I've never bought anything from Humble Store or even looked into it, i might now. Looks interesting. Do they have a native Linux client? Or how does the Humble thing work?

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One of the highlights for me: AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance.

Michael Larabel has compared the former Ubuntu interim and the new one: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA3-RT-Ubuntu-23.10 [External Link]

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: Fester_MuddHonestly. Your handle is "pleasereadthemanual" but here you are just assuming without even bothering to google (you would have found the answer right away).

It's a joke. I'm an Arch user. I have never actually said that to anyone, and you are the first person to take offense to it in my 2 years of using this site.

Quoting: Fester MuddAs they take more special measures to tackle this, to you it automatically suggests that before they did not review at all. Sure :happy: and upvotes from Ubuntu haters on these grounds :wink: i mean it's so obvious.

It's generous of you to assume I'm lying to create drama.

What exactly makes this manual review special compared to whatever Canonical was doing before? I've read it several times, yet I do not understand what difference you are suggesting there is.

Quoting: Fester MuddLinux users should keep together more. Many users could learn to google even, before such assumptions based on well nothing.....

You mean, my assumption based on reading a 198-word announcement from Canonical themselves? I didn't assume anything. I asked an open question to anyone who did know whether my understanding of the announcement was true.

I read GamingOnLinux because I don't have endless free time to research topics in-depth (particularly those that are only peripherally related to me), and occasionally I rely on other users to teach me things. I've learned a lot from members in this community and had some productive and interesting discussions.

I spent several minutes using a search engine to look this up. The best I could find was this: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/process-for-reviewing-classic-confinement-snaps/1460 [External Link]

There is this page, too, which vaguely suggests that Snapcraft will run automated reviews for some packages and manual reviews for other packages: https://ubuntu.com/core/services/guide/snap-publishing [External Link]

Quoting: CanonicalUploaded snaps undergo automated and manual review processes, depending on the security profile of the snap. Snaps are checked by Canonical’s snap reviewer team to ensure that they are safe to use.

Putting the two together, some sort of automated testing was run for all Snap packages that did not use the "classic" profile.

Quoting: poiuzDifferent emphasis.

Could you explain what you are trying to imply by emphasizing this section? "on all new" suggests they weren't doing it before, either. Perhaps you meant to emphasize all, to imply they were manually reviewing some packages?

Quoting: poiuzThere's a review forum.

I assume you're referring to this: https://forum.snapcraft.io/c/store-requests/19 [External Link]

Looking through some old manual review requests, it seems they occur when the Snap package asks for more permissions than expected: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-for-udisks2/36633 [External Link]

There were about 15 manual review requests this year. This one is interesting: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/request-for-manual-review-of-the-last-brave-releases/35498 [External Link]

Just because it is manually reviewed the first time does not mean that all subsequent releases are automatically approved.

Here's another request for review where the requester expresses discontent about the time it takes to review their packages: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-request-for-several-kde-apps-long-delays/34628 [External Link]

So, going back to the original article, Snapcraft felt the right move was to institute manual review for all Snaps. This suggests the 3 malicious Snaps were automatically approved without manual review. From this, we can conclude that the Snaps did not ask for too many permissions, and yet they were still able to act maliciously. Determining which Snaps to review manually based on permissions, then, is not viable; regardless of what permissions the Snap has, it can potentially cause harm.

Snapcraft also did not take this decision lightly, as they could not cope well with the amount of manual reviews already. This still seems to me like the right decision based on my understanding so far.

Now, again you assume much. Why do you keep doing this. You now assume i took offence of your name. No, no, no. I pointed out that you assumed that Canonical does not review at all as they're now taking extra special measures by manually reviewing and your name suggests you're an avid researcher, you know? How can you suggest i accused you of LYING also, when you just asked about it. Please don't dramatize :grin: you know full well i did not make you appear like a liar.

They have always reviewed in their limited ability. How could Canonical possibly just think "let all in without any reviews, yeah!". Just no. Maybe google is avoiding you but also Alan Pope talked about the curation of Snap Store.

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Quoting: Fester_MuddOf course they review packages within their resources. Are you serious assuming that they wouldn't at all? Or just a drama seeker towards Canonical and Ubuntu's :)

To me, the above quote suggests that Canonical has never reviewed Snap packages until now.

I'm happy to be corrected.[/quote]Honestly. Your handle is "pleasereadthemanual" but here you are just assuming without even bothering to google (you would have found the answer right away). As they take more special measures to tackle this, to you it automatically suggests that before they did not review at all. Sure :happy: and upvotes from Ubuntu haters on these grounds :wink: i mean it's so obvious.

Linux users should keep together more. Many users could learn to google even, before such assumptions based on well nothing.....

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In any case, Linux has come such a long way now that gaming is a true choice in the ecosystem. These little dips up or down don't mean much.

macOS is going away as a gaming platform, that's sure. Let's see what happens when Chrome OS (also Linux btw!) gets Steam without flags and out of beta (so usable as default in select Chromebooks which you buy from shelves in store).

Steam Deck keeps going strong :smile:

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualWait, did Canonical not review Snap packages at all before this?

Of course they review packages within their resources. Are you serious assuming that they wouldn't at all? Or just a drama seeker towards Canonical and Ubuntu's :)

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I see LiamD you moved from Fedora back to (K)ubuntu. What was the main reason for this if you will? Because i have many times returned to Ubuntus...

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: dziadulewiczBut if you don't like Canonical's choices (which obviously serve their model) why are you keeping with it then? That makes no sense.

Quoting: dziadulewiczMany proclaim "they have left Ubuntu" for something else but keep on talking ill about it

So, to sum it up, if you don't like Ubuntu, you should better use something else (sounds reasonable to me), and when you're using something else, you shouldn't talk bad about Ubuntu (why's that?!?)? How comfortable, so in the end, nobody is talking bad about Ubuntu, no matter what they do!

i think youre purposefully understanding him/her wrong :grin: for me and millions of others Ubuntu is good as is and no OS is perfect

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Quoting: legluondunetVery nice open source engine. This project misses just one thing: an AppImage.

I think Snaps and Flatpaks are a thing now.

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Quoting: MiZoG13% in India is huge :woot:

The Linux origin country Finland was almost 11% a year ago too. Maybe the actual truth slipped through accidentally for a short moment? What is that Unknown operating system anyways globally? It if often very high up there.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/finland/#monthly-202206-202206-bar [External Link]

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