The open world broom racing looks fun.

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Quoting: clatterfordslimThe question is why are Xfce going with Wayland? I have used Xfce for years now and it is fine as it is. Why try to fix something that does not need fixing?

I get what you mean, but apparently X11 is almost unmaintainable at this point, with decades of technical debt. The fact that it was mainly X11 maintainers and developers who came up with Wayland in the first place, declaring X11 maintenance only, should lend credence to this idea. They should know what they're talking about, right? I didn't even see any controversy over this back then, seemed quite unanimous.

Oh and as the article states, Xfce apps will still be able to support X11 along with Wayland.

It's undeniable that Wayland has had a bumpy road (on desktop; I've been using it on my phones for a decade), but if the experts are to be believed, it'll end up being worth the pain. Not that it has even been painful for me personally: X11 has been serving me just fine.

When the day comes that they've finally ironed out the kinks and Wayland reaches proper feature parity, it comes with nice bonuses like properly tear-free displays even on multiple monitors with different refresh rates, proper colour management (and HDR), etc. Not to mention proper security. X11 has always been rather bad at that.

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Quoting: Craggles086So Wayfire is basically Compiz for Wayland yes?

Should add a lot to the default Xfce.

Compiz was a fun toy, added nothing useful to Xfce. If Wayfire is Compiz for Wayland, I suppose I can just ignore it?

On a more serious note: I'm glad Wayland support is finally progressing, but as long as my apps and games work fine on X11, I'm not too bothered. I just hope Xfce keeps being excellent at working how I expect it to work and getting out of my way.

The Thunar and Panel tweaks look nice.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: legluondunetDebian and Debian-like distributions are not, to my experience, the best Linux distribution for gaming, their packages are not enough often updated and lack libraries dependencies. Arch and Aur are the way to follow for Linux gamers, SteamOS is ARCH based.
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.

Depends on your gaming. For heavy gaming with graphics-heavy AAA-type stuff, I expect you're right. I play mostly indie games that don't require either really heavy resource use or twitch reflexes (so I don't worry about frame rates). For light games like that, none of this stuff matters much, so just "whatever makes the nicest desktop" is also fine for the gaming.

Things that can actually make a difference, like the latest graphics drivers and kernels, are easily available for Mint, Ubuntu and pretty much any other mainstream distro. So Mint is perfectly fine even for heavy AAA-type stuff.

The "library dependencies" bit is a non-sequitur. No commercial game depends on bleeding edge libraries.

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Quoting: Liam Dawea seriously janky RPG called Arcanum

It wasn't that bad for the time. Near contemporaries like Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment were just as janky, if not in exactly the same way.

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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: tuubiIf the world were sane and software patents were not a thing, none of this would be necessary.

I'll take 20 year patents over life+95 years copyright any day of the week. Also I do think there's at least some level of creativity involved in making software, so I don't think the 'software is discovered, not invented' thing holds water. That said I'll agree that patent trolls and defensive patents are clear signs that the patent system could do with improvement. I just don't know how you would improve it without causing patent offices to need entire legions of employees to be able to do their job properly.

The real harm software patents do to innovation and healthy competition is too serious to ignore. Software patents need to go and patent trolls need to find a new grift. FSFE has a decently concise write-up on the subject, although it could be better.

But sure, if someone thinks of a system that makes software patents actually beneficial to society at large, bring them back. Keeping them around until that happens does more harm than good.

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If the world were sane and software patents were not a thing, none of this would be necessary.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe amount of time required to research addons and configure Kodi is too much of a entry barrier. I would rather save my time and throw money at something to save me my time. I would even buy Kodi Plus or something if it meant a system that went toe to toe with SmartTV functions without the nonsense in a FOSSy way. It's totally okay to sell FOSS @Kodi. (Eg: Redhat, Ubuntu, Linux Autos, etc..)

Since I found Plex and now Jellyfin, I have no use for Kodi anymore. My experience is the same as yours, a lot of configuration and plugins and the controls are bit hard.

I have to agree. I like Kodi, but Jellyfin has been a breeze in comparison. The WebOS client on my LG OLED can be a bit fussy with some file formats, but otherwise it just works.

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Quoting: dpanterA couple of really good games in the mix, your call if the 300+ € savings was worth 20 bucks.

Your math is faulty. You only saved money on the games you'd have bought anyway, and only if you'd have spent more than that 20 bucks on them. But I suppose it doesn't matter if you're happy with the purchase.

Personally I don't see why I'd ever buy one of these "mystery" bundles.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismNow that HB is a subsidiary of IGN, does anyone remember who HB's copycats and lookalikes were?

I would prefer to keep an eye on the Indie and side market. HB is kindof like going to the mall.

I don't know if GMG ever did any bundles
https://greenmangaming.com

I might have been thinking of Fanatical (Bundle Stars), looks like SS is 17.99 there at the moment
https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/system-shock

There was the one that shut down. And there might have been another one, help me out if anyone remembers.

IndieGala maybe? That one's still around.

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