Congratulations and many happy returns!

I stopped using Paypal (because I just don't trust them), but Liberapay has worked fine for me. No fancy supporter badge due to it being completely anonymous, but I can live with that. :happy:

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Quoting: Linuxwarper

Quoting: Alm888Or, better yet, skip it entirely and move on.

If you are going to do that for games you really want to play then you might as well skip gaming as a whole.

Are you saying it's not worth having any fun at all if you can't have all the fun? Should I also stop gaming because there are console exclusives I'd be interested in playing, but don't feel like buying a console is worth it? Not like anyone has the time (or cash) to play absolutely everything they want to play anyway. As evidenced by my Steam wishlist that's currently at >180 Linux games, even though my backlog just keeps growing.

I don't feel like taking part in the speculation on how buying Windows games to play on Proton affects the growth of Linux as a gaming platform, but that comment of yours just bugged the hell out of me.

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Quoting: DefaultX-od

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI use GUIs. If I wanted to fiddle with command lines, instead of Mint I'd use Debian or Arch or, I dunno, does Slackware still exist?
Not that there's anything wrong with the command line. It's powerful, useful for those it's useful for, and I'm glad it's there. But probably anyone for whom the length of the command is the main feature shouldn't actually be using it.

Ok, if you use GUI, how on earth you'll add flatpak repository without terminal(because it's same as PPA, but sandboxed)?

I don't know. How do you add a snap repository? Oh right, you can't.

For now, most people who only use a GUI will be happy with the selection on flathub. And if they actually need a different repo, they can copy-paste a line from the web just like they might do for a PPA, until their distro adds a GUI for this.

Quoting: SchattenspiegelAs much as I enjoy most of Alan Pope's interviews here he is speaking as 'Developer Advocate, Canonical', so we should probably take it with a grain of salt, don't you think? The funny thing about statistics is you can usaually interpret them one way, in the completely opposite direction or as the colour green, if you set your mind to it.

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" [External Link]

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Quoting: DefaultX-od

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: DefaultX-odflatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

snap install libreoffice

who would win?

Are you saying that because the command line for installing a snap package is shorter, it's a better system?

If you are then I guess "apt install libreoffice" is still the winner by one whole character.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you will not have fully functional LO when installing like this "apt install libreoffice"

It's a metapackage that brings in all the base components of LibreOffice and recommends a bunch of additional packages as well. So yeah, you do get a fully functional LibreOffice with that command.

But that wasn't my point. I was trying to underline how trivial I thought the whole argument was. It's not like I'll be installing flatpaks/snaps all day long.

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Quoting: DefaultX-odflatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

snap install libreoffice

who would win?

Are you saying that because the command line for installing a snap package is shorter, it's a better system?

If you are then I guess "apt install libreoffice" is still the winner by one whole character.

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxIf there was one thing I would like to change about Mint, that would be to make a new icon theme. I'm thinking of something similar to the current Moka based one, but one that is designed to be scalable (so that there is not need to make one icon in lots of sizes, GNOME is moving towards that direction. However, the style they are going is not to my liking. I generally prefer icons that have templates and gradients).

Good thing you can install any icon theme you like. :)

You can never please everyone when it comes to matters of taste like the look of the default icon theme. Personally I like the Mint-Y theme though. It's clean, consistent and legible. Colour variants for the folder icons are a nice bonus.

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Quoting: const

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: constWe even celebrate those that ignore us but implement a Vulkan renderer.

Would you prefer that individual game devs became more tightly dependent on DirectX rather than developing their cross-platform skillset?

No, Vulkan renderers are awesome. My post was entirely around the fact that a big part of this community accepts developers that don't care about linux a lot more then those who at least give it a try but fail (for whatever reasons and not just this kind of extreme case). From the perspective of the developer, this raises the risk of entry enormously.

Clicking a button and releasing on a platform without testing? Sure. That does sound very risky. People might not like the result. Actually trying and failing does not usually result in a crappy release (or a release at all), but not bothering to do the bare minimum sometimes does.

Quoting: constMicrosoft doesn't need to bribe studios to stay away from linux. Members of this community do that job for free.

Why would a monopoly holder need to bribe anyone? And that jab at the community is just insincere. In my experience this gaming community is a damn sight more welcoming and helpful than most gaming communities.

I don't think we should avoid being critical of developers who have no intention of supporting our platform properly. Windows gamers sure don't shy away from crapping on bad console ports, and those are actually tested and supported on Windows.

Quoting: constAnd it used to be very different.

You mean back when none of us even considered calling ourselves Linux gamers because there were just a handful of commercial games available? And when nobody actually put out crappy releases by pressing an "Export to Linux" button and calling it a day, because buttons like that did not exist?

Do you remember a different past where we were so desperate for games that we threw our cash at whatever scraps were thrown our way? Because I was here, and I don't remember ever being that desperate.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeRemember the days of Codewheels? Those were cool.

Remember these [External Link]?

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Quoting: scaineI just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

If you've actually hit Download on your Racial Justice bundle download page for that game and added it to your library, you'll see a "You own this game" disclaimer at the top of the store page in a browser. In the Itch.io app this info will be in the bottom bar along with an Install button. I don't doubt both games deserved your cash, but you did own them already.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: tuubiUnity does, yes.

Does it use Vulkan now by default for all Linux games? I've seen recent Unity games still using OpenGL.

Probably not, but it's available. You can forcibly enable the Vulkan backend in recent Unity OpenGL games (with -force-vulkan) but there's no guarantee it'll run any better or even work properly.

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