Quoting: eldakingWhile those things are, in principle, all positive I still worry a bit that this move might end up going in a less than ideal direction.

Flathub is already pretty great now. And most app stores are complete garbage, filled with proprietary shovelware full of malicious functionality (spying, ads, lock-in...). Making flathub into an app store could easily mean a huge downgrade.

Similarly, Linux apps - in particular the simple apps that you'd get from an app store¹ - are already pretty damn good. PDF viewers, torrent clients, media players, image programs, system utilities, text editors, browsers, compression tools, it's all good; the only reason Linux isn't better than other systems is because open-source apps are generally multiplatform and make their way to Windows at least. It is definitely fair that those great apps could make their developers some cash, but I don't know if the "economic incentive" (or profit motive) would make for better apps. It would be an incentive for shovelware, for allowing bullshit into the repos/store, for showing ads "to help devs"... in my experience, the FOSS apps made with no expectation of payment are generally better than the commercial alternatives, despite the obvious advantages the latter enjoys. In the end, it depends on what posture Flathub will have - what it will allow, what it will promote, who it will hear, etc. But this "make everything into a market, it is the best thing always" mentality is suspicious.

¹ For big professional software suites like Adobe or Autodesk, they definitely aren't waiting for payment processing in an app store. For specific things like games, it's not like Flathub will replace the dedicated stores. And for many things like my city's bus app, local university or restaurant apps, and many others the barrier is not the distribution, just adoption of the system and people giving a fuck about it

I think the main goal is to allow for easy donation, which is a problem because open source requires time and effort. Making it easier to donate will reward devs for their work, which is a net positive in my book

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Quoting: ElectricPrismCities: Skylines I was published with Tencent [External Link]

Is Tencent still involved with Cities: Skylines II ???

It says in the article you linked yourself that Tencent released CS in China, so no worries

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I really hope that Cities Skylines 2 is in there. CS 1 is showing it's age and is becoming quite unstable, sluggish and old-looking with all the mods. Also, Colossal Order has learned a lot from CS 1, which they can apply to CS 2, so there's a ton of oppertunity there

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I am playing with friends on our own create server right now, and it's the best mod I've ever played. It interfaces and fits really nicely into vanilla Minecraft

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Quoting: NumericIf I remember correctly, Plasma 5.27 is the version which adds initial rpm-ostree support to Discover. This is huge for me as it offers GUI support for updating Fedora Kinoite to both minor and major releases.

Recently, I discovered (no pun) that Kinoite works quite well as a refuge for non-techy ex-Windows 10 users. They wanted a familiar default UI that works on whatever new/old (non-Nvidia) hardware they threw at me, and for my sanity I wanted a distribution that was immutable. Kinoite does this, and does it well considering its young age. I have much less concern with users updating their own OS if it is immutable, just needed GUI support. Hopefully the wait is now over! The cherry on top (for me) is that the last item on my "new user distro must haves list" is being taken care of in Fedora 38 Silverblue (hopefully Kinoite too), which is unfiltered Flathub access.

I guess time will tell if my distribution choice will give future me a load of headaches, but for now it has been a lifesaver.

Kinoite sounds interesting. Is it Fedora Silverblue but with KDE instead of Gnome?

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Quoting: TcheySomething is broken, not sure what, since last big update on Manjaro about 10 days ago, i cannot use OBS (not starting at all), and a few other things too, like VLC. Very annoying, i "need" OBS several times per week. I switched from VLC to MPV and it’s working fine, but it’s not a true solution.

It seems i’m not the only one : https://forum.manjaro.org/t/obs-studio-not-working-after-last-update/132445/1 [External Link]

Nothing i’ve read or done so far have fixed anything.

Obligatory manjarno [External Link]. No kidding though, there is really not a good reason to use Manjaro anymore.

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Tbh, right now it comes across as a worse and paid version of unturned, or a I missing something here

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Quoting: sarmadGlad to see this happening, though the StarLabs offering (StarFighter) is superior to this with more ram, better screen, better web cam, and larger battery.

True, but if you want to have a AMD processor in it, it starts at 2k dollars, so it is a different price category. I have to say though: between System76 and the others, the linux laptop space is improving rapidly and it seems that most vendors are starting to ship AMD laptops with very good-looking spec sheets.

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Happy holidays everyone, and thank you Liam and everyone at GOL for providing us with yet another year of top notch game journalism!

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: AdutchmanThis isn't a question of "5 minutes of Google"

Yeah, I agree - it's definitely a bit more work than that to ensure Linux compatibility. But they promised to do that work. People bought into their game based on that promise.

Same old problem with crowd funded games - no accountability. Developers have been defrauding the public on Kickstarter for years with these kinds of promises. Whole projects simply walk away with hundreds of thousands of pounds with no repercussions.

I'm not saying what's happening here is on that scale - in the grand scheme of things, "not delivering a Linux version of our game" is a pretty minor form of fraud, but it's tedious how often it happens, and it is still fraud to sell something based on a promise you can't deliver on, even if you think you're justified in blaming a third party (Unity) for that outcome.

(I've seen this defended before, and I think it's because Linux is so small. Imagine if a dev promised a Playstation version of their game alongside the Xbox version, then failed to deliver on the Playstation version - there would be a gigantic outcry. But when it happens with Linux, it's just "ah well, no big deal, there are only 17 Linux users in the world anyway.)

Realistically, we should probably be happy that they're willing to work on a Proton version at all. Look at the Carmageddon assholes, by comparison. Not only did they defraud their Linux customers, they trolled them in social media repeatedly. The Prodeus devs are saints by comparison.

Sure, I can get behind that. If you promise the version clearly, you should of course keep the promise

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