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Quoting: ElectricPrismI would buy several commercial tools right now if they were available starting with Affinity Photo 2 -- it was my understanding some people got it running in Bottles a few months back.

I was a part of that thread over on the Affinity forums.

Yeah, we got one of the last pre 2.0 releases to run in Bottles, but it wasn't exactly what I'd call a smooth experience. Between the flickering canvas, and the constant crashes, I'd say it's one step above "...well, at least we got it to boot."

From memory, I decompressed the msix installer and went to install it and for some reason it would seize up the kernel on my Threadripper. No TTY switch, no nothing.

I've planned on imaging a VM, installing it, and then imaging it again and dumping the Regedit DIFFs and Filesystem DIFFs into a Wine Prefix -- I've just had too much to be busy with lately. That and my default desktop is Sway/Wayland so the merging of wine-wayland will be helpful for me.

I am hopeful that the usability will improve, I wish the community could just vote on important apps at codeweavers and get support -- that'd be worth the money.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMakes me wonder how workable it would be to build Flatpaks with (Windows application + Wine), and whether Codeweavers could make a few pennies setting up such packages on Flathub for Windows software sellers?

I like the way you think. It would be awesome if somebody went around and made deals with some popular tools to expand their audience and bring them to FlatHub similar to Icculus a few years back.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySumming up, I think:
--Short term, for open source, some people get a bit of money to help development, impact minor
--Short term, for closed source, could help distribution of closed software to the Linux desktop, creating more interest in providing same
--Medium term, could help grow Linux desktop but somewhat crowd out open source software on Linux
--Longer term, I'd expect on a bigger-share Linux desktop, open source alternatives would grow again and displace the closed offerings. In the vague, nebulous future a good thing.

I'm glad somebody gets the Second Order of Consequences ( that is that each effect forks into secondary and third forks of nested effects )

For example historically, Valve releasing Steam Beta on Linux 10 years ago lead to -> Porting Source / Source 2 Engines, work on Gamepad Controller drivers in the Kernel, improvements to SDLv2 and later -> The creation of Proton aswell as improvements to MESA, AMD open drivers, Nvidia Drivers and so on which eventually leads to Steam Deck and in the future Deckard VR.

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I am tired of the historical false tropes -- like OMG Linux is FREE, or is that "that really old looking DOS thing".

All the Rust work and UnixprOnz CLI with amazing TUI applications like bpytop, neofetch, cava, pamixer, musikcube and others has already negated the second false trope.

Taking out the first will be my pleasure, I've spent tens of thousands on high end hardware, monitors, threadippers, expensive keyboards -- even $4,000 drawing monitors just because they support Linux.

To those who _really_ know Computing. Linux is King. Tell me where to shovel the money to the commercial software devs, then sooner we can dismantle and make a mockery of the shills and disinformants throwing shit to FUD up our reputation the better.

To go along with your points -- I do think that selling tools is different from selling content, and licensing and paying money for games and content vs tools or platform is fundamentally different. I think a platform and all its core libs and core tools (like htop, itop, etc..) should be cost-free to the consumer _if possible_ -- however if someone wants to charge for a alternative to Photoshop, or Games, or Music or other Content -- it makes sense they are creating the content as a business venture on some level.

I will be happy to see this stigmatism dismantled.

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Sunk Cost Fallacy. In poker terms, I've been All-In on Linux for many years now. Sure I'd throw some money at it.

I don't care how it happens but getting money to linux software devs is in MY best interest.

I would buy several commercial tools right now if they were available starting with Affinity Photo 2 -- it was my understanding some people got it running in Bottles a few months back.

People exchange money for convenience.

If they carve out a niche and there are rewards like profile badges or a exchange that drives development I'm open for new models and new things.

Money is for a protection, everyone needs it and theres nothing wrong with making some making FOSS licensed stuff in exchange for ease like Ardour.

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I'm glad Valve is using advanced tactics.

I am generally against Anti-Cheats as I feel that there are too many false-positives is the case with EAC and for example Halo MCC or Infinite hurting Linux players.

I also feel that gamers should be free to self-host on LAN, or online and join servers and take that risk for themselves. In ranked it makes sense, but the war against cheaters always felt like a "think about the children" diversion to advance a malicious agenda that is anti-consumer (as is the case in EAC fucking over Linux gamers for years now -- Thanks Epic! /s).

I was really concerned when I read the headline the other day about 40k after having paid for in game content myself, but hearing their methodology I am relieved.

I just think, well fuck if I have $200 of in game content in a game, what's to stop them from giving me a false positive or getting booted if my power goes out or there is another unfair problem that isn't my fault.

I think Valve is on the right path overall, but this centralized, locked down gaming future is a little shitty -- same reason I didn't buy into the whole Google Stadia platform -- they wanted me to pay for something that I'm not sure I ever really receive.

I like owning things and being trusted to be competent enough to make my own adult decisions about which servers I join and not having some company dictate what I can and can't have or do. That doesn't make sense to give up control for nothing but a convenience.

Sometimes it feels like this generation has lost their balls and their fight, like they'll just roll over and take whatever comes. I am hopeful hard times will reignite standing up for hard working consumers to be respected instead of simply subjugated.

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Free Vendor Lock? Pass.

Glad I dumped Ubuntu on my servers.

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Quoting: LoftyHave they fixed the hidden mouse cursor bug on the community server tab ? that's been around 8 years now.
Have they fixed the community map browser yet so you can actually play custom games on community servers ? That's been about 9 years now.

It's why i still play CS:Source for the community server and custom games aspect (prop hunt, Zombie escape, Zombie Hunting etc..) which are really fun. Even though those exact servers have mostly migrated to CS:GO and it's newer engine, leaving me with only a dwindling number of servers left to play on.

They could show CS:GO Linux a bit more love TBH whilst they are making handfuls of cash on the product. It would probably take around 15 minutes to fix.

Agree. After a little poking looks like here's the bug report

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/1743 [External Link]

I am able to get the mouse to appear after clicking and dragging and mashing some random buttons -- ctrl, escape, space, right click left click.

Someone told me to press shift like 5 times once and that worked but doesn't seem to work now.

Comparing 2023 CSGO to 2016ish -- it was a major nightmare, now it's still bad but doable since I can get the mouse to appear.

I am mostly sad about the maps, content and servers left behind -- I am not able to find and RPG Surf servers with less than 250 ping :(

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I enjoy it, but I would enjoy it more if there were Surf + Deathmatch + RPG servers like on Counter Strike Source.

The RPG part is really important -- it's cheesy and so much fun, GFLClan used to host some but for some reason in CSGO I just can't find any RPG ones.

They used to have the best borderline garbage cheese maps -- like Spongebob Crusty Crab World and Buck Wild.

If anyone knows of any, please share.

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I don't usually feel old, but fuck.

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Quoting: KlaasI've always wondered why they didn't implement that functionality sooner. They have to pay for the bandwidth – so it should be their priority to avoid duplicate downloads.

Maybe someone could think of any other corporate for-profit company that does this? Maybe it's just me, but I can't off the top of my head.

I think this is a cultural problem, and I'm glad Valve is wise.

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This is big brain, but for real. I've thought about downloading all my games to my server and using homed, sshfs or rsync.

Typically we LAN and somebody doesn't have the files so I ssh into their rig and rsync -- but it's cumbersome and requires special knowledge of how to do all that.

I'm very impressed with Valve using "open source think" to lower bandwidth and improve user experience. Very cool.

Plus if we get a few Steam Decks here too, that sort-of multiplies traffic and the Wifi speed is certainly always slower than wired.

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