Quoting: denyasisI'm all for donations and being able to support various developers, but when I hear "subscription" I think something more commercial (especially since it's mentioned above in addition to recurring donations). And when I think commerical payments, I'm expecting commercial level support... That seems like a pretty high expectation for a dev from a consumer.

I'd like for that to happen. It's major, major hopium, but I hope Adobe can eventually come to Linux - so that more users can switch to Linux - and a strong commercial environment for desktop users is necessary for that.

At the very least, we know that Spotify is interested in supporting Flatpak officially but right now they're focused on Wayland and maintaining their official Snaps release.

As Flatpak and Flathub matures, I think it will be the way to get desktop apps on Linux, but there's a long road in the back-end and front-end support and adoption to reach that point, and this is one important step within that road.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMakes me wonder how workable it would be to build Flatpaks with (Windows application + Wine), and whether Codeweavers could make a few pennies setting up such packages on Flathub for Windows software sellers?

This has already been done in Winepak [External Link] (the old one) and flatpak-wine [External Link]. In addition, in practice, this is what the launchers for FFXVI and Genshin on Flatpak are, dunno about other apps like the Minecraft launchers. But I've at least played Genshin on Linux and the setup was easy, game runs fine.

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Quoting: drjomsI do, and it's hit and miss. When it works - it works. When it doesn't, well, it doesn't...

Echoing this. I'm on KDE x11. The most useful usecase for me is when it's an old game or games that have annoying alt-tab behaviors.

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I really wish they don't make the process of getting the ISO so annoying though. Why do I have to give my email address to be emailed a download link that's only valid for 30min? It's very annoying -- Tuxedo meanwhile just leave their ISO available. Kubuntu Focus has a lot of cool stuff that I think people should check out but I doubt most people would want to do it.

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Also, is it time to add/update the distro options?

Right now, I'm still using Manjaro, but I'm expecting to switch to Vanilla OS this weekend, but after a month or so of testing I'll probably stay with Tuxedo OS or Kubuntu Focus until October when lots of distro's WIP changes are done.

Quoting: anthI'd prefer a couple more options:
- Yes
- No
- Planning to get one
- Would get one if they were available in my country

Yeah, I like this. I'm definitely on that last one.

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SHMUP Fest: September 25 - October 2

This gets my hopes up for a Touhou official game discount finally... but there probably won't be any discount because ZUN is not into them. Oh well.

Visual Novel fest is going to be major wallet drain for me though.

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I hope this also helps nw.js games as well. Even with native nw.js, some RPG Maker MV/MZ games still runs awfully depending on what's going on in the screen.

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Loving this. Anything that could improve Trails in the Sky (which I run in DX8 mode since for some reason DX9 don't work with the Evo graphics patch) is good in my book.

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Quoting: ticktokI see 5.27 is still under 'test' on the arch repo's. Any idea when those will get released?

It's usually a matter of days -- Arch packagers are usually faster at testing and releasing Arch than GNOME for some reason (as I recall a case where GNOME users being annoyed how long it took for them to release it.

Quoting: slaapliedjeIn case anyone was wondering, the new Debian Stable (Bookworm) should release with 5.27 of Plasma Desktop.

Nice. It is supposed to be the LTS release as the final Plasma 5 point release so it really would have been a shame if Debian didn't get it for their next release.

Also, I didn't even know `kde-inhibit` is a thing.

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Quoting: Guestafter heroic launcher got sideloaded game support I honestly don't feel any need in lutris so far. I don't use it, I still keep it installed just in case something won't work on heroic. Sure, lutris has game options UI with more fine tuning stuff, but heroic feels way more streamlined.

Same. I'd probably only use it for emulators, and I still have a few games setup with emulators for that. I would've set up more if the process for adding game is more straightforward as in Heroic, but it's just such a hassle that I don't want to bother with it.

I'll probably just go and use Steam ROM Manager to import them all to Steam while using Heroic to manage my Wine and Linux games which is then piped to Steam as well.

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Woohoo, more language and Japanese games fixes! Always make me so happy to see them, seems like there's been a lot of work on that since Proton 7.0. Hopefully that keeps up for Proton 8.0 because Japanese games a toooon of weird quirks.

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