I'm a long, long time user of KDE; I've kept defaults, I changed everything, I left only the bare k-tools, I added them all, I themed every desktop/activity, and fiddled with per-window and per-app settings.

I don't care how much (or little) customizability KDE gives me. Usually it's plenty.

I care about one thing, and one thing only.

A simple, one click, RELIABLE, system-wide, PORTABLE, forever-supported way of doing two tasks:

1. Save all the settings, geometries, fonts, menu items and orders, colors, thicknesses, EVERYTHING for all K/Qt apps, in a text file called "${HOME}/all_my_kde_settings.cfg"

2. Restore all the settings, geometries, fonts, menu items and orders, colors, thicknesses, EVERYTHING for all K/Qt apps, from a text file called "${HOME}/all_my_kde_settings.cfg"

So I won't want to rip my soul yet again if I have to prime another machine like my ultra-customized main rig.

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I'd love a serious competitor to Steam like everyone else.

But the deal breaker is how much the hypotetical competitor wants/can/would/will pour into Linux gaming.

The day the competitor has an online store *AND* pushes Linux gaming as much as Valve is doing with Proton, I'll switch.

Not a second earlier, though.

I put my money where my mouth is. You don't support my OS, I won't support your monopoly-toppling effort. Simple as that.

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My forecast for Mistlands:
- spiders, big and bigger
- lightning attacks/resistance
- dark/eerie biome, but dry as opposed to the wet Swamp

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Kubuntu user since 10.04, so I'm trying my best to keep my bias at bay.

One thing, however, bothers me to no end. Plasma is good, flexible and all, but on laptops has been (until VERY recently) a mess with multimonitor and dock/undock while running.

And not all problems have been solved. For such a venerable, well developed and successful piece of software, some of its (historical!) shortcomings are quite disappointing.

Fortunately, lots of skilled people keep working on that, and I'm sure this will soon be a distant memory. But still, a painful one.

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The question remains: does it ships with speculative cache bugs?

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25 years and still waiting for a decent way to handle multimonitors, panels and display layout on a frequently docked/undocked laptop.

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I still prefer Empyrion.

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I'm always torn when the subject of WINE/Proton comes up.

On one hand, it's a good thing: many, many, many titles would not be played/playable in Linux without that framework (I'd dare say that "line of thinking"). I constantly play EVE Online, GTAV, Elite: Dangerous, Borderlands 3, and as we all know, it'd be nigh impossible to enjoy these games without a very refined compatibility layer.

On the other hand, of course having this "lazy way out" means fewer developers would care for a native port, or contract some third party (Feral, Aspyr, then-Icculus, etc.) to port their stuff over some form of linuxware. And that's not so good.

On the other (!) hand, companies investing into any form of Linux engagement can't be seen as a bad thing, from the POV of a Linux gamer like I am. Valve isn't into it for the glory, of course, or for eternal gratitude of us penguin fans - even if the fatman has my own eternal gratitude! But I'd rather see development in this field than leaving the entire ecosystem dead and gone.

I mean, Linux already completely dominates the markets for:

• embedded


• devices in general/IoT


• smartphone


• microservices


• containers/virtualization/cloud (even Azure!)


• backend server


• research/academia


• AI


• supercomputing (top500 is the best Linux ad ever)

I think it was always just matter of time before the penetration of the kernel would reach console/games/mobile world.

Considering the Android market - especially in Asia, one can speculate that there already more games played on a Linux kernel on any single day than on any other platform (PC/Win + console) combined.

But then again, the incredible progress of WINE/Proton in the very few last years is a mixed blessing, and I can't make up my mind if it's a godsend or a hidden curse.

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I've been away from my gaming rig these days, but usually my lineup is:

- EVE Online
- Grand Theft Auto Online
- Valheim
- Shakes & Fidget
- Villagers & Heroes
- Elite Dangerous

(And only Valheim is native. I used to play more native games, the Tomb Raiders, the Borderlands, ETS...)

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TLDR: Epic paid us.

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