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Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

For gaming, if you play the latest and greatest: CachyOS or Bazzite

If you wait some time to play them (waiting for bugfixing, DLC, etc) you can go with a more slow-paced distro.

I'm not outright disputing your claim, but is this based on any evidence? Can you name a game that worked on CachyOS at launch, but not Ubuntu? I get that sometimes a new feature in DXVK or Proton might require a recent GPU driver / Mesa, but those are readily available on any stable distro. And Linux native games tend to recommend (and test against) stable distros like Ubuntu anyway, and so does Valve with Steam.

The question is genuine, simply because I don't remember a single situation where I wanted to run a new game but couldn't due to my choice of distro. Might be because I mostly buy native Linux games. Non-native games I might pick up heavily discounted a year or two after launch. I've always got a long wishlist, and I seem to be immune to FOMO.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scratchi

Quoting: pbAll I can see is they announced a bunch of YouTube logos. 😝

Happy to know it's not just me :)

As an extra privacy step, we don't auto-show youtube videos.

And that's great if you ask me. I suppose scratchi and pb might want to take a look at the Cookie Preferences page though.

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Quoting: devlandOtherwise they are both wine wrappers. Ease of use is the whole point.

Sure. Just wanted to point out that Lutris doesn't in fact "force you to configure each game from scratch" as you said. I have no problem with Bottles, seems like a decent alternative.

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Quoting: CaldathrasWell, I'll concede that that's entirely possible. Although, my T580 is on Mint XFCE 21.3 and it does not detect the WiFi printers. Perhaps the applet is not activated by default in XFCE?

I don't know, but it works fine on my work laptop (T14 Gen 6) with Mint Xfce 22.3. Check that "Discovered printers" is enabled in the View menu of your printer configuration panel (system-config-printer).

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Our thoughts: It is completely ridiculous that gameplay elements can have a patent at all. Software patents as a whole are a curse on the gaming and hardware industry that only cause issues for everyone and prevent competition.

Hear, hear!

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Quoting: devland

Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: devlandLutris forces you to configure each game from scratch while bottles gives you one prefix aka bottle in which you can run things however you want.

Uh, no? I myself just uses the same prefix (and the same system Proton CachyOS) for Lutris, Heroic, and Faugus.

Lutris forces you to configure each game from scratch as in changing the lutris settings and not the prefix itself.

Lutris has, for each game or program you run through it, a different set of settings which you have to manually set.

In Lutris you can set default options for games on the Wine runner. You don't have to tweak them manually for every game. You can also reuse a prefix for games you install by selecting the same prefix path in a game's configuration. It's not as simple and intuitive as in some of the other launchers, but it works just fine.

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Quoting: Caldathras[...] some definite QoL improvements, like autodetecting WiFi printers.

I'm sure Cinnamon gets lots of polish, being Mint's primary DE, but I don't think this one counts. In fact, all three Mint desktop variants handle printers in exactly the same way. Maybe you simply changed over just when it started working on Mint in general? I think Mint 21 switched to CUPS "Driverless Printing" / IPP as the default, so that's probably when it happened.

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Quoting: EWG(note that social media and social networking are different things. I presume the former to be in reference to facebooger and the like.)

Social media means services based on social interaction around user-published content (or media). So Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. YouTube counts as well, but classic chats and blogs like IRC, Matrix and this site do not. Certain features in some communication platforms like WhatsApp and maybe even Discord might put them in the social media category.

Admittedly there are some fuzzy boundaries and differing definitions. This isn't hard science.

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Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

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Quoting: ridgeLooks like good fun, and doesn't seem to be using Unreal Engine or chasing the latest ray-tracing trend either, great! :)

I'd be surprised if it isn't Rebellion's own Asura engine.

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