Quoting: randylIt's a personal preference. All of those things I mentioned are real issues regardless whether you have experience with them or not.

And I am a full time Windows user (at work) as much as I'm a Fedora user (at home) so I am commenting from experience not philosophy. If someone doesn't get why Linux is better at all the things you mentioned, then please have them keep using Windows.

The problem with people pointing out those issues (in general, not you specifically) is that they seem to forget that there are also issues with Linux (e.g. conf files vs registry, drive letters vs folders, etc).

Quoting: randylYou quoted me out of context. The person I replied to seems to think that opening the source of Windows would somehow make it all better. I'm pointing out that it won't because all those flaws are engineered by design and can't just be ripped out and coded over; how Windows itself works wouldn't change much from opening the source.

If, instead of the end of support of Windows 7, Microsoft had made it open source (so that the support could be done by users) as someone else suggested, I probably would still be using Windows 7 (and have all my stuff work flawlessly). But since the alternative was Windows 10, well... ^_^

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Quoting: randylNow this is the perspective I don't get, at all. Why would opening the source of any Windows version make it more attractive to use?

Windows being proprietary closed-source OS is often mentioned as an argument in favor of using FOSS, so I guess it "could" make it more attractive, especially if you can see (and "fix") potential spywares.

Quoting: randylEverything that is horrible about using Windows (drive letters, registry, abysmal userland design, etc) would still be present including the horrible UI/UX design, which can easily be replicated in other desktop environments.

This is something I do not understand when Linux users speak about Windows. And, I would like to point out that, while I am quoting your post, I have nothing against you in particular, it is just some trend I observe quite often in some Linux "die-hard fans".

But, how is Windows drive letters system bad ? It help keeping things tidy (when I install a game, I want to install it on my SSD drive, but when I am downloading, say, a Linux iso, I want to have it on my big capacity hard drive). On Linux, I struggle trying to get games installed on the right physical disks.

About the registry (that I never have had to use in years of using Windows, it is only required for very specific tweaks), how is that worse than tinkering with conf files scattered everywhere ?

It seems to me that people aren't being fair when comparing Linux to Windows (or any OS to any other OS, for that matters), and I am not sure how it is being helpful to anyone ? :huh:

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After watching hours of Iratus let's play, I finally got convinced to try it, and I find it very interesting so far (never been attracted by Darkest Dungeon, to which a lot of people compare Iratus).

I also tried MtG Arena through Lutris (finally understood how to play a game with Lutris, yay !), but the latest update broke it and I would have to go through all the installation procedure again, and I don't think it will be worth the effort...

I am currently playing Lichdom Battlemage, which I bought years ago and never really played, and so far I am enjoying it. The craft-your-own-spells system makes for interesting combinations.

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: Purple Library GuySounds very good. I'd probably try it if there was a Mate version.

https://manjaro.org/download/community/mate/ [External Link]

I was going to reply that, but it seems that the Mate version is still 19.0 (I guess it is not so important since Manjaro is a rolling release, but still...)

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Quoting: BotonoskiMan, I really need a proper upgrade, it's been years.
Problem is I kind of have to throw the baby out with the bath water here, I can't upgrade the CPU without getting a new motherboard, and I can't use my current RAM in a new motherboard.

I feel you, I am in the same situation as you.... I would love to try a shiny-moar-cores Ryzen and upgrade to 32Gb of RAM, but my i7-4790k is still doing good job...

Oh, the patience :P

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I have played a lot of Legend of Keepers lately, while streaming with a friend (taking turn on who launch a new game once a run ends). Addictive game for sure ^_^

Current pile of "Potential next to play coop game", I have been considering Outward, Synthetik Legion Rising, and maybe Wizard of Legend (still haven't played since the patch with the new lightning boss... shame on me).

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With a friend who also bought the game, we stream the game to each other so we can try to make the good decisions together ; even more fun this way !

There are a few balance issues (like invincible combinations), but there are also lots of possibilities, and a nice corporation humour touch, to keep us entertained for a while :)

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Quoting: dpanterIf you rather download manually, you'll need to manually mark the binary primal-light-demo.x86_64 as executable before you can run it.
Takes 5 seconds and can be done with any file manager or use the terminal:
chmod +x primal-light-demo.x86_64

Thanks a lot, it worked! I remember trying to execute the files in it, but none of them was recognized as an executable file, I was just asked what should the files be opened with... and I had no clue :S:

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I tried the demo too, as this game was in my wishlist.

Well, the game is not to my taste... Music is cool, art is okay-ish... but quite confusing. The whole game is a bit confusing too, especially gameplay-wise ("why do the shrooms do...what they do ?" "what's with the cat ?" "where should I go, what should I do next ?")

I removed it from my wishlist, even though I am grateful to the developers for releasing a demo. It is just not for me I guess...

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Quoting: dpanterSimple click install and play with the itch.io Linux native client, highly recommend it!

Hm, didn't know there was an itch client... but it needs yet another account creation. I'll think about it

Thanks for the tip !

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