That barrel distortion effect can't be a good idea. Watching that trailer makes me feel a bit nauseous. And since when is a bodycam perspective more immersive than, you know, viewing the action through the eyes of the player character? Are we remote controlling someone?

EDIT: Real bodycams tend to have a distorted image due to the wide-angle lens. Whereas here the field of view is actually quite limited. Doesn't make sense.

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Quoting: JordanPlayz158Where did you get this info, wasn't difficult to get waydroid installed and working on my linux distro?

Waydroid boots up Android in a container, and needs to be installed separately. As I understand it, neither of those are true for ChromeOS or Windows - they can run Android applications out of the box.

Oh? Fascinating, when did Windows attain this functionality, back in the day, BlueStacks was the way (which I would not say is out of the box or different than Waydroid). Not sure how ChromeOS does it without a container though

I was asked to look into this a while back. Windows 11's WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android) obviously makes use of virtualization, and it's not quite an out-of-the-box experience. It's not installed by default for starters. Secondly, you can only install apps from the Amazon Appstore unless you want to sideload them using the Android SDK. Oh and the Amazon Appstore is only available in a limited set of countries so sideloading might be your only option.

Doesn't sound much nicer to use than Waydroid to be honest.

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Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaRI mean, for example, why don't these file-explorers have per-folder settings? Such as, thumbnails for one, list-view for another.

Thunar has this if you enable it in the settings. I think it's right at the top of the first tab of the settings dialog. I prefer to manually switch between views, but I mostly stay in detailed list view.

Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaR(But I suppose that's due to the nature of the different file-systems Windows and Linux use.)

Folder specific file manager settings do not require anything special from the file system.

Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaRAnd then there's the weirdness with sorting in general, which just seems so random and inconsistent that it seems broken.

Maybe a problem with your locale or something? Sorting by any column seems perfectly logical and consistent here.

Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaRAlso small stuff like being able to double-click on a column-divider to resize it to the largest content below, or even drag the columns into the order I want quickly.

Double clicking the column header divider to resize works fine in Thunar, but sorting happens in the same dialog where you select visible columns. You can also set Thunar to always expand columns to fit the content if that's what you want.

Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaREven more basic stuff, such as why don't most of these file-explorers have "bars" for their drive-space or any indication at all?? - It's a thing you (at least I) check regularly, but I have to open up something like Disk Usage Analyzer separately to see that.

Thunar shows space used by files in the current folder and space available on the current drive in the bottom bar. Unless you've selected some files, in which case it shows information about them.

But all that aside: If you prefer KDE and Dolphin, switching does seem like a good idea. I mentioned Thunar because it fits my workflow very well, but your mileage may and quite apparently does vary. KDE never really clicked with me, but isn't it nice that Linux has something for everyone? :)

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Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaR...move to something like Manjaro, if not Zorin or Mint, as soon as their respective new versions are out probably, and I bet their developers are waiting for Plasma as well.

Neither Mint nor Zorin officially support KDE Plasma, I doubt they're waiting for it. Manjaro might be a better bet with their official KDE Plasma edition.

But if it's just Gnome's file manager that you don't like, maybe give one of the other GTK-based options a try first? I'm personally very happy with Xfce's Thunar file manager. Should be available from Pop's default repositories.

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Happy holidays fellow penguins. Don't overdose on chocolate, ham, cake, turkey, or anything else you might traditionally eat too much of around this time of year.

Quoting: DorritJesus was born 2023 years ago, let us not forget it is that we're celebrating :smile:.

I'm mainly celebrating a bit of time off work and being able to catch up with some friends and family members. :happy:

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumBut there is the "Advanced" tier which you can join. To do so, you must first install Arch Linux with i3 Window Manager. Set an anime based wallpaper and finally, post a screenshot titled "I did it!" with a terminal window open showing your neofetch. :grin:

I've grown too lazy to do that, but I did run Gentoo with Fluxbox as my daily driver for a couple of years back when it took two days of bootstrapping, compilation and self-flagellation to get it properly running on my Athlon Thunderbird system. :wink:

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumAnd so, the picture becomes clear why so many people value their privacy on Linux. :wink: :grin: :grin:

Well why would you care about privacy if you haven't got kinks to hide? Why do we even have stuff like the GDPR here in the EU? The Linux pervert cabal has a lot of lobbying power here I suppose.

That makes me wonder: Am I automatically a member or the penguin cabal or do I have to apply somehow? Maybe I could find out on social media, but I was always too privacy-conscious to have an account... What a dilemma.

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Quoting: dorronI love Linux Mint, but I'm starting to feel like they are lagging behind with the kernel. I'm always having trouble updating to the latest one because of an old version of libc6...and that cannot be updated! (or at least I don't know how). Maybe someone can shed some light on it.

Everything else is just...a perfect desktop distro IMO.

They're "lagging behind" just as much as Ubuntu LTS / HWE, by design. But if you want the latest stable kernel, I've found Xanmod's [External Link] repository a reliable source. Currently on 6.6.5 here.

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Quoting: RouhollahWould Wine-ge have wayland code after wine 9.0 releases? Is it based on wine or proton?

As far as I can tell Wine-GE is also based on Proton. The name is a bit of a misnomer.

It used to be based on Wine Staging and just pulled fixes over from Proton. Been the other way around for a long while now.

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Quoting: ExpandingManI don't entirely disagree, and the only reason it's possible for these things to be genres is that they have these tropes, they're just significantly narrower in fantasy than in sci fi.

You're thinking of high fantasy which is only one of the subgenres. Understandable, as that's what almost anyone thinks of when they hear the genre mentioned. And even that subgenre is likely to be more varied than you give it credit for.

Fantasy spans the spectrum from Beowulf to Alice in Wonderland, Discworld and (shudder) sparkly vampires. Just like sci-fi has more to offer than just spaceships and lasers and suspiciously humanoid aliens. Basically, if the story builds on magical elements and/or creatures, you can call it fantasy.

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