Download the game from factorio.com Browse to where you downloaded the game file to Extract (either Thunar should do it for you, or you may need to do it from the command line, in which case it's `tar x factorio_alpha*`) You should now have a folder named 'factorio'. Go in to this folder. Go to the...

I should chime in and state that I'm experiencing this issue as well. Text and text boxes work, but player flickers in and out and the ground smears all over the screen where there are "unloaded" textures/squares/chunks, just as in MF-'s screenshots. I do have low graphics enabled in the c...