Sign me up for the giveaway. I am in. For the giveaway. Yes.

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Quoting: nsrosenqvistMe! I've been lurking here forever but this finally prompted me to create an account :)

Welcome. :) Whats your favourite Linux distribution and Linux game? :P

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Quoting: GuestDot.Net needs to be done with Mono on Linux or via Wine (yeah there is Dot.Net core but I never saw it in action in any meaningful way and I assume it only has a subset of all that stuff which is included into Dot.Net since it is called "core").

.Net Core is actually pretty nice by itself. The project structure, the tooling, the web framework (ASP.Net Core) are all much more sane than the classic .Net, and much nicer to work with. It's not really a subset, but a different implementation that exists in parallel, with it's own set of technologies. Therefore it's not a drop-in replacement.

There are actually 3 different implementations of .Net: .Net Framework, .Net Core, and Mono. As a developer you can either target one of them or target .Net Standard [External Link], which is a common subset that all 3 frameworks implement.

As long as you target a specific .Net Standard version, the code is very portable. The problem is that there's still a lot of stuff not covered by the standard, and it is very tempting to just target the classic .Net Framework, mix in some binary libs for good measure, and the whole "standard" thing gets tossed out the window.

It's a bit of a mess right now, but I have worked on several .Net projects on Linux, and it was relatively painless. You only need Windows if you are doing some deep integration with something like Microsoft Office or Windows API's. Considering that most of that stuff is being replaced by Azure services, Windows is becoming less and less relevant.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI agree with the first comment that IP law needs an overhaul and urgently so.

There needs to be much harsher repercussions for abusing the law like that. As far as I know there's not any, so you can just throw accusations and takedown notices around and see what sticks.

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Does it work on AMD hardware or does one need an NVIDIA card?

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Quoting: MayeulCNow that I think about it again, it might be due to my using Wayland (with sway). I'll try to dig into this. Any pointers?

I think you are right about Wayland being the problem. Last time I tried (a few months ago) taking screenshots in GNOME would result in garbled images. For gaming XOrg is the right choice right now.

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Unfortunately I am having audio problems with Remote Play. Anyone knows where is the best place to report this to Valve?

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Somehow the game studios keep losing their Linux people. It's not the first time we hear that the Linux guy (usually the only one) leaves and that marks the end of Linux support. I wonder why is this the case?

I am a software developer, and I see more developers getting into Linux all the time. Even the ones that do not use it are somewhat familiar with it because of servers or the WSL environment on Windows.

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This may actually have long-term negative effect on WWW as a whole, as Microsoft has just given Google complete control over the web technologies. I am already noticing more and more websites that work in Chrome, but not Firefox. Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer. Quite literally.

I really would have preferred that Microsoft partnered up with Mozilla, to give an alternative browser a fighting chance, instead of going the easiest way.

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