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Thanks for the links everyone. 😆 I appreciate that the Wikipedia article starts off with "Not to be confused with digital rights management.", so it's not just me.

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It does look like a good change from what I've seen (I saw some before-and-after screenshots elsewhere), but I'll wait for it to roll out to the main branch.

Quoting: XpanderWhy on earth is there so much empty space. Everything is squished into the middle. I have my monitor in landscape not portrait ffs.
well thats not steam only issue ofc. Every freaking site does that these days :(

There's lots of UX research that shows that above a certain length lines of text become hard for people to read. Reading skill impacts this somewhat (e.g., better readers can handle slightly longer line lengths), but there's an upper limit above which a line is so long it becomes taxing for readers to easily follow it back to find the start of the next line. This applies to any written text; it's why newspapers, books, papers, etc. run multiple columns rather than lines of text straight across the page.

This collides with the fact that as humans our horizontal field of view is larger than our vertical field of view, so monitors wider than they are tall make sense for computers due to the way our eyes work. But just extending text all the way across would be horrible to read, so it often ends up slightly awkwardly confined to a central region of the screen.

I agree that a good solution would be to have more stuff in sidebars (navigation links, etc.). Or perhaps go with multi-column layouts, though how well that works would depend heavily on the site. (Having read a lot of scientific papers in two-column format, it's really annoying to have to constantly scroll back up and then down again to read each page.)

(Interestingly, the research I found suggested ~80 characters as an upper limit for line length for "expert" readers. I counted the first line of my comment in the preview as being 119 characters long and didn't feel like I was having difficulty reading my text – I guess voraciously consuming written material ever since I first learned to read has its perks – but having read the occasional page with line lengths in what must have been the hundreds of characters I definitely concur that there is an upper limit on what's not taxing to read.)

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Quoting: VigilNot everyone displays one program at a time taking up the whole monitor. Some people have multiple programs side by side on their widescreen monitor.

Sure, your filemanager scales perfectly depending on the window size. So thats not the point. Sites should scale a bit better, given 16:9 is still the most popular aspect ratio for desktops.

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I wonder if this has anything to do with Nintendo suing the US government over the stupid tariffs? Don't get me wrong, it's good that they threw it out, cause it was bullshit. But the orange moron is that petty, and he would be more than willing to exploit any false populism from this sorta shit.

tl;dr: fuck the US government and Nintendo. lol

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Reminds me of high school girls ganging up on one another because they think she's prettier.

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Quoting: CaldathrasWell, I'll concede that that's entirely possible. Although, my T580 is on Mint XFCE 21.3 and it does not detect the WiFi printers. Perhaps the applet is not activated by default in XFCE?

I don't know, but it works fine on my work laptop (T14 Gen 6) with Mint Xfce 22.3. Check that "Discovered printers" is enabled in the View menu of your printer configuration panel (system-config-printer).

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Very nice, even though it is not linux native, it's a nice gimmick. Thanks for the heads-up Liam.

After playing a bit I already found I'll never be able to fit everything there:
> [Steam screenshot](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3697917776)https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3697917776

Spoiler, click me

Game sheft with Half-life/Portal on the left, Half-life 2 / Portal 2 on the middle and empty on the right...

😆

It would be perfect if it also fetched boardgames from bgg site collections.

Quoting: TangoBakerIf you pick up the game box and open it, you get an option to start the game from there. What I haven't found is how to delete the starter desk.

You can extend the wall to cover the table + window and "dig" more room in the other wall. Not optimal just tried and it works

The 8 slot has an X. It worked to delete both initial desk and a new added one.

EDIT: fixed comment has I found a workaround.

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Congrats, it was an April fools joke PR.

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Nice. Graph looks ever more like an exponential growth. At some point it should slow down, but for now it seems in accordance to such a tendency indeed.

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got my survey yesterday!!

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I got asked to submit my specs 3 times this last month lmao

All different devices but all Linux

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Quoting: rustynailI do like the idea they sort of use Steam to promote GOG but it probably doesn't mean much to people who don't already have an idea of what GOG is

If it's indeed a ploy, and not just someone pulling a fast one or the other one being faced with a less than ideal contract, I would think that would be covered too.

Since GOG's communication is historically bad, they could use it as an excuse to not explain themselves. And by triggering an engaged minority with a situation whose reason to be is unclear, they can reverberate much better the awareness of GOG and DRM.

If that's indeed the case, a comment I heard recently comes to mind, just because they lost, it doesn't mean they were defeated. Pretty clever if so, I think.

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I've been having a great experience running the game in Manjaro, but any performance improvement is always welcome.

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Quoting: elmapulnon gaming pcs dont matter for the gaming market.

It matters, because someone working with Linux is more likely to adopt Linux on private PC, too. And someone who already owns a Linux PC is more likely to try out games on Linux instead of dual-booting all the day along. It also matters, because it shows the trend is not just gamers, but an overall success, which leads companies to bring their software to Linux at some point, which leads other gamers to switch, too. I am working with Unreal Engine and can use it on Linux on the same machine I am playing. A friend is creating music on his gaming machine and since his software does not run on Linux he is not switching (but would like). Everything is somehow connected.

not everyone knows about stuff like heroic/lutris and thoses dont support all windows stores just the most popular ones.

Not everyone has to know it. It is enough if some people do it this way. Btw I don't care about "store support", I just want to install and config games easily and never touch these "launcher" to launch a game. I want to launch games as quick as starting a program and launchers as Steam/heroic/slopris/bottles/... are just bloatware that slows down my game-start (if I would use them this way).

not to mention if an console took 30 years to reach 6.5 millions of users, it wont be seeing as an success, but its good in an specific meassure: trend

More like around 600% increase in 5 years - from 0.9% to above 5.3% and it seems to accelerate. Some businesses wasting millions for over 10 years before they start to earn money. And they would also call it huge success.

Quoting: JohnLambrechtsis the year of linux desktop here?

The year of Linux was 2025, because it became a talking point outside the Linux bubble and because it reached over 2.5%-3% for gaming, which is required to bring a political movement to their success. It was also the year of Win10 EOL. 2026 was always just meant to continue the breakthrough success and every further year just builds on top of 2025.

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These days, pretty much what we've come to expect from Capcom.

I wonder if this means that Capcom trusts GOG customers more than they trust Steam customers? 😏

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovYep, and... As I'm aware, there flat-out NO X11 desktop, AT ALL, strictly Wayland only... But for people using older apps or PC configurations that for some reason are working fine ONLY on X11 but NOT with Wayland, what they'll supposed to do? 🤔

As @tmtvl points out, that is the case with GNOME...

The Ubuntu Desktop session now runs only on the Wayland back end, because GNOME Shell can no longer run as an X.org session.

But not the case with other desktops...

Other desktop sessions, such as KDE on X11, Xfce, MATE, i3 and many others, can still be launched using an X.org session.

(Quotes taken from the Ubuntu 26.04 Beta release notes.)

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You can't really compare a console with a set launch date, a marketing campaign and explicit game releases tied to that campaign to linux distros just continuing to exist.

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Even if some elements were to be inspired by pokemon, its pretty obvious palworld does its own thing

Creative people always draw inspiration from somewhere, doesn't make it copying or ripping off though

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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: StalePopcornIt's what I was thinking too. That's almost an Epic Games Store-level move if so

Epic Games pays other game publishers to exclusively release on EGS for a time, that's the complete opposite of having a GOG-codeveloped game (with the publisher being Capcom) being released on Steam.

Well, if you're more concerned with the publisher than the consumer, sure.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Caldathras[...] some definite QoL improvements, like autodetecting WiFi printers.

I'm sure Cinnamon gets lots of polish, being Mint's primary DE, but I don't think this one counts. In fact, all three Mint desktop variants handle printers in exactly the same way. Maybe you simply changed over just when it started working on Mint in general? I think Mint 21 switched to CUPS "Driverless Printing" / IPP as the default, so that's probably when it happened.

Well, I'll concede that that's entirely possible. Although, my T580 is on Mint XFCE 21.3 and it does not detect the WiFi printers. Perhaps the applet is not activated by default in XFCE?

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Quoting: Nickname

Quoting: _MarsIt will probably go down a bit again.
But can we talk about the 11% for English only? Holy moly.
All those YouTubers and stuff talking about switching to Linux must have really moved the needle after the W10 EoL.

Well they sure have, but I guess English is over represented on Linux because more techy users tend to prefer English as system language over their native language(I know enough people like that myself, even on Windows, Android or Mac). And to be fair, language support for a lot of not-English languages is still poor on many Linux distros, I still remember Firefox on Manjaro resetting the language to english(from the system language) after each update, or lots of not fully translated strings here and there, missing keyboard support for non QWERTY layouts, incomplete glossary etc etc
Thats partially even still the case with big languages like French or German even on bigger distros sometimes(Take german glossary books for instance, still lacking so many words on both Linux and even on Android these days(2026!)) :/

not to mention, the tutorials...
and commands are all english based

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Quoting: amatai

Quoting: elmapulan console with 6,5M units sold would be called an flop.

6.5 M monthly active users is more like 20 millions units sold. Not a sound success but by no mean a failure. The Switch 2 is there for example.

except it took less than an year to do what we took 30...

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is windows cooked chat?

is the year of linux desktop here?

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: elmapulan console with 6,5M units sold would be called an flop.

That depends where you came from. A console trade-mark that arrives for the first time with 6.5M is a victory. A Playstation that loses "just" 6.5M (PS5 has sold 92M until 2 months ago) is also a flop. Linux comes from the bottom, so 6.5M is a true victory (and I think you agree).

But don't forget, we are only speaking about Steam-data. I am playing most of the time without Steam titles as Horizon Zero Dawn or Path of Exile 1/2 or indie games. So sometimes I am part of the monthly-players, sometimes I am not while playing every month some sort of games. PCs of governments or companies running desktop Linux are not included, too. India has a market-share of 20% Linux computers all together. Europe and North-America reached 5% last year before Win10 EOL. The real desktop Linux user number is far above and trends as "Europe governments moves to Linux" is not included here.

non gaming pcs dont matter for the gaming market.
most of the linux users will play on steam anyway, i mean, we have less options when it comes to thirdy party clients officially supporting linux, not everyone knows about stuff like heroic/lutris and thoses dont support all windows stores just the most popular ones.

as for the number being big , yes it is for linux, but again, we arent talking about the linux market here, we are talking about the gaming market.
not to mention if an console took 30 years to reach 6.5 millions of users, it wont be seeing as an success, but its good in an specific meassure: trend

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I love CS2, works great on RTX 4060

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Thank you thank you thank you Microsoft for your miserable obsession with AI, your continued march to make Windows the worst possible OS ever conceived, and your seething loathing hatred for every single human that uses any of your products! All of us in linuxland love you so much for all these wonderful things :) Keep on keeping on MS!

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I'm running mesa 26.0.3 which I think has the recent big RT improvements but I haven't really played a game that would benefit from any RT (also I'm not entirely convinced that rt itself isn't just marketing nonsense). I might fire up Greedfall 2 soon which I think would indeed have some RT stuff, so we shall see!

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I've used it a few times to squeeze a few more FPS from a few games. It's a handy way to easily switch from one method to another.

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This is beyond stupid. I despair sometimes.

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Quoting: Vigil

Quoting: XpanderWhy on earth is there so much empty space. Everything is squished into the middle. I have my monitor in landscape not portrait ffs.
well thats not steam only issue ofc. Every freaking site does that these days :(

Not everyone displays one program at a time taking up the whole monitor. Some people have multiple programs side by side on their widescreen monitor.

Yes, but that's what Responsive Design is all about.

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