS update file of a Gigabyte motherboard I have here (Z170X - Gaming 7):
DETECTED PKfail untrusted certificateIssuer: CN=DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK
It’s what rapists say.
I maintain older hardware at work. We have a platform based on a Biostar motherboard with no USB3 ports, and it will not boot from any USB3 drive I’ve tried. Any USB2 drives work fine. Picky, picky! 🤷
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