Quoting: ExpalphalogSteam frequently does those sales where you get something for every $X that you spend. Usually, it's a trading card, which I immediately sell for a few cents, which translates to less money spent.

That's pretty much every steam sale these days, this one included. You get a card per $10 / 8.40 € spent, I think. But considering you won't net more than maybe 0.05 € for selling one, you won't be saving much.

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More than 100 games on my wishlist currently on sale, but I'll try my best to resist. I really need to play the ones I've already bought. My pile of shame is getting out of hand. Buying things just because they're cheap isn't wise.

Maybe I'll grab just one or two.

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Quoting: GuestI'd still recommend Mint for new users and I check what's new from time to time but even with my really old PC Mint feels a bit too "limited" and so does every other Ubuntu based distro, I just can't go back to deal with PPAs when there's a better option.

I spent my first few years on Linux running distributions like Gentoo, manually compiling kernels and other software, fiddling with and learning the ins and outs of the system. And I loved it.

These days I just want a distro that lets me get on with things, doesn't require much maintenance, and works in a way that I find intuitive out of the box. Mint does a good job of hitting my sweet spot, both for gaming and for work.

Naturally we've all got our preferences and priorities. There's a distro for everyone but there's no distro to rule them all. Use whatever you find interesting and/or practical, but don't go around telling people that their choice is wrong. Unless they run something other than Linux, of course. :tongue:

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Quoting: Tchey

Quoting: PalancaProton is unstoppable.

When Linux will be on all PC, Proton will die.

At that point it'll still serve a purpose, enabling people to play their old Windows games that never got ported.

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I don't think I'm going to get much mileage out of Bulky on Mint Xfce. Thunar's mass renamer is pretty great.

Also, Ubuntu's 5.8 HWE kernels should be available out of the box in addition to the very conservative defaults. Just install them in the kernel manager. And gamers on AMD or Intel hardware who want to go with something more recent (like me) will find multiple easy ways to access the latest kernels. Xanmod's packages have served me well there.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: CatKillerYeah, OpenGL was driven by the needs of CAD software when programs were single-threaded and hardware was a fixed-function rendering pipeline. Modern software and hardware aren't really like that at all.

There's an interesting set of articles [External Link] from one of the PowerVR people that describes how Vulkan does things differently to OpenGL.

I don't know if there's something like "historisch gewachsen" in English. "Historically developed" would be the literal translation, used in the meaning of it's old, many people had their hands on it, it served many purposes, maybe there's even people missing that understand it fully due to its complexity, ... Some day, such software has to be (slowly) replaced.

Legacy baggage and technical debt are related (and depressing) terms that spring to mind.

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Quoting: Liam DaweThe reason Humble will want account linking for freebies is likely to prevent them just going up on key reseller sites.

The key doesn't actually have to be activated on the linked Steam account as far as I know, so I don't see how this prevents anything.

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Quoting: AppelsinYou don't need to link you Steam account, but you need to have a Steam account in which to redeem the key.

I guess you've already got it linked.

I know how humble works. I've bought plenty of games from them over the years, Steam keys and otherwise. They only require this linking for freebies, I assume so that they get something back for giving out free games. The information they can pull from our Steam accounts is valuable data for them after all.

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Quoting: robvvWow. It's free and there are complaints about the key being tied to the Steam store :-(

My complaint wasn't about that at all. It was about Humble making things unnecessarily difficult for me. I've got plenty of games on Steam.

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Quoting: JJNova

Quoting: tuubiIn addition to the newsletter thing, there's the additional catch that they require you to Link your Steam account.

So if I don't use a Steam account, should I not even bother ?

Only if you want the game bad enough to start using Steam. They're not offering DRM-free downloads.

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