Not even a surprise. Even as a hobbyist, AI is interesting. Once you see its potential, you start seeing it as a tool, and once you see it as a tool, you start thinking about how you can use it in your workflow. Just like how nowadays I'd rather just ask ChatGPT over going to Stack Overflow, people are going to use AI for the most tedious or things that they don't find to matter too much for them.

I, for one, find creative fulfilment in writing a story - I don't find creative fulfilment in proof reading them for grammatical error. I don't mind some prose suggestions either, even if I am the final arbiter of what I want to convey. Now, apply that to every creative endeavour, and you find that there's a lot of room for AI, especially when time and money are involved. You just need to make sure that it doesn't become a large issue or infringe on what you actually are passionate about, which isn't hard to do.

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Quoting: raggytherecondHere's to improved and future launchers that don't use the accursed, bug-ridden Electron and Chromium like Steam and instead use native GTK and Qt

Not gonna happen. Even Bottles are throwing in the towel, going to Electron for their main launcher in the next major version, while the GTK is going to be secondary priority. Like it or not, Electron seems to be easier to develop with and ship to end-user, in many different environment. I don't suspect that to change unless Qt 7 has just that much better of a tooling and have good supports for the languages devs want to write in.

This isn't going to change anything in terms of the GUI launcher situation, as it seems to be more of a back-end type of project.

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Nice. I'm currently testing out Nobara, and it's been fine on my hardware... but I just don't need the full mutability. uBlue is just too convenient.

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I love just how much of a mess Wine, by itself and combined with other components, are that we need multiple projects to make it usable for most users.

Edit: Oh, I get it now - this is more like a combination of protonfixes and Lutris scripts. You can pass GameID manually, so even as a SEA gang, that's going to be useful.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI've lost confidence in PopOS, unfortunately. It looked like a great alternative to Ubuntu until they decided to make their own DE.

It really depends on how their 24.04 release goes. Part of the issue had been their mixing of their own repo and Ubuntu's repo. That's not an issue now, and I'd imagine their move towards yearly releases should further help make sure there's more testing.

In addition, the main motivator for Cosmic has been how their Cosmic-Gnome was such a mess of extensions and modifications. So far, the only people who really can maintain customized Gnome with minimum issues has been Ubuntu, and that's only "minimum issues" because the past year's releases has been much better than the year before that.

With them having Factory Reset in GUI and systemd-boot entry (and updated with new ISOs all the time), I think it's a sensible first distro as people play around with it and factory reset it when needed. Time will tell, but I'm pretty optimistic on it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThe proper place for the X button, looking at you, Apple! I've looked up how to flip that to the other side on macOS, and apparently the Almighty Apple has spoken and does not allow such things... All other operating systems I've ever used has it on the right side... but not macOS...

Eh. I prefer top left window-control buttons. It especially made sense with a Unity-like UX, where you have the window-controls pinned on the top panel as well, and you have the behaviour of hiding titlebar when a window is maximized.

Top left just felt natural for me. Also, kinda corresponds to the location of Esc button and most back/burger menu buttons positions.

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Quoting: BrokattWhat problems? I have been using the official .deb for over a year and it has worked fine. It's not flawless but there are issues with the Flatpak version as well.

Probably dependency issues, which is at the heart of the infamous "Yes, do as I say," in the LTT Linux Challenge.

Steam Flatpak has its issues, but it gets people arriving to the "I can install the game, I can play the game," faster with less risk (assuming you're not having to deal with your secondary drives/partitions at least).

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Quoting: TightRopeWhere is all the love for streaming services??? Clearly this site has all the haters and everyone else just loves them.

I just pirate, not even gonna lie. They just aren't worth it for me - it's simpler to just pirate, get what I want, however long I want, and potentially archive them if I want.

And also, there's a reason why the SEA gang label is so apt for us SE Asian people. It's just in our blood. We pirate, some of us pay, but it's very much a goodwill kind of thing and piracy is always an option in our mind.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI am thinking of a really compelling reason to containerize Steam and can't come up with one...

I for one would rather not deal with 32-bit dependencies. WoW64 making it to Wine 9.0 as experiment made me so happy because NOW I can see Steam dropping 32-bit dependencies in 2025.

Other than that, there's the case of immutable distro, and overall just making it work well as apps installed on user's home, as well as working around whatever weirdness any distro would have going on in their packaging policies.

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Ah, snaps. Such a good idea. And yet, such perfect failure in being unable to prove yourself to be a comparable/better alternative to Flatpak in terms of GUI apps.

Despite happily using snaps in my Ubuntu Server, this is why I swear by Flatpak for most GUI apps and Nix for everything else, with Conty and Distrobox use here and there.

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