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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Quoting: slaapliedjeHaha, indeed. I'm betting Elon would have taken over X.org if he could.

Elon would be a Wayland hater if he's a Linux user lol

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Oh, my god, YES! I love all these changes. It's ALL that I/we've been waiting for. Obviously, still experimental right now, but I was thinking we'd see them only in 9.x Staging cycle. It looks like the Staging cycle will be concluding development and testing to put it into 10.0 stable. Super looking forward to that.

Jeez, I don't even know what to talk about, because ALL that's on the list is just so monumental and will make things really better for me.

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I mean, I'm basically already 'leasing' my games anyways. I'd usually just buy during discount periods and took credit card payment plan that's closest to 0% interest. So I'd buy in bulk, play it through the year, pay it throughout the year also. And once I paid it off, I can buy different games. It's a lot like subscription, but it's more permanent, and more targeted to what I want.

Subscription can make sense, it's just that I prefer to play games at my own pace, and I hate the idea of paying and then not playing because I got a busy month or weeks. If I buy the game on Steam, sure in effect it can still be the same, but I could get back to the game at any time and mostly not worry it about any removal from the catalogue or needing to subscribe to multiple different catalogues.

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I hope that by "based on HoloISO" that meant a proper fork of HoloISO that they'd maintain. I used to follow their Telegram channel (which is their main update channels - GitHub repo is seldom updated). Looked at it again, and yep, they're still as unprofessional as they used to be:

- https://t.me/HoloISO/415 [External Link]
- https://t.me/HoloISO/467 [External Link]

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This is good. I wouldn't mind people favoring ROG or Lenovo Go had they run Linux. I just want them to run Linux to push adoption, don't really care what the teams are winning as long as team Linux won.

Gives me hope we'll see more Linux desktop releases. Wouldn't be a surprise for some SKUs for less economic country to put Linux to save money - in Indonesia, there was a time they shipped Linux by default to save money with expectation user will go to a shop to install Windows or have someone to do it for them.

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