I got pretty incensed about Serious Sam 4 not coming to Linux despite their early claims.

To be honest I may buy it someday but if I have to consider Proton games there are much better FPS I should buy before even considering eyeing this one.

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Recent history showed people want to use Steam as they consider it the superior storefront.
Would Microsoft force their own store upon gamers, it would reinforce Valve's commitment in Linux even further.
As for UWP, even Windows gamers don't want it.
That's just my view on the subject though, only time will tell.

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This is a first in Microsoft history:

- Usually, they buy a successful studio at its highest, then they mess it all with their poor management until the creative leadership of the company resigns. Examples: Lionhead, Rare, Bungie...

- Now, they prefer to buy companies after they've already lost all their creativity. Can't be that much worse if it's already terrible, right?

Microsoft, thank you so much for being yourself. If one ever tried to parody you, they wouldn't even be able to pull it in such a blatantly clichéd manner (they would lack the money anyway...)

Now XBox players will get to see Doom 6 and Diablo 4 released with even worse technical problems than their predecessors!

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Wow I want it!

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I don't mind having to pass on that one.

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Quoting: elmapulanother fix for a bug we didnt knew existed but was a huge deal...

Wayland's input handling on GNOME is still a work in progress. Not so long ago you couldn't play an FPS on XWayland because mouse pointer couldn't snap to window properly. On the bright side, things are accelerating and taking a great turn of event.

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Quoting: JuliusProbably not (sadly all FPS/RTS hybrids so far have been a commercial failure)

This is right, but with the exception of the Savage series. Savage 2 in particular had a great player count and its gameplay is still the best to this day for a hybrid.

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Quoting: CatKiller"Preferences" could be OK for the settings of the system, but that might be confused with preferences for the menu.

And now I'm the one who's confused :dizzy:

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: omer666It's kind of bloated

I'm gonna start sounding like a rabid KDE fanboy here, but I'm really curious by the language people use when talking about it. What makes KDE bloated?

I get your other point, sure. There's definitely a little more "interface" showing in KDE apps, than gnome. Not much though, in my experience and the more I use KDE apps like the file manager and the PDF viewer, the more I realise how much extremely useful functionality I've been missing thanks to all my years on Gnome.

Like Dolphin - I launched Nautilus every single day of my life and every time, I had to move the window to its location on the bottom left, navigate quickly to my Downloads directory, then open a new tab and navigate that to Documents. On Dolphin, all of that happens when I launch it (it remembers its window position and its last-opened tabs). Miraculous.

But back to "bloated". How so? What would you change to unbloat it?

(I've heard rumours that KDE is lighter in RAM/CPU than Gnome these days, so presumably it's not that kind of bloat we're talking about, but interesting if it is!)

No problem, that's a legitimate question.

In my experience, I never felt KDE had a big memory footprint, even at the time I was using KDE 3.

It is more that it feels bloated. There are a lot of tools installed with it for every use case, lots of options, widgets, desktop icons, system tray icons, etc.

I definitely approve that KDE apps have more interface showing, too much if you ask me. It got better for some apps like Dolphin or Calligra Office, but most of the time it is still very rich visually.

The example you give is a very good one. I don't want my file manager to do that.

I do use quite complicated software on my computer but messing with the desktop is time-consuming for me. I am also not interested in theming, that's the very thing that will become buggy in the very app you need the day you have to work on something important and you've got to fall back to default. No big deal, I know, but my sick mind hates when my DE gets in the way.

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I've been using so many desktops over the years I lost count a while ago, but after all these years I finally know what I want: something I don't have to configure for hours. So I prefer GNOME because it fits my needs perfectly and it is very intuitive. I can quickly focus on what I'm working on.

I do like KDE but it's really not made for me. It's kind of bloated and I feel like I need to customize it to death before I am satisfied. Apps made for KDE tend to be overcomplicated for the exact same functionality and I'm not very fond of taskbars...

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