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Quoting: WanderdueneWill Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

Yes and no ... it depends on your use case. Few days ago I helped someone switching to Linux and that person was using a VR headset and a flight simulator controller. For the special controller there is support in mainline kernal since February this year. So without an up to date kernel it does not work out of the box. For VR on the other hand it is better to have the latest drivers. A friend told me it broke more often on Mint than on Arch.

There are indeed reasons to chose Arch over Mint and you may have other special reasons that speak against Mint. Also you will have to wait little bit longer to get newest Mesa improvements as +30% raytracing performance for AMD cards etc. But every year those huge improvements will become less, so you will be affected less in upcoming versions of Mint.

For gaming in general it doesn't matter. Any game that runs on Arch should also run on Mint. If you value the overall user experience in Mint over other distros, it is probably the best option for you, even if you do not have newest drivers. Personally I am on Debian and backport drivers. I am also still waiting for raytracing improvements, but it does not really affect my non raytracing gaming experience (and I cannot even play most games with raytracing anyway).

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Quoting: Pikolo50 GB is plenty for anything that's not video. My mobile data plan is 2GB and non-video calling and streaming applications don't use more than ~500 Mb a month.

But I can't see how they can possibly keep it free

Google money.
Google pays most of their income for having google chrome as their default search, since it lost a anti-trust lawsuit in the USA.
Also upsells.
Mozilla sells(actually pretty valuable) premium services including more VPN access.

Edit:
Okay more accurately they sell e-mail relay services where you can beg to be one day included in an extra premium option for phone relay services and vpn access.

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Clearly in terms of AI and especially AI sovereignty, AI client #99992087 was clearly the best use of resources. Utilizing OpenAI compatible providers and MCP? How daring.

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Gothic 1 Classic

Glad to see classics getting improvements alongside new releases

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I just realized this is good news for me.
I maintain a Mint system for somebody else from a large distance.
The more stability, the better.

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Quoting: lilovent

Quoting: elmapul"AI-generated code is based upon sources of unknown origins and may not be compatible with the Zlib license, or may introduce conflicting license terms if they include code from other projects."
finally someone quoted the licence issue

So, what license is then, when humans copy paste from StackOverflow?

Stackoverflow has an official licensing policy.

[CC BY-SA 4.0 for posted content](https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing)

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Mint is reliable and easy. If they need time, give them time.

And if you are impatient you can use another distribution with bleeding edge Cinnamon or use XanMod kernel, distrobox and flatpaks to have a reliable system and some bleeding edge packages.

Hope they can deliver one of the best LTS ever. 😀

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Quoting: elmapul"AI-generated code is based upon sources of unknown origins and may not be compatible with the Zlib license, or may introduce conflicting license terms if they include code from other projects."
finally someone quoted the licence issue

So, what license is then, when humans copy paste from StackOverflow?

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Deadly Premonition, if it works out of the box, is a very significant change.
That means it's a game that now runs better on Linux than Windows.
Hopefully it still works after DPFix tweaks too.

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That's quite some improvement nicee.

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Eyy mindustry.
Always good to see development on the games I play.

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Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

Probably not, but I can't be certain.
If you've a bunch a games on your wishlist that currently are badly supported by Linux gaming.
Then it might slow down your timeline when you might be comfortably able to play these games.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: spacemonkeyonly the minimal required information is passed on to the app or website.

Which is already the maximum amount of information passed to the app or website. If you are under 18 you will switch that date once you become mature, so they know exactly your birth. For us adults no issue so far, but for all upcoming generations it means a fully transparent birthday.

Can't we just begin to teach our kids first? Where is the talk about improving schools? They could learn stuff that is also useful as adult, not just as child.

That's the current design and is only hampered by the fact that not everybody celebrates their 18th birthday by doing online 18th birthday specific things.

That's not the only possible design though.
One can use rate limits and artificially induced latency to fight that.

A great way to limit the damage would for example be to make certain that age checks can only happen on a certain time interval.
Say for 1 day every month.

Also this assumes one can form a trustworthy pseudonymous profile of the target.

Edit:
[It's open source, so adding this feature is feasable and legal.](https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui).

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In the context of gaming, I think Linux matured enough, so you don't desperately need all the latest goodies as soon as possible anymore. Although I personally prefer a rolling distribution, I don't see leap distros as outdated on arrival anymore (I mean only for gaming). So slower releases are fine.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: LoudTechieYou don't report backdoors to reviewers.
They already approved them and thus presumably stand behind them.
You publish them on social media(as demonstrated by the xz-backdoor)
What it can result in is dumb social media discussions about when something is a backdoor.

Ah, you meant intentional back doors; sorry, I misunderstood. Dumb social media discussions are easily ignored, so that's ok.

Semi.
When there's a weakness in the code that was added by mistake. I consider it a security bug.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by people who in some way managed to impersonate the figure which approves code for that project; I consider it an unintentional backdoor.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by the person who approves code for that project; I consider it an intentional backdoor.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyThe EU actually just released an app that enabled users to proof their age to an apps or website. This enables the user to stay completely anonymous, only the minimal required information is passed on to the app or website.

https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/european-age-verification-app-keep-children-safe-online-2026-04-15_en

US take not please. We don't need your BS.

But a lot of trust is still placed in the company that manages the national digital id system of your nation and your nation(they suddenly know which 18+ sites you visit by who requests it).
It's 10 times better than the 10 most common ways to do age verification, but it's still scary. Although you won't hear me arguing it's impossible to avoid this porblem. It's still a problem..

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I really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: LoudTechieAlso the big maintainers(Linus, KDE, FSF, RHEL, etc) will face pressure to add the feature.
In the end it will become a build option to add and not add this.

That would be the easy thing. But that ultimately means nothing as it is removed quicker than it can be added. It is fundamentally impossible add this sort of thing into an open source system and have it "work". And what comes then is the scary part. If anyone can remove said protection, then maybe a "smart" government official will decide that only "approved" systems should be bootable on computers. Bring in "SecureBoot NG-STC", a mandatory security system that makes sure that only lawful systems can be booted on computers! Problem solved!

A. As a Linux user you're vastly underestimating the amount of technical skill required to flash a new version of the OS and/or alter read only marked user values. Defaults matter the vast majority of people will use the code provided by the manufacturer and stick to it.
B. It's a lot easier as a parent to check this one trick than monitor a kid's entire online presence. One could even provide an external media check a parent/teacher/adult could use to check for unauthorized modifications.

Still I find it realistic, but than coming from police forces which just always want more government mandated spyware on your device.

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Quoting: grigi

Quoting: LoudTechieIt's not attached to the computer it's attached to the user account(poor FreeBSD doesn't have accounts)

They don't have their own accounts either. How many home PC's actually have separate accounts? I mean houses where chaos rules?

Virtually zero, that's what.

That's my point.

A. From that point it's the parents decision, since it costs nothing to make extra accounts. Making this a "parents decide" thing.
B. We might be encountering my privileged upbringing here. My parents had the tendency to maintain separate account for the device owner and the rest of the family, so I assumed this to be common practice. Help with account setup could be included with the maternity care.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoudTechiecriminal dev: Most potential partners avoid me, because I've been proven to be violent in court

Assuming it was a violent crime. Even today, people do still sometimes go to jail for embezzlement as long as it wasn't a big enough amount to make you a new-minted oligarch . . .

According to our favorite mediaoutlet.
He claimed he was jailed, because he was "a very violent person."

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I don't know how this is going to work. From all the people with kids, I'm the only one who has separate accounts for every member of the family -- everyone else has a single account in their computer, which is used by everyone in the family. People will not start using accounts in their computers as it's too hard for most people I know of. And if nobody uses accounts, there's no way to enforce the law. Heck, many people share their accounts also with their kids phones...

It used to be hard to create email address for a kid because of age restrictions, but it looks like that has changed since I tried it last time... So at least you can now create an email account in Google (and some others I tried) for a newborn child.

Most people aren't good with computers, heck, I know many families which have no computers (just phones and maybe a tablet) in their house. I just don't think that this law will work in practice.

That said, I do like the idea that it's going to be mandatory to have parent controls in the devices, especially if all service providers need to obey the rules to moderate their content for kids. But in the end, it should be the parents who control the age limitations for their kids, not the government or some company.

Also there's always a way to get around limitations and kids are very good on doing that.

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Gotta admit, that looks really dashed cool.

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Quoting: LoudTechiecriminal dev: Most potential partners avoid me, because I've been proven to be violent in court

Assuming it was a violent crime. Even today, people do still sometimes go to jail for embezzlement as long as it wasn't a big enough amount to make you a new-minted oligarch . . .

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To me, this is threatening me with a good time at one sixth the price. I'm not into playing games online in the first place, so restricting it to offline solo play is just restricting it to what I would have wanted to do anyway.

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Quoting: LoudTechieYou don't report backdoors to reviewers.
They already approved them and thus presumably stand behind them.
You publish them on social media(as demonstrated by the xz-backdoor)
What it can result in is dumb social media discussions about when something is a backdoor.

Ah, you meant intentional back doors; sorry, I misunderstood. Dumb social media discussions are easily ignored, so that's ok.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksParamount's new owners are even worse than the old ones too. So I'm not expecting anything to get any better either.

Once the merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery is complete, the new owner is going to be David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison. His dad put money into Trump's campaign and is friends with him, which should make it easy to approve once it goes through the usual merger routine.

After the merger, it's going to get worse with the amount of debt they'll be carrying to the tune of about $80 billion. Before you know it, a lot of heads are going to roll just like any other merger because they'll need to find ways to pay that back.

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Quoting: nullzeroUnrelated, will this be the same fate as Nightingale? (see some recurring patterns here)

I don't think so because Nightingale just got an update two months ago and seems to be ongoing.

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If I was doing AI stuff, trying to be local, open-source, maintaining control, and all that stuff, why would I choose Mozilla?

Everyone in this space is some degree of untrustworthy, but even if this software/service turned out to be great and useful, that would just mean Mozilla would shut it down.
I'm not trying to be funny, I think there's a pattern of behavior and earned distrust here.

Mozilla is a deeply-confused organization with more executives than sense.
Maybe this will work for enterprise or whatever, and I would credit it entirely to the Berlin company they're working with getting Mozilla's name recognition if it does.

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"AI-generated code is based upon sources of unknown origins and may not be compatible with the Zlib license, or may introduce conflicting license terms if they include code from other projects."
finally someone quoted the licence issue

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Completely illogical. We don’t force age verification of people entering a convenience store that sells alcohol and tobacco- but we’re going to force everyone to verify their age on a computer just because of the possibility of being able to get to adult content or other adult platforms. This responsibility should be on websites, content providers and individual platforms not on the operating systems. We’re really trying to be as stupid as possible here. All the tech companies should just refuse to comply and tell the government “if you pass this law us we will revoke your software licenses”
Let’s see how far the government is willing to go without Microsoft office and Adobe lol.🤣

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