Quoting: TuxeeBack to Portal 2: It improves on the first one in every aspect - storyline, mechanics, content. (Naturally the whole portal idea was not new anymore.)

I disagree, actually. Portal 2 is undoubtedly a much bigger game than Portal, but I wouldn't say that it's a better game.

The first game was a brilliantly honed tiny gem. It benefitted greatly from its deliberately limited scope and defined purpose.

By contrast, the sequel is sprawling and unfocused. It has you wandering around to find the place to make your own puzzles, so you can solve the puzzles, and go back to more wandering. Whereas the original was really funny, the sequel is grimdark and sardonic. Stephen Merchant, whose role is to be really annoying, succeeds very well at being really annoying.

Portal is a perfectly-executed figureskating routine,and Portal 2 is a cross-country ski.

All of which is to say that everyone should definitely play both.

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Quoting: amataiSure. But transitioning from "no tux, no bucks" to "no tux, bucks" will take a few year more for me before feeling natural.

I've mentioned it before, but for me Proton can mean "no Tux, some bucks." Without Linux support there's no way they're getting full price, but if they haven't made their game not work in Proton then there's a chance they could get a couple of quid. More if they've committed to keeping it working, rather than having it work by accident and stop working at some point in the future by accident.

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Quoting: DuncI'm not going to say 4K is snake oil - more resolution can't be worse (leaving aside compression issues, etc.), and I'd be surprised if IMAX wasn't using it, or even 8K, today - but it's way overkill for relatively small screens, at least with current technology.

I'd say that the case is better for small screens than big ones. Watching soaps or a 20—foot face gurning emotively: meh. Having text that's clear with the letters the right shape, and not having chunky aliasing on edges in games, are the kinds of thing that makes a difference when you're close to a screen, which you're going to be for small screen use cases.

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Hey, at least if there's a settlement they won't be printing their own Monopoly money to pay it like Epic.

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Quoting: RoosterAt first we will be like.. Let's just force updates for non tech users.

It's only you that's talking about forcing updates. I'm just saying to enable automatic updates by default to help those that wouldn't be able to enable automatic updates by themselves.

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Quoting: RoosterI don't see any problem with users not running updates.

A compromised computer will be used as a beachhead for attacks against others. Good computer hygiene protects all of us. Unpatched software puts us all at risk.

If you're technically proficient enough to read patch notes and make an informed choice of whether this particular update needs to be applied at this particular time then you're more than capable of turning automatic updates off. If you're the kind of user that says "ooh, that looks complicated," then you ought to be protected and not a hazard to everyone else by default.

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I install updates manually on the machines I use manually, but my NUC HTPC that I only administer over SSH gets its security updates automatically installed with unattended-upgrades. That would seem to be the way to go by default for those distros aimed at new users. It won't help those who stay on a release past EOL, of course, but every little helps.

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The trick would be putting Valve in charge of Google's product cancellation team; Valve Time would cure them of their ADHD.

They also wouldn't be able to cancel any project with a 3 in the name.

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It's been on my Wishlist for ages, but I'm not going to buy it till it comes out of Early Access. They shouldn't run out of funding now, though.

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Quoting: scaine1. The shoe-horning of the letter K into just about everything.

The use of K for branding was dropped a long time ago.

2. Dolphin and Kate can't be run as sudo.

You don't need to run Kate with sudo. If you really must, you can do the sensible thing and use sudoedit, but Kate will prompt for authorisation when saving a privileged file when run as a normal user anyway.

Not having an easy solution for privileged use of Dolphin is a pain: some file management tasks, particularly as a new user, are much less error-prone when done in a graphical file browser. But you wouldn't have been using sudo with Dolphin in the old days anyway: it would have been kdesu.

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