Quoting: Liam DaweI never really got the fuss over it personally. It's just a repo and as a distro they're free to do whatever they want. People could just remove it or use a different distro. Unless people suddenly think having a repo harms their PC in some way, it felt massively overblown to me.

I totally respect that view. :smile: Some people definitely did overblow it!

For me personally, though, it was a trust issue, as well as the aforementioned concern about an outside business being pushed by an educational charity (who for some reason didn't use the addition as an opportunity to teach users how to add what they wanted) - I don't personally like the practise of automatically adding and trusting something without informing the user in any way. I use Linux for many reasons, but one is because it doesn't do stuff like that that.

But that's just me, and like I said, their hardware really is great! :wink:

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There's an official cookbook [External Link] due out in May 2024, as well! :tongue:

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Quoting: constDon't know about any of that, but guess you wouldn't make that up.

It happened back in February 2021 - there's an article that gave a good rundown about it and the fallout here [External Link]. :smile:

It was enough to put me off, in the end - I didn't want to see a British educational charity co-opted for the interests of a foreign outside business, and I don't feel comfortable with supporting that, personally.

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Good to see, but not for me - they make great hardware (though the RPi4 ran astonishingly hot, and I can't imagine how hot the RPi5 will run!), but I'm just not a fan of how they've traditionally handled the software side.

They lost me after automatically trusting a Microsoft repository with zero information, interaction, or permission as part of a standard apt update, and then told those who were concerned that it was for their own good and they were spreading FUD by being concerned about it, before removing posts about it altogether.

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Are you as excited as I am? Proton is already pretty amazing, but just think how many upgrades it will have between now and next year — it should run great. I'll be checking it out, will you be? I'm very curious to see how the Steam Deck and my desktop will handle it.

It's not my sort of game, but Nixxes has already proven how good they are at Linux/Steam Deck support via Proton, so I'm sure that they'll do a good job here! Looking forward to seeing what they achieve with this one.

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There are a fair few games in this genre that I've enjoyed over the years, so off I go to take a look - and possibly to make my wallet wince. :tongue:

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I'm surprised that they launched it with that almost 1:1 Psyduck model in it! :shock: I remember seeing it in the first trailer and thinking they were perhaps asking for trouble, given how strict The Pokemon Company (the holding-company that manages the brand for Nintendo, Game Freak, et al) are about their IP...

Anyway, I'm not interested in microtransactions or open-mic voice-chat by default, so I'll probably give this one a miss, unfortunately. :sad:

I hope that they fix the performance issues on the Steam Deck, though, since it looks ideal for the Deck, and more competition in genres is always a good thing, even if it's not for me!

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As I said over on the forum, though losing either to Microsoft would make a terrible impact on the games market, I feel that Nintendo is under greater immediate threat than Valve, here. I'll just quote my post from there;

Quoting: PenglingThey're still aiming to buy Nintendo, as well [External Link], and though I'm no longer a fan personally after they went off in a direction that I no longer enjoyed and made a bunch of decisions I don't agree with, I can certainly acknowledge the massive risk to the games market from such a thing (especially since Phil Spencer's statement that "[Nintendo's future] exists off their own hardware" is, as far as I understand it, an accurate claim - with how gaming is these days, I'm not interested in owning a second machine just for one company's games, and I don't imagine I'm alone in that) - and I think that that one's more likely to happen than Microsoft buying Valve (indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if the Activision buyout was testing the waters for this).

After all, Nintendo has spent several years allowing the content and balancing of one of their own games to be used to subtly (or, to someone like me, not-so-subtly) send the message that their content is inferior to that of Microsoft and several other companies, by way of Nintendo paying licensing fees to them to include and promote and prioritise their content in that game.

Back when I was a Nintendo customer, this was a factor that made it appear to me that they were preparing to be bought out, and, combined with them ceasing to make games that I enjoyed, gave me cold feet about the future viability of supporting their hardware. This only confirms my thinking of five years ago, now.

Additionally, Microsoft purchasing Nintendo would aid something touched on in this article about using Minetest in an educational setting instead of Minecraft [External Link] - namely that it's logical that Microsoft would want to increase their marketing reach to get more of the younger age-groups dependent on their software earlier in life.

So, yeah, from a market perspective, I think that Valve is under less of a direct threat than Nintendo is right now - and I agree with Grogan that I don't think that a Valve buyout would be allowed to slide like the Activision one has been.

It's unfortunate that the Activision buyout looks like it will go through - it was clearly a test-case for stuff like this.

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The Konami Publisher Sale 2023 [External Link] just went live tonight, too. :smile: Some good stuff in there!

EDIT: And there's a Capcom TGS sale [External Link], too.

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Quoting: Liam DaweAdded in. The banner for it only just seemed to appear for me after I hit publish <_<

Haha, that's always the way! :grin: Looks like there's a decent amount in it, at any rate. :smile:

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