Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

Which country is that? Sounds like human rights violation to me.

In the Netherlands this is the case as well. Why would it be a human rights violation? You're not alive anymore when they do it. You can also always opt-out and this is widely known. The problem is that most people forgot or didn't bother to opt-in, which was costing lives.

As for the telemetry, it doesn't have to be all bad. Telemetry is important for devs to improve a project and like someone earlier in the thread has said, most people that don't care won't opt-in and the ones that do will opt-out. If they make it a clear toggle which is on by default and the data is non-personal, I don't see the issue. We're talking about PC specs here, not address info.

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I have been thoroughly enjoying 2.0 and the DLC with a friend. We're not terribly fast, but we're trying to lkmit the spaghetti this time 😄. Let's see how far that will go.

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Quoting: StellaI don't get why anyone would want to attack the internet archive??? That's like bombing a library. What's the frikkin point

If you wanted to borrow books or other media, you had to have an account

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Fun fact: it's made with Godot

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Quoting: reaperx7At the rate they keep messing with and changing stuff for Wayland, we could have had X11 fixed up by now and modernized.. 🙄

Absolutely not, because nobody wants to touch X11 with a tem foot pole. Wayland was started by X11 developers because they were sick of it after all.

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Maybe they want to use something like the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite dor their new Steam Deck? Or maybe not because the graphics capabilities may not be powerfull ebough, I don't know.

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Lot's of misunderstanding of the modern situation of DotNet and MS here, so I wanted to chime in as both a FOSS enthuasiast and someone who uses DotNet for work.

First of all, Microsoft is not the same anymore: their cashcows are Office365, Azure and ChatGPT now, not Windows. This had a big impact on DotNet: where it first was a Windows only platform to lure developers into the Windows (server) ecosystem, DotNet is now a vehicle to lower the barrier to use Azure. And just to be clear: yes it is fully open source, no strings attached, just like most other programming languages. Getting developers on Azure is not done through lock-in: they just make really good Azure integrations. A part of this new stragety, is that they support Linux as a first class _runtime_ citizen now, because developers like running their servers in Linux. Hence, the new DotNet from version 6 forward (which is the fork they are talking about) has true full cross-platform runtime support. The stance towards desktop Linux has changed from actively hostile to ambivalent/slightly interested. Microsoft wants to move away from Visual Studio to VS-Code, but it is simply a lot of work with medium priority. This of course is good for Linux, since VS Code is also cross platform. I have developed some projects on Linux, and it is doable, just not perfect yet, but I believe they will get there. Again: anything that gets developers on Azure is a win.

Mono was from before DotNet 6 and is being fased out in favour of the new DotNet (which is just plain better, even on Linux). Unity indeed still uses it, but wants to move away from it in the end.

So is this good or bad? I think this is more a suggestion of goodwill to the WINE devs, since in absolute terms, this doesn't really matter much. But a good gesture is still good in my book.

Also: I don't really like the way some people draw modern Microsoft as the arch enemy of Linux. This was true in the past, but times have changed and, most importantly, business incentives have changed. Corporations aren't people, just follow the money.

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Quoting: legluondunet

I'm sorry to break it to you, but I think in the eyes of most Appimage is a dead format. It had it's place but has been supplanted by Flatpak or even Snap in combination with native app stores and, in extreme cases, distrobox.

Dead format? All the emulators and others apps I use are available this days in Appimage format (and Flatpak too).
You still need a root password to install Flatpak applications, not with Appimage, that makes big difference.

Maybe for emulators then, outside those I haven't seen many people talk about/use them. It might also just be preference, since I really dislike managing Appimages and they are a pain to update. I don't mind having them install as root, as long as they run without it (except in cases like partition managers and such).

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Quoting: legluondunetBut...they still not provide Appimage for stable or nightly builds:
https://fr.dolphin-emu.org/download/ [External Link]

The latest Appimage available on Appimagehub is two years old:
https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1567651/ [External Link]

However, you can now find easily unofficial Dolphin Appimage.

For me it's not a problem because I know how to compile it.

But for basic users, Flatpak and Appimage is a must to have.

And it's pleasant to just download and launch a program, without having bother to compile it, even for a Linux user.

Nice to see the Steam Deck continuing to have a positive impact for Linux users everywhere. Valve clearly made the right decision to support installing apps via Flatpak/Flathub.

Clearly!

I'm sorry to break it to you, but I think in the eyes of most Appimage is a dead format. It had it's place but has been supplanted by Flatpak or even Snap in combination with native app stores and, in extreme cases, distrobox.

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I agree with the last tweet. If you look at Steam from a UX/UI standpoint, it's pretty bad because the core UI has not evolved significantly in years. And there's also the percentage question of course. If Epic would've put money into improving the actual store and Linjx support, they might have won me over. Shame really.

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