I'm not a fan of the changes to System Settings, and having my panels suddenly be 'floating' when I logged in was very off-putting, and it sucks that I now have to wait until the window manager scripts I rely on are ported to Plasma 6, and when I tried the X11 session using Awesome as window manager plasma shell kept crashing when I tried to log out (which is pretty funny, but having to switch to a TTY and doing a full reboot did fix the Breeze SDDM theme, so that's nice),...

But at least it doesn't crash constantly like Plasma 5 did on release, so that's a positive I guess.

EDIT: And I now need to go and configure single-click to open... I'm halfway tempted to ask a refund for the money I donated.

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I've been working out some builds in Neverwinter Nights 2, looking for a nice OP one which I can use to play through modules without having to get really bogged down in combat. Aside from that I've cleaned out some of my backlog: played through Along the Edge (it's fine), Primordia (it's fine), Shardlight (it's pretty good), and Technobabylon (truly amazing game, I'm so happy I played it, it's fantastic).

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Well, if they break too many settings I'm gonna switch back to Awesome. I don't need double click RSI, and I definitely don't need the 'log out' keyboard shortcut to default to 'shut down'.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleStories like this happen every few years. In the early 2010s, a local government in some European city (I forget which) announced they were entirely switching to Linux in all their public service departments. 2 weeks go by, "no, sorry we're sticking with Windows". Turns out they had a visit from a Microsoft sales rep.

The Munich affair? Yeah, that was something. It's FOSS has a piece on it: https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/ [External Link]

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Quoting: kuhpunktStill no word from Valve regarding the audio jack :/

What's your issue with the audio jack? Seems to work just fine for me.

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Neverwinter Nights 2, downloaded from GOG, installed using Q4Wine. Works very well on the deck. Only needed to install protontricks to install d3dx9.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGreat!!!

. . . What's HDR?

The random graphical gimmick du jour. I believe it's meant to make things contrastier, which admittedly is a nice change from the brown-and-grey palette of yesteryear.

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For people who are interested in single vs double click, Nate left a comment [External Link] about how they reached their decision.

It boils down to our market position. People who use KDE Plasma are vastly more likely to be switching from another desktop OS than they are to be using Plasma as their very first desktop OS experience. And switchers know double-click

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Quoting: WoodlandorI have fond memories of playing Baldur's Gate when it first came out.
When I got it home and opened the box and saw it was 5 CDs :shock:
That was complete craziness at the time lol

Yeah, Baldur's Gate is a great series of games, I'm actually surprised they made a BG3, I thought that ToB ended things pretty conclusively. It's gonna be interesting seeing a really high level campaign now that CHARNAME is a deity (or at least at the power level of one).

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So if the developers had an AI model trained on Creative Commons and/or on material they had specifically commissioned for that purpose Valve wouldn't have a problem with it? Seems a reasonable compromise considering AI can't sign a copyright waiver.

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