Per-screen virtual desktops are the only thing I was missing, KDE Plasma is now the perfect DE as far as I'm concerned.

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Quoting: LachuBut any other implementation than field in passwd is bad.

I'll quote from the article:

Quoting: Liam Dawerather than relying on self-reported ages.

Hence just having a box that says 'how old are you?' with a simple input is not good enough.

Some options for how it may actually work:

• Scan your ID card to verify (although many people in the USA apparently don't have an ID card because they don't really need it and don't want to spend the money, which to me as a Belgian is wild).


• Scan your driver's license to verify.


• Scan your birth certificate to verify.


• Input your SSN (Social Security Number).


• Submit a blood sample.


• Maybe you'll be able to request some kind of certificate from your city hall which can be scanned.


• Or perhaps something else I didn't think of.

Of course, those could be defeated by having someone else do it for you, so maybe monitors will have iris scanners and keyboards fingerprint scanners so you're constantly being verified (government of the USA, I'll take payment for my contributions to your cause in silver or Ethereum, thanks).

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How do you verify a user's age in a way that doesn't run head-first into a user's human right to privacy? ...okay, I admit, that's a stupid question, infringing on the right to privacy is kind of the point of the bill.

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If it's Ubisoft I won't buy their games unless I know they can be launched without the Ubisoft launcher getting in the way.

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Quoting: StalePopcornIt's what I was thinking too. That's almost an Epic Games Store-level move if so

Epic Games pays other game publishers to exclusively release on EGS for a time, that's the complete opposite of having a GOG-codeveloped game (with the publisher being Capcom) being released on Steam.

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Let's hope the new maintainer will finally do what we're all waiting for and rename it to Mubuntu.

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovYep, and... As I'm aware, there flat-out NO X11 desktop, AT ALL, strictly Wayland only... But for people using older apps or PC configurations that for some reason are working fine ONLY on X11 but NOT with Wayland, what they'll supposed to do? 🤔

Use Xubuntu, Lubuntu, or Ubuntu-MATE (which really should be called Mubuntu)?

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Quoting: JarmerI'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

Eh, Starsiege Tribes still has users (the community even has their own master servers), and that game is only like a decade younger than I am. There's also things like Old School Rune Scape (OSRS), and something similar for World of Warhammer (Classic World of Warhammer or something like that?), so while communities shrink, it's rare for them to simply die off entirely (remember Stop Killing Games).

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I wonder if GNOME will ever have a stable API for extensions so they don't break every other update. It would also be neat if they could merge settings, tweaks, and gconf into a single application so users don't have to scour around quite as much for the setting they want to change (especially if they want to set the keyboard shortcuts to something that makes a lick of sense). I'll probably always remain a KDE fan first and foremost (menu bars >>> hamburger menus), but having those two issues solved would make GNOME a lot more attractive for me.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfSo you think that native Linux apps/games are inherently bad. Why bother with Linux and not just use Windows in that case?

Proprietary games using GNU/Linux APIs are bad. For example, Egosoft's X3 uses a GTK2 application to launch and GTK2 is no longer being updated (it's even been removed from the official Arch repositories). Because it's proprietary software the community can't just take it over and update it to use GTK3 or 4.

I suppose a better way to put it is that native GNU/Linux games aren't bad, they just need more machinery to keep working than games targetting the Windows APIs (although of course one could just set up a system with ancient versions of everything, I mean that's Debian's entire shtick).

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