Efficiencies today, vulnerabilities tomorrow. Intel inside.

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I'll take my usual approach to the Steam Awards -- vote for anything with Linux support, ignore any categories which don't have a viable vote option.

I think the only games I played from 2025 were Civilisation VII (pants), and Little Sim World (alright, but very early access.)

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Not much of a surprise, Fx has been shit for years.

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Quoting: MrSeatbeltgoated mouse, got mine when my wired razer mouse (which technically had a better sensor but whatever) started double clicking, having scroll wheel issues and generally kind of fell apart a bit.

Yeaaah, this is standard Razer hardware behaviour in my experience. I dumped them in 2014, and jumped ship to Roccat since they had (unofficial) Linux support. Then the Linux support dried up for Roccat devices, so I jumped ship to Corsair.

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Quoting: Lofty

Arch is catered towards people who like using the terminal, who are willing to read manpages, documentation, wiki pages, etc. to administer their systems

Lets not make out like Arch is for super technical linux experts. It's not, it's more geared towards the kind of person who want to think they are. I mean, why not use Gentoo and get really into the weeds.

we miss you Sabayon , come back ! :sad:

Being able to use a terminal doesn't make you an expert. Being disinclined to use a terminal makes you indisposed to be an Arch Linux user.

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Quoting: scaineIt's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever.

Why do you think it's a problem? There are plenty of distros out there that cater to click-ops users. Arch is catered towards people who like using the terminal, who are willing to read manpages, documentation, wiki pages, etc. to administer their systems. It isn't designed for people who want something they don't need to understand and can just click 'next next next, done' on some GUI. When a soname bump in a core library leaves their unsupported (AUR) packages broken, it shouldn't be a surprise, nor a chore, to have to rebuild those packages. When upstream overhauls their configuration file format or makes a change to the defaults, it shouldn't be a surprise, nor a chore, to be alerted to this by pacman and have to merge their .pacnew config files. When a packaging bug gets fixes it shouldn't be a surprise, nor a chore, to check the front page news to read up on why the problem occurred and how they can fix it.

Arch isn't for everyone, and that's fine.

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I submitted Factorio for Labor of Love. That is all.

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Never heard of Playnite, but looks like it's another game library app. Hopefully this one uses QT, AFAIK the others all use GTK>=3 which sucks.

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Apparently I last played TF2 in 2019. :shock:

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Both my Steam and PayPal accounts are over 20 years old. I wonder if I have any means to appeal this. :whistle:

I don't see the point in credit cards, nor do I want to own one. At the same time, I don't see the point in pron games, and I'm not sure how many non-pron games that have an 18+ rating on Steam also have a Linux version, soooo I'm not sure this will affect me in any case. I'm still mad that I'm subject to arbitrary controls because the government says I should be though. Fuck those guys.

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